The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-07
Irish H0NE RUIN BILL.
Moves a Second Read
ing of the Measure.
NO AMENDMENT OFFERED.
In Fact the Government Has No Inten-
ton OF Amending.
rhe Premier Makes a Great speech in
Advocacy of the 5Ieasure-The
Reply OF Sir Michael
Hicks Beach.

LONDON, April 6.-The galleries OF the
house OF commons were crowded, but the
house itself was not full when Gladstone
rose today to move a second reading of
the home rule bill. Gladstone said the
government had no intention OF amend
ing the bill as presented. de earnestly
desired to bring home to the mind Of the
house the question when this great con-
troTersy was to end. He did not address
the question to the opposition in a spirit
Of assumed superiority, but would rather
press it earnestly upon their hearts and
understandings as a matter in which both
sides alike arc interested. The Liberal
party offered a solution, but when they
asked their opponents waeye all this was
to end they barely obtaihed-an answer
Certainly the opposition had NOS yet v61<
tured to point out a process whereby this
greatest of Irish questions should be de-
cided, aside IRON the way IN which the
home rule bill proposed to decide it.
Gladstone then proceeded with the his
toric development OF the rise and causes
of the demand for home rule.
The progress eff events in the past CEN
tury had proved the ialiacy OF the argu-
ment offered by the opponents of home
rule that time and patience would see
Ireland pacitied without special legisla-
ton. Let the house, said he, look at the
spectacle the world offers in regard 10 its
unions In the civilized world no iue0r-
pOrated union effected and maintained BY
force has ever prospered.
Hicks Beach interrupted to ask: ''Taks
the case of the United States
Gladstone replied: 81 said incorpor-
ated union. You missed the essential
word. Holland md Belgium tried incor-
porated union and after q precarious ex-
istence of fifteen years divorce was
effected. Austria and Hungary tried IN
cOrpOrated union and after years OF sad
experience found the choice Law in giving
up it or the empire. Russia incorporated
Poland. Take your stand thereon If you
think fit.
Let the opposition make its model OF
their operations to all unions. But one
principle can be applied, and that is
whether they require permanent main
tenance by force. If, when force disap-
pears, harmony remains, union IS good.
If the maintenance OF union by force is
necessary the value of the union is ques-
tionable. Unions not incorporated but
autonomous have been attended II all
cases with success, sometimes complete
and always considerable.
In conclusion Gladstone referred to the
retention OF irish members in the impe-
rial parliament. During the last sixty
y
times by vote OF censure. and not once
was the issue purely British. Eight were
imperial and four Irish. Therefore less
Inconvenience ought to be expected from
Irish members voting on British ques-
tons than had been anticipated Re-
garding finance Gladstone said it was no
easy matter to disentangle the finances
of countries associated Tor the last ninety
years.
The trouble was merely dust in the
balance compared with the vital import
ance of the great purpose aiming at the
real union of the two countries and con-
solidation OF the empire. If the house
was not satisfied with the security offered
under the existing financial clause bill, he
was ready to deal freely with the question
and recast the clauses objected to.
Rejection OF the home rule biz VAS
moved by Sir Michael Hicks Beseif. he
tainted Gladstone with avoiding criti-
cisms OF the bill. The north of Ireland was
rank With protests against the proposals
OF the BIZ yet the prime minister ignored
this agitation Ii q majority Of the
electors of Great Britain was convinced
and parliament was once persuaded to
ta<e the step now proposed It could never
retTact it without plunging the country
into the horrors of civil war.