Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-07
THE IRISH HOME RULE BILL
GlliSiOnS'S Speech In the House OIL
Commons Yesterday.
Sir Michael Hicks Moves the ncIec.
zion OF the niIi.-rhs
Herring Case.

LONDON, April 6.-Gladstone. IN
moving u second reading Of the home
rule bill, Rald the government had no
Intention VI amending TIE bill as pre-.
sentod. He earnestly desired to bring
home to tho mind Of the house the
question when this great controversy
was to end. Ho did not address the
question TO the opposition In the spirit
Of assumed superiority, but would
rather press IL earnestly upon their
hearts and understanding as a matter
In which both eides alike are Interested.
The liberal party offered u solul on,
but when they asked their opponents
where all thiB was TO end they barely
obtained an answer. Certainly the
opposition had not yet ventufod 10
point out process whereby this great
est OF Irish questions should be de-
cided, aslde from the way In which
the home rule bill proposed to decide
IL. Gladstone then proceeded with the
historic development OF the rise and
causes of the demand for home rule.
The progress OF events In the past
century had proved the fallacy OF the
argument offered by the opponents Of
home rule that time ana patience
would see Ireland pacifled without
special legislation. Let the house, said
he, look at the spectacle the world
uilers In regard to It's unions In tho
civilized world no incorporated union,
effected nnd maintained by force, has
ever prospered.
Hicks Beach interrupted, "Take the
case OF the United States"
Gladstone replied: ~ said Incorpor.
ated union. You missed the osse ntial
word. Holland and Belgium tried In.
corporated union, and after precarious
existence OF fifteen years divorce was
effected. Austria and Hungary tried
incorporated union, and after years OF
sad experience found tho choice lay Ia
giving up II or the empire. Russia In
corporAIed Poland. Take your stand
thereon II you think 1T.
Let the opposition make Its model of
their operations to llunions. But one
principle can be- applied, and that Is
whether they require permanent main.
tenanco by force. IL, when force disap.
pears, harmony remains, union IL good.
III the maintenance OF union by force
In necessary the value OF the uuion IA
questionable. Unions not incorporated
but autonomous have been attended
in all cases with success, sometimes
complete aud always considerable.
In conclusion Gladstone referred TO
the retention Of Irish members In the
imperial parliament. During the last
sixty years cabinets have been dis.
placed twelve times by vote OF CEN
sure, and not once was the issue purely
British. Eight were imperial and four
Irish.l Therefore less Inconvenience
ought 10 be expected from Irish men,
beers voting on British questions than
had been anticipated. Regarding I'm.
ance Gladstone said II was no easy
matter TO disentangle the finances OF
the countries associated for the last
ninety years.
The trouble was merely dust In the
balance compared with the vital i'm.
portanoe Of the great purpose aiming
ut the real union OF the two countries
AND consolidation OF the empire. II
the house was not satisfied with the
security offered under tho existing
financial clause bill he was ready 10
deal freely with the question and re-
cast the clauses obj cted TO.
Rejection OF the hOmv rule bill was
moved by Sir Michael Hicks Beach.