The Irish standard., 1894-06-02
MUST BE GRANTED
Lord Rosebery's Address at Man
chester Leaves no Doubt as
to His Position.
THE QUESTION OF HOME RULE
For Ireland to be Pushed With
Vigor Until that Object Shall
be Granted.

FOR lr6lanQ 10 % 1u5u6u "AoA
vigor Until that Object Shall
be Granted.
Lord Rosebery, addressing an immense
audience in The st. James hall, Man
chester, said in tho course Of his speech.
after referring to the Budget and Regis
tration bill: "There is the Evicted Ten
ants bill for Ireland (cheers), which is
heroic, and will, I believe, be success
full attempt to cope with question,
which, after all, is none of our making,
which should be solved by agreement
betwee the two parties, and which, at
any rate, you have pledge in the per.
son Of MIR. John Morley (cheers), will be
dealt with in a Just and most liberal
spirit toward Ireland. Well, there is an
other lesson that the dissentient Liberal
party may have learned since 1886, andlt
is this, that the United Nationalist party
represents united, national and
constitutional demand, which must
either be heard or dealt with, or else it
will constitute hopeless clog on our
legislative machine (hear, hear). This,
and more than this, think that those
of the Liberal party who left us in 1856
must have learned, because after all it is
the A B 9 of politics, and does not need
any gigantic intellect to grasp it. 1t
that be the question, how is it that the
party opposite propose to deal with the
question of Ireland? Some, of course,
would be perfectly ready to keep the
Irish question before us forever unsolved
and undealt with--and why? Because
they know it is an obstacle to legislation
(applsuse), and legislation in the spirit
in which legislation must now be COO
Quoted is the one thing which they do
not desire, and there are others who op-
pose us who must, think, wish to deal
with this question on much the same
lines as we dealt with it, but under GER
tain restrictions which they have laid
down for themselves We, who espoused
the cause of Irish Home Rule, have a
right to be inquisitive as to the alterna-
tive policy which is to be proposed. We
have right even to have some inkling
of the arguments on which the alterna-
tive policy is to be proposed. They can
not call the Irish any longer pariahs, in
capable of local government, because, ae
We know, both in the manifesto Of Lord
Harrington and in the bill of Mr.. Bal
four, they proposed to give them powers
of local government (cheers). They have
occasionally, in spirit which I cannot
characterize, Indicated fear of Ireland as
reason for not granting Home Rule
Why, gentlemen, fear of what? We have
heard great deal in the last few weeks
at least, have-about the ''predomin-
ant partner" in the United Kingdom.
That is an unhappy expression. or a
happy expression-I am not prepared to
say which. 1t is not for q father to bless
or curse his own children (laughter), but
that is an expression which indicates the
relation in wealth, population and
strength of England to the other coun-
tries that form the United Kingdom. I
suppose it is no news to any Unionist
that Greal Britain has $4,000, GOO of popu-
lation to the 4,5O0O00 of Ireland. I sup
pose it is no news to any Unionist, par
ticularly those Unionists who are SO fond
of using that predominant partner ex-
preston, that England alone has some
27,5O0,0OO of population to the 100000
of Ireland. I suppose it is no news to
them-that is, I suppose it was no news
to them the other day-when the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer informed the
House that of the capital tax paid at the
time of death, the share Of Ireland is
barely per cent; and therefore I do not
presume that with those facts and fig
ures familiar to them, under the wing
and lead Of this powerful, this almost
omnipotent. England or Great Britain,
they are likely to plead once more the
ground Of timidity for refusing to give
Home Rule (cheers). / do not suppose
they will any moro plead crime in Ire Z
land as q ground for not giving Home
Rule. III
Gentlemen believe I don't wish to
say anything offensive to Lancashire, and
If you like / will choose some other
county (laughter)) well, LET me y. take 'L LlEt
Lancashire, because it ls more populoua
but i believe that, i crime il Ian e =
cashire, whenever il occurs, and ll1 81 g
course, il occurs frequentl @ # does g
\ ali communities i Z crime il ancashne g l
swere to be publish u the world O. e g
crime il Irsla n i ! oase l
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