Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-03-26


about by whirlgig of British politics. 1t is spectacle
well calculated to stir the shades of Beaconseld and Sails
bury the great conservative leaders, who preiers of
England bitterly fought this issue 1t the irony of fate
the party which under Gladstone began great move
ment for Irish relief should find itself driven to arms
to force that relief northeast Ireland.
When Gladstone in 1868 defeated the party Of Lord
Derby and Disrae he "dsesabshed the branch of
the Church England which had only about tenth of the
population the island located mostly in Ulster, but
supported by Catholics Prebteans and other dssenters
through general axaton and passed bill restricting the
power of Irish landlords to Cypress their tenants.
The inevitable but temporary reaction in public senti
ment incident to all great reforms led to Gadsones
throw 1874 and for six Disrae who in the
time Lord Beaconsed sought antdoe for home
rule" through dazzling policy of imperialism" Hatred
Irish landlords had brought about terrible state of af
fairs in Ireland and in 1880, powerful Gland league had
been formed with compact party under the lead of Charles
Stuart Parnel and Gladstone gained another election.
Disagreeing with the liberals to policies Parnel
able to block the party for two years, but in 1884 he
operated with Gladstone in the third of the great parliament
reform which added about 100000 Of votes
to the electors of Parliament making the English consttu
ton hardly less democratic than that of the United States
In the following Gladstone defeated owing in
part to his failure General Gordon in Egypt being
succeeded premier by the Marquis of Salisbury, but
opposition leader he brought forward in 1886 his first bill to
provide separate Parliament for Ireland large section
of the Liberal party refused to follow Gladstone and taking
the of liberal unonis Joined the conservatives in
opposing the bill The fourth Gladstone ministry from 1892
1894 able to the home rule bill through
the House Commons the House of started the
movement for their adjustment by defeating it.
Following the death in 1896 of Gladstone his
Lord Rosebey continued the struggle has the present
liberal leader Premier Asquth, though with varying for
tunes Bafour conservative premier in 1907 Ireland
land act and instituted other reforms but home rule
the chief demand
The measure which is causing the present uprising in
Ulster has passed Parliament twice through the coalition of
the Liberal Irish Home Rule National and the Labor
The three sessions in which bills opposed by the Lords
qualify for passage under the Parliamentary must be
secuve, but between any two of the three sessions
eral election is allowed and if Parliament dissolved
the procedure would be broken and the home rule
would have to begin all again The veto of the
Lords has been suspended clear the for home rule
but the of Ulster ntervenes with threatened
The conservatives with their liberal unionist allies
have succeeded under the able leadership of Arthur Baour
and the nominal party leader A. Bonar Law in precpita
ing situation where the liberal coalition ministry finds
itself between antagonism of Ulster to home rule the
hand with armed resistance last resort and appeal
the voters of the country demanded by the conservatives
which, owing the of delay involved explained in
the above paragraph, would in effect political suicide
for the liberals. Compromise with Ulster controlling its
police and other local affairs is suggested but the
Orangemen oppose any putting them under ma
honast government The only alternative of the minis
try, therefore, push the Irish Parliament with
the aid of John Redmond, the nationalist leader
The opposition of the Protestant population of Ulster
believe under government responsible to imperial Par
lament they have the fullest security personal free
dom and their rights to transact their business in their
way, whereas with Irish Parliament they believe
they would be ruled by mperous majority dominated by
religious well as political antagonisms
Under the present home rule measure introduced by
Premier AsQuth April H. 1872 Ireland is to have real
autonomy to all Irish 1t provides for Irish
Parliament to replace the former Parliament abolished by
England consisting of Senate and House of Commons
with power make laws for Ireland but with the control of
religious questions the validity of marriage national nsur-
peace copyright and other subjects specifically
reserved to the imperial Parliament The Irish Parliament
could impose excise and other taxes of its outside of
land purchase and would exercise large degree
of home rule
The Irish House of Commons would have l64 members
but Ulster would have minority according to its popua
ton with only fftynine members. The Senate would
sst of forty MEMBERS nominated in the first instance by
Great Britain and succeeded their terms became
by appontees of the Irish executive the lord lieutenant
Encouraged by Bonar Law and Sir Edward Carson
NJ P for Dublin University, who held responsible for the
Ulster riots in 1912 in which 57 arrested vel
recent troubles, the Ulster loyalsts demanding