Widnes Examiner. — 1886-07-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

IQUIRER.  Sir,—Wartington has once more decided to be reprsvented by a Tory ; it has, by i:s choice, declared against progressive legislation and prefers that so far as this town is concerned the great question of Irish independence shall receive its quietus. But I vesture to assert that neither the man of their choca, nor the majority, has the power to stifle the aspirations of the lonst-soffering people of Ireland:  Freedom's hattte ones begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son; Though baffled oft Is ever won. Now,sir, there has been a good deal of capital made out of ; the split in the Liberal party. Illnstrioos names like John Bright and others of the party of defection have laeen claimed and made as common as that fourth-rate pelitician (and Parnell named "political gutter sparrow.") Lsrd Ran. dol ph Churchill. Cannot these Tories see the impossibility of welding together the various elements that compose the party of progress with the political dead-heads of the Tory party?• We, the Lih,rals and Radicals, are one, so far as agreeine, - to grant to Ireland some different system of government to the Dublin Castle Rule, and there can be no doubt • that cut of the many schemes proposed by our party for the settlement of this great question some plan will be adopted ' which shall have the approval of the Irish representatives. The desire to do justice to Ireland is acknrwledged by all men of advanced thought; the only difference is in the method. Now let its see if the Tories are prepared to do anything, but out again in force the policy of failure, viz. :—Coercion, a policy whose effect has been to alienate the aff-ctions of the Irish from the English people, a policy that has driven . away from their native land thousands of their race, c,rrying with them bitter recollections of oppression and wrong ; . 3 policy, which, while it has upheld the so-called rights of preperty. the greater part of which was obtained by fraud • and retained by force, has failed to recognise the right of the people to live upon the soil. Workingmen of Warrington. believe not the clap-trap of • rich Whigs and Tories, but look around you and see the effects of the evil government of Ireland in the overstocked labour market that you have to contend with. With Ireland contented, declining industries would revive, and new ones he established, and so bring relief to the English workman. The character of an Englishman hap hitherto - commanded the respect of the civilised world; he has shed his blood and spent his money to free the slave from bnadag:e, and his sympathy has ever been on the side of the opnressed. ' Then why make an exception in the case of Ireland? Her cry for relief has been met in most instances by measures of repression. Remember, charity begins at home; these people are our people; they have fought with Us the world over. They have held the foremost positions in the Sta'e, and as a whole have been loyal ; and yet, forsooth, because .s few have been guilty of dastardly outraes, the whole race is to be condemned as one not fit to bs trastEd. Remove the cause, and the effect will cease. „ Now history proves that a wrong Ge4:l.ernm-ent always finds' A vent fn murders arid Outrages, and I trust the electors of Warrington at the next election, which cannot he far distant, will reverse the deciiiion arrived at. so as to he in the van and not in the rear in the settlement of the great question of self-gsvernment for the Sister Isle —Yours, . T.