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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1265, 16 June 1886, Page 2

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United Ireland, referring to the land question, thinks it highly probable that Sir Gladstone wid challenge the opinion of Parliament and the country on Borne Rule, and leave landlo ds to stew in their own gravy ; and recommends this as the best aul simplest oontso The landlords have shown that nothing will make good citizens of them. Sines 'he purchase system does not conciliate them, and as It probably alarms English taxpayers, the sensible coarse is to drop <t into the background nntil the landlords and heir friends are humbly suing ■ hav > it reinstated, This will leave a clear and n 'ked Issue whether the Irish peojffe are to be ooncilated or dragooned A sw^no. the question, “ Suppose Mr Gladat ,ue fads,” the sam° journal says . —Oao portion of their programme the Irish people could realise at once before another winter was over; landlords would be paupers, the rest would come in the ricissi odea that are ever lowering over a great dabby Empire with an overgrown population, decaying trade and millions of deadly enemies In its bosom. The most stupendous Parliamentary scandal over wit nessed would bs followed by the most horrible snpreased civil war ever beheld in a cmutry whe o every pheamut has learned to laugh at the terrors of the gaol and the plank bed, and to treat I.ls rulers to all the inconveniences of armed Insurrection without handling a gun, and all the while Liberal progress in England weald be at a standstill, and the Lib Aral party split into fractions.