THE BRITISH PRESS ON HOME RULE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1267, 11 June 1886, Page 3

THE BRITISH PRESS ON HOME RULE.

The Bradford Ohs -ryer says there can be no iloubt that finally Home Rule will be concede 1 . Bit it will make all the difference whether it ho given promptly and with a free hj in 1, or « hotter it be extorto-l from a grudging db-i'-hameii l -. I f-M r*G iad atone has tti w*» 1 qpotjiei-mipdaie, vye have little fear as t ■ what it miy he.*" “. ’ " 1 The Yorkshire IGrifl ' states klf we shall have to grant Home Rule-next you- 0.the year after, where is the.prudence, sagacity, and patriotism of'scornfully rejecting it now ? ’ The Northern Echo observes,: In reality history teems with precedents for the Bill. Wherever the problem of di-tinct coinmuni-

ties under a central government has been faced, it has to be settled as Mr Gladstone proposes to sett’e it. When Lord Deuham gave rebellious Canada a constitution, he was met as Mr Gladstone is met to-day, with abuse and contumely. But his work lived and spread, and ire see its fruits today in the cry for self governing English commonwealths in every part of t.he world, for not disintegrating the empire but for Imperial fe leration. If our Parliamentary denaters want to find deeds without precedent, they caiv:find them in Irish history. It is not the concession, hilt the refusal of the : fights of self-government, that breaks up nations. " The Shields Gazette says every hour that pisses is making it snofe clear that if Mr Gladstone- is - compelled to appeal to the cmntry either by the House of Commons or the, House of Lords, ‘ he will eo nmand the ' practically- uhlfivided support- of his party, inw •-,A- *, - ... The ’ Nottingham Daily J Express says among. Liberals there' 'is -a widespread opinion that the two ex-Ministera, Mr Chamberlain and Mr Trevelyan, have not strengthened their own position or increased .their personal following by their precipitate withdrawal from the: .Cabinet.

The Western Daily Mercury says' the Irish question riiiist be settled, and only can be settled comtormably to the wishes td Ireland.

The Scotsman says the eagerness to speak, and the desire to support the Bill manifested by many Liberal members, seem to show that Mr Gladstone's following will remain larger than-might have been antioipited after so 'many important secession". The Dundee-. Adviser , says there is, we fear, to great a tendency among the critics of Mr Gladstone’s Irish scheme to,magnify' its defects, and too little disposition to discuss fairly and impartially the. principle which it em‘ o lies. The point which should be kept s'uviily in view is the possibility of modifying the scheme, so as to ensure .that Ireland shall not, be subject- to'taxation imposed by the Imperial 'Parliament for Imperial purposes without having a . voica.in Impe-ial e-nsems. . If Ireland is to remain part.of the (Jotted Kingdom, some provision must be made for her representation in the common Parliament. Without •a connecting hint of this kind there would he a constant risk of'sep-iralion. The Gl-.sg.iw Citizen remarks as yet Scotland has winced no disposition to thr-w Mr Gladstone overboard- even for the Homo Role.*• ship.” The Premier, solar, has not deserved such a fate.

The Manchester Guardian looks upon Mr Whitbread's speech aa a political event of til" first consequence. It brings support to the Governmiutp ecisely from the quarter where they most needed it, and it will balance in moral effect the - secession] of a score of minor placemen and court officials. The Guardian also thinks well of the manifest witiiiigii-Bi of the Government not to insist on the exclusion of Irish members from the Imperial Parliament. There are signs already, which we shall ha wise to do nothing to repress, (hit the Irish- Parliament will be neither hostile to this country nor disloyal to the - P.irliainoata*y comp ict in virtue of which it will have been called into existence.

The teeds Mercury o’-nerves :—lt is to be altered and amended in accordance With ths view, of the nation ns represented in the House of Common-. We are entitled to demand'from Lord Hartingtou and Chamber■ l iin a-i explanation of why they refuse to attempt to amend it.

Tne Times says :—Mr Bickersteth told the House that Mr Gladstone had entirelymistaken and miscalculated the . feeling of the country. This, we b lieve is the fact ; hut the Prime Minister, if we may judge from h-s speech on .closing the debate, will not make the confession in the only effectual way by the withdrawal of an incurably bad scheme, and the reversal of a policy leading to natienal taia.i'dTdvStake every-* thing on the chance that an Irish Parliament i i Dublin will act wisely, j istly. and prudently, is a policy which we should hope no body of sober-minded Englishmen and Scotchmen will toko into consideration. The Morning Post says : -The supporters of tha'Covernment are now more disposed to take a hopeful view of the fate of the Irish. Bill than they were two days ago. They assert that they have reason to believe that the Prime Minister is now prepared to make substantial concessions in order to conciliate the recalcitrant Liberals

at his own side ana public opinion out of doors, which has generally condemned the measure as complex,• unworkable and absurd. ' •

The Standard says,:—lt is now believed that the fate of the Home Rule Bill on the second reading is in the hands of tifteen to twenty waverera on the Liberal side, whose action will probably be determined hy the nature of Uie modification which the Government may introduce into the measure. 11 is expecte I that there avill be very few abstentions in view of the strong interest which the constituencies are taking in the question. The Duly News says:—The debate on Homo Rule was enlivened last niaht hy. one of the best debating speeches Sir WiU Him llarcourt has ever addressed to the House of Commons. Mr Goschen's speech was an admirable example of the inconsistencies and absurdities in which the oopo-. ; neulsof Home Rule are involved. lie is tilie i with ala'in at the argument that be--1 cause 85 Home members are returned for

Ireland .Home Rule should be'granted. He .aike't-Vhather if any other 85 determined uifji} ipsiat upon a measure it must be (•ranted. But Ireland is npt'W'seotroa ntra, kingdom, it is apaMon, and in sending 89 Home Rulers to Westminster, it has expr ssed its desire to make its own laws. The boast of self-government becomes mere emptiness if the desire thus expressed be denied. We Englishmen govern ourselves, and the question before us now is whether we will allow Irishmen to do the same. For years past the Liberal party has taken as its motto in dealing with Ireland that it should be ruled by Irish ideas. There is no other way of doing justice in Ireland. Mr Gosohen proves conclusively that Ireland can only be governed as the Liberal party desire to govern it by letting Irishmen put. Irish ideas into the shape of law by a free Parliament ot their own, meeting and legislating on Irish soil. The I) ail v Chronicle says The methods by which the Home Rule scheme has been introduced to public attention call for a good deal ot criticism, but perhaps tho most unpardonable feature of them is Mr Motley’s argument that tho scheme has raised hopes which, if disappointed, will probably lead to eorions disturbances in Ireland. It has raised hopes which never should have been raised and never can be realised, and this was done without open Parliamentary demands from Mr Parnell, and without consulting the Conservatives. The scheme was in fact withheld and informally circulated a - soon as the elections, were over, and tile cons l itueiicies had no power of i-xp-essing their opinion. The re* sponsihility for what is about to happen must lit'at the'door of him who has sown the wind not of those who reject an impossible and delirdve scheme. Whatever hap pens we ana.t it without fear, knowing full well that it cannot attain to the terrible results to which the passing of such a Bill as this would expose ns.