The Home Rule Bill
(PKB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) London, September 6. Three hundred and fifty peers attended the House yesterday. Earl Spencer, in moving the second reading of the Bill, said that during the last eighty-seven years on an average one Coercion Act, or renewal thereof, had been passed each year, while the sentiments, feeling, and customs, of the Irish were totally neglected. He urged the Lords to cast aside prejudices, and embral-e the peaceful opportunity of conceding their demands instead of reducing the Irish to despair. The Duke of Devonshire contended that the Bill would arrest prosperity, enslave the loyal minority and disunite the Empire. ______^___
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 60, 8 September 1893, Page 2
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105The Home Rule Bill Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 60, 8 September 1893, Page 2
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