Home Rule Bill.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 78, 29 September 1893, Page 2

Home Rule Bill.

IMPORTANT SPEECH BY MR ' GLADSTONE. THE HOUSE OF LORDS IN DANGER. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, September 28. In his Edinburgh address Mr Gladstone said the people now knew all they cared to learn about Home Rule and he trusted j to the House of Commons to settle details. The Irish question was a great barrier to proceeding with legislation on other subjects, and the House of Lords would be responsible for its continuance in the face of the passing of the Bill by tho Commons. It was tho most important advance that had been achieved in the history of the question. An odious new fangled doctrine was now being urged that the Lords had a right to force a dissolution. Such an admission would be high treason, for a great nation had a title to be self*governing. The Lords were apparently unaware they were raising the question of their own independent and irresponsible existence. In the event of a dissolution Home Rule would not be the only question submitted to the determination of the people, and unless the Lords learned wisdom they would be likely to bitterly lament they had raised this issue. He was unable at present, to submit a cut and dried solution of tho position, but next session the Bill would be revived and the Government would find a means to enforce the Bill by a majority without illegality or violence. In his speech at Edinburgh, Mr Gladstone promised to extend to Scotland the Parish Councils Bill. Tbo Times declares that Mr Gladstone's indictment against the Lords is based on serious and audacious assumptions.