Mr Gladstone Appeals to Working Men.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 199, 16 April 1887, Page 8

Mr Gladstone Appeals to Working Men.

! '"' London, April 9, ■Mil Gladstone haja issued a manifesto ' to. ~ ; the, miners of the North of England, in I whioh he declares that the time has arrived ,for the working men .of England to bestir--themselves on behalf of Ireland. Referring to the injustice of the Coercion Bill, Mr Gladstone points otit that the record of crime in Ireland is relatively less for Ireland than that for England. If the 1 Bill" was passed it would mean suffering, but, he adds, Ireland knows, how to suffer for. England. The, Bill means shame and dishonour. Its elements' are antagonistic to the moral code of latter day civilisation, and that it should be cast forth in shame and dishonour was the first business of a great nation. Mr Gladstone points out that in 1876 the working men of London gave the first effectual ■ force of the movement which resulted in the emancipation of Bulgaria. The movement produced the overthrow of the Beaconsfield Administration, and brought about the return of the Liberals to power by the election of 1880. Mr Gladstone concluded his manifesto by expressing a hope that the anti-coercion meeting in Hyde Park will toll the death-knell of the worst, most insulting, and most causeless Coercion Bill ever submitted to Parliament.