Mr GLADSTONE ON THE IRISH QUESTION. An Important Speech.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 212, 23 July 1887, Page 7

Mr GLADSTONE ON THE IRISH QUESTION. An Important Speech.

Mr Gladstone was entertained lately at luncheon by the Rev. Dr Parker, ot the City Temple, London, at his Hampstead. resis dence, where the right hon. gentleman met a number of leading Nonconformist; ministers and laymen. Dr Parker stated that the company present were determined to give Air Gladstone every assistance in their power in his resistance to the coercive policy of Her Majesty's present advisers. Mr Gladstone remarked that the year we were passing through, considered as one of the political and legislative life of the nation, -syas one of positive and absolute retrogression. The free voice of the House of Commons had for the first time been reduced to silence for the purpose of carrying retrogressive and repressive measures, and the Government had been enabled by the voice of gentlemen who had belonged to the Liberal party to appropriate to themselves the time of the House. Alluding to the relations of the Liberal party to the Nationalist in the House of Commons, the right hon. gentleman justified the grave language he had used five years ago in reference to the Land League. He could now see that some of the charges brought againsthis party by the Nationalists were true, that the measure for the suspension of the habeas corpus was unhappy and mischievous ; but they (the Liberals) spoke according to the circumstances that were before them. They spoke the truth then, and they spoke the truth now. He asserted that the language used by Colonel Saunderson, Lord R. Churchill, and Lord Salisbury on the subject of resistance to law in the North of Ireland should Parliament think fit to adopt a measure of Home Rule, was language even more dangerous than any ever held by the Irish leaders at the time when their language was denounced to the country. But it was a different thing to charge them with complicity with crime. As to the alliance between the Liberals and the Irish party, it was in the pursuit of a common object,and must continue until the common object was attained. There was nothing to be ashamed of in such an alliance. Referring to the libels and the refusal of the House of Commons to deal with them as a breach of privilege or before a Select Committee, Mr Gladstone said no such horrible farce had ever been enacted in the face of the country as the proposed public prosecution. Speaking of the Coercion Bill, he said it was wanton, insidious, dishonouring, and degrading. The discussion might be shortened if the Government would say frankly that they would make the bill one against crime only, and not against combination and exclusive dealing, and make it for a limited time, as all other Coercion Bills had been. On the question of Home Rule, the right hon. gentleman, alluded to the report that he was determined to adhere to his plan in all particulars, and said his desire was to see the great object attained which he knew to be essential to the good of the country, and to find the best means of meeting every reasonable objection and of improving the structure of the plan of last year so as to carry with it the greatest possible amount of support. Glancing at the effect of unduly protracting the present contest, Mr Giadstone warned his opponents that if they played their rash and ill-considered game too long they would not settle the Irish question upon the .easy and favourable terms on which they had still the opportunity of settling it.

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