SPEECHES BY MR GLADSTONE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1992, 9 January 1890, Page 4

SPEECHES BY MR GLADSTONE.

The meeting of the Libera! Federation b-*gan at Manchester on December 20'.3, Mr Gladstone delivered an address, and said that the local Government 811 did not meet the legitimate demands of the country. He advocated granting to the County Counci a the control of the police and liquor traffic, the care of its poor, power to deal with the question of ground rentn and a form of district connclls. He would probably go further and establish the parish principle of Government, and thus convey to the rural population the first elemen's of their public education, and create a sense of public duty which is the higher aira of statesmen. At a meeting on December 3rd it was declared necessary to provide for the settlement of the question of the reduction and disestablishment of the Welsh Oliurcb. Resolutions were adopted condemning any Land Purchase Bill for Ireland which would entail a burden on British taxpayers, protesting against the use of British funds, and favoring international arbilration. It was also declared that (he Bridal) policy ought (o be to avoid any entanglement in Continental affairs. Mr Gladstone, in a speech, inspired groat enthusiasm with a definite expression of the Liberal policy. He said Ireland was the leading question of the day. The Tories would have been converted to the Liberal view of the subject by this lime but for the dissentient Libera's, The split in the Liberal party would not have occurred except for (he personal ambition of some Tories and their allies who desired more to form a social party than to do political justice, The Plan of Campaign wr.s a necessary consequence of the Government’s refusal to grant proper relief for Ireland. There was less crime in Ireland than in England. The country had clearly expr> seed the desire that there should bo a change in the adminictrntion for Ireland, and the Liberals might look to the future with coi.fidence. He quoted recent speeches of Lord Salisbury and the Marquis of Hartington as evidence that lire Unionist party is now forming plans in antic'pation of a decisive defeat, and then the time, would come for L’berals to appeal lo the nation. The only reason for the existence of the Dissentients as a party is the antiIrish feeling. It was the curse of their destiny. They were chained to the wheel and must revolve or stop will) it. He c'osed by giving thanks to the comrades who stood by him in time of adversity and discomfiture.