DISRAELI ON THE IRISH QUESTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2079, 31 July 1890, Page 3

DISRAELI ON THE IRISH QUESTION.

Mr Gladstone, in a magnificent oration which be delivered recently, referred to a certain passage in a speech made by Mr Disraeli so far back as the year 1844, This passage is of so searching and statesmanlike a character that it cannot be too well known or too often repeated. Speaking of the state of Ireland Mr Disraeli said ; “ They had a starying population, an absentee aristoorocy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest Execotiue in the world. That was the Irish Question. Well, then, what would hon. gentlemen say if they were reading of a country in that position 1 They would say at once, ‘ The remedy is revolution.’ But the Irish could not bare a reyp.lqtfon, and why? Because Ireland was connected with anothey and a more powerful country. Then what was the consequence? The connection with England thus became the canse of the present state of Ireland. If the conception with England prevented a revolution, and a revolution was the only remedy. England logically was in the odious position of being the oause of all the misery in Ireland. What, then, was the fluty of an English Minister ? To effect bybis policy all those changes which a revolution would do by force. That was the Irish Question its integrity.