MR CHAMBERLAIN, M.P ON THE CASTLE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2055, 8 September 1885, Page 4

MR CHAMBERLAIN, M.P ON THE CASTLE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND.

Clomvc Ins speech :it Hollow ay on June 17th, Mr Cli.unheil.un, M V , <-ai<l •— But the question has another «ide, which is, jicili ips, oven of gieatti impoitancc. It is a nation il question as well .is a local question, and the pacification of Ireland at this, moment, ,s I Ixlieve, depends upon the tesMon to li eland of the light to govern itself in the rnnttci of it> puiely domestic business (applause). Now, sir, uh.it is the alternative? Are you content, with eighty j cud of .ilmse, tore new once moie tlie dreaiy expetienee of itprcwue legislation? Is it not disci editable to us that it is only by uneon vStitutional means we aie able to secuiu peace and oniei in one. part of lur Majesty's kingdom? I do not believe that the great ma joiity of Englishmen have the slighter conception of the system utidti which this fiee nation attempts to rule a sistei eountiy. It it. a s\.stem wliieh is founded on the hnjoneti of thnty thousand Mjldieia encamped permanently as in a hostile count ly (shame). It is a system as completely centralised and bineaiiciatic as that with which Russia governs I'oland, or that which was common in Venice under the Austiian rule. An Ii;-Innnn at this inonieiit cannot move a step, he cannot lift a finger, in any paioclnal, municipal, or educational woik without being con fronted, mteifered with, contioMed by in English official appointed by u foteii»n (2o\ ciiinient, and w.thont a shadow 01 a shade of lepicsentativ c authority (ci.es of "^hame.') The tune has come to lefonn altogether the iibsmrl and lnilating annclironism w Inch is known as Dublin 1 astle (heai, hem,) to sweep away together the«.e alien boards and foitign oliiciaK, mid to substitute foi them a genuine liish administratio'i of purely Insli business That is the woik to wl.ich the ii"vv I'ailiairent will be called (chceis), and I believe that by its successful accomplishment it will do moie to secuie the sticngth. the charactei, and the influence of the nation than by the addition of any an omit, hoviever large, to tin: expend) tine on nival ami militaiy purposes — that it will j,o fuither to maintain oui weight in the counsels of Europe than any amount of bluster in our lelations with foieign countiies (cheers), and that it will go fuitlici to piomote the tme inteicsts of the United Kingdom than any extension of the Einpiie, which it is our duty to govern well and wisely, befoie we seek to multiply out lesponsibilitics or enlaige our obligations