LORD SALISBURY'S OFFENSIVENESS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 21, 20 February 1891, Page 7

LORD SALISBURY'S OFFENSIVENESS.

The London Tablet thus commentH on a late speech of tbe Prime Minister's: — Li rd Salisbury a speech was marked by a certain brutality ot ton" which ih characteristic of him, and also sinpularly (nit cf p ace in the utterances ot a Unionist Minister. In this respect Lord SUisbury presents a marked contrast to Mr. Baliour's remarks about individual rui mbeis of ibe Nationalist party, which are often biting enough, and with good cause, but nis speeches are without a tracj of that contempt and stupid scorn for a whole people which are so often piesent in the speeches of the Prime Minister. The hope thnt the thiee peoples may come to forget all seetirnal differene s, and, under equal laws, and in f he eiiioyment of an equal ireedom, be wi l(i> d into one united nation, is at once the strength and tne justification of tbe Unionist party. Lord Salisbury seems to thiiA he promotes the cause (f the Union by constantly ■tlluding to Inland, not as an inttgr»l part of the United Kingdom, but. ;is a cos qnemt piovince. Recently he discoursed much upon the obliga ion ' we incuired when we conquered Ireland," and also upon ihe sort of resolute government whicu a poople is entitled to exptct when " geographical or othei considerations foiee you to take away their independence." If ever the cause of the Union fails, it will be becauhe it has receive! its worst wounds from tbe tongue ot Lord i s ahsbuiy.