Show GLADSTONE SPEAKS He Reviews Salisburys Birmingham Birming-ham Argument TH PREMIER SOUNDLY SCORED He Seems Ignorant of What Is Coins on In the Brltiih Empire liberal Reasons for Irish Home Rule LONDON Nov 23 Gladstone was today a participant in the exercises attending the formal opening of the hall at Port Sunlight Sun-light near Birkenhcad He made an address ad-dress of considerable length devoting much attention to reviewing Salisburys argument in his Birmingham speech and declared Salisbury seemed ignorant of what was going on in the British empire Salisbury had called homo rule capsuled medicine Doubtless he was an authority on physic as he had to take several sev-eral nasty doses in recent years like that at the Moulben election Salisbury had talked of coming massacres and cruelty in Ireland if the home rule bill passed The I The premier was like a silly nurse maid who when unable to pacify a child by ra tional means tried to frighten it with stories sto-ries of hobgoblins Let the people dismiss such imaginations They must bo patient till Lord Salisbury gave them an opportunity opportu-nity of deciding the question then they i would see such bubbles blown into the air acd the reign justice and good sense restored re-stored In politics Two reasons for placing home rulo in tho van of the Liberal policy were justice to Ireland and tho necessity of clearing the road for other legislation Speaking on the labor question Gladstone Glad-stone said the problem could be solved only by a sound civil secular and Christian feeling and respect for mutual rights Profit sharing was attractive but there was a question what to do when there was aloss instead of a profit Strikes were only adapted to what ho might call a rude state of industry Much might be hoped from cooperative distribution and production produc-tion towards a solution of the problem because this would give the laborer the same position and feeling as capitalist In an eloquent pooration Gladstone peoraton appealed ap-pealed to his hearers to give workers besides be-sides an increase of wages and a decrease of hours a sense of common fooling with their employers to establish the brother hood of man and man to look to the heart and conscience as well as the appetite and ambition for a solution of these difficulties and above all to look to Providence to shape our ends and recollect the sacred words Behold how good and pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity |