Show HOME RULE FOR IRELAND Gladstone Moves a Third Reading Read-ing of the BilL H I GIVEN AN OVATION An Exceptionally Large Audience Present Pres-ent in the House Ho Refers to tho Criticisms Blade by Unionist Leaders on the Historical Precedents He Has Cited in Former For-mer Speeches for Home Rue LONDON Aug 30The house of commons com-mons met at noon to consider the home rule bill in the last stage There was an unexceptionally large attendance Gladstone Glad-stone and Morley were enthusiastically cheered as they entered After the new amendments had been disposed of without with-out debate Gladstone arose amid a storm of cheers to move the third reading He began his speech with reference to the criticisms made by the unionist leaders on the historical precedents he had cited on former occasions for home rule in Ireland The opposition he said contended that in no other countries could analogies be found for changing the union between Great Britain and Ire land Their contention could not be supported sup-ported by historical facts In Austria Hungary Norway and Sweden in the United States and the British colonies were to be found abundant abund-ant proof altogether desirable to separate local and Imperial affairs Throughout the European ana American literature it was not possible to find a writer entitled to consideration who approved of the conduct of England towards Ireland or attempted to apologize for the grievous shameful history which since the union they had felt compelled to deplore Gladstone continuing said he had regarded cloture as an evil that ought to be tolerated only for the avoidance of a much greater evil Those opposed to the bill had adopted a course never before adopted partly to attempt deliberately to destroy a measure by a mass of amendments amend-ments partly to try to take back in morsels mor-sels a boon conferred in principle It was not the complexity of the bill but the complexity of amendments which consumed con-sumed time It was contended that the bill would separate the islands destroy the constitution break up the empire make Irishmen supreme in British affairs Suppose these falsehoods were true have they not then a terrible hold upon ourselves Must we not admit our 700 hundred years of British connection with Ireland and the result of our treatment is we have brought her to such a star she cannot without danger of ruin undertake under-take responsibility which in every other countr are found to be in the capacity capac-ity of people and fraught with the richest benefits Prolonged Nationalist Nation-alist cheers We deny that he brand of incapacity has been laid by the Almighty upon any particular branch of our race Gladstone closed his address as follows We cave faith in national liberty faith in its efficacy as an instrument instru-ment of national education We believe that experience widespread over the whole vast field encourages us to our work at every point Finally we feel that the passing this great measure after more than eighty days1 debate does well and must constitute the greatest among all steps hitherto provided towards the attainment at-tainment of certain and early triumph Prolonged cheers followed from Irish and ministerial benches Leonard Courtney Unionist then moved the rejection of the bill Ho spoke briefly John Redmond leader of the Parnel lites who followed Courtney defined his attitude towards the bill The bill was defective in some respects and disappointing disappoint-ing in others Nobody in his senses could regard the bill as final and a satisfactory satis-factory settlement of the great question at issue |