Tue Home papers: just to hand are, devoted to recounting the effurtsof the Par-Tiameutary party leaders to instruct voters according to their. own ular beliefs, and how much advantage was. taken: of the brief Whitsuntide holiday: by members stir up their constituencies, so that more hard work was done during this so-called holiday than when the House-was sitting. Accordingito the Times of the 8th Jun election is already in full swing, and will, no 'The work' of preparation for the general doubt, absorb from this time onwards much of the. which would otherwise be expended ent.; We: report this morning preliminary speech byre Chane cellor of the Exchequer, a mere friendly address to his neighbours la' Kent, whic attains the dimensions of a political manifesto while at Birmingham Mr. Chamberlain has
vigour in a rousing 9] ita opened. the campaign with his customary tives of inionist' organisation, FREIT Gata watin by his wife and Jater, in the park Mr, Gladstone has been on show, accompanied Hawarden, and has been touchingly solicit tous about the effects of the sun-upon the] escorered ace of his visitors: He told cause, and a sacred canto and they cheered, jem that they. have @ good cause, anda great and shotifed, and went away happy,. thou; there was nct.a man in the crowd who. von og to save his life, what the cause is that calls forth all this.fine language. Meanwhile, the Ulater people ake bessily organtaing what on this side of the Atlantic, in order to.conis going to get convention ever seen in the most emphatic manner what thes cause 5 and mists are addressing a weighty ap peal to their brethren in this country to pause and consider what they are doing when they' aid and abet Mr. Gladstone in fixing the yoke: of priestly tyranny upon their ce-r over the country candidates are preparing. for the fray, either by actively engaging in' the -work of ongintestioh or by elsberatin the appeals they will aubsequen the electors, All this labour; once begun, cannot be lightly interrupted, hence it is not probable that much energy' will be left. to on the ordinary work.of Parliament. But, as most of the ordinary work consists in delaying work, this general absorption of interest in other occupations will, no doubt, lead to notable expedition in the despatch of indispensable busi The contention about Ulster and. Home: Rule is sharp and: strong. The. Liberal find occasion to pooh-pooh the opinion of the great majority of the Ulster men, and declare that their assertions of the evil consequences to them, of Home Rule dom by the Catholic priests are false, and the fears they express groundless. But the. opinion of the Ulster men cannot be ao" completely ignored as the Liberals would wish, as the means taken to Jet that opinion become known in England are.very..effective. A.statoment of the views of the Ulster Protestants upon the Home Rule question, signed by the chief officers of the Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and Congregational Churches in Ireland, and. by 6,04 ministers, cldore, deacons, stewards, and other officers. and members of the. nou-Episcopalian Church in that country, bus been sant. to.every Nonconformist minister in Great Britaiv. It sere forth that an Irish Parliament would be practically under the domination of the Roman Catholic bishops and priests, and that-no guarantees, moral or material, dan be devised which will guard the: rights of the Protestant minorities. which are scattered throughout Ireland.
'The Morning Post states the difficulty' of the situation very concisely _The Fenian Home Rale demanded: by all the Nationalist factions silke isthe only sort which ins to be. reckoned with, and in Ulster it is clearly tanderstood to menace the of the far. greater Imperial involved in the dislocation of authority at home. Mr. Chambertain'has complained. in words of just indignation that the: wernitys mich oxime from, Ulster ar tre a Ulster. ted with cent rt, ough the protest of thir ST the 'Irish population tain itself fatal 10 the contention that Home Rule is a message of "The men, of Ulster," he says, "move. slowly, bub they' move surely. "It these men' take up'the sword they Will''sot lay it down until they have accomplished their object." It is because this is no idle call attention to the sighificant-words'of the Ulster "Meniorial ani: the Ulster Press, Feiling to inet the ist claims avd det hands of Ulster, the Gladstonians all back: denunciations of Lord Salisbury, as if done anything more than call attention with emphasis to-the dangers that the pass-"a Home Rule Bill, would. involve. Mr, Gladstone patronised for years the rebels against the authority of the Crown and the Imperial Parliament, and indirectly, "and sometimes we fear directly, encouraged them in their course of lawlessness. and outrage in order to help the overthrow of that an: thority. But he has now no epithets' but fools and, rogues for those. who would even touggeat resistance, not. against the Crown and the Imperial Paslldment, but fp. their defence, and on: the part of men who object to be cass off from the protection -of the Iwperial authority, and, left to the tender mercies of the outrage-mongers and cattle: 1g' houghers who. have so vigorously laboured to help the case of Home Rule... The law of the land," ho has just told his heaper, had been competent to deal with, the fools and rogues, and in so dealing. with them had alway received the intelligent, enthusiastic, and determined support of the great mass of the community." Well, weill admit that the law of the land for the post five genre has proved too strong for the rogues and the emissaries of the Land and.
League; but no thanks to Mr. Gladstone, daring the greater. period the weight of his influence was thrown in,-not sith the aw the land, but with its nex We can assure Mr. Gladstutit,; however, that the Unionists of Ulster do not consider themselves either as fools or rogues; that, there is nothing in common between them and. the midnight marauders whom he patronised and apologised for, and that in proof of their want of folly they plead that they reject his policy, and in of their honesty they'declars that they want to be, und ate deterilived to remain, separate from the gang she. have End robbings of the last decade, It Mr.
ved' their dishonesty by the plunderings Gladstone himself at the present tithe tinder-stood, or at/all events practised, the first principles of political honesty he would explain something of the Home Rule scheme to whi wishes to commit the country rather than abuse Lord Salisbury for his successful efforts in thwarting him, Lord Rosebery is nub like Sir, William 'Harcourt, given to foolish political vapourings,' but_he thas thought §t to sneer at 'Ulster, thereby rousing the" wrath' of berlain,: and. as the Daily PUGS IE Fe hed is quite tone, Lord Rosebery
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