Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — GLADSTONE’S TRIUMPH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLADSTONE’S TRIUMPH.

Ireland’s Cry for Justice Hus at l.ast Been Heard. _ The English House of Commons has listened to Ireland's cry for justice. Gladstone's splendid campaign against deep-rooted conservatism and ancient prejudice has ended in magnificent victory. The Irish home rule bill was adopted by the Commons by a vote of 301 to 267. The measure was hurried to the House of Lords, which gave it the first reading and adjourned. Tho Home Buie movement is about twenty-one years old. It began to take form early in the '7o’s, when patriotic Irishmen realized that Fenianism could do their beloved country no good. The father of the Home Rule movement was Dr. Isaac Butt. He died in 1878. Before his death a new leader had arisen in the Home Rule party, Charles Stewart Parnell, who had been elected to Parliament as member for Meath in 1874. Parnell's methods were far different from those of Dr. Butt. He was essentially aggressive. English statesmen who looked at Ireland's grievances without without prejudice joined the Irish party in the Commons in calling for Ireland’s relief.

When Gladstone pronounced in favor of home rule, the world instinctively felt that the success of home rule was assured. It is needless here to recall the vicissitudes of the home rule movement during the past five years. They are fresh in the public mind. The probability is that the bill which has passed the Commons will be defeated in the Lords at the present session, and

that tbii Parliament will be dissolved, and a new Parliament elected in which the 1 -Liberal strength will be greater than before. In the face of repeated demands of tie English people; says a correspondent, 'the peers will pass the bill. If the House of Lords should make stubborn and continued resistance, so much the worse for the House of Lords.

WM. E. GLADSTONE