People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — FOR HOME RULE. [ARTICLE]

FOR HOME RULE.

Lord Rosebery Will Adhere to Mr. Gladstone's Plans. The New British Premier Outline* Hie j Policy and Incidentally Attack* the House of Lord* in a Speech. LIBERALS PLEASED. London, March 14.—The opening of parliament was accompanied by a declaration from Lord Rosebery which ■ets at rest all suspicion of his attitude toward home rule and the house of lords. At a meeting of liberal* in the foreign office at noon ; the premier outlined in terms of great earnestness and directness a policy with regard to Ireland which will satisfy the most exacting home ruler, while his characterization of the house of lords was sufficiently hostile to disabuse the minds of the chamber of all hope of a reconciliation between commons and peers. The declaration is received on all sides among the liberals with unbounded enthusiasm. The fear that Lord Rosebery would lay aside the home rule bill and make terms with the peers was not confined to the radi icals. It existed throughout the liberal ranks and was heightened by the good natured and rather hopeful reception accorded to Lord Rosebery by the unionist newspapers. No allusion was made to the home rule bill in the speech from the throne, but the omission was more than atoned for by the address in the foreign office. Lord Rosebery was wildly applauded. His opening remarks were in reverential allusion to Mr. Gladstone. He declared that no assertion of policy was needed. "We stand where we did,” he said. The liberal party was bound to home rule by ties of honor and affection. The policy would be definitely pursued. As for the lords, he was becoming convinced that “with the democratic suffrage which we now enjoy, a second chamber constituted like the house of lords is an anomaly.” It had become a “great tory organization at the beck and call of a single party leader.” | In the house of lords Lord Salisbury dwelt upon the omission from the programme of any reference to international legislation, and especially marked the absence of the home rule question. That, he said, was an issue of the highest importance and ought not to have been laid aside for other subjects. Lord Rosebery said the government did not desire to evade or shirk the question of home rule for Ireland, but explained that it had not been mentioned in the queen’s speech because it would not be introduced during this session. “Lord Salisbury,” the premier said, “wants to appeal to the country. We are not afraid to appeal to the country when we think the time is ripe, but we shall never concede to this hereditary assembly the right to force a dissolution.” Referring to Ireland the prethiersaid : the present satisfactory condition was I due to remedial measures and the I promise of home rule. Of course the I decision rested upon England, but he believed the conversion of England to ' home rule would not be a difficult task i when the Irish people showed by their i conduct that they were worthy of it. j In conclusion, Lord Rosebery said that ' Ireland would never be contented until she had obtained home rule.