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THE 110OREOiON" OF IRELAND'.
SPEECII OF MR. BALFOUR
AT PORTSMOUTH.
TUI uslosiSr PROGRAMME FOR THE
GREEN 1SLE
Hr. A. J. Balfour, Chief Secre-
tary fur Ireland, addressed a great
Uuiuniat meeting at Portsmouth
on the 9th June. In the course of
lila speech he said, as reported iu
in the Lundell Tinted ;—'Nuw, our
opponents are very feud of making
t comparison between their policy
fur lreland and our poliey fur hag
hied, and they have a very simple
formula in which they stun up
their view of the situation. They
say that our policy is entirely
coercion, and that their policy is
simply Hunte Rule. (Laughter.)
Now, in my judgment, that propo-
sition has every :strut. which pro-
position can have. (Laughter.) It
errs' by misstatement ; it errs by
the suppression of the truth,
and it errs by the distortion of the
truth ; it suppresses the facts of the
case, and it puts into prominence
things which are not the facts of
the case (cheers), and I do not
think that I can better occupy the
time allotted to me this evening
than by showing 'you how utterly
the formula which I have just
given you fails to describe Lhe res-
pective relations of the two great
parties upon the question of the
better government of Ireland.
(Hoar, hear.) I do not mean to
quarrel about words. If our oppo-
nents choose 10 tell me that I am a
eoereigniet, I do not make any
bones about the phrase. (Laughter.)
But let me ask what the thing
means—that' is the ..point. (Loud
cheers, and a voice --'Law and
order.') What we want to know is,
not by what epithet you can des-
cribe the policy of the Government,
as far as what my friend there calls
taw and order, but what that policy
is in itself. (Hear, hear.) I will
tell you what it is in itself. The
The Huron News -Record policy which has been falsely des-
cribed --or rather foolishly des-
cribed—as coercion simply consists
in providing a machinery by which
the law, not a law peculiar to Ire-
land, not a law in its substance
even peculiar to England, but a law
which in its substance is universal
amongst civilized nations (cheers)—
it simply consists in providing a•
machinery by which this general
law, that every civilized State in
the. world lias had to enact, has had
to obey, may be carried into effect
iu the sister island. (Cheers.) if
by coercion you mean that which
does not interfere with the liberty
of the press, that which does not
interfere with the liberty ,.of elec-
tion, that which does not interfere
with auy law abiding man, but
that which does interfere with the
proceedings of those who aro not
law-abiding (cheers); if by coercion
you mean :,n adniiuietration of law
our set.had invited me to take a , which rtr•ikes it possible for a law-
ridbehind his high-spirited, fine- I abiding citizen to live in peace ; if
1)lo r1. :1 horse. I got myself up to by coercion you mean a system
under which individual liberty,
instead of being sacrificed to a
faction, is 1'rngerved from one end
of the land to the other, then I say
I am proud of being called a coer-
'cionist. (Louth cilia prolonged
cheers.) But, patting, aside for
one moment this question of the
administration of the law in Ireland,
is it true --is it netts' thu truth—to
say that wo are coercionists, and
coorcioniets alone? (Loud cries of
"No.") I have often had occasion
to admire the shortness of memory
of our opponents. (Cheese.) I do
not mean their shortness of memory
iu the witness-box—I am not talk-
ing of that. (Loud cheers and
laughter.) I moan their shortness
of memory as to what has actually
taken place in Parliament since I
have had the honor of holding the
position of Chief Secretory for Ire-
Ia15it: - (Tfrsar, halm) I dare gay
some of you Lavo better nlernories,
and.,recollect a Land Act which I
had the honor to introduce •Ind
pees in 1887. (Hear, hear.) Now,
I ant not going through the 'pro-
visions of the Act. It was a very
long mud complicated measure,
which brought relief to a very largo
number of agricultural tenants in
Ireland, and it improved in many
respects the law of landlord anti
tenant. 'But I want to retuind you
of one provision of the statute. It
was a provision dealing with evic-
tions. We provided—the Unionist -
Government provided, the brutal
Chief Secretary provided (laughter)
—a clause , under which any tenant
in Ireland who was liable to evic-
tion might appeal to an independent
court of law, and if he could show
that ho was unable to pay his debt
to the landlord through circum-
stances for whish he was not res-
ponsible, he might ask the court to
stop thio eviction upon such terms
as the court might think just.
(Hear, hear.) I want you to reco-
llect the existence of that law when
you Lear all this talk about evic-
tions in Ireland. Why has not the
law been more used? Is it because
the Irish members do not think
the provision in itself a valuable
and useful one? I think not, be-
cause I observe that one of the
Irish members has just brought in
a bill by which'this provision is to
be extended to other classes of
tenants. (Laughter.) Sonie other
explanation, therefore, is required
$1.50 a Year -41.251n Ad tuwe.
82s''the mast due',. )+ot do )i t;ce to his husine,s
trh•, adee•rtisiuq thudhe dues in
rent. ''r. ST It's.1a•r, the milli. t,alre merchan
of New Pari-.
•
Wedel slay, June 'bath 1MMS9
ON1?, \\rAY;;r(FCUR.ING A
ItAT'LKY HORSE.
'What ars we stopping?" for said
the • holy. "Balky horse on the
track," answered the gentleman.
' "He won't wove for whipping or
pelting or whispers in his ear or—
anything:" "Did I ever tell you,"
site asked, "sheat my experience
with a balky horse? leo 1 • Well,
it \V.t; out 011 the Colorado plains.
Th., ut.,st elegant voting eligible of
lr j'iatice to the occasion. Ali
wren;. delightfully till, when we
lysis
orf the open plain, outside
Denver, titre, valuable animal con -
el tided to pause in his rapid motion
aud Meditate. My escort shook the
reins, clucked persuasively, remon-
strated encouragingly, gave a touch
of the whip, at which the horse
reared and kicked viciously, but
stilt tyu were stationary out on that
lonely sandy level. My elegant
{.'?cart grew red in the face with
mortification, and clenched his
t•'^th so as not to let slip any regret -
cone words. 'If you will allow me
to get out I could start hila,' he
said. `Oh, by no means,' I rejoin-
ed, 'I could never hold him. Let
me get out and try patting sand in
his mouth. I've boon told that
worked like a charm.' And so it
did. I clambered out of tho buggy,
grabbed- a- good - fist- full . of finer
snu,l, opened the jaws of that horse
and throw it in. Tho astouishsd
horse torn off like a Rash, and as I
stood ./lone, five utiles from home
in that solitary place and watched
the maddened horse, the powerless
driver and:the black buggy grow a
mere dot in the distance, I decided
tho experiment had been a perfect
success as far as the starting the
horse was • concerned ."—Chicego
Jet/real.
NO UUSi; WHISTLING FOR
11IM.
A story is being told of a very
close citizen of Washington that he
wanted to go to Lynchingburg
recently. At the ticket office he
was told that the faro was $1,40.
'Ono eighty,' he muttered. `Gid
you w,1.40.'
'Can't cut rat rates. sir. One
nighty is the fare.'
`Gid you one fifty.'
'Nope. Uni eighty.'
'1)on I'll relit.'
'7'h•ats your privilege,' answered
tho ticket seller. So he started off
down the track and had Made
about half the distance when he
heard an engine tooting and whist-
ling bonind him. _
`You needn't vissle,' said he,
waving hist hand, 'I'll not gomo
back.'
(A voice, "Agitation"), and tie your Local Guvorumout Bill you
explauetion was given by a gentle- you Must deal with the land qucs-
utan who spoke frutn the gallery tion in Ireland; you utust deal
just now. Those evictions are not with it ou a liege scale ; you must
the result of landlord harshness, carry out that policy which you
nur even ale they the result st have already enunciated with such
$puntiueous cuntbiuutious among marked and admirable effect in the
Lite teu,wts uu the Plan ut Cam- case of the Ashbourue Acts. stud
paigu estate:, with respect to which when you have duue that, and
every 1 e e p tluta l
must of this talk exist:. The cow- shoo you have taken
binatiou between the tenauts to u tiuu against misuse of the powers
combination forced upon thou ft•u ti that are to be given to localities iu
outside. (Cheers.) It is c1 own Ireland, tilen'1 tor nue say press of
bination which they would nut your Local Government hill with
willingly have entered iutu ; it is a all the speed in your power, and
combination among people who tau give Ilishu,en every privilege which
u theyt if wialttt i to pay • is now aecutdeti to Etmglishtueu, and
pay their r npay
jUheers.) It is a euntbivatiull which in the cunrao of tae ie xt few
I eigely among persons who would weeks 1 lupe we shall seri conceded
pity their reut if allowed to do su to every Scutehuian. (Cheers.)
(cheers), and it is a combination Now 1 would ask you, is the pro -
forced upon them, col with a view gramme of what we mean to du—a
to benefitting the tenant tags in programme including public works
Ireland ("Nu, no."), but with the in Ireland, the laud question in
view of promoting the interests of It eland, local Government for Ire
-
factiou in •\Veslntiuiete•. (Cheers.) laud, aud other matters which, if
Recollect when you discos the time permitted, 1 alight mention --
question ut' evictions with your is that programme one which ought
radical friends that ie all the cases , properly to be ,described as a je
of the Plan of Campaign estates, so jute and a barren ono 1 ("No, no")
far as I know; or, at all events, the I say it is as much and more of a
estates about which you have heard programme than bas ever been
most, terms liberal to the extremity given to Ireland by any previous
of liberality have been offered to Government. (Cheers.) Though
the tenants. They have been re- I do not shrink from being called a
fused by the tenants ander duress. coercionist, if coerciou,means what
And recollect further that those I have told you it does mean in
men for whom your sympathy is Ireland, I say to call the Govern -
demanded are persons who have moot—to call the Unionist party—
deliberately levied civil war against a party of coercion and coercion
the process of the law. (Cheers). alone is to ignore every fact of con -
They have barricaded and fortified temporary history and to attempt to
t heir honses, they have brought iu throw dust in the eyes of the elect -
garrisons from the outside to do- orate. (Cheers.)
feud them, and in the process of
defence they have poured bulling
water and filth of every kind upon
the police. ("Shame").. They
have endangered their lives, broken
their heads. and their ribs, stabbed
them, scalded them, thrown UOxiOUB
acids on them, endangered their
eyesight in more than one case, aud
all this not to defend their homes,
as you are told by the Radical
orators, but simply and solely in
order that by creating a centre of
disorder in that part of Iceland
they may reader the task of Govern-
ment difficult, and that they
niay promote, by their sufferings,
the unholy cause of separation from
this country. (Cheers.) That is
one hill which our oblivious oppo-
nents forgot when they describe
our policy as 0110 of coercion, and
coercion alone.. Public works in
Ireland have always been au essen-
tial part of the Unionist programme.
They would have boon - more
advanced already but for Radical
opposition, and the only opposition
we have to fear in carrying out
these beneficent operations in the
poorest part of Ireland is still front
the Radical part of the House.
There is• Mr. Conybearo; for in-
stance, (hisses), who, with a humor
which seldorn appears in other
parts of his speeches, tells us that
lierepresents the democracy of
England. (Laughter.) Mr. (,ony-
beare, in his capacity of represeuta•
tive of the democracy of England,
objects to those Bills. Ile is per-
fectly ready to go over to Ireland
and cheer for the Plan of Campaign;
but ask hila to put his hand in his
pocket, ask hint to allow the
Government to give out of the
public funds anything to alleviate
the sufferings and improve the con-
dition of those in whom Mr.
Conybeat•e takes so peculiar
an interest, and Mr. Cony -
heave and his Radical allies
immediately object. (Laughter.)
What are we to think of those who
apparently rejoice in every phase
of disorder in Ireland, and who yet
refuse the stnallest pittance to the
poor Irishman ? I have not made
any complete enumeration of the
Bills that we have actually ou the
table, or which we have actually
passed in addition to the Crimes
Act ; but our policy does not end
there. -We hope to bri•rag.in- many.
other bills for the amelioration of
Ireland. We have heard much of
extending local government to Ire-
land. I am in favor of extending
local government to Ireland.
(Cheers.) I hope to bring in a hill
for extending local government to
Ireland. (Cheers.) But I say that
you must follow with regard to
Leland, the same prudential max-
rims which govern the conduct of
every rational statesman in dealing
with other countries. You must
fit your local government to the
needs and the necessities of the
country you aro dealing with.
(Hear.) Now it would be vain to
deny—it would be shutting our
oyes to the moat obvious facts of
the situation if we were to refuse
to see that et the moment the ten-
dency of the dominant party in
Ireland is always to turn every
institution of which they have got
the control into an engine for des-
troying a class. (Cheers.) Their
crusade against the landlords is not
dictated by any hatred for land-
lords as a class, but because they
think that they can most easily
assault the union between the two
countries by first attacking aud, if
possible, destroying a class whom
they know to be devoted to the
Union. Unless you take aurae
measures for preventing your Local
Government Bill' producing other
ends of an analogous kind, you will
assuredly bo doing more harm
than good by passing it foto law.
PERTH COUNTY BARBAR-
IANS.
A Wallace correspondent •writes
•
as follows to the Listowel•Banner:
" It looks like the 6W'hite Caps
Society in Wallace, Perth county,
Out., owing to the fact that there
exists iu Wallace a number of men
who ill treat their wives and daugh-
ters; contrary to the laws of God
and man, by abusing thern in vari-
ous ways ; some by beating thorn
occasionally, others compelling
them to do manual labor, thereby
injuring their, system and that of
their offspring, forgetting the great
command that was given to husband
by the great apostle, " Love your
wives." It is no unusual sight to
sco women and girls putting up rail
fences, digging drains, hauling
stones oft' fields and in some cases
splitting rails until tate abuse has
become unbearable. Resides the
above complaints there aro a number
of others enumerated in the list of
CI'inles such ' as a titan refusing to
allow his wife Co go to a store' to
purchase goods for her horisehold.
Ono respectable - women •reported
that she had not visited a store in
ten years, although she had grown
up daughters and was as intelligent
a women as any in the township.
Another reported that her father
had died in the States and that she
had gone to bury hits, but had
staid two days longer than her old
bear hath giver, iter permission to.
stay. When she canto back ho
threatened. to beat her as he had
often done before, although site was
a grandmother, and also threatened
to horsewhip any of the children
who would speak to their mother
for two weeks. The result was that
this women nearly lost her life over
the fright. One woman reported
that it was customary when a man
wanted a servant and had a mar-
riageahle son. he would make that
son marry and bring a daughter
into the family for a slave. All
these matters were fully described
at their late rueetiug and woe to the
man who will not regard his wife
as equal to 'himself in tha future.
One mode of punishing is to be
advertised at the church doors, an-
other to be whipped and if need bo
tarred and featheredby three
Amazons. Evidently -they- mean
business. Clan na gael."
THE BISHOP AND THE BOY.
'What are you doing here, my
Ind?'
'Tending swine, sir.'
'How much do you get ?'
'One florin a week, sir.'
`I also am a shepherd,' continued
the Bishop, `hut 1 have a much
better salary.'
'That may be ; but then I suppose
you have more hogs under your
caro.' The shepherd was about
retiring when the boy continued :
• 'Say, can God do anything?'
'Yes, my buy.'
'Can he
make a two year-old colt
in•two minutes 1'
'Why,' said the astonished Bish-
op, 'he would nut wish to do that,
my boy.'
'But if he thiel tv.tut to, could he?'
insisted the boy. .
'Yes, certainly, if he wished
to.'
'What, in two minutes.'
'Well, then, he wouldn't be two
years old, would he?' The Bishop
collapsed. '
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ENGLISH AS'TROLOGEIRS:
811E l: 0' i' Til E ti ►', \V fin
BOTH FFEI.
In Euglaud are published two
prophetic almanacs, whose pruguua- '•1)i,, {:••01;40.:1 ''',l,1tle. It
tications fur the filet half of the will i,l• .h t„ it tit
year have boen found reutarkably "t);,, I ,..,•kn:t not, you'll
accurate. The 24th June they hull ,.,.i
agree will be fine, and Zadkicl car•' '
1 nba} I.:.' •: • r het ut• „
ries rho flue weather over until the •
26th, but Ral make 25th 1
showery. Tho
ph26thae,wdes 27thth he'll `` 11'"-; '1 ' ' l t, l •l .,n".
and thunderetorrus will oppress us, ".11„1 ,• , iu't•I: i t 1,1,1,, your
and with the exception of the 2911i 1't•:.: r ;1 I t•ttt :1 is i n1 • 1"
the rest of the mouth will be un- ••1111, of course."
settled and stormy. All the nations lt.,: .‘,:g 1t 1' 1 in -n :: tit fur
of the coal, aro warned of their
approaching calamities in this 1•t..1 111•„ a.,i ,.-- t„ prove
month, England as follows : Ion- rh:i 1te el: r were t n;71.r I.,,
don is to have fires, murders.‘ and
riots. A popular preacher in Eng• 1.1 1 eart't get dam tges uuluss
land shall succumb to the hand of 1 1'ly''?"
fate, and the English (loveluutent ''t 111, li'rle one. 1'ut sorry, but
will be in serious trouble, railway yu.t sllu"itt hive looked uut fur
accidents, bank and coin mercial that."
failures caused by money fluctua• 1V. Ili evu,i f,y."
tions ; postoffice robberies and ill- Cvud•ts You'll kiss lea fur the
ness in the royal family, added to a
very last lime ?"
-
"Yes, G,:urge.'
"Now, since all is over between
us, 1''
,w it lit ill ask l'U�t one question."
"Cettitittly, ele:r."
1)ou't a tl l m.: 'clear' any more.
You don't seen 10 .i11,101'11,311(1." .,
•'No, I du not. it is hard to
realize. But what was the question
you wanted 10 ask 1"
"Oh, yea' \Veil I often wonder
why you always had this sewing
machine in the parlor, and why you
alwaysinsisted un sitting so close to
it when we were saying sweet things
to each other. Why was it?"
LARGE NUMBER OF SUDDEN DEATHS,
have to balance the increase in the
marriage rate; favorable railway
affairs and a marriage in high life
promised. The United States is
but little better off, for " a war of
railway rates, strikes, fatal accidents,
trouble -with the Indians, earth-
quakes, extreme heat and drought,
with prairie fires and poor health
for the masses," aro some of the
pleasant things to look forward tq.
Children born ou the 4, 6, 9, 17,
19, and 22 of the month are promis-
ed much good fortune. Those who
arrive in this sphere on the 2, 3, 7,
8, 11, 13, 15, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26,
28 shall have bereavements, sorrow,
poverty, disagreements, losses, and
bad luck generally to contend with.
The 1, 5, 10, 13, 14, 25, 27, 29,'and
30 as natal days Willsbring quiet
careers, moderate ill and good for-
tune, and but little of either, good
or bad. The 6, 8, 12, 14, and 28
are good birthday anniversaries;
the 22 is evil, especially for women.
Below is given daily advice and
admonitions:
1. Buy with caro and ash: favors,
2. A doubtful day.
3. Travel; but avoid the fair.
4. Travel, remove, and push thy
affairs after 11 a. in.
5: Uncertainty prevails ; be care-
ful.
6. Avoid superiors and eel( no
favors.
7. Be careful of thy doings this
day.
8. Sell, but do not buy.
9. Ask favors, ,travel, and visit
thy friends.
• 10:'Push thy affairs in the morn
ing, but avoid the fair. .
11. An unpropitious day; be csre•
ftil.
12. Postpout matters of moment.
13, Guard, against inj try and
quarreling this day.
14. Court, marry, hire servants,
and ask favors.
15. Doubtful; be very careful.
16. Avoid the fair aud ask no
favors.
17, Deal with others, push thy
business, and hire servants.
20. Sell, but for aught else the
day is evil.
21• Deal with old people, but
travel not.
22 Deal, sign writings, ask
favors, hire servants, buy, and push
thy business to the utmost.
.23. Rather a favorable day.
24. Much uncertainty exists ; be
careful.
25. Be careful of thy doings this
day.
26. Travel and deal with old
persons.
27. An unfavorable day ; be care -
u1.
• Sell, ,'tad keep thyself • r)uiet•.
29. Court, marry, and hire ser-
vants.
30. An uncertain day ; he very
careful.
TIIERE AItE MANY INDICA.
TIONS of worms, but Dr. Low's
Worm Syrup meets them in every
Therefore, I say that preceding j case successfully.
d
—A Mrs. Wilson and two of
her children were burned to death
near Manotick, Carleton County, on
Monday night.
—At Sunbright, Tenn,, during It
game of ball between the Deer
Lodge and the Sunbright nines,
Davidson Hall, aged twenty-eight.
was stabbed and killed by W. R.
Staples. Staples was umpiring the
game, when Hall came on the
ground and began throwing stones
at him. Staples has not been ar-
rested. Hall and Staples wore
cousins.
—The N. Y. Herald's Washing-
ton dispatch says : " The United
States revenue cutters in Behring
sea have been ordered to aeize all
vessels engaged in the illicit killing
of seals, whether they fly the Eng-
lish, American or any other (lag.
It is well understood in official
circles that the presence of the
English cruisers in Behring sea this
summer has no significance what-
ever. They aro not there to pro-
test English aehooners which may
be engaged in killing seal, but have
fitted out for a cruise with no es-
pecial object in view. The policy
of the English government is really
to discourage predatory incur'sions."
"That ? That is
machine."
"\1' hilt is it 'I"
"A phonograph."
"A phouograplt 1 Thunder 1 Is
it in. gount order?"
"You het."
"And has been every Might I `
have been here ?"
- "Indeed it kip, lolling.. 1)0 you
I110 100 to turn the crank ,just for
fun?"
"No itrilued. ("You lav" Invited
(tint," sotto voce). "But what a
funuy gill y'utt are, to thick I meant
what I said just now to tease you.
I was only jukiug. 1'ut not engag-
ed to Isabel, and wa will get mar-
ried as suuu as you like."
'allow nice ! You ore sae)' a
dear (kiss). sweat (kiss), gaol )kiss),
honorable. darling. 1 cover nluubted
you."
"or 000t•F0 not. Cyruotl-night, dart -
dugs 1 will sue you to -morrow night.
And our wedding?"
"Next week. Good -night proc-
iot,"
.fo-nnprrow night."
"And now," she said to 'herself
as site heard the gate close behind
him. '`I roust net let. (tint find out
that phonograph i; out of order and
doesn't record lathing, until .Mier the
wedding. It broke mo all up when
I found it out the other day ; but 1
reckon his darling little lloliiu gut
there with both feet to night, Ile
don't play any Isabel Jones racket
on her at present."
nut a sowiug-
"1'lIE " SN:11 " GIVEN A\V:'<1'.
The idea ul' commercial antlext-
tion is entertained by Americans for
revolt to purposes --for Anieri,au
revenue purposes. For the purpos0
of selling their boots and shoes and
textile manufactures and (lour etc.,
etc., to Canadians, to the injury, of
course, of the producers of like
articles in Canada. The senatorial
committee to investigate the govern-
ment's trade with Canaria hell a
session at the chamber of commerce
in Minneapolis, last week. C. A
Pillsbury, Anthony Kelly and sev-
eral other prominent men were ex-
amined. \L. Pillsbury, the big
inillor, stied that -an y -" leg islation. con-_-.
gress might originate bettering the
commercial relations between Can -
ads and this country would be ap-
preciated by the wheat and milling
interests of this section. The value
of flour and grain was always fixed
in Europe. If the restriction colild
be removed aud the duty taken oft
it would benefit us greatly. Con-
siderable of our flour was sold in
Canada and if tho duty; could be
removed by annexation or auy other
plan more of our flour would be
sold there." In answer to the ques-
tion as to whether the removal of
the present tariff would suit the
people of Canada. Mr. Pillsbury
replied : "It might not please the
party in power now, but I am sure
it would suit the majority of -
tho commercial men." Numerous
questions were asked Mr. Pillsbury
regarding the effect of annexation
with British Columbia and Mani-
toba. Mr. Pillsbury said he be-
lieved it would work no injury if
the people of that country were •
agreed. Others followed in the
same strain. A summing up of the
testimony shows that all are decid-
edly in favor of unrestricted trade
relations with Canada. The com-
mittee loft for Chicago. .'
—In the Court of Queen's Bench,
Montreal, Judge Church fined
Alfred Clark, a juryman, $10 for
having escaped from the jury room
to go home and get a flask of
whiskey.