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Lorsque le document est trop grend pour Atre reproduit en un seul clichi. 11 est filmA A partir de I'angle supArieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de heut en bes, en prenent le nombre d'imeges nAcesseire. Les diagrammas suivanta iliuatrant la mAthode. rrata o lelure, 1 A D 32X 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 S 6 If^ m' u^ THE IRISH QUESTION: Hon. EDWARD BLAKE'S SPEECH IH TBI HOUSE OF COMMONS. On Thandajr, the 20th of April, 1882, a motion wm made- in the House of Oommons for an Address to the Qae«i on the subject of Irish affisdra Hon. Edward Blakk, leader «f the Liberal party in Canada, made the following speech in the course of the debate : Mr. BLAKE — If no other hon. member proposes to ad- dress the House on the subject, I do not, for my part, feel disposed to give a silent vote upon it It is now two years ago since, in the course of a very important discussion here, I ventured to suggest in my place in Parliament that the ac- cession to power, which had then recently taken place, of the- LibenJ Administration in England, would lead very shortly to the concession of some measure of Home Rule to the Irish people. I believe, as I said, that such a solution as could be obtained of the land question, suoh a solution as had been from time to time reached of other political questions, would, after- all, not settle the Irish question, and that unless the dictates of prudence and of justice alike were observed and fulfilled by the granting to the Irish people of some measure of oontroli over their local affairs, we would see that which has been the disgrace and the humiliation of the British Empire for many years still continued. I also stated, as the hon. gentleman in his speech and in his motion has observed, that we had one amongst many material interests here, in Oanada^ in the solu- tion of that question, in the change which might be expected from it in the attitude of the great bulk of uie Irish people towards the Empire, that we had a material — although I re- gard it as a much lesser interest than the interest which has been mainly discussed — we had a material interest of a serious- oharaoter with reference to the chances and the opportunity of immigration to our soil, which will be impaired so long as the;> preMnt itate of feeling shall oontinne. Now, I propoee to joitify the ftttitade which I took upon thatoooMdon, ana which did not then meet with any ywy animated reeponse in the House or in the ooontrj ; I propose to justify it by a reference to some obvious historical ^ts which it appears to me can lead to only one inevitable oondusion. Ifi oider that we may understand the ground upon which, as I conceive, some action in this direction is demonstrably necessary, it is by no means needful to go further back than to the time of the Union. It is not needful here to recur in detail to the more ancient events in connection with Irish history, to the history of the conquest, to the history of the confiscations, to the hutory of the proscriptions, to the history of the penal laws— directed at one time against Protestants, and at one time against Catho- lics — to the history of those penal laws, and of those events of the most serious and terrible description, laws and events to which I have briefly alluded, but which ought to make us all, when we recur to them, blush with shame, which have left marks of human error and of human crime almost indelible, and enhancing, there can be no doubt, even to-day, the diffi- culties of the situation. I say it is needless for the purposes of this discussion that we should revert to these matters in detail, for I am willing that this question should be tried not upon the previous events, but upon the history of the past eighty years, upon the history of the government of Ireland under the present constitution of the United Kingdom. That his- tory begins with the Union Act — an Act secured, as we all know, by means of the basest bribery and corruption. How- ever beneficial the public men who carried that measure may have believed it to be, I do not suppose it will be urged to-day that the end justified the means, and I have myself a strong belief that the nefarious means by which that measure was carried operated very largely to increase the difficulties of its working, and produced a state of feeling which gave it but a poor chance of being satisfactory to the people of the country which was by such means brought into more intimate connec- tion with Great Britain. But, Sir, since that period, for a little more than eighty years has Ireland been managed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom ; and I do not hesitate to say that TKB ■■IIVI.T OP THAT HAIf AOBlHBIfT has been a dreadful failure. There has been time enough to try the question out. Eighty years in the history of a country, and such an eighty years as Ireland has experienced, is surely time enough to try the question out. Now, let us apply some obvious, plain and palpable tests as to whether there has been a good and successful administration of Irish affiiirs under the / SI SieTanoM too long maint!\ined, to the attainment of rights too ng dented, and so to enlarge the strength and increase the unity of the mighty Empire of which we form a part. (On sitting down the hon. gentleman received an oration of applaoM from both sides of the House.) The following is the resolution moved by Mr. Oostigan, to which Mr. Blake spoke : That an hamble Address be presented to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, in the following words : M«^ Graeiout Svutreigm: We. yonr Msiesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Canada, In Parliament assembled, desire most earnestly, in our own name, and on behalf of the people whom we represent, to renew the expression of our unswerving loyalty and devotion to yonr Majesty's person and Government. I. We have observed, may it please Your Majesty, with feelings of pro- found regret and concern, the distress and discontent which have prevailed for some time among Your Majesty's subjects in Ireland. a. We would respectfully represent to Yonr Majesty that your Irish suojects in the Dominion of Canada are among the most loyal, mc«* pros- perous, and most contented of Your Majesty's subjects. 3. We would further respectfully represent to Yonr Majesty that the Dominion of Canada, while offering the greatest advantages and attractions for those of our fellow-subjects who may desire to make their homes amongst ut, does not receive that proportion of emigrants from Ireland which might reasonably be expected, and that this is due, in a great measure, in the case of man^ of our Irish fellow-subjects who have sought foreign homes, to their feelings of estrangement towards the Imperial Government. 4. We would further most respectfully represent to Your Majesty that, in the interests of this your loyal Dominion and of the entire Empire, it is extremely to be desired that Your Majesty may not be deprived, in the development of Your Majesty's possessions on this continent, of the valu- able aid of those of Your Majesty's Irish subjects who may feel disposed to leave their native land to seek more prosperous homes. 5. We desire respectfully to suggest to Your Majesty that Canada and its inhabitants have prospered exceedingly under a Federal system, allowing to each Province of the Dominion considerable powers of self-government, and would venture to express a hope that, if consistent with tne integrity and well-being of the Empire, and if the rights and status of the minority are fully protected and secured, some means may be found of meeting the expressed desire of so many of your Irish subjects in that rcmrd, so that Ireland may become a source of strength to Your Majesty's Empire, and that Your Majesty's Irish subjects at home and abroad may feel the same pride in the greatness of Your Majesty's Empire, the same veneration for the justice of Your Majesty's rule, and the same devotion to and affection for our common flag, as are now felt by all classes of Your Majesty's loyal subjects in this Dominion. o. We would further express a hope that the time has come when Your Majesty's clemency may, without injury to the interests of the "Joited King- dom, lie extended to those persons who are now imprisoned in Ireland charged with political offences only, and the inestimable blessing of per- sonal liberty restored to them. We pray that the blessings of Your Majesty's reign may, for your people's sake, be long continued. '■■%