Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4491, 1 August 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1893.

For a hundred years and more, the proceedings of the English House of Commons have been conducted with decorum, It has been an assemblage I of gentlemen in the highest scuse of the term, On every occasion there has been manifested a high sense of houonr and a determination to preserve its ' reputation as a deliberative assembly, controlled byreasonand moralsuasion, At last, the oharm has been broken, ' and St, Stephens has witnessed on its floor a disgraceful melee. This incident will contribute materially to decide the fate of the Irish Bill, In these days, the most fatal foe to any proposal, is an appeal to physical violence. In spite of the Btrenuous efforts of many . Irish leaders, who have no sympathy with outrage, the cause has frequently been embarrassed and hindered by the mistaken enthusiasm of lawless men. Outrages in Ireland contributed to bring the late Contorvative Ministry into power and the appearance of outrage in the House of Commons itself will assist to call again into office the political party which has proved itself capable of suppressing riot, On the occasion of the late/racas Mr GlatU stone appears to have witnessed the scene in silent dismay, His power to control the more excitable members of his party seems to havo been completely lost and his impotence to restrain them lias been publicly proclaimed,' It is the old old story of a man's chickens coming home Ui roost and even the overpowering genius and the iuvincible resolution of Mr Gladstone cannot carry through Parliament a measure which is attended with physical violence. That the Irish Bill will be torown out by the House of Lords ia'a certainty and that the appeal which will have subsequently to be .made to the country will result iu'the political defeatof Mr Gladstone is a strong probability. The English nation will never give way to a party which uses violence as a weapon, If Mr Gladstone's great measure falls through, the blame will rest very much on the unruly members of his own party.