12 JUNE 1886, Page 1
As to protecting Irish industries, Mr. Parnell mentioned that he
made that demand when a Tory Government was in power, and that he should never have thought of demanding it at the hands of a Liberal Government,—a very singular assertion. He declared, amidst violent cheering from the Home-rulers, that he had every reason "to know" that "the Conservative Party, if they should be successful at the polls, would have offered Ireland a statutory Legislature, with a right to protect her own indus- tries; and that this would have been coupled with an Irish Land Bill, on the basis of purchase, on a larger scale than that now proposed by the Prime Minister,"—a declaration which made an immense sensation in the House.
