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...Blake, in speaking of the Irish question, said that any reconciliation between Ireland and Great Britain must be based on an acknowledgement of errors in the past. The Irish are now struggling for a federal government. Federalism has enabled statesmen to create out of conflicting elements, a nation with a central government to deal with common concerns, while under it each little state manages its own local affairs...
Isaac Butt, in 1870, originally started the movement, suggesting a means of reconciliation between Ireland and Great Britain, which now seems about to approach a happy consummation. His movement even then was supported by the protestants and conservatives of Ireland. In the great meeting at Dublin they said that they wished no separation from England, but they would not have their domestic affairs regulated by an English parliament. The views propounded by the meeting rapidly spread. The extremists fell in with the movement, and had it been led with sternness then, things might have been far cifferent than at present...
...Sever 11, this evening, Hon. Edward Blake, M. P., Vice Chancellor of the Toronto University, will give an address under the auspices of the Canadian Club, on the Home Rule Question in Ireland. Mr. Blake is of Irish extraction, received his elementary education in the schools of Toronto and later entered the Toronto University where he was graduated with distinction. For some years he practised law previous to entering the Legislature of Ontario. There he took a prominent position as a leader of the Reform Party. In 1871 he became premier of Ontario and soon after he was elected...
...address its meeting tonight. Mr. Blake's varied services as leader of the Liberal party in Canada and as a member of the Cabinet have brought him in contact with all the great political questions of England and he is well fitted to discuss the Home Rule Question for Ireland. In the early part of last summer Mr. Blake, on the part of the Nationalist Party, was elected to an Irish constituency in the English general election. He is now on his way to England and has consented to speak for the Canadian Club on the Home Rule Question...
...Edward Blake, M. P. from South Longford, Ireland, formerly leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, and Vice-Chancellor of Toronto University, will deliver an address, on the Home Rule Question in Ireland, under the auspices of the Harvard Canadian Club, at Sever 11, Thursday, Oct. 27, at 8.30 p.m. The public is cordially invited...