The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2801, 1885.

ENGLAND AND lItELIND

THE warm spirit of deep-seated loyalty
towards the throne of Britain, and the
reverential love for the Queen of that Greater
Britain, of whirl' Ireland in an integral and

indispensable portion, finds nowhere
more forcible and ready exposition than is
to be met with among the inhabitants of
the sister Isle. Our Hibernian fellow sub-
jects are in the main a race actuated by un-
swerving fidelity towards the reigning Royal
family ot the kingdom, a fidelity all the
more remarkable when we remember that
their religion widely differs from that which
is linked to the State of the Mother land.
Those foul deeds and words which false-
hearted Irishmen have done and said have
roused feelings of execration and bitter grief
among the sons and daughters of the soil
who love law, order, truth, and right. The
blot on Ireland's escutcheon, which a
traitorous band have cast, has caused
,afilic-
tion and mournful humiliation in the land
whose fame has been traduced and tarnished
by the seditious reprobates. It has been
hard for us here to remember the sterling
patriotism and laudable good qualities of
tried and true Irishmen, when the good has
been hidden for awhile from sight by the
frothy scum of evil which has risen up from
the insular mass of humanity, and covered
all things Irish with its hideous presentation.
But the foulness is an exotic, and Ireland
indignantly disowns it, and thrusts the re-
bellious gang away from its own better self.
Any Englishman who, stung into a not un-
natural resentment by the dark chapter of
outrage which has been perpetrated in Ire-
land's name, comes to associate conspiracy
and plotting with his estimate of the in-
habitants of the land of St. Patrick, has but
to cross the sea and mingle among the
people proper to find how far he has been
deceived. Ireland as a nation is inhabited
by a people intensely loyal to the common
Sovereign, and well-affected towards her
beneficent rule. It is altogether unjust to
judge that country by the imperfect and
distorted evidence presented by its uncul-
tured children who have migrated to our

midst. Many of these are the reckless and
lazy outpourings of the Irish towns, who
have left their birthplace because they have
nothing in common in their nature with the
law-abiding dwellers there. The industry
and thrift of home was distasteful to them
they flocked across the Channel to live upon
the generosity of England. Here they find
higher wages ; and occasionally, when neces-
sity forces them to temporarily subdue in-
dolence, they work a wile, only to spend their
evenings in vicious indulgnece. Ireland is
well-rid of them ;as glad in fact, that they
have departed as we are sorry to receive
them. A body of these rebellious spirits who
have in all ages waged war against the legal
and moral restraints which are the antipodes

of their depraved nature found pliant -mat-
erial for working their nefarious plans in
these ignorant ne'er-do-wells, and drilled
them into outrage-mongering. Hence the
Fenian conspiracy, and the atrocities it has
compassed. These blackguards, to use a
familiar term, are like the wicked sons of a
worthy family, whose wild life is deeply re-
gretted and regarded as a bitter disgrace at
home. While protecting ourselves against
the menaces and machinations of the repro-
bates, let us not forget to sympathise with
the sorrowing circle that bemoans the wrong-
doings of its disowned and disreputable off-
spring. The Heir-Apparent to the Throne
sets us a commendable example herein. He
and his consort, forgetting the mad doings
of wretches who claim kinship with Ireland

are going over to shake the old country's
hand in its own home. A great thrill of
pleasure passed through the Green Isle, from
shore to shore when it became known that

the Queen's son—who will one day, in all
human probability, be the King—was, not-
withstanding reproach and ill-report, pur-
posing to go arm). to Dublin and take his
Royal mother's message of goodwill to her
Irish subjects. As they have done before
so will Irishmen again—the true Irishmen
of Ireland—vie with each other in showing
their enthusiastic and characteristic hospit-
ality to the distinguished guests, and dis-
playing that conspicuous loyalty which so
pleased the illustrious Prince when, some

fourteen years ago, he last set foot in the
Irish capital. The dynamite parasite which
has fastened itself upon the Irish tree would
wither and fall away from the rooted trunk
it now disfigures were the sun of Royal pre-
sence to shine perenially upon it. The strong
sap of latent loyal enthusiasm would rise
through the stem:and spread through all the
bra rich es ;and, embued with new life, the tree
would cover itself with a fresh and lovelier
leatnge and with a moving tremourshake off
the ugly excresence whichso pains the eye of
the beholder. It would be well, we think
therefore, if England evinced its permanent
interest in the "distressful isle" by sending
a Prince of the Blood lloyal—and. who
better than Arthur Patrick, Duke of Con-
naught ?—to act as the Queen's Vice-regent
in lrebuul, and keel) becoming state in Dub-
lin Castle. Then Irishmen world have a
tangiblo.rallying point for their loyalty,
againstlwhichall the fiendish aims of anarchy
and rapine would fall impotent and unheeded.
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