Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-11
sECTAHIAN CONELICTs IN c4N4D.

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There is strong probability that the 18th
day of next July will see bloody work in Mon
treal. Against the entreaties of Protestant
clergymen, against the advice of Protestant
laymen who are not Ora ngemen, and against
the Judgment of at least few members of
their organizations, the Orange societies
have resolved to make their parade through
the streets of Montreal, in honor of the
anniyersa ~ of the battle Of the Boyne. In
addition, the Orangemen Of Ontario have
announced taeir intention Of going in great
mum bers to Montreal to assist their ''breth-
rem in case of a riot. On the other hand,
the Catholic Irishmen and various French
Canadian Catholic societies in Montreal, ara
determined that the Orange parade shall not
be made in peace. Either side can muster a
most formidable force, enough for a very
respectable army. The Catholic party
claim that fifty thousand men can be put in
line and that if more are needed they will
come in thousands from the United States.
Both parties would go into fight with o
good deal of sincere enjoyment
In view of this serious aspect of affairs
| the Dominion government is considering
| what can be done to avoid the impending
conflict. Mr.. Blake, one of the leading
| members of Parliament on the ministerial
| side, has introduced bill providing that
when in the opinion of the ministers riotous
outbreaks are likely to occur in any district
a proclamation shall be issued declaring the
carrying of dangerous weapons to be an Of
fence punishable by Imprisonment. So far
as it goes this measure is we'll enough, but
we doubt its efficacy to prevent the Orange
men and Catholics from meeting in deadly
encounter. A conflict begun by unarmed riot
ers would speedily be converted into battle by
fully equipped armies, for the bill of Mr..
Blake does not provide for domiciliary visits
in search of weapons, and the adherents of
either combative faction will take care that
| arms are within their reach. It would seem
that the Dominion or local authorities must,
in order to preserve the peace, either forbid
the iarade absolutely, or provide such q
force of troops as will be able to repress any
indications of pugnacity.
On this side of the boundary line the SYM
pathies of the people for the opposing fac
tons in Canada are likely to be divided by
sectarian prejudices. The truth of the mat
ter is that both of the disturbing elements
| in Montreal and elsewhere in the Dominion
are utterly undeserving of anything but con-
demnation. The Orangemen, and especially
the younger members of that faction, who
are known as Young Britons, are as bigoted
intolerant and reckless in the use of violence
as any set of men that ever existed. The
Young Britons are in great measure what
we would call "roughs.'' A street fight is
their ideal Of pleasure. They know
no other way to convert people to their ways
of thinking, if we mey credit them with
thinking, than by smashing heads with
brick-bats. 1t is this rowdy gang that are
now SO anxious to parade in honor of their
religion! The existence of this body OF
youths, (for most Of them are under twenty
years of age,) and their fierce desire to cele-
brate the triumph Of Professionalism in Ire
land are all the more preposterous because
but few of the Young Britons ever set foot
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even that interest in the ancient Irish dis
putes which might come from ancestral an
tipathies.
The unruly inclinations of the Orange
men are met with equally reprehensible bit
terness and intolerance by the Canadian
Catholics. 1t is due to the latter to say that
they were not the originators of the contro-
versy. The feud of centuries ago was first
renewed in Canada by the Orangemen, and
for the savage character that the dispute has
now assumed the Young Britons are primari-
ly and mainly responsible. But the Catho-
lies are now in frame of mind that will
heed neither right nor reason. Their pas
sions are seething with hatred to their oppo-
nents, and their respect for law is cast to the
winds.
Both OF these desperate factions invoke
the name of religion, but both of them are
a disgrace to the sects to which they severally
belong, as well as detestable nuisances to
the rest of the community. If they were
tied neck and heels, and thrown into the St.
Lawrence, Canada would be better off. It
would be the extreme of folly for citizens OF
this country, Catholic OF Protestant, to ex-
hibit any feeling in favor Of either of these
quarrelsome mobs. We want no introduc-
ton of their o d-world controversies.
The Reported Fenian Movement Disored
tied.
NEW YORK, May 10.-Local Fenian leaders
repudiate Mulligan of the West. Gen. F. f.
Burke, trustee of the skirmishing funds, re-
gardes Mulligan's utterances as bosh. A Mr..
ODonovan OF Brooklyn says: "As for having