Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-12-03
IRELAND'S STORY.

The history Of this Island for many
years is deplorable one. We Ameri.
ricans can scarcely realize il although
we may have been close observers Of
the conduct of the parent Government,
(the British Cabinent) for the past fifty
years However, the treatment of the
Southern States by the Radical leaders,
aitcr the close OF the war, was u close
imitation of Englands administration
Of public affairs in Ireland. A contem-
porary remarks; ,1
Between the carelessness and blunder.
ing OF Lord Beaconsfeld's romantic
government, on the enc hand, and the
indiscriminate agitation of anu-rent
demagogucs on the other, affairs in
Ireland have been brought to pretty
ugly state. The policy OF the average
English statesman concerning Ireland
consists in allowing the landlords and
their tenants 10 quarrel and call one
another names until they come to
blows, and then sending IN the troops
to make the tenants keep still. There
has never been any Government, how.
ever, that treated Ireland, and the
serioas political problems concerning
it, with the indifference which the
present Government has shown. Lord
Beaconsield has manifested the live.
hest interest IN the affairs Of Asia, but
there has been no evidence that 10
Ireland and the Irish he had ever
given thought, the only public refer.
ences he has made TO them being char
acterized by sneers. The natural re-
suit Of this is that the anti. i.English
feeling in Ireland is probably deeper
and more general, even if less violent,
than at any time during the present
century, and the very great distress
which the peasantry is suffering this
year has impaired an element OF
bitterness that will make the task OF
pacfying Ireland vastly more diff.
cult than before. Open violence is
very easily met The cheapest sort Of
craftsmanship suffices to order out the
cavalry to collect the rents, and the
arrest of few popular leaders is an
equally obvious and equally unpro6t-
able proceeding. But even if the rents
were collected and the seditious lead.
ers punished--two very improbable
ppositions--n the smallest step
would have been taken toward the
peaceful Government Of Ireland. On
the contrary every appeal to force but
weakens the respect for law and makes
more difficult the task of those who
would solve the Irish problem in the
only way in which such problem
ever can be solved, by the methods Of
modern civilization and free Govern.
ment."
The rule of England over Ireland
is one of intolerance and bigotry, and
the American who cannot see simi-
lar effort made in this country on the
part of Grant X Co., during the reign
Of those worthless, 30 far as the South.
ern States are concerned, is too blind TO
see anything, and the election Of Tilden,
and the counting in of Hayes, by a set
Of harlots, so weakened the scheme
morally, that the English rule over
Ireland in the South has been partially
abandoned through cowardice, and not
because of the love Of right.
More For want OF carpct-baggers
in Congress, the punishment and re.
enslavement of the South has been
temporarily abandoned The saliva.
tion Of that section IRON the absolute
slavery Of both races, was the vote
cast for Tilden in 1876. Had Hayes
been elected, both races in that section
would have been reduced to abject
slavery, as Ireland is to day. Thus
far blgotry and fanaticism has been
assigned to reasonable limits on this
Continent; but 1t is the duty Of every
man, woman and child, who loves
liberty, to be on the lookout Tor free
hooters on this portion of their herit-
age, as well as oil else.