The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-12-31
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The following concerning the topic,
which is just now the burden of the
foreign news, is taken from the Easy
Chair" in liarper's Magazine for
January;
The Irish situation is simple. Eng
land will not consent To separation. The
instinct Of sclfdcfcnse prevents. Scpar-
alton would not cure the Celtic hatred
Of the Saxon, and England would always
tear that Ireland would be made an am
bush for n foreign foe. While thus Sc
pAration is impossible, Mr.. Gladstone,
the head of tho British government, is
statesman Fpf proved power in
England, and OF proved friendlines TO
Ireland. MIR. Foster, the Irish secretary
IS u Disscnter. and not only free from
any of the old Tory bitterness against
the island, but anxious to correct evils
ard abuses. There Is no reason what
ever TO doubt that while The government
could not heal the woes Of Ireland with
IA touch or in year, yet that great and
beneilcicnt progress was possible under
its amicable sway. But while Mr.. Glad
stone is confronted with the Afghan and
Zulu and Eastern questions with which
his predecessor had Cmbroiled the coua
try, he ~ also menaced by an Irish Ques-
Indeed, the latest OF the Irish leaders
seems To feel that the exclamation OF
tue Irish emigrant, IF there's n gov
ernment, Tn agin it,' il true Irish pa
triotism and statesmunsiip. The true
policy for Ireland, so far as we can
perceive it here, was AN alliance
with the Gladstone government not de-
dance of IT, Ii the arisyocratic ele
mcnt In it was feared, certainly a
Tory administration would DC n hun
drcdfold moro uniriendly, and the utti
tudc OF the peers on the compensation
bill showed the full force of Tory hostil
ity. Mr.. Parnell must know thu
against Irish violence England of al
parties would solidly sustain the govern
ment, and that remedial Legislation
would be made more difficult. He may
be legally acquitted upon his trial, bu
he is morally condemned for throwing
his country into a hazardous position
But so the curse of old injustice re
turns TO plague England. The chill
dren's teeth are on edge with TIA,
sour grapes of the fathers eating
How oft has the banshee criedw AnC
the fateful voice OF The banshee seems
to wall IN every wind that blows owe
ireland. IL can not hc said truthful.
that nothing would have been done ]
the present movement had not occur
red. The land laws had been mod
flied They would have beeen modifie,
still more. wise aud generous admin
istation like that of Mr.. Gladstone woul'
have mediated between Irish sulferin,
and English prejudice. But when Mi
Parnell says, as at Galway, Il feel cor
WINGED that il you ever call upon Amer
cans in another field and in another wa
for help, and If you can show then
that there is fair and goo
chance for success, you will hav
their assistance, their trained and o.
ganized assistance, for the purpose {
breaking the yoke which encircles you,
he not only tells the most ludicrous III
truth, but he tells il for the purpose {
Turing his countrymen to their destruO
ton. He does not allow Mr.. Gladston
10 mediate between suffering and prejJ
dice; he forces him To say that ordt
must be preserved, and life aad propert
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