The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-23
THE IRISH AT HOME.
SALT LAKEIC1rY, Oct. %, 81.

that Irish affairs were in fair way
to settlement and that Irish discon-
tent was soon to be thing Of the
past. But not so. True to their in
herent contrarineSs, they seem just
now to have rather suddenly grown
more perverse than ever. It really
does appear that the Irishman at
home will have row if it can be
had, and heaven knsws there is al
ways not less than one chance of
that sort left, anyway, and he can't
endure it. Indeed, he is notorious
mar-peace. Profound and perpetual
peace is worse than purgatory to
him. His mercurial and quarrel
some spirit chafes to death In con-
tinued calm and quietude. Turbu-
lence is his native element. He
don't appreciate the enjoyableneSs
Of being all serene. He can't under
stand the virtue of quiet life. He
evidently has an instructive aver
sion to Saxon equanimity of mind.
Possibly this, rather than narrow
national tradition, is the real reason
OF his apparently unconquerable an
tipathy to Anglo-Saxon rule. Be
this as it may, he is veritable ire
concilable. He won't be friendly,
any way it can be fixed, with the
government, nor on any sort of DOS
sible good terms with it. Like
a very peryerSe child, and a very
badly spoiled child, he will have his
own way entirely, though what that
way is neither himself nor anyone
else can tell for long together, for it
is MT alwavS the same thing, but
changes with his everchanging
moods, from mad to gay, from lively
to severe.
When he has succeeded in the
darling desire of his heart, that is,
in getting up very pretty row. he
not infrequently strikes very wildly.
Gladstone has been working like q
beaver, early and late, to push
through Parliament the very best
bill he can for Ireland, and, now it
is pushed through, that professional
agitator and political nuisance, Par
nell, savagely and senselessly, with
his mischievouS shillalah, hit Glad
stone ringing whack Oh the head,
thus Viciously attacking the very
man who is the most powerful
friend Ireland has in the whole en-
pire. If this is the extent Of Par
nell's discretion, he ought to be shut
up in a lunatic asylum for The term of
his natural life. With such lunatic
at large, peace and prosperity are
out of the question for Ireland, and
the sooner this fact is regarded as a
basis for furthur vigorous action
the better for Ireland and for
humanity. ParRell is a dema-
gogue that should be re-
strained, a frebrand that should
be quenched, and promptly. There is
far more OF the tyrant in him and
his like than there is in most men.
a travelled and genial gentleman
Of this city, now no more-peaee to
his ashes IA year or two ago was
eonversing with an intelligent Eng
lishman, on the broad Atlantic, If
nay memory serves me faithfully.
Said my friend: What are you go
ing to do with Ireland?" To him
answered the Englishman: 81 don't
know. If she was sunk to the bot
tom of the sea for about haitian
hour, perhaps that would be the
best thing that could have happened
to her," 1 believe a great many.
other thoughtful people of different
nationalities are fast coming to a
somewhat similar conclusion. They
are growing thoroughly sick of this
neYer-endiHg hullabaloo about the
wrongs and woes of Ireland and the
everlasting accompanying turbul-
ence. l am aware there is consider
able sympathy for Ireland in this
country, presumably because it pays.
The Irish vote counts. Even old
General Scott expressed his affec-
ton for that brOgue, but it did net
make him president fer all that. He
missed it there, for he doubtless had
hopes. As for me, [ was sick of
Irish humbug forty years age.
never had any great love for it, and
l shall never lick an IriShman's
spittle in order to secure his vote.
The brOgue is all very well in its
place, but 1 don't fall down and wor-
ship 1t, for it is no better to me than
many an other lingual tWang, not
bit. The fact is, in my opinion,
Ireland makes such a ceaselsss
c2terWauling about her wrongs
because she don't want to be right,
and she won't get right so long as
she can help it. For she would
have ne grievance to ding dong into
the ears of all the world everlast-
ingly, and she could not hand the
plate around for charity so often as
she does now On the strength of her
wonderful and perennial wrongs
and woes. Above all, the baleful
occupation Of the Irish agitation
would be gone. 1t is considered very
suspicious when a person is always
in hot water, and IS always calling
on the spectators for help, no mat
ter how much help is ever and anon
rendered. People settle down to
the conviction that hot water is
such q persons natural element,
and that he could net live long out
Of it. Then sympathy is apt to go
as dead as a dosr nail, and rightly
TO. It is greatly so with Ireland,