The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-23

1ne one sure thing that Ireland
needs, more than anything else, Just
HOW is strong hand to rule her
strong, energetic determined. in
HeXloie hand, to rule her with rod
OF IRON, and to teach her to respect
Inc law, that order and not anarchy
may prevail. Bismarck would be a
proper man to set over her for a sea-
sen. "Iron and blood" is his motto,
ana that1s what the Irish at home
appear anxious to appeal to.
Ireland needs another Oliver
Cromwell, to give her anarchists an
other good healthy Cromwellian
crushing and to teach them how to
benave themselves. Ireland never
enjoyed better peace, never was
more prosperous, than after Crom-
well had taught the Irish how to be-
have themselves at home. That is
the lesson that the Irish at home
most need to learn now. When thew
have learned it afresh, and learned
it perfectly, then Ireland will have
peace, good peace, and fair degree
OF prosperity will naturally come TO
her. But [ am very much afraid she
never will enjoy those blessings un-
til she has learned that vastly i'm
portant lesson again. When she has
learned it over again, it will be
well for her never to forget il any
more. Then we shall hear little if
any more of Ireland's wrongs and
woes than of the wrongs and woes
Of any other people.
Do [ wish the Irish to be OPP
pressed? Not by so much as the
weight OF feather. l wish them
to obtain all the political freedom
and the civil liberty they ought to
have, and to obtain it in legitimate
manner. But l do not recognize
their right to fill the country with
illegality and violence and anarchy.
l would rather see them utterly
wasted away from the face of the
earth, for whatever the faults of the
British nation may be, still it is the
only frst-class power in the old
world in which a high degree of
personal liberty prevails. Indeed,
in some obvious respects there is
practically more civil and religious
liberty and more regard and prOtec-
ton for life, liberty and property
under the British government than
under any other great government
in the world, the United States even
not excepted. But the excitable
and turbulent Irishmen at home are
trying hard to change all that, and
not for the better. They are trying
to introduce a veritable reign of
terror, and to drag the United King
dom under it.
Of course, 1 hope that calmer
counsels and more peaceful purposes
and methods will prevail. But it is
well sometimes to consider the prob
ability or the possibility of extreme
eventualities. These sad EVENTUAL
ties will not come if the Irish at
home do not force them into exist
ence. In case they should, then I
would say, let Ireland go down; let
the anarchial Irish be utterly wiped
out, rather than that the British
government should be destroyed.
For, if you destroy that govern
ment, you destroy the only powerful
government in which liberty largely
prevails in the whole eastern hemi-
sphere, and l do rot think
the world could afford to
sustain that tremendous loss.
When we have got The best there Is
common sense would suggest that
we ought not to be unIeasonably
dissatisfied. The British govern
ment is not perfect. 1t may not b.
so good as our wishes. Sill, il is by
long o IDS the best in Europe. and IN
some respects it is the best in all the
world. Therefore, in my view.
while legitimate efforts for ILs
further improvement are commend
able, it is their madness to endeayol
to pull it all to pieces. The hope OF
better government being bulls
upon its ruins by the eOunsels anG
labors of exitable and revengefuI
Irishmen is utterly chemerical.