The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-04

other peoples who have unjuStly
and 0ppresSively dealt with them,
then I fear that peace is taken from
the earth, and the millennium is a
dreadfully long way off. Moreover,
l fear the Irish will fare badly, for
who are more unreasoning and I'M
just, and consequently oppressive,
than they are when they are wrought
up to passionate excitement? When
an Irishman is thoroughly "mad,"
if his dearest friend offends him, he
will as soon strike his friend as his
foe, which is perfect folly, but so
irrational is fiery passion in true
born Irishman.
What nation has not suffered in
justice, at the hands Of other
nations? Take the nations and
peoples Of Europe-English, Welsh,
Scotch, French, Dutch. Germans.
Russians, Scandinavions, Austrians,
Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians,
Turks, Greeks, etc. Now according
to the logic of the Irish traditional
hatred of the British, all these
nations and peoples ought to hate
each other with a perfect and cease
less hatred, because they have all
injured and oppressed each other,
all which to me is supreme folly.
Shall the British and French
mutually entertain eternal hatred
and unquenchable revenge because
each has uniustifably invaded the
country Of the other? Or the Rus
slams and the French? Or the Ger
mans and the French? The ancient
Italians, that is, the Romans, in
vaded and conquered Britain, and if
the Romish people lost control of
Britain, it was simply because they
could not help it. If they could,
they would have held this island in
subsection to this very day. Shall
Britons hate Italians and be full Of
revenge towards them on that ac-
count? Not a bit Of it. The British
people have more sense than that,
and it is a good thing that they
have.
The Irish people have not so good
a case in this respect as they may
think they have. That the British
have oppressed the Irish, there is
no doubt, but not more than the
Irish have oppressed one another.
Still, with the ruling authorities in
Britain, or many of them, there ap-
pears to have been, from first to last,
a prevailing purpose to establish
order and law in Ireland, in place
Of disorder and ever recurring feudS,
though the means and the methods
adopted to accomplish that end may
not, in many cases, commend them
selves to us in this advanced age.
No people could commit more out
rageOus excuses than the Irish
have. When Dermod McMurragh
was recovering his kingdom, he
seized the head of one Of his Irish
enemies and with his teeth tore off
the nose and lips Of the bodilesS
head. Look at the massacre of
40,0U0 ProteStants in Ulster alone
in the instruction of 1911! The
bloody severity of Cromwell's expe-
dition was in calling the Irish to
account for that massacre, and in
putting an end to the years of
anarchy that followed. Look again
at the bloodymindedness of Irish
revenge as shown in landlord assassi-
nation and cOgnate crimes.
For several centuries after St.
Patrick'S time, and previous to the
Danish incursionS in the eighth
Ireland was celebrated for
its religion, its learning, and it's
establishments Of learning. 1t was at
once a place of refuge for learned
men Of all countries, and fountain
of learning, Its missionaries and
learned men went forth to teach the
less advanced peoples of Europe. |
Bat the Scandinavian invaders over
ran the Island, possessed themselves
Of portions Of it, destroyed the
churches and monastries and inau-
yUrated the dark ages of Irish his
tory. from which the land has never
yet fully recovered. For after the
decisive defeat Of those northern in
vaders by King Brian Boru at the
battle Of ClOntarf, in 1914. and their
expulsion from the is
and, the Irish fell into greater bar
Oarism than any other people in |
Europe, and it was not until many |
years after StrOngbOW'S time that |
they assimilated themselves in any
degree to the manner and habits of |
other nations" Now because of this |
destruction and degradation, caused |
Oy the ruthless invasion of the
Danes, must the Irish cherish eternal |
toward the Scandinavian
people?
In the time of Henry II, Q2th
century,, ireland was full of Eng
iShmen who had been kidnapped |
and sold into slavery" and was a |
social and political chaos" Per-