The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-15
SOME THINGS THEY MOULD
Do.
sALrLAKE Cry, Jan. Il, 1882.

Editors Herald:
The perennial and turbulent dis
content of the Irish people is by the
wilder of them passionately ascribed
10 British rule, or misrule. as they
are pleased to put it, whereas in
realty the potent cause lies in the
character of the people, and possibly
a little in the nature of the country.
The Irish people are naturally eX-
citable and not very well balanced
Many Of them are very quarrelsome
or have the facility of easily getting
into a quarrel. They sIoil if they
cannot have fight now and then.
They are also largely clannlsh. Much
given to revenge are they, charac-
teristic most dangerous to the peace
and good order of society. They are
a remarkably fecund race, as pro-
life as rabbits, and are not mod
els of providence. The country is
not well suited 10 such people. The
Scotch would do far better IN 1t.
Ireland, the most western country
of Europe, is also the rainiest coun-
try in Europe. This cOpiousness
of moisture renders the island
an admirable grazing country, at the
expense, to some extent, of its arabic
adaptability and value. COnse-
quently owners of large estates, eS-
peciaIly in the south and west, are
more inclined to cattle raising than
farming, the former, there as here i'll
Utah, being more compatible with
sparsity than density or population.
Hence, Ireland is easily and perpet-
ualy overpOpulated, the remedy,
and the only reasonable remedy, for
which is emigration, for failure of
crops brings famine, which is far
more serious in a country denSelY
populated than in one that is thinly
peopled. Ireland is an excellent
breeding place, but it is not large
enough to sustain the many that it
is adapted to produce. Hence emil
grafton is an inestimable remedy for
Irish poverty and other grievances,
and should be encouraged in every
reason. AS has been we'll said,
There is wealth for everybody in
the English speaking countries of
the world, if everybody would not
insist upon elbowlcg each other 10
death in the smallest corner of Great
Britain'S vast empire" Let the
Irish people emigrate until labor is
in demand on the old sod, for the
great trouble with the old sod is that
there is not enough Of it to support
more than fraction Of the prolific
people to whom it gives birth.
Irishmen in America, and other
sympathizers in this country with
"downtrodden Ireland" instead of
sending money over there to
sustain the Irish in defying the
English government and laws,
should send their money to emf
CRATE the people from Ireland. The
best thing to DO with Irishmen is to
scatter them among the various
people of the earth to spice them.
Irishmen are alspice, good to flavor
with, but not so good TO take undif-
fused. They have wit, humor and
vivacity, but they are not remarka-
bic for self-control and steadineSs
They are lacking in the faculty of
salf-control, and, as the Indians say
of the white men, they are rather
uncertain, not to be relied on for
harmonious working l have my
doubts whether home rule would be
beneficial to Ireland. Two legisla-
lures and two governments increase
expenses, if they do nothing else, as
some of Our American states have
discovered, and have disliked the
fact so much as to favor repudia-
ton. Ireland is not country in 4
condition to endure increase of gov
ernmental expense. 1t is by nc
means certain, if Ireland had home
rule. that there would be any more
harmony among her own diverse
people than between them and the
British. The orange and ribbon
ftuds are sufficient basis for a large
amount of doubt on this point. But,
whether home rule would or would
not be harmonious and beneficial, to
my mind 1T is certain that Irish
| independence, or separation from
Britain, would be fraught with evil,
aud therefore the Irish everywhere,
in the best interests of Ireland and
| OF humanity, should Danish that
idea from their minds once for all.
II they do not. they will suffer, and
continue to suffer, as they verify
ought. 1t is too late a date in
national progress to encourage the
breaking up of large nations into
petty, unfriendly, and turbulent
states.
The agitation for separation or
independence for Ireland should en-
tirely cease. for the reason that it
is not only seditious and indeed
reasonable, but that it is impolitic
and unreasonable, for separation is
of the nature of a political impOssi-
bility. In these advanced days of
rapid transit and instant commune
cation, only madmen would serious
" think of advocating any such
thing.
A prominent New York paper,
speaking of the land law agitation
lately. said: in striking contrast
with the kindred agitation in Ire
land. the Scotch movement produces
no laWlessness. The shrewd and
orderly Scotchmen are content with
the weapons of fact and argument,
ond with these they will win in the