The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-09
POOH IRELAND.

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| assassinations which were perpe-
trated in a public park of Dublin on
Saturday evening. The blowing to
pieces of the Car a little over a
year ago, the shooting of Emperor
William short time before that
event, and even the assassination of
our President last year created no
more excitement throughout the
world than has this bloody deed.
The wires bring news Of condemna-
ton, of coincidence. Of denunciation,
from all the chief cities Of Europe
and America. The deed is one
which all sane people deplore, and
its perpetrators are denounced on
all sides. While the world is shud-
dering over the crime, and mourn
ing over the distinguished dead, it
can divide its sorrow and commiser-
alton, retaining the larger share for
poor Ireland, that land of strife, of
turmoil and unhappiness. The
Irish people are not guilty of this
horrible butchery. They must re-
volt at the crime as deeply as do
the English, the Americans or any
other law-abiding and Christian
people: yet the Irish cannot escape
the censure and responsibility for
the assassinations. Parnell, Dayitt,
Dillon, and, in fact, all the
Irish leaders are prompt and sincere
in their emphatic denunciations;
but they cannot turn aside the CEN
sure that attaches to them nor es-
cape the fearful responsibility that
the world will cruelty fasten upon
them. The Irish people, innocent
as they undoubtedly are, must be
made to suffer for this bloody act.
It is wrong that it should be SO, but
it is the course that events take, the
world over. Two men murdered
Lord Cavendish and Under-Secre-
tary Burke, and FIVE millions in Ire
land will have to suffer, while as
many more in America and else
where must accept portion of the
general indignation. The murderers
were greater enemies to Ireland
than the worst British ruler or most
cruel English official during these
hundreds of years that the
Irish have been under Eng
lish rule. They may be
Fenians. or Land Leaguers or hired
assassins; or the Fenians or Land
Leaguers may have had nothing
whatever to do with the crime; but
the facts cannot be lost sight of that
the League andFenian organizations
have both melted TO murder,
in their manifestoes and the
addresses of their leaders; that
assassinations and outrages have be-
fore occurred at the hands of the
Leaguers and Fenians, and that
both these organizations have
shielded and protected the perpe-
traitors of these deeds. Necessarily
the laws must now be enforced in
Ireland with determination and
and severity. The British public
sentiment will demand this, and the
power that stands in the way will
be oYerthrown and trampled under
foot. A most likely thing to hap
pen is the retirement of the Glad
stone government, for it will be ar
gued that the mild, temporizing
policy Of Gladstone in mis- treatment |
Of Ireland is responsible for the law
lessness that has so long reigned in
the island and now culmin-
ates in the assassination of
Cavendish and Burke. Naturally |
this will be the cry Of the conserva-
tiYes, and the premier cannot de-
fend his course in the eyes
Of his cOuntrymen. Only last
week Forster resigned the chief
secretaryship of Ireland fer the rea-
son that Gladstone insisted upon a
milder policy than the former could
sanction, and the Inauguration of
which was met by the assassination
Of the official chosen because of his
special fitness to conciliate. Here in
the United States we had last July
a hint of what Parnell and Glad
stone are likely tosuffer. Itso hap
pened that the wretch who plunged
this nation in grief,and came so near
crushing big men and strong party
faction, was crazy fanatic; had it
been otherwise, we might have
pitied Arthur, Conkling, Grant and
their followers almost as much as
we did Garfield. The assaSsinS of
Cavendish and Burke were not
,raZy men. and DerhapS their con-