The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-08

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travels in Europe he had not found
one Protestant in favor of the Land
League. So that the "no rent" cry
is a sort Of religio political cry,
though not unanimously supported
by any religious or political party.
It is both seditious and iactious.
In speaking of the late Irish ma.
tionsl convention ct Chicago, the
Louisville Post thought some intelli.
gent statement concerning the COZ.
dition of Ireland, and the object OF
the agitation in Ameriua was desir.
liable, and said, "Abont all We can do
in the matter is to sympathize with
'doWn-srodden Ireland but our pee
pie would like to sympathizs intelli.
gently. II Americans, not o. Irish
descent, are to put their hands in
their pockets to aid the Land
Lesguers, their charity should be
educated. Mr. John Bright has the
confidence Of this public, and be ia at
the end of his wise advice. The Irish
people have determined to have
home rule or nothing. They are
willing 20 destroy the entire landed
interest of the owners OF property;
they are engaged in a leagued re-
sistAnce 10 the payment of rent;
they will continue t. mu' der uu.
armed men from places OF cooceal-
ment; they apply torches 20 the
homes Of men inofensiEe, except
from the accident of birth and owner
ship This 10 all q very serious
matter. This condition of affairs is
terrible to contem plste--the out
come OF it is dark and gloomy. The
American Irishmen are IN great
measure responsible flor the stubborn
attitude of the peasantry of Ireland.
They send back to the old country a
sum, which is az regular and certain
AS q tax levied by government. This
revenue keeps slive the agitation in
Ireland. Every blunderbuss in Ire
land is loaded with American powder
aud ball. What is to be the outcome
of all this?"
The wild Irish want free land,
home rule, and independence OF
Britain. Land for any boiy to use
who plesses without any sort of con-
sideration, the wild Irish will never
get, for it is natural 1impossibiIity.
Such q condition is compatible with
anarchy only, il indeed it is even
compatible with that. Let as chsrit-
ably nope that those anarchial Irish.
men will come to the end Of their
chain, or rope rather, by and by.
The sooner the better. For who
deserves short shrift more than he
who goes about living libel upon
everything which chsracterizss a
good citizen or subjeotS I have
neither sympathy nor patience with
dishonest. brutal, ccattle-houghiDg,
incendiary. asssssihssing wrstches,
yesn who ALPHABETICALLY pirate about
patriotism and such, dynamite Rosss
and his ielloW-fiends for instance on
this side the water. 1fs
), Whether or not home rule shall
become 9 tact, the wild Irishman
should not lay she fAttesing JUNCTION
Of independence to his soul. Il will
never be. Il would be unnatural in
this advanced age. and I think con-
trary to the course OF providence in
history. Hit wss not designed tor
the English-speaking peoples in all
the world to constitute one vast con-
federation 20 the peace and safety Of
other nationgliGies, i; evidently is the
design that the British Islands snail
be joined in one government and this
for most weighiy reasons. Such a
union is apparently necessary to the
peace and prosperity OF the islands
and OF the world. This sooner the
wild Irish reconcile themselves to this
idea, and give up ell notion OF indie
pendence, the better for them, and
the sooner old Ireland will enter upon
that career OF peace and prosperity
which is so desirable. Il would be
the height Of political folly, it would
be national suicide, for Britain to &C.
cept the ides OF separation, and am
convinced that she never would con-
sent to it. that she would see Ireland
depopulssed OF the last solitary men,
Der OF the Irish race before she would |
acquiescs in any such thing, and | |
think she is perfectly right in that
view. Bismarck ia . gres. ssatssman
in that be put so end to 'the snsr.
chic sovereignty OF the little states"
in Germany, and no British states
man would stultify himself and sacri |
Zee bis country's welfare for an san
archie autonomy" in Ireland, that,
with the Unsuitable and murderous
OF wild Irishmen,
would be necessarily intriguing for
dissgreeable and menacing compli-
cations, endless quarrels, and per-
petusl wars between Britain and |
other nations, with whom otherwise
she would live in peace. Home
rule may be a possibility, though |
hardly a probability, but indepen-
dence ia chimera, for it would be
better for the peace of the world that
Ireland should be cast down to the
bottom of the ocean and there re-
main engulphed till the last syllable
If recorded time.
I have previously referred to Oliver
Cromwell. ] presume that the an.
Archial Irish, the genuine irrecen.
,ilables, entertain no great affection