The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-22

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j IF the coercion bill is passed. what
viii be the effect upon the people OF Ire
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THE Land League leaders fear that il
/ will exasperate them to acts of violence
I Coercion never has done any good in Ire
1 land and. never will. But it may be tina
petty tyranny, which can and viii be prac
| ticed under the bill, will excite the people
to madness, and that acts will be commit
ted which viii injure the cause. In case
it is passed, the whole power of the LANE
| League will be directed to keeping The
! people quiet. If the League can succeed
in this they win triumph ultimately, but il
/ may be long before they do. But the
people commit oatrages under the grind.
i ing tyranny possible if the coercion act be
passed then the fight win be a long and
bitter one, and untold misery and suffering
will be incident to it."
ut is telegra phed that the League has
ceased its opposition to the bill. What
does that mean?' hf~&
Merely that they have fought it al
they can, and until there is no hope left
Ii it be true, there is great sorrow in store
for the Irish people" Il
THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION. AND IRELAND.
.sDoes not the Egyptian question com
plicate matters good deal and embarrass
| Mr.. Gladstone?"
You must remember that I am 50 re-
! Gently out of prison that 1 have not had
time to study the Egyptian question But
| know this: Mr.. Gladstone is face to face
| with two difficulties. either one of which
would be able to give him all the excite
ment he might want the Irish problem on
the one hand and now the settlement OF
/ the Egyptian difficulty In the first he has
/ been defeated badly. In the second he has
| TO contend with peculiarly embarrassing
lposition. During the Russell Turkish war
Mr. Gladstone took the ground that the
Turkish government should be supported
by England He viii now, / think, be
| forced to move against Turkey, and the
contrast between his position before and
that in which he is placed now is too
marked to escape, comment And com
ment of the cheapest kind. is freely
made by the conservatives. do not
believe that he would be successful were
he to appealste the country. Nor is it his
intention to do SO if he can help it. At
least this is my impression. ] think his
object is to wait a year, quiet things
down between now and then, and go to the
country. In that case, if he is successful
he might return to parliament with a good
working majority. ase. se1
ra ENGLAND's WAR PARTY 49,. ss-sz
''Is-not the eastern question an almost
traditional cause ofsirritation in England %
Z England. has been for many years, and
is now for that matter, extremely jealous
of anything which would effect her Indian
frontier. There is party in England
called. in the slang of the day, the jim
goes, whose policy is for war, but do
not think they are in the, majority. There
are enough of them to annoy Mr.. Glad
stone, but this is all Should the people
of England, however, become convinced
that the Indian frontier was involved ian
the difficulty arising out of the Egyptian
trouble the war party would be enormous
~ strengthened and Mr.. Gladstone would
find himself seriously embarrassed between
the demands of the country and his own
former policy, AS increasing Mr.. Glad
stones difficulties, the Egyptian question
may be said to Slightly complicate the
Irish problem. but not to directly affect it,
Shonld the conservatives come into power
as q war party, which is a possible event,
It would affect the Irish question at once
because they are in favor of Mr.. ParnelPs
scheme of peasant proprietary. % ~ n5f't{
THE LAND LEAGUE AND REPEAL
win the solution of the land question
in Ireland bring about repeal?" s7s
THAT question must be answered care
fully. The land question in Ireland is
purely an economic one. The agitation
rose primarily from the fact that the ten
ants could not pay the rent and had no
guarantee for the results of their labor.
Repeal or independence for Ireland is Ill
political question solely. Now the land |
question is settled. 1t may be longer or
a shorter time before the results are oh |
tanned, but the fight has been fought and
the, victory won Landlordism is doomed, |
and politically it is already a myth. But |
in settling the land question great step
has been taken towards repeal. 1t must |
be remembered that the progress towards |
repeal is a thing incident to the operations
of the Land League and not something |
which has, by the efforts of the leaders, I
been made part of it. When 0'Connell |
and the men of the Young ireland party |
worked for the repeal of the Union their |
enemies were those of their own country. |
The Union was entrenched behind the land |
lords and 1t was they that gave the strength |
to the government. O'Oonnell and his |
followers would have Won had it not been
for the influence of the landlords. Now /
the landlords. politically speaking, are
dead and it therefore follows that when /
the question of Independence for ireland
is again raised, as il will undoubtedly be in |
time the English government will be de-
prived of the strong ally they had before. I
1t is important to remember, however that /
this is merely incident to the Land League
fight and has not been made a part of It, /
because it has been claimed that the OPP |
erations of the league have been conducted |
with view towards repeal This is not /
true. The only object of the leagne has
been the righting of foul wrong in connec
ton with the land If it has accomplished |
greater good than was Intended we can |
only be thankful that such is the case 4
f'You are in Parliament, are you not,
Dir. Davittl" aas#
81 was elected from Meath while was |
in Portland prison, but being a convict |
could not take my place and was declared |
not elected. do not know whether | could I
be elected again, although L suppose / 1
could But I do not want to be. j have |
40 desire to be in Westminster, and the |
Land League is ably represented in Parfia
ment by MIR. Parnell and his Immediate fol-
lowers. There is enough work for me to /
10 outside, and ] am convinced that as . |
member of the party simply can do it o
great deal more good.
5 Mr.. Davitt win speak Tonight at the /
Academy of Music and win be in Boston
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