The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-15

uuSGIIdl prosperity dI0 bH0 True
remedy for Irish grievances" That
is the key to the situation. The
lawful pursuit or needed reforms,
ana the encouragement and devel-
opment of the peaceful and indus
trial virtues are the things on
which Irish prosperity can be safely
based.
Now, if the wild Irishmen will
give up their wildness, quarrelsOme-
ness, brutal and bloody revengeful-
ness, sedition and treasonableneSs,
and rest content with lawful and
reasonable and peaceable methods
of agitation for the removal of real
and not tanciful grievances, then we
may fairly anticipate that old Ire
land will enter upon a career of
prosperity to which she has long
been stranger. But if Irishmen in
Ireland will not dc this, then they
must continue to take their own
perverse course, and take also the
natural and just consequences, with
no sympathy from fair-minded men
anywhere.
In his To-day in America" Jo-
seph Hatton has the following:
"'I train up my sons, said an
1rish-American to me on a New
York ferry boat, to handle a rifle,
and with one eternal VOW on their
lips to use it one day in the invasion
OF England
"'And do you think that day will
ever Gomez
Gas surely as the righteous shall
find their reward IN heaYenp
"'Were you born in Ireland?
"'NO, saw daylight first in New
York
You have never been to Eng
land?'
mo. nor to Ireland; hut live
in the blessed hope of seeing both
"Onsthat day when you invade
the Saxon land?'
eff [ don't live to see it my,boys
will; but the time is nearer than
you think
"'Do you know that there are
thousands of educated and patri-
otto Irishmen who regard such men
as you as the curse of their country,
and they believe England is anxi-
Gus and willing to do all she can to
content Ireland, and make her pros
perous?'
"'Do L believe that the leopard
can change its spots? Itell you, sir,
that England is q --- tyrant, and
that she has ground an iron heel on
the neck of my country Lfrom the
first day she got power over US till
this very day; and that she is a
Il cannot print the epithets he
applied to England. When l told
him that Irishmen had no disabili-
ties under the law, and that they
filled many of the chief offices of
the government and the bench that
they held distinguished positions in
London, on the press, at the bar, in
art and in literature, he ascribed
their advancement to English ig-
norance, which failed in competi-
tiOA with Irish ability. and l,e
would not allow one single redeem
ing quality to the men or women of
England"
Talking to many Irishmen upon
what is called the Irish question, |
found genera,ly thai they are OAly
cOnverSant W tn the wrongs tlpii
fore fathers had suffered, and that
these are greatly pX g Grated. In
same fault exists on Ootn side {
the Atlantic"
These wild Ii shmAn evide III,
agree with the poet W 10 said:
We've had more than enough of love,
And now for eternal hatred.
1t is this spirit If undying ven
geance. this gospel OF haze, that Ii
! one of the secrets of Irish trouble
and suffering 1t is Er.n pc ,,s'".
ally frestiDg and FIJI nin5 over ne.
passionate antipathieS. and aDsJ-
! lutely refusing t0 lie p acated a any
price thai she is ever likely lOg
Now all this wild and senseless
policy must be given up if Ireland
is ever to be really prosperous and
happy.
But will the wild Irishmen do
this? Some people sanguinely am
ticipate that they VIII But there
are S)me reasons to cause less SAN
guine persons to have tleir doubts
on this question.
Charles Dickens was a Shrewd OBJ
server. lie once wrote t. cores
pondent in this strain: The news
papers go on arguing Irish matters
as if the Irish were reasonable
people, in which immense asSump-
ton /, for one, have not the smallest
faith"
I am afraid that much the same
thing can be said of many Of the
Irish in this year of grace, 1882. l
much fear that many of the Irish
are yet irreconcilables, unmanage-
ables, anreasonables, as much so as
any people on earth. Let me give
you few passages from George w.
Smalley'si London correspondence
in the New York Tribune: 1.-The
natural amiability of the Irish
home ruler broke out the other day
at Newcastle, where Mr.. Ashton
Dixie, the junior member of that
borough, attempted to address his
constituents. There was meeting
of 1000 people. Az Irish minority
of about One-ffth of the whole audi
ence howled down Mr.. Dilke." This
is Il solitary instance. The Irish,
saws one Of their advocates, will not