The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-05-11
PRESS COMMENTS.


che Brutal Murders in Ireland Univera.
ally .1 C'ndemeed' and Arei..d Commits
The London Times says: 1T is imperatively
necessary Gladstone should prove to England
without an hours delay how he has at length
come to understand the true nature of the Irish
difficulty. No attempt to explain the murders
as accidental, or, as last hopeless effort, or
ganized disaffection, will avail with those who
advocate Forsters measures as indispensable
for restoring order"
The London Observer in leading article
says: Comment on this monstrous crime is
almost unnecessary. We have had too many
crimes In ireland of late as cruel and unpro-
voked, to feel any but the faintest hope the
present murder can be excepted from the long
roll of outrages of which the agitation in
Ireland has been the guilty cause, and which
have remained too long unpunished and un-
repressed. For the present we content our
selves with saying that be the explanation OF the
murder what it may, all Englishmen will share
the horror felt at this deed Of blood, and will
sympathize with the sorrow which has fallen
on the bearers of q name honored and cherished
in the annals Of our country"
The London Ne,os in . leading article says:
"The Government is not likely to be carried
away by passion or panic. Gladstone is tried
as no public man OF our time was ever tried be-
fore; he will know how to meet the crisis"
The London Standard in its leading editorial,
bewailing the fate of Cavendish and Burke,
notu outstanding the latter was a Roman
Catholic, asks if Gladstone can any longer re-
main at the head Of affairs, and asserts that the
Government seems utterly bewildered.
The London Post says: 'The immense
significance Of the crime it is easy to recognize.
It is q blow aimed at English supremacy in
Ireland"
AMERICAN PRESS COMMENT.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat says: "The
assassination of Lord Csvendish puts the Glad
stone Government in . very unfortunate pre-
dicament. It will be urged with almost irresist-
ible force that the hand of the law ought now
to be laid on Ireland more heavily than ever. and
the ministry il thus taken at tremendous
disadvantage"
The st. Louis Republican, referring to the as
sassination, says it is impossible to foresee
what will be the result of the appalling act. 1t
il not likely that ireland will be made to suffer
fearful retributlon for the bloody act that has
startled the world no less than the assassina-
tion of the Queen herself would have done.
The New York World says: "Gladstone
challenged Ireland and got his answer. These
murders will be taken to mean that the time
has como when England must choose whether
she will 60 ON a. she has for centuries gone on,
make up her mind to leave Ireland free to gov
ern herself virtually to-day - an integral part
Of British realm, and to govern herself abso-
lutely At . day not distant as an independent
nation. There is, there can be, no middle
ground. Either the English or the Irish must
rule in Ireland. Upon this issue, invited by
Gladstone, it seems plain, British politics will
be remodeled and British parties reorganized." p"
Tho New York Herald says: "Tho murder
could not have happened at more inauspi-
cious moment for Ireland. She was enjoying
great victory. She had obtained more ut
stroke than she had expected to obtain in the
course of years. The crisis has now come.
There can be no more temporizing, no moro
dalliance. Coercion, violence, martial law,
will all be useless"
Tho New York Sun says There is something
appalling In tho folly Of the crime which was
committed last night in Dublin, and by which
the bearers of message Of peace and good
will were infamously done to death. Tho
calamitous consequences Of the tragedy We can
not as yet begin to measure. But when We
think of the huge power for evil which crcum-
stances have given tho authors Of tho bloody
| deed 1t seems to US that something like . curse
has overhadOwed Ireland.
The New York Times says It IL In every light
q terrible misfortune to the Irish people. There
| il in this horrible event one suggestion which
| Americans can not regard without shame II
is that the brutal assassination which disgraces
| Ireland, and endangers tho best interests o!
| the Irish, 10 in harmony with the teachings OF
| certain residents Of this country, who have
steadily advocated it in order to all their own
| pockets. For this tho laws of the United
| States furnish no preventive and no penalty.
But they ought to be reached by pubic sem
timent Of contempt and adherence SO deer
and universal that even O'Donovan Rossa
| should feel it,"
The Cincinnati Commercial says: "Tht
messengers Of peace and good will from Eng
land to Ireland have been assassinated, with
circumstances Of sayagery OF the most frghtfn
and horrible character. Certainly England viii
/ not give up her grip upon ireland. She is the
strongest, and will for seven hundred othel
Years hold her sister island in subjection. Th'
only question u % TO tho means. II tn