New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-26
IRELAND.
AIR. JOSEPH CowEN's FANCiEs AND SUM-
OF THE REAL FACTS.

haitian Of
INC w. o.,nony with his bailiifs; unless ne pre-
" ~ H. nd all other Irish landlords certainly
'O''VU' ." 80. to abandon his property ana take
Wo'l" -. 60 ENGLAND. Mr.. Cowen has iost most
-, ;,a,ence he had with the general puohc, VI
~. hos thrown it away-sacrlhceo IL 10 'he
rather " - nersonal anmosites and the re-
80 rorson,l disappointments He has ceased
" ho Iiberai in name. He has quarrelled with
a. Liberal party which first sent him to far'la-
mani from Newcastle, and his connection WIN that
,,ortv has been dissolved. He will never again
stand as a Liberal candidate. lie may stand as a
Cowen candidate, and possibly b@ elected as ne was
~ 1850 by an alliance between his personal
friends and the Tories with whom he has nothing
in common excepC hatred of the Liberal Govern
ment. All this Is well understood in New CASTLE 1t
Is so numerically understood in The Tines office in
London that the leading article of that sheet Is to-
dav devoted TO commenting on Mr.. Governs
sneech Somebody with sense of proportion
would be a good man to employ IN that establish
mcnt.
Mr.. Cowen has however, like most men, his uses
and the use of him is to express with some pictur-
esoueness of dcton the bitterness of a Radical re-
solved TO ruin the party he is not permitted to rule
Mr.. Cowen is an English lTrecOncllable. lie Is not
the apologst but the eulOgist OF the Land League
lie is more than a Lacquer he is an hvOwed Home
Ruler In relation to the Irish question he stands
in much the same position that New York copper
beads-l suppose 1t would be thought rude to name
anybody-occ1pied during the Rebellion. There
are saws this patriot, two modes of ruling Ireland.
One is 70 abandon all semblance of law and con
stitut,onol freedom and rule it avOwedly and
onenlv with the sabre OF the dragon and the baton
nj the cons able-to make a desert, decree union,
and call il peace. Mr.. Cowen himself is not III
favor of this mode, aDd he omits to tell us who Is.
The other mode is to place Ireland politically ana
LEGALLY on identcally the same footing as England,
10 give her people the same freedom recognize
their national idiosyncIasIes and aspirations, ana
allow them 10 regulate their home affairs IN their
own way Make them realize, adds Mir. CoWeh'
that they are an integral part of the United Ming
dom and not a Sublugated province OF the Empire
Mr.. parnell expressed this last sentiment more
terselr OF Cork when be demanded that the crown
should be the only link between England and Ire
land if anv link there were to be- Mr. Parnel' OF
course. wants absolute independence, and 1t is
nretty safe TO say he could have Mr.. Governs help
if ever the time came when there was good chance
of g,1tiDr it, Again | say his sort OF talk sounds
like the echo of the defamation one used to hear
about the constitutional rights of the South from
the lips of men who were, so far as IL them lay'
tearing the Constitution to pieces.
Sunoose Mr. Cowen had his way. Suppose the
,roons withdrawn from Ireand-and the cOnStables
as we'll for it is worth noting that Mr. Cowen IN
cludcs IN the same anathema the constables cluO
and the sabre of the dragon. Suppose Mt Parhel
and his fellow conspirators released, and every con-
dition of Mr. Governs Irish Arcadia realized Ihen
WHAT Does even Mr. COwen believe anything but
anarchy and overt rebellion would follow There
isawar of classes In Ireland, say the Irish them
I ic war V.
ertv-holders a,e an iucUnsderable minority. The
vast majority who do not own land have been
taurbt they have a right TO take 1t from those who
do They have been taught to practise piunder
violence cruelty, outrage in every FORM Sixty
thousand troops, twelve thousand gendarmes, and
an army of spies, TO adopt Mr. Governs statement.
keen order imperfecty. Life is not safe, rents are
not paid, the whole force of public opinion among
the majority is the side of crime; with muta-
ton systematic ROBBERY and murder as recognized
Instruments of conducting agrarian Controversy.
Is il necessary to ask what would he the condition
of society, what would become of social order if
troops and police were shipped across the Channel
as Mr.. Cowen would have themY And is 1t neces-
sary to discuss seriously the speeches of mailman
who advocates their removalf
II is the boast of Mr.. Cowen that the League,
Though outlaweu still maintains great portion of
its authority lie is partly right but 1t would be
more accurate to say that the organizations now
hourshlng in the South and West OF Ireland are
those which sprang up side by SIDE win the
League They correspond pretty closely to the OLD
Ribbon societies. They are doing in part the work
for which Mr. Parnel originally took his coat OIL,
in his wel-renlembered phrase. correspondent
who has good information repeats to-day what one
has heard often before that the suppression OF the
Land Leapue was followed by the withdrawal of
L. and mi y 81
keeners from that organization. lie goes on to say
that the more limited and more secret organizations
remain. The district most infested with them IS the
territorv in the Southwest covered by the Counties
of / limerick and Clare; always hotbedsof dlsafec-
tion and disorder. The evidence of their existence
and activity is not conjectural; it is supplied by
informers and by crimes If one man. says the
observer ! am quoting. comes and tells story 10
the Government officials, there NAV be some doubts
about its truth, but there is never collision among
informers and therefore if two or three or four men
come and tell story precisely the same IN Its
character and details it is impossible To dlsDeeVe
it," A remark which seems to square with common
sense and human nature. 1t is this accumulation
of testimony from Independent sources on which tho
Government is now acting. Wherever there Is
treason there is treachery "a merclful provision
of nature
But for these societies. IL Is agreeu on ai hdnuS'
the murders and worst outrages of the last two
wears conld not have been committed. The fact is
n most damaging one to the Irish character. but
there seems no reason to doubt that II is fact 1t
IS not the man who is injured, or thinks himself in
iured who avenges his own wrongs. The societies
execute revenge. Nor do even the societies act
directly by their own members. The ruhian who
fires the shot strikes the blow is paid ruffian
1t is hire aud salary, not revenge that nerves his
arm There is market in Ireland for murder; a
tariff OF outrages; so much money tor manning a
horse so much more for numbering his owner. Mr.
Cower his mind saturated with images from the
I,...ah Rnunlnfinn and its CONSEQUENCES calls tho