Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-11
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A smaller man tnaH MI. hiehiei
Gladstone might take the advice given
Job and 90 and curse God and die. He
is the first English statesman who, IN
the seven hundred years of lreland's op-
preston and degradation, has displayed
the boldness and ~magnanimity to de-
clare that the Irish shall be treated not
as aliens but as brothers. For this con-
tumely is heaped upon him not only by
the dominant and Conservative party,
but his new departure is viewed with
keen resentment by a section of his own
followers as well. These men, OF the
Secretary Forster sort, who have per-
sistently hampered the present ministry
in its present efforts to concede a gov
eminent to Ireland in accordance with
the ideas and wishes of her own people,
prefer coercion to a redress OF grievances,
and would rather trample upon the last
remnant of Irish rights than make
grudgingly a single concession. In fact
Mr.. Gladstone has gone far in advance OF
the majority of his own, the Liberal
party. They are liberal only in the
maine. They hold in impartial disdain
the English and the Irish popular lead
ers. They are unwilling to treat with
Parnell and they sheer at Joseph Cowen,
as ormerly they scorned Bright. Their
secret hatred of Chamberlain is revealed
in the recent blackballing his brother re-
ceived when applying for admission into
the Reform Club.
The leaders of the Conservative party
are not a whit behind the Orangemen in
rancor against the Irish. Theirs is more
over the worst species of hate. 1t is cold
blooded and mercerary. Their plan has
been to crush Gladstone and at the same
time serve the turn Of the Irish land
lords by buying Irish estates at high fig
ures, which, Of course, the small propri-
etors in time would have to pay. HUI
mainly has cut no figure in their scheme.
In order to beat Gladstone they have no
scruples to saddle upon the helpless Irish
peasantry other burdens in addition to
those under which they already groan.
They let no opportunity slip to taunt the
present Premier from their vantage
ground. Backed by no substantial sym
pathy or cooperation among his w
nominal followers, Mr.. Gladstone is al
most defenscless against their open at
tacks and is being wounded on every
hand by insidious assault. His
only armor is his consciousness of
right. But he is charged with
inconsistency because of his recent
change in policy, and is called a coward
on account of his recognition of humanity
in the Irish. They quote Lord Beacons-
fields gibe, that he is a good man in the
worse sense of the word.
Moreover, Mr.. Gladstone is not likely
to meet with cheering support ever in
Ireland. in whose interest he has had the
mauliness to confess that his previous
policy has been wrong. While agitation
ragged a leader was needed, and that
leader was the idol of the time. Parneli
has been this temporary idol. 1t is not
likely that out Of chaos order will come
at once. There are those who owe their
prominence entirely to their places in the
Land League. These are not apt to look
with complaceney upon Parnell's success,
where O'Connells efforts were a failure.
1t is to be feared that among these there
may be some who will not be willing to
sink quietly below the surface of world
wide notoriety, and that in their efforts
at self-assertiveness the seeds of discord
may be sown between the Irish people
and the only Englishman of power who
has extended to them the hand of recog.
milton and fellowship during their seven
centuries Of degraded subsection and
helplessness.
When to the difficulty and distress of
Gladstone's situation as the Inauguration
OF what may be called a civil revolution
is added the aggravating circumstance of
the assassinations which occurred in
Dublin last Saturday, it is hard to con-
ceive how a public man could be more
grievously perplexed and embarrassed.
Should he show himself equal to the
emergency, and succeed in establishing
his humane and magnanimous policy for
the treatment of the Irish nation, his
craftsmanship. strength of character,
power of intellect and greatness of soul
will never be called into question again.