New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-04
IRISH CRIME.
HOW ENGLAND TRIES TO PREVENT 1T.

| Thursday night in the House III TWO o"p"I"
| that NJ roe1ected member for Ilawick and that OF
Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant OF Heianu
| His accordance of this office had maue HIS iooioo
ton necessary under law oil ola date no" p,o'i"0
~ i,convenience In Mr. Trevelyan's case the in
convenience is minimized because he hoids what IL
| called n safe seat He elected in 1881 by
| coma 600 majority in total vote Of about 1000 ;
one of the few EnglShmen who have won the en-
| thnsastic confidence of Scotch constituency
Nobody thought il worth while TO contest the seat
on this occasion. But Mr. Trevelyan was none the
| less out of Parliamcnt-had ceased to be member
of the House from the time he accepted his new
office till the friyolities of fresh election had been
completed And on Thursday night he walked up 'ne
floor to the table escorted by Sir David WedderDren
| and by Mr. Phillips his father-n-aw. and TOOK inc
| oath. The House echoed with cheers from poth
s,des: cheers which were testimony first to MT.
| Treyelyan's personal pOpularlty-for he Is man
liked by most people and deeply loved oy
his friends. second to the courage and spirit oil
LOYALTY which led him to accept the most diinculo
| nost in the Government at a critical moment.
| Later IN the evening Mr. Trevelyan rose az Cher
| Secretary to support tue new Prevention OF Or'mc
| bill His speech was n good example OF the power
! he has of making a statement when, tuough
| Astounding in detail. is clear and elective. Inc
circumstances in which he spoke did not render his
| task easier Chosen by Mr.. Gladstone as the man
| who. of all those available would be most accept
able to advanced Liberals. Mr.. Treveyan mad to
| make his first appearance as the advocate OF
| measure of most stringent coercion. He did his
work. none the less, in decisive manner There is
nothing meaiy-mouthed about his speech. In Lord
Spencer's name and his own, in the name of the
voole Government of Ireland. the hated Dublin
| Castle included Mr.. Trevelyan described the bill
| "a one bv means of which they hoped TO be ultl-
mately succ ssful in restoring order. ana without
| which they could not be successful. Against crime
and outrage the Executive of Ireland meant to
| wage "unremitting war"-no half-heartcd phrase
assuredly.
| The points on which the Prevention OF Crime bill
has been most assaed are Those clauses when
abolish trial by Jury, which deal with intimidation
| and which put in the hands of the Executive
power over public meetings and the press. On all
these Mr.. Treveyan had something to say. Ehg
lish Home Rule journasts-for that IS what Radi-
| calism in one English form has come to-have
pleased themselves by repeating that there was no
proof that juries would not convict FIGURES
| which are more convincing than naked assertions,
| show on the contrary that of II murders IN 1881
the 4 persons accused had not been convicted; .
| more had not been tried, s had not been brought
| ND fol- trial: none had been convicted. Of 6O
cases of firing at the person, 10 had been brought
|
firing into dwellings. 9 convictions; 356 incendary
fires. and convictions The Irish Executive, in the
light of these and other figures, of opinion that
for agrarian and political offences jury trials had
! nroken down. Intimidation had been practlced in
219 cases by threatening letters in 40 by other
| means more terrifying still and 81 persons had
been punished. Hence the proposal to arm magls'
trates with summary powers.
| The Government. saws Mr.. Trevelyan. do not
mean to recede from their demand Tor power to
prohibit public meetings. Such meetings often
| lead directly to seditOn and outrage; they are
often terrible incentive to crime. They will not
be put down arbitrarily. The Executive Will not
act without good reason. But IT requires the power
| to prevent and dsperse meetings which imperll
| public safety So Of newspapers. domestic and
foreign : anu especially foreign, Mr.. Patrick Ford
and Mr. ODOnOvan Rosa may be pleased to hear
| There were newspapers which absolutely poisoned
the minds of the people with exhortations tc crime
| and outrage and indictments to rebellion" These
the Government means to keep out of the hands of
the people. | wonder whether some of the Amer-
can critics who declare against what they call
attacks on Freedom recollect what we did during
the war; and in States far removed from the actual
seat of war. Ireland is not in arms, but the war
she has been carrying on, or which great part OF
her population has been carrying on is not less
| field 1t is in fact more dangerous
The Irish attacks the bill show now and then
now dangerous the spirit is in which this and other
measures for order are resisted pass by such
men as Mr.. O'Donne who is not strongly sus-
pected of sincerity. But take Mr.. Sectors speech
OH Friday the night after Mr.. Trevelyan had
spoken. Mr.. Sexton began with the too familiar
language about the irreconcilabe incongruities
that separate the two races. and the unhappy in
| do Of ha oil sh CoVprpmput of
The starting point is one of hostility and aenage.
They are two races two nations, and they ought to
| he under two Governments. That, | may say i'll
passing is the all-sucing answer to the continuous
efforts of extreme Radicals to Ministers to govern
Ireland in accord with Irish opinion. Irish opinion
| is not in favor of Ireland being governed at all
The whole OF Mr.. Sections speech is an argument foI
the liberty of licensed outrage for agrarian aglta
ton fomented and sustained by crime. The effect
of the new bill would be, says Mr. Sexton. to put
an end to public lifen Ireland. Presently we see
what public life in Ireland means. 1t means the
right of Mr. Sexton and his associates to set up a
| Government of their own. For he looks TO the
quick coming of the day when it will be their duty
to stand out of the way and leave the Government
face to face with the Irish people,; which, in a
different sense from Mr.. Sections, Is perhaps what
the Government would prefer. But there is no mis-
taking what Mr.. Sexton intends by the " deliver
ance of Ireland" which tins BILL he observed IN Ills
Irish way, might delay but could not impede.
Mr.. ieay is even more explicit The bill to him
is an infamous" bill, and the words of Meagher in
ls4s that within the shores Of Ireland the English
shall never have rest true now, says MIR
Healy as then. The Irish people detest English
rule as much as do the people of India and there Is
no chance of governing them by coercion. Until
they are given the power of managing their owr
affairs they will resist English rule" They will
govern themselves i'll their own way. without any
interference from foreigners. for such do they re-