Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-08
The General Feeling.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
New York Times,

The assassination of the new Chief SeCre-
tary and permanent Under-Secretary of
Ireland follows hard upon the announce
ment OF q policy OF broad COnciliatiOn by
GladStOne's Government IL is in every
light a terrible misfortune to the Irish peO-
pie. If Ireland is to be put under military
law, it is safe to say that Gladstone would
neither assume, nor be intruSted with the
task There i in this horrible event one
suggestion which Americans cannot regard
without shame. 1t is that the brutal aSSas
siuatiOn which disgraCeS Ireland, and en-
dangers the best interests of the Irish, is
in harmony with the teaching of certain
residents of this country, who have steadily
advocated il in order to fill their own
pockets For this the laws of the United
States furnish no preventive and no penalty.
Relying. as do English laws, Npon the
general sense of the community, to render
such doctrine harmless, and in every doubt
ful case of the use of free speech giving
the benefit of the doubt to freedom, our
laws DO not reach these O,lenSes against
dCCenCy and humanity.
Cincinnati Commercial.
The murder in Dublin last night. of Lori
Frederick Cavendish and Under Secretary
Burke, the representatives of the new pol
icy of ConCiliatiOn and good will toward
Ireland, is the answer of Irish deSperaloes
to English craftsmanship. II is one of the
most horrible events in history, and
means, in every way, mischief. II is the
worst thing that could have happened poor
Ireland. The English people will be
thoroughly aroused Their impatienCe
and Indignation have for long time been
great. We presume NJ. Glad,t, mes gov
ernmCnt will fail, and that martial law will
he proclaimed in Ireland, ana wholesale
shooting indulged
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The news from Ireland this morning is
very startling. Lord Frederick CavendiSh
and Under Secretary Burke were murdered
yesterday while walking in Phoenix Park,
Dublin. Lord Cavendish, though not
popular man in either England or Ireland,
had been appointed Secretary of Ireland in
pursuance of the new policy adopted by
the British Government, which has given
such great hope for the improvement of
the condition OF the Irish people Aside
from any political consideration, the muir
der is shocking in the extreme, and it will
be regarded as especially important in its
bearings happening at this particular time,
though the aSSaSSins and their motives are
not known.
New York Herald.
The murder could not have happened at
a more inauSpiCious moment for Ireland.
She was ENJOYING great victory. She had
obtained more at q stroke than she had eN-
pected 10 obtain in the course of wears.
Her leaders had been released: Michael
Davitt had been triumphantly escorted to
London; two unpopular Ministers had
been Withdrawn at her demand. Mr.. Glad
stone was waiting to grant her almost any
reasonable concessions. The crisis has now
come. There can be no more temporizing,
no more dalliance. Coercion, violence,
martial law will all be useless. What has
TO be done must be done quickly, andmuSt
be wholly radical in its nature. Mr.. Par
nell may place himself at the head of the
only movement which can now close the
war. Every sentiment OF justice and
patriotism calls on him to take the lead
and show how Ireland can gain such OF her
ends as are reasonable, without making a
pact with assassination.
Boston Herald.
The news from Ireland is very sad, very
terrible, and of the EXTREMIST moment.
The foul assassination will receive nothing
but abhorrent condemnation from Davitt
and Parnell, and we shall rejoice that Irish
their indignation by proclaiming the ban
of the League against the cowardly asSas-
sins
New York World.
Gladstone challenged ireland and got his
answer. These murders will be taken 10
mean that the time has come when England
must choose whether she will 90 on as she
has for centuries gone on, to govern Ire
land by force, or whether she will
make up her mind to leave
Ireland free to govern herself vir-
tually to-day as an integral part of British
realm, and to govern herself absolutely at
day not distant as an independent nation.
The landlords, good and bad" alike,
must 60, and the landlords are the power
OF England in Ireland. The programme of
no rent must be literally carried out.
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