Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-27
xHE 8IrUArIoN IN IREuANp.

New difficulties are presenting themselves
every day to retard, if not altogether prevent,
4 peaceable solution of the Irish question. 1t
is unfortunate for the future of the British
Empire that the conviction should have seized
on the public mind on both sides of the English
channel at this time, that the representative
Englishmen and Irishmen engaged in the
great Parliamentary conflict which is
to decide the legislative policy of
the British government towards Ireland are
too conservative to represent with rigor and
spirit the interests of their constituents.
The disappointment shsred by the civilized
world, that re cent untoward events should
have prevented the immediate restoration of
friendly relations between The English gov
ernment and the Irish people on the basis of
the Gladstone policy, is aggravated
by tbs persistent efforts of reckless
spirits on both sides OF the channel
to keep alive the enimosities OF centuries
with the view OF subscribing selfish and par
tisan purposes.
Viewed from this distance, it is sad spec
tacle to witness The broad craftsmanship and
liberal policy of Gladstone held at bay by s
national spirit more in accord with the policy
OF the personal and military governments of
the medeval ages. The sincerity with which
the great Premier turned his back on
the coercion policy which rendered
the Forster administration no longer
tolerable in Ireland, and the prudence with
which he met the emergency into which he
was thrown by the assaasinations in Melno
Park, are events testifying to the integrity OF
his efforts in trying to substitute for an alien
government of force in Ireland, one finding its
authority in the support and affections of the
Celtic race. He failed, but his failure
was due 10 no fault of his; and the fact of his
being the author of the coerciYe measures in
PRODUCED In the British parliament since the
assassination OF the Liberal Secretary, is due
more to circumstances over which he had no
control, than TO a disposition on his part to
hold the Irish people Responsible for the
the Irish policy of the British government
possible during his Premiership.
Whatever may be the results of the Glad
stone policy in Ireland, it is patent to the
world that the bayonet policy of the English
government in dealing with the Irish people,
has been failure. 1t has been repugnant not
only to The civilization of the age, but also to
those fundamental safeguards thrown around
the personal and property rights of the
British citizen. No nation hiss ever held
on with more tenacity to the safeguards of
the law-which are the safeguards of liberty
than the English people, so far as they are
concerned themselves. And yet, the despotic
sway of the Gear of Russia over Poland has been
merciful compared with British rule IN Ireland.
But Englishmen ars as willingly blind to these
truths of history to-day as ii they were not
the results of a policy which has for Gen.
turtles essayed to rule the Irish people by laws
that would not for one moment be tolerated
by the people of any other part of the king
dom. Such proscriptive legislation is fruitful
of only discomfort and civil disorders, and it's
continued enforcement against the Irish peo-
pie must ultimately end either in their sub
jugatioD, and being ruled by the
bayonet, or else in the final dismembermeut of
the British empire in the vain effort to i'm
pose on the Irish race government to which
the experience of centuries demonstrates, they
will never submit.