New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-28
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE TESTIMONIAL.
ENGLISH FORCE IN IRELAND-EFFECrs OF TIE
COERCION ACT.


ENGLISH FORCE IN IRELAND-EFFECTs OF TIE
COERCION ACT.
Prom Mr.. Pdrnslrs Spe>eh IN Dublin December H.
] come now to my last example of this most
sion Of the northern meetings Mr. Treyelyan may be
able the water to hoodwink the simple people OF
Of any section Of the irish pe5pie Neither rsh Orange
nor Irish Nationalist will believe that Mr. Treyelyan
people All 5SToEh MS Speech there is
easy 70 defect The scfsasaed chucke OF the man who
eXaggerates for his purpose the danger likely TO arise
from the action Of a few wretched Orangemen. hear
hear and who deliberately apply for the same purposes
who hire them. He admits the egay or their proceed
take 1000 Infantry and cavalry to protect the right oil
In the laws to do what they had legal right TO do
tCheers Nationalist meet together for the
purpose Of obtaining an amendment Of the
Parliament If the Lord Mayor goes up to Derry to de.
liver lecture the extension OF the franchise TO Ireland
the for prOcaning the meeting I'm the case,
and for wnkng proceedings Of the assassns who fired
at HIM Icheers that 1t would take thousand infantry
hesitate to protect the Tough Mask expedition in 1880
because It took 1000 Infantry and cavalry TO protect
landlord engaged I'm the determination OF his tcnans-tO
any engaged in orestang the Land Act by selling out
the interest OF the tenants iCheers Was the English
Government ever known to refuse all the men, all the
ana all the money that might be necessary for such
protectoni E"Neyer"l Did the Government shrink
from holding 900 untred In prison for IL months
To the legal rights OF the landlord classf (CheersJ No;
all experience OF English force In Ireland results In
this COnClusOnhat they are always willing To employ
the force 10 the fullest extent and az every risk to the
OF the people where il Is question OF protecting
the sOcaed rights OF the minority against tho majority
[Cheers.l
The proceedings IN the North teach moro tho oft
taught lesson that the law Ireland il only powerful
where the minority appeals to its protection II Is then
quick strike vengefuly and numerically Loud cheers
But where II may happen that statute survives, stat
ue OF beneficial Import TO the people of ACCOMPLISHMENTS
even IN mutilaed cOnditiOnthe two Houses Of Paria
men find that the operation OF the law I'm putting In force
that statute is slow and Intellectual Hear hear And
until English statesmen learn English Liberals and Eng;
sh Radicals learn the first lesson OF their political creed
that every nation that every country has right 10 be
governed according to the law Of the majority of that
country Ichcers they Will fail, they have always
failed In their task OF governing the Irish people. Gentle
men, are told about the franchise that the Liberal
party going TO be great and generous and going TO
tend the franchise 10 Ireland am very much Inclined
House OF Commons solid band Of forty men who would
vote steadily against extension of the suffrage I'm
England II Ireland were left ont should very little
OF the nclsiOno IRELAND IN the Dll lSheers whether
they extend the franchise or whether they do not,
we shall return between seventy, and eighty
members in the next election. loud cheors.l
We making up the force and adding TO the
impetus which given to the Irish national cause I'm the
days OF the great Land League [cheersl; and
although is although blood often bos IN wit
Messing the indigntes the sufcrngs and the pcrsec-
lions which many Of the people OF this country obliged
must be patient. We shall win II we are patient The
miserable character Of the shifts and which the
Irish Executive has daily resorted 10 show that
winning; coercion cannot last forever lCries OF "NO"l
This Coercion Act Is running out, and we living It
down.
There thing that 1t Is very well for remember
and to remind English people O-that II there be fact
certain than another lis that II be cOerced
again. II the present Coercion Act part of 1t be
renewed II the Constitution Ia 10 be restored u.s. these
things shall be done by Tory Government and not by q
Liberal Government lcheersl and shall carry with them
the shape OF increased taxes and foreign wars penalties
In OF those inflicted upon Beyond a shadow OF
doubt will he for the Irish people in Engandseparated
Isolated az they are-and for your independent Irish
Ders to determined at the general election whether
Tory or Liberal Ministry shall rule England Cheers