The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-23
trial by unimpeachable evidence, con
tinues thus:

trial BY unimpeachable evidence, con-
| tinues thus:
cit will be great day for this country
when some Of its citizens come to regard
the preservation of our national dignity
IS Of more account than the Irish vote.u
Furthermore. has not the Attorney.
General of the United States recently re.
ported that honest and impartial juries
can no longer be found in the District of
Columb is, the governmental metropolis
OF the Union? Such jury material,
thoroughly inoculated with the Irish
American anti-British virus, would have
given poor promise of justice in the trial
of an Irish murderer in London.
Now an Irishman should not be con-
demned for the fact of his nativity or
descent: Nor should any other man.
Many Irishmen have ex ,eedingly bright
and agreeable qualities, and they are and
ought to be Justly esteemed therefor.
Jolly good fellows they are. But there
are others, who are hot headed.
ausrre some and turbulent, ready
for violence and the shedding of
blood almost without any provocstion.
sod certainly without any that is justif-
able. The ways of such men are detestable
5 akespeare says he would whip GER
tain fellows "for OVERRIDING Term agant."
All! Termagsnt is good in the present
connection. Such men remind one of q
termagant woman, the dresi of her
household and the pest Of the neighDor
hood. with whom it is utterly impossible
to live peaceably, do what you will. A
most detestable creature, truly. The
poor man who must live with her is
rather fit object of COMMUNICATION than
quarrel, for to quarrel with him concern.
ing his termagant would be simply to add
insult to injury. 1t 10 this mischief-mak.
ing class Of Irishmen, stopping at no To-
fanny, who hsye made what is rhetoric |
ally called the "csuse Of Ireland" stink
in the nostrils Of every civilized Ip ssple |
on earth.
Allow me to conclude with an extrsct |
from Joseph Hstton's To-day in Amer
ica"-
81 train up my sons" satd an Irish
American to me on New York ferry.
boat, ito handle q rife, aad with one
eternal VOW on their lips to use it one
day in the invasion of England"
"And do you think that day will ever
comet
LAS surely as the righteous shall find
t. cir reward in heaven"
"Were you born in Ireland?"
No, I saw daylight frst in New
York"
"You have never been to Englsnd?"
"No, nor to Ireland; but I livs in the
blessed hope Of sseing bo.h."
''On that day when you invade the
Saxon iAnd?"
III I don't live.to,ses 1T, my boys
will; but the time is nearer than you
think"
"Do you know that there are thousands
of educated aud patriotic Irishmen who
regard such men as you ss the curse of
their country, and that they believe Eng
land is anxious and willing to do oil che
can to content Ireland, and make her
prosperous?"
"Do I believe that the leopard can
change his spots? tell you, sir, that
England ia tyrant, and that she
he's ground an iron heel on the neck of
my country from the first day she got
power over US till this very day; and that
she il g."
7 cannot print the epithets he applied
to England. When told him that
Irishmen had no disabilities under the
law, and that they filed many of the
chief Offices OF government and the
bench; that they held distin guished po-
sitions in London, on the press, a. the
bar, in art and in literature, he ascribed
their advancement to English ignorance,
which failed 10 competition with Irish
ability, and She would not allow ,one
single redeeming quality to the men or
women of England. He is not, fear.
an exceptional person among the Irish in
America"
Such is the irvincibility of ignorance,
impsssioned, unressoning prejudice. It
is a bad thing individually, socially,
religiously, nationally, and internstion.
ally. CITIZEN.