The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-19
AFTER o'DoNNELL-wHATY

Now that Q'DoHnell has been hanged,
- ere is temporary lull in irish "agita-
ton" How long it will last there are no
means of predicting. But that it will not be
long ere some fresh crime, perpetrated in be-
half of the Irish cause by deputed assassins,
is flashed upon the world cannot be doubted.
The long series of violent acts, beginning
with the assassination of Lord Cavendish
and Mr.. Burke and continued to the Ere
moval" of Carey and the hanging of his
slayer, is not yet done. Hangings have fol-
lowed assassinations, and murder and out
rage have uniformly followed each attempt
of justice to bring about good order and
peace. 1t is evident enough that there is
something radically wrong in Ireland. How
ever severely these political murders and
outrages may be condemned, and with
whatever certainty the penalty of the
law may be visited upon their
perpetrators, the moving cause remains, and
the solution is no nearer than before, except
in point of time. These murders are not
cally systematic. Assassination, hanging,
murder-murder, hanging, assassinaton-so
it runs, and SOFT Will ever run until some
practical reform be worked. These ebulli-
tons of revenge are symptomatlc; they are
but the pustules, the vent-holes of diseased
political body, and to plug them up or to
cut them out is not enough. Some remedy
must be applied that shall reach the seat of
the disorder. The individual Irish are not
doing this bloody work as personal matter.
In every instance it has been fairly shown
ponents of some organization, the delegated
agents to perform desperate service. How
we'll they discharge their duties is a matter of
current history. While naturally availing
themselves of every opportunity to acquit
themselves, they have, without exception,
met death firmly and have not hesitated to
avow the motive that actuated them.
The Journal has unqualifedly condemned
these crimes and pronounced in favor of a
vigorous enforcement of law as the essential
foundation upon which the welfare of society
must rest. Political assassination cannot DC
tolerated by any people, and it is folly to
attempt to interfere with England in dealing
with the men proved guilty of the offenses
charged. But the British governments att
tude toward Ireland and the Irish people is
a wholly different thing. Here is a spectacle
before the world of dissatisfied, restless
people ruled by another people, rightfully or
not greatly prejudiced against them In
answer to the demand for local self-govern-
ment the home government offers conces-
sons in the matters of rent and land tenure.
That these temporizing measures do not meet
the needs of the Irish people is apparent
from the fact that the agitation does not in
any degree relax, nor do outrages cease.
Manifestly the people of ireland are bent on
making trouble, and lack but the opeortuni-
ty to openly strike in revolutionary unison
for what they want. There will be no end
to this unhappy state of affairs until justice
is conceded. Murder and outrage are sure
to follow every execution. Desperate men
are not lacking to replace the desperate men
who have been pushed forward by Irish So
cieties and led to death by British justice.
Both parties to this miserable business are
greatly in the wrong. The Irish are wro ng
in the methods pursued to attain their lib
critics. The British government is wrong in
not according some reasonable form of local
sclf-government.
Mr.. Gladstone could not do better than to
proclaim in favor of parliament at Dublin
before which shall come all affairs locally