The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-01
GOD SAVE IRELANDY,
The Fearful OutrageS Com
mitted in the Green Isle.
MURDERS AND BOYCOTTINGS.
ParneH and His MiniOns-The Con
servatiVes and Liberals-The Pa
tient with Two Doctors, Etc.
BELFAST, October 8, 1885.

| correspondence of THE HERALD:
One may say with much heart at the
present time, "God Save Ireland. 1t
certainly does seem as though human
effort were powerless to stay her rapid
dissolution. The Nationalist, Parnel-
lites, Separatists. etc., as they are yari
ously called, have.most erroneous diges-
tive organs and remind one of the
Scotchman's opinion of his sen who had
an inordinate appetite which, caused
him to refer to lock" as being one col
ossal intestine Like the jealousy,
"the green-eyed monster which doth
make the meat it feeds on" the Nation
alist party, become the hungrier the
more the British Parliament satisfies
their demands. And so great are the
rejoicings over the success, Qittle, it is
true, is that success) that has attended
their efforts in the past that it would
not be astonishing to hear of them
adapting, in year or two, plank to
the effect that the world belonged to
the Nationalist party, and that the next
thing they.would force from the unwill-'
ing hands of the British Parliament
would be the universe. One would think
that home rule and national independ-
ence were accomplished facts to hear
them talk, and that Ireland was sailing
ahead in the race for national eminence
with mitre and cross for figure head
and the robes of priests for sails. The
Catholic clergy are undoubtedly work
ing assiduously in the interest of the
Nationalist cause, and it is not neces-
sary to enter into lengthy details with
view of demonstrating that the kind of
work they manage to do is decidedly
effective. There is little doubt that the
Parnellists feel sanguine of a degree OF
! immediate success with the ultimate
consummation of the high aims which
constitutes the goal for which they are
striving. But the methods are ques-
tionable. The local press, or the press
of Ulster Province, makes light of the
bare assumption on the part Of Nation
allsts that such things are possible, and
yet the pertinacity with which they ex-
plain the untold evils that would IN
doubtedly follow the attainment of the
! Catholic views, shows clearly that they
/ have been pricked deeper than to the
skin and that the bantering, defiant
and impudently confident tone of their
"disloyal" Jas the Protestants call
them) opponents is wOrmWood to the
disciples both of Gladstone and Saliss
bury During the summer and spring
months comparative peace reigned
throughout the Island, but with the ap-
proach of winter, and cOntemporane
Gus with the move and more defiant
and.confdent tone OF the Nationalists,
which seems to- increase with the les
sening'of the time that precedes the
election, there has been a correspond
ing Increase in crime and acts of out
rage which it IS but Just to assume are
purely agrarian; until, at the present
time Ireland is in very feyerish and
unsettled state. The tone of defiance
raised blythe party leaders at the be-
ginning the campaign has been
caught up by the body of their follow
ers, and the result is that each days
papers contain accounts of outrages
growing more and more daring, of
greater freQnency and of a more danger
4 Gus character The headline Moon
lightersAhaS again appeared, awaken
ing uncomfortable sensations to those
living near or within the reach of in
tested quarters, while the list of in
stances OF "boycotting" is rapidly
swelling. During the summer outrages
were confined to the cruel mutilation
of animals with an occasional assault
OF more aggravated character. Now
men, women and children are murder
ed in bed; their houses are burned over
them and their hay and grain put to the
torch. Persons are threatened with all
manner of evils if they dare to pay their
rent, or if they attempt to rent farms
from which other tenants have been
evicted. The sudden appearance of
masked bodies of men who demand and
take possession of all the munitions in
the house are become matters of daily
report, while the picking up Of the
bodies of unpopular individuals who
have been murdered in lonely ways and
thrown under the cover of a dense
hedge, or in a fern covered ditch have
ceased to excite any serious comment.
[ saw the. account, not long ago, of a
man and woman both having their
brains blown out while driving along in
a carriage; and what makes the con-
viction stronger that the outrages and
murders are polItical is the fact that it
is among the rarest things to hear of
any robbery being committed on the
victims. With these occurrences be
coming more frequent and without a
condemnatory word from Parnell, or
any of his henchmen, and with increas-
/ ed assumption and daring, the Nation
alist party ..goeth forth to the political
battle. 1t is hardly the kind Of record
a Christian would feel disposed TO enter
any lists whatever upon, but this term
t"patrotism" has grown to be so broad
/ ana so elastic in these days, that one
might substitute it for the word "Hber-
twin Mine Roland IS famous utterance :
"Oh, liberty, what crimes. are commit
ted in thy name:H and as charity is
said TO cover amuititude of sins, so also
iisS.s patriotism" made to cloak list of
hcrimes and expressions such as make
the heart sick TO contemplate, and
(which in the future are as certain to re.
turn to those who made use of them, as
Young chickens are to return home to
reost. If such things are merely those
(which are to usher In the winter, heaven
only knows what the later months may
witness. 1t is true the condition may
be magnified out Of al proportion for
lpolitical purposes, as has become the
great art Of politics in the present
times; and it IS impossible for one IN