The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-06-13
The Orange Riots in Belfast.

at times beyond the control of the po.
ilce, but the place has been placed under
military rule. AMI the riotlng will prob
ably be s'luelched. The New York Sun
has the following comments ON the sub,
pet;
Ii ANYTHING Were needed to enforce
on home rule the necessity Of self-eom-
mand and patience at this crisis, the ar
gument is furnished by the sight Of the
fatal tliscre,lit suffered by the so-calle,l
lnyalists through the Orange riots in Bel
fast. The act Of union must indeed le
Jpomed when its professed well wishcr.
somport themselves ke maniacs. and
lo their utmost To convince the voters of
England As we'll as these of SCOT
land. now about to sit in Judgment. that
the cause Of law and order has no friends
in Ireland excep, among the supporters
of ParnelI.
What lurid light is thrown by this
hnleons eruption Of homicidal fury at
B'lfast ON Mr.. Chamlsrlain's pretense
that separate state government would
Ia needed to protect the heluless Orange
men Of Ulster. SnploSe that, IN com
piiance with Mr.. Cha,aberlains demand.
the northeast corner of Ulster, which in
elules Belfast and Londonderry. AMI
which alone can show Protestant ma
'r,ty, were t. l@ wrenched from the
rest of Ulster and the rest IL ireland
and endowed with an administration
anl legislature Of its own. What would
then be the fate Of the Catholic minority
at the hands Of men who even now defy
III" government of Ireland with Brit
ish ministry l@hInd II, AMI who carry
fire AMI murder through the Catholic
quarter of Belfast
Contrast the conduct Of this Orange
mob at Belfast with the behavior of the
hationalsts in Dublin, in Cork. in Lm.
trick, AMI other large towns where they
are decidedly prrponlerant. The latter
were the beaten party in the first sharp
hut indecisive battle Of the home rule
campaign. They would not bc blame
worthy if they felt a little east down by
the disclosure Of tough rooted prejudice
anl ranror even among British liberals,
or il they were little CALLED by the cx-
infant acclamations Of the coalition Vic.
tory hy Irish landlords. But the shock
Of regret and provocation has nowhere
broken the calm faith and self possession
Of the Irish nationalist party. Nowhpre
in l.rinster, Munster. or COnnaught, or
the counties Of Ulster carried last No
vember by the Parnellites, has the nat.
ural sense Of disappointment found vim
dictiv" utterance in an unlawful act or
speech.
II may we'll have seemed to tory wire
rnllers indispensable 20 shake this 81.
lence and serenity which gave III. lie to
th" reproach Of nationalist unfitness for
the welghiy task Of government. Tho
Orahgemen Of Belfast have set them
selves to shake it by what looks like
deliberate resort to arson and assassina.
ton. Of this at least we may be sure,
that hnt few tears would be shed over
the victims of Wednesdays atrocities
10y the incendary speakers who for six
months have been trying to excite
civil war in Ulster. should the Orange
outbreak serve the turn Of goadng the
Irish Catholics into barbarous reprisals.
Bat we believe that the malignant agon-
les Of rioting and bloodshed will be this
time invoked in vain. The friends Of
lreIand's Legislative liberty will not i'm
peril the great stakes for which they
play, because desperate antagonist,
~ho sees that his game is lost, falls back
npon the blu1geon and the knife.
Irish nationalist. understand the duties
that devolve upon them at this hour.
They feel the vast responsibility i'm.
y psed upon them by the strange anomaly
now for the first time witnessed in their
country history, by tho fact that the
party Of Irish patriots has grown into
the party Of Il British premier, the party
charged with the urholling Of public
security and peace. 1t is not for home
rulers, who have seen within six months
-
their numbers expand from thirty to
three hundred in British house OF
commons, to be dupcd at this late day
into "A rupture Of those laws which they
will presently be summoned to make
and 10 administer. Let them leave to
orangemen a hateful monopoly OF vio.
lence till the cause Of Irish loyalism,
already crippled and discredited at the
lar Of English opinion, shall be irrepara.
bly, ruined.
Mr.. A. |. Sutton, of WakuIla county,
two dogs and colored boy, went out a
few evenings since TO look for a stray
COW. rhey didn't find the COW but cap
iured a rabbit fox and an alligator
nearly AS long as fence ral. They had
no gun or other weapon. They twisted :
the rabbit ont of hollow log with
stick. knocked the fox ont of tree with :
stones. and killed the alligator with pine :
knots. Th" gator was found by the dogs
some distance from the water. they cut
oil his retreat and held him at bay lille