The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-30
TENDENCY OF EVENTS,

" &
It is becoming more evident day by
day that events in Ireland are tending
to a. crisis Of some kind that will call out
the ready ingenuity and all the power
of elf-restraint, fidelity and endurance
Of the Irish people to avert a conflict In
their honorable endeavors to secure that
prize that now seems almost within
their grasp. There can be no question
but what we are in time of doubt and
fear; doubt as to what the inevitable
result may be; fear as to what shall
follow in the event of an unjust and
unsatisfactory settlement of Irish diff
ficnities under English misrule. Omin-
Gus rumors are abroad and they all
have tendency towards tragic events.
The changes that have lately taken
place in many of the official positions in
ireland bode no good for that unhappy
country. Lord CarnarvOn's retirement
from Dublin is a matter OF no uncom-
mon note. and it is due to the fact that
he is unable, physically or morally, to
face the eventful period which is now
casting it's shadow before 1t if Home
Rule is not shortly granted to the peo-
pie of Ireland. There is still another
dreaded element of danger for the con-
tinuance Of peaceful methods within
her boundaries. Not long since a Lon
don dispatch to the daily press said that
an Irish sheriff has written to the
London Times that pending the discus
sion OF politics by Parliament a famine
is approaching in Ireland, and with it
will come acts Of lawlessness and vio-
lence, and that the Irish are deter
mined not to starve and will seize the
necessaries of life even at the risk Of
doing bodily harm to Others We are
all fully aware Of the condition of the
people along the west coast Of Ireland
at the present time; dreadful distress
actually prevails and many are now
nearly starving. Knowing this we
must naturally believe that the evil
forebodings of the Irish sheriff herein
quoted are far from groundiess. Self
is the first law of nature,
and the Irish people will not be slow in
following its dictates. Never again will
they allow themselves to starve in the
midst of plenty. That was the sad ex-
perienee of I847, when more food was
exported from Ireland to England that
year to pay the landlords rents than
would have caused the thousands who
starved to death, if their numbers had
been q thousand, nay a millionfold
greater. Calmly looking along the line,
the appearance is not bright one --and
yet not altogether without hope. It is
possible, not probable, that the Tory
element viii make any endeavor to re-
store to Ireland the rights and privileges
Of a Parliament and for a Parliament
established within her own pale. There
is something athWart to bitterness in
the word Tory. The history OF the
Tory party is a blotch and a shame in
English annals. so far as it relates to
the government OF Ireland. Corruption,
deceit aud falsehood have marked its
past, in that direction. and we believe
now. with all its pretentions for the
good and welfare OF the Irish people,
that it viii turn its back upon them
when help and suecor is most needed.
,reryism is the same everywhere in al
ages and wherever found. It does not.
nor does it desire to know, any other
mode OF governing and continuing in
power but BY means of force and fraud.
1t MlII prove blessing to Ireland and
70 her people if Salisbury and the en-
tire Tory Government shall soon be de-
thToned. Artful cunning and heartless
tnachery Is despised IL man and the
same applies 70 ! party And 70 the
Tory party it win apply with incon-