The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-13
CAUSE OF THE BELFAST RIOTS.

CAUSE OF THE BELFAST RIOTS.
The riots in the city of Belfast, Ire
Hand, which commenced on the 4tl
instant, create new interest in q con
troversy OF long standing, viz: Tn
struggle between Professionalism ant
Catholicism for supremacy in Ireland
The controversy has been = bitter one
as well as long o e and has writer
some pages in the history Of England
that cannot fail to bring the blush o.
shame to the face Of the conscientiou.
sons when they read them. There
have been many instances where both
Catholics and Protestants have "killed
one another for the love OF Cod" but
the burden of guilt must for ever rest
with the Protestants of>Ireland. made
arrogant and oppressive by the mora
and material support they have received
from the Protestanps OF England, and
the English government.
The story properly commences with
the Irishman's love for the Catholic
Church, and the effort of Protes ant
England 10 destroy that love.
A modern writer Of Irish history
opens one of his chapters by an allusion
to MooTe's tenderest song. entitled
"The Irish Pea ant TO his Mistress. I"
to illustrate the love of the Irish people
for the Catholic Church. The follow
ing is the paragraph: I'm the song the
Irish peasant tells his ndying fidelity
to his mistress. Through grief
and through danger her smile
has cheered his way The darker
our fortunes the purer thy bright low,
burned:' it turned shame into glory;
fear into zeal. Slave as he was. with
her to guide him, he felt free. She had
a rival. and the rival was honored
"while thou vert Knocked and scorned.'
The rival wore crown of gold; the
others brows were grit with thorns.
The rival wooed him to temples, while
the loved one lay hid in caves. Her
friends were all masters. while thine
also, are all slavesp Yet he declares
cold in the earth at thy feet rather
would be tnan wed one l love not, or
urn one thought from thee"
The idea that the writer OF the above
would convey is that the Irishman's
mistress is the Catholic Church, while
Ter rival is the protestant Church OF
England, which wooed him to temples.
While the Catholic Church. his mis-
ress, was hid in caves; but though !
be brows OF the Catholce Church were
egirt with thorns. while she was
nocked and scorned and poor; though !
leaving to her meant for him toll and
ears and political serfdom, yet through |
God and III he chose to remain true to
er. The Catholic faith seems to be
adapted to the Irishman's
allure. Its ancient origin, the wonders |
ttributed to its early saints and
iartyrs. the claims to miraculous
overs, the present mysteries of 1t, the
ompous ceremonies, the externa;
seems to take
old of the child-like nature
the Inshman and bind him
, his church with a love that is
ronger thsn death. The cause of
Iuch of the bloodshed and sorrow in
'eland, has been occasioned by the at
mpts made by Protestant England to
urder the IriShman's mistress the
atholic Church; and the rancor arising
ON these efforts. beginning when Eng
nd subjected ireland TO her rule and
'ught to force upon the people the
religion, as well as her civil
Id political institutions, b IS not be-
me the less b tier by the lapse Of ages,
the Belfast riots witness.