The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-09
COERCION IN IRELAND.
Mr.. Sections Opinion of Gen. Sir Redvel
Buffers Mission.

Mr.. Sections Opinion of Gen. Sir Redvers
Buffers Mission.
Especial cabegram to the Chicago Daily News
In an interview had with Mr. Sexton,
Nj. p, he said, concerning the appoint
ment of Sir Redvers Butler: Il think it is
intended to pave the way for coercion in
Ireland enforced by military administra-
ton"
"Will not coercion act be needed be-
fore he can do his work thoroughly"
Certainly. believe Parliament will be
summoned again in November for the pur-
pose of passing stringent coercion act.
Buffers proceeding in Kerry will very likely
furnish plausible excuse for applying for
such measure. Meanwhile, should he,
during the preliminary operation, do any
violence to the constitution by overstepping
the law, and treat moonlighters, as has
been threatened, as though they were in
rebellion, bearing arms against the crown,
Parliament will be asked to pass an in
demnity act in his favor. This will be q
short measure, one clause probably
freeing him from the penalties which his
conduct would otherwise entail. 1t would
be following the precedent adopted pre-
yious to the rebellion of 1898 in the case
of Lord Carhampton, who was sent to
Ireland as military administrator, and who
distinguished himself by practicing what
he himself styled violence outside the law.
This was one of the methods by which the
Irish people of that time were exasperated
into insurrection. Gen. Lake also, who
helped put down the rebellion in '9S, was
Unidentified by Parliment for the atrocities
he committed.
"The phrase used by the spokesman of
the Government in reference to Buffers APP
pointment is indicative of the object they
have in view. They intend, they said, In
solving the Irish question, to utilize those
officials who had had experience in solving
similar problems in other countries. All
the experience Butler has ever had has been
as soldier. and his chief distinction was
won among the savage tribes of Zululand,
against whom he exercised peculiar in
humanity Judging from his experience,
therefore. he goes TO Ireland as the best ca
| ponent of Lord Salisbury's policy of gov
| erning Ireland as a nation of Hottentots.
"What effect will the coercion regime
have upon the people of Ire)and?'
| 1T won't affect them very much. They
are now too well skilled in the art of re-
sisting and outwitting coercion. Besides,
their course is now everywhere under
stood, and they have the sympathy of the
whole world with them. The greatest
statesman of the age has put himself mt
their head, and the greatest party in Eng
land has made their cause its own"
"How will the coercion policy operate
upon the government"
1T will enable them to carry out their
designs smoothly at first, but in short
time il will create revolution of feeling
throughout England, and many men who
are strong anti-home rulers now will he
converted TO home rule in consequences.
| Those conversions will take place IN the
| House of Commons as well as IN the
country. and before the Hottentot policy
has been long in operation an opportunity
will arise when the friends of Ireland will
be able to drive its authors out of power