The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-06-18
The Orange Riots in Belfast.


If ANYTHING were needed to enforce on
Home Rulers the necessity of self-cOm-
maud and patience at this crisis, the ar
gument is furnished by the sight Of the
fatal discredit suffered By the so-called
I,ovaliSts through the Orange riots in
Belfast. The Act of Union must indeed
he doomed when its prOfessed well wish
erS cOmpOrt themselves like maniacs
and do Cheir utmost to convince the vo-
rprs Oe England and Scotland, now
about to sit in Judgment, that the cause
of law and order has no friends in Ire
land except among the supporters OF
ParneI.
What Iurid light is thrown by this
hideOus eruption Of homicidal fury at
Belfast on Mr.. Chamberlain's pretence
that a separate State Government would
be needed to protect the helpless Orange
men Of Ulster. Suppose that, in com
piiance with Mr.. ChambeTlain's demand
the northeast corner of Ulster, which
includes Belfast and Londonderry, and
which alone can show Protestant ma
ioTjty. were to be wrenched from the
rest of Ulster and the rest of Ireland
and endowed with an administration
and legislature of its own. What would
then be the fateof the Catholic minority
at the hands of men who even now defy
I
British Ministry behind it, and who
carry fire and murder through the C9tho-
I lie quarter of Belfast
Contrast the conduct of this Orange
mob at Belfast with the behavior of the
NatiOnalists in Dublin, in Cork, in
, IimeTisk, and other large towns where
/ they are decidedly prepODdeTant. The
/ latter were the beaten party in the first
/ sharp but indecisive battle of the home
rule campaign. They would not be
/ blameworthy if they felt little cast
down by the disclosure of tOugh-rooted
pI eiudice and rancOr even among British
| Liberals, OF if they were little CALLED
bv the exultant acclamatiOEs of the
coalition victory by,Irish landlords. But
the shock of regret and prOvoCatiOn has
/ nowhere broken the calm faith and
! seIf-pOssession Of the Irish NatioEalists
party, Nowhere in Leinster, Munster,
/ or Connaught, or the counties OF Ulster
carried last November by the PdTnell.
ties. has the natural sense of dtsappolnt-
mant fOuud v5ndictive utterance IT AT
unlawful act or speech.
II nav well nave seemed to Tory wire
uullers Indispensable to shake this sill
epce and serenity which gave the lie tC
the rpDroach Of Nationalist unfitnes:
/ for the Weighty task of government
The Orapgem9n of Belfast have Sc
themselves to shake it by what look.
like a deliberate resort TO arson and as
sasslnatiOn, OF this at least we we MAJ
be sure. that but few Tears would bt
shed over the victims of Wednesday
atrocities by the incendiary speaker
who for six months have beer trying K
excite a civil war IN Ulster, should tdt
Orange outbreak serve the turn OF goad
ing the Irish Catholics into barbarou
reDrisaIs, But we believe that tn
. malignant agencies Of rioting and blood
shed will be this time invoked in vain
The friends OF Ireland's Legislative
liberty will not imperil the great stake
! for which they play because a desperat
antagonist, who sees that his game i
lost. falls back upon the bludgeOn an
; the knife.
I Irish NatiOnalists understand the dU
ties that devOlve upon them st this hour
They feel the vast responsibility impose
, upOn them by the strange anomaly nov
J for the first time witnessed in thei
/ country S history, by the fact that th
party OF Irish patriots has grown int
3 the party Of British Premier, the part
Z / charged with the upbOlding OF publ
y security and peace. It IS not for HON
= Ruecs. who have seen within six month
y their numbers expand from thirty
three hundred in q British HOOse {
Commons, to be duped at this late da
into a rupture of those laws which the
will presently be summoned to maB
and to administer Let them leave
. Orangemen a hateful monopoly of VII
= leuce till the cause OF Irish lOyalism, a
= ready crippled and discTedited at Il
= bar Of English opinion. shall be irTt
:, I naTablv ruined " Y Sun.