Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-28
Salisbury and Ireland.

any decent American familiar with
current events in Ireland can read
without repulsion the report Of the
speech made by the Tory premier ut
the lord mayors banquet on Wednes-
day evening. No wonder an Irishman's.
blood boils when he sees his country
handed over to men from whom the
solemn responsibilities of power can
not elicit ever the pretence of truth
telling ard justice.
Lord Salisbury might have been add
monished by llere expcdicncy and
party craft to seize the opportunity
presented by the Orange riots in Bel
fast to at least affect the attitude of an
impartial administrator, and, by ex-
pressing his adherence of the butch-/
cries ia Ulster, to thus lay a basis forV
severe repressive measures 10y and by.
should Irish Catholics i'm their turn be
guilty of wrong doing. He knew, for
VIZ totN'io VI thC tOtltS udNt tOlt
him. that throughout the. length
anG breadth Of the Catholic sec
tons. VII Ga comprise fise-siXths Of
Ireland. tnure is NJ this time an unpar-
allcled absence Of crime. He knew
that the recent shocking barbaritics,
which thousands of soldiers were
needed to arrest, were committed only
in nnn nity which pnntains lint E0 nDn
Catholics against 100, 600 Professionals,
whose mayor, too, is a Protestant, and
of whose forty-six borough magistrates
only eleven are Catholics. In view of
such a situation he should have been
prompted not alone by equity and
decency, but by intelligent sclf-interest.(
to remember that he is the cXecutive\
head not of ii party but Il nation. and
to warn the Orange ruiIians that they
must look for no %conntvance, but for
stern and cven-handcd Justice from II
British prime minister.
What Lord Salisbury preferred to say
was this: Every days news reminds
us that ireland is not yet inhabited by
a concordant people, But who is re-
sponsible for the deadly discord in Bel
fast-the ferocions Orange majority or
the weak Catholic minority? Plainly,
in the Judgment of the premier, the lat
ter are to blame for being murdered.
and steps must be Immediately taken to
protect the murdcrers and chastise the
victims for invoking the weapons of re-
s~istancc and despair. lit is the duty
of the government" continues Lord
Salisbury, 'to devote its whole ener-
gies to freeing the loyal people of IRE
land from the constraint exercised upon
them, whether in the form of riot or in
the more dangerous, insidious, and
effective form of outrage and intimida-
ton Whom the premier and his
lieutenant, Lord Randolph Churchill.
mean by loyal Irish people is by this
time tolerably well known. 1t Is, then.
the 100000 ''loyalists" of Belfast who
may expect to be upheld with ''the
whole energies of government" Poor
wolves, their position is a sad one, and
something really should be done to re-
strain the rayages impuCed TO the Cath
Ollie lambs, who, though few in mum
Der, are alleged to be peculiarly rabidi
In the light of all recent official re-
ports relating to Ireland, let us also
mark the second object to which the
Tory Premier has pledged himself to
devote the boundless resources of the
British government. SO far as so.
called loyalists are concerned. he VOWS
to put an end to the "constraint exer-
C sed in the dangerous, insidious. and
effective form of outrage and intilnida-
ton But for many weeks there has
been no record of n homicide or any
agrarian offence committed by n ten
ant in Catholic Ireland. AS regards
loyalist landlords, they have not been
exposed to the ~faintcst scmblancc of
outrage or intimidation. How has it
been, on the other hand. NTH the Ma
tionalist pcasants-have they had no
molestation, no cruel injuries to bear?
The same cable which flashed to us
IN account of Lord Salisbury's
speech, brought also u report of the
following incident revealing ga dan
gcrOus, i%nsidious, and effective form of
outrage" for which, however, since
the victims are peasants and Parncll-
ties, the tory premier has only tolcra-
ton and approval. "The Longford
board of guardians SO runs the tclc-
gram, ''has adopted resolutions de-
n%ouncing five local landlords for the
heartless eviction of iifty-six families.
The action of the landlords is ascriba-
BILE to organized attempts to create dis
order and crime in a peaceful country,
the landlords knowing that it is impos-
sible for tenants to pay their rack
rents"
These landlords, held up to obloquy
by the Longford board of guardians,
are samples Of the ''loyal people"
whom, Lord Salisbury declares, it is
the duty of the ministry with the ut
most output of it's energies to deliver
from restraint. This, then, is the Tory
method of governing Ireland from
Westminster. Yet, if we believe Mat
thew Arnold, Americans of weight exist
who secretly applaud and justify these
pernicious principles of government.
Would that Mr.. Arnold would produce
these ponderous and select Americans!