The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-21
THE ANGLo-IR1sH QUESTION.

Ireland, a nationl' Such is the
worldwide cheer of the Irish race"
we are told by the Irish World, and such
the demand of their chosen mouth
piece, ParneR That the British Gov
eminent should object to the PROPOSE
ton, leaving alone the question of its
rightfulness or wrongfulness, and op-
pose it with all the force and influence
at its command, which 1t certainly
would do, is the most natural thing IN
politics. With such thorn in her side
as nation of independent Irish, retain
ing all their race prejudice and tradi-
tional hatred of the English name,
backed up by the native irrepressible
combativeness of the sons of the "ould
sod" and the facilities for infinite
coalitions with continental powers,
OF an anti-English character, it
is easy to perceive why Britain
MIA, through her statesmen and
people in general, should object to and
even hight against the concession of the
sweeping Irish demand. ANY states
man cannot but admit that, frem the
English standpoint, such a concession
would be grave political blunder.
The time has come when Great Brit
ain, powerful as she is, may have to
fight for her national existence. And
a nation of fighters though her people
are, the prospects are that the struggle
which awaits her will call into requisi-
ton all her powers and strain them to
the utmost. To engage with one hand
the turbulent Pat, thirsting for revenge
and ready at any moment to jump upon
her back and whirl his shillalah about
her ears, and with the other give
and ward off blows showered up
on her head by one or more of
the Great Powers of the world
eager to asssil her at the first oppor-
tunity, would be more than Britannia
would care to tackle. She prefers evil
denuy to keep Ireland more immedi-
ately under her eye, where she can
promptly check any hostile movement
ere it assumes proportions that are for
midabie.
But we are not arguing the moral
rightfUiness of the British cause. In so
far as the Irish are an oppressed peo-
pie, greaning under wrongs far greater
no doubt than those which impelIed
the American colonies to revolt from
their allegiance to and throw off the
yoke of the mother country, there are
reasons founded IN justice and human
ity why Ireland should be free, or at
least treated with much greater
than she is TODAY
that are as high above the |
question of British supremacy or the
of that nations existence, as
the heavens are above the earth.
That Ireland has been mercilessly
trampled upon in the past, no IN
biased student of history will deny. If
England had attempted to do in Scot
and what she has done in the Emerald h
Isle, she would now have thistle in
her side as well as thorn. and it never
would have been said, as it is to-day.
hat the Scotch are more nationally
English than the English themselves.
Scotland consented to become a portion
Of the British Empire, but it was upon
| basis of freedom and equality tina,
he did so, and, by the bye, with a
scottish prince upon the English
hrone. Had her behest, spoken or
Understood. been denied, Scot
nd Saxon would have been fight
ng yet, or one or the other ex-
erminated from the face of the earth
The best plsn-best for Ireland. best
Or Engiand-wouid be for the Irish
ace TO amalgamate with the Scotch ana
,nslish as the two latter did with each |
ther centuries ago, IL it is not physi.