The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

do not anticipate any better result than that
that which followed the establishment of the
Kilkenny Parliament, which sat from 1641 to
1649. The result then was chaos, and the coun-
try was occupied by four different armies at the
same time. If Ireland was governed es the
South was governed by the North after your civil
war, with firm and steady hand there would
be peace, and then any industry and prosperity
there might be would have an opportunity OF
emerging and of telling on the condition of the
country, and there would be no opposition.
"But party interests predominant. All govern
ments job for votes and their policy is unsteady
and thus Ireland suffers. Talk about corrup
ton among the politicians Of some sections OF
the United Statesl They don't do fraction Of
the mischief that this party maneuvering does
with US. This is waste of money which Amer
leans can afford. but to our people it produces
suffering. All the sufferings of Ireland are due
to government jobberies and the evaporation of
one section of the people against another. And
it has been said that though Ireland were in
habited by legion of angels, yet even these
would lose their tempers if treated as the Irish
have been.
"The Ulster people are said to have acted in a
high handed way My opinion is that the Ulster
people would not submit for long to Dublin
Parliament. But you will remember that they
were put there for a purpose. They were to act
as garrison there. When they remained the
policy of the English government changed, and
the Ulster people were annoyed. It was the
northern Presbyterians who were the backbone
of the country. Every man Of them was worth
his weight in gold, and they endeavored to get
up trade and manufacturers in Ireland but
England. .owith its monopoly system of that day,
crushed the trade and manufactures of Ireland
most completely, while the Presbvterians were
regarded as a danger to Ireland. Dean Swift
spoke of the Presbytsrians as an angry cat
ready to fly in your face. They were sent off in
great mbers to America. It were much to be
wished that the Presbyterian religion had been
established. 1t would have suited the people,
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respects, much better than our Episcopalianism
Here Dir. Froude paused a moment "But
this is crying over split milk" he continued;
now think we have before us sharp trial.
The empire is certainly not going to fall to
pieces All will come right, but we shall have
to go through some desperate things before all
the Irish questions are settled The steps for
the future are not to be foreseen. am as much
in the dark as anyone. But the end will be-
feel sure, that, after some sharp expe. fences,
Ireland will have to be reoccupied and governed
in more rational manner. 1t will not be simple
thing, certainly, this reconquering Of the island.
If we once give 1t a constitution. Parliamentary
faction fighting merely makes an organized civil
war, renewing itself every five years or so. as
the elections come round. The only alternative
to this is-for don't believe in going back
to kings and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
tion somewhat on the American plan,
the executive being independent of the legisa-
ture, or else military government, and hope
we are not coming to that. Look at what the
Supreme Court at Washington did the other
day. 1t ordered Virginia to pay her debts in an
honest way. A home-ru!e government would be
greatly to Irelands disadvantage financially, as
compared with the present system. and there
would certainly arise fiscal difficulties which in
all probability would find England quite unpro-
vided with the machinery for dealing with. If
Ireland got home rule on the American model
tomorrow, she would remain as discontented as
ever. Mr.. Parnell would cease his labors-an
idea which is as strange as any that can be enter
tanned. AS to home rule for Scotland and
Wales, / am not aware that there is any outcry
for it conceived in hostile spirit that would
show the government to be so bad that the en-
pire was breaking mp. But demand for local
adjustment in certain local affairs in Scotland or
Wales is merely proposal for better dstribu-
tion of business and as such can rouse 10 i'll
feeling. The same thing in Ireland would be
used as lever for separation"