Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
LIBERTY AGAINST ANARCHY.

LIBERTY AGAINST ANARCHY.
 "Erin's Budget of Tyranny" is the title line given by the N. Y. World to record of outrages against ''the liberty of the sub jects," unexampled at any time and in any country; and almost unknown in England itself as the system into which it has now grown. There are further arrests, convic- tions and imprisonment of Members of Parliament; Priests are without regard for their sacred office sent to prison pens Mer- chants have been taken from their counters and counting houses to swell the lists of convicts; the prisoners are treated as the worst of felons Wilfred Blount's case, for example, who, though ordered to hospital by the prison doctor, is still ''mercifully' kept in solitary cell. And these outrages are supplemented by wholesale evictiops; and it is no wonder that the wild justice of revenge sometimes exhibits itself as in the shooting of the man Fitzmaurice in the County Kerry. Verify it is budget of tyranny-a budget also of sorrow and of shame
 The Tories of England and their sympa- thizers in the United States are strenuous ly engaged in an attempt to confuse the is sue of lawful liberty in Ireland with the humble struggles for anarchical despot- ism in America The London Times and other organs of Balfours policy draw an obviously dishonest parallel between the widely contrasting cases for the purpose of preventing the flow of sympathy and aid from iberty-loving Americans to the de- serving victims of the Tory policy of exas- perating people and crushing the energies of an industrious country. The Tory cor respondent of the Tribune and other American papers of the same school lenC their aid to this nefarious scheme by spreading Balfours spacious plea for sym pathy on the ground that he is fighting Anarchy in Ireland. But the order that Balfour wonld have is the order of despot- ism momentarily victorious over human rights and natural privileges. It is the silence of Warsaw crushed under the heel of the merciless despot; the quiet that per vaded the Roman amphitheatre when the gorged beasts no longer roared over their martyr prey. Such also would be the only peace that would result from the triumph of the Anarchist bomb and torch until the Anarchists fell to quarreling and fighting with each other.
 The Irish people now ask for their coun- try nothing that is not inherently guar anteed to every citizen living under the thing called the British Constitution. The present loud protest and peaceful revolt in their behalf are against tyrannical practices that prevail nowhere else under the British fag-nowhere save in Ireland. The Irish are not seeking to subyert the government under which they live, but only to secure fair play and equality in the right to meet speak and vote along with other persons subject to that government. This is the professed policy of the Irish Nationa League against which all the terrorism o1 ''the Castle' is levelled. We need no refer to that higher aspiration which looks to national redemption pure and simple That, the government will never crush out by gyves or gallows. But certainly the prescribed of the present movement are essentially, so far, the reverse of revolu tionists. They are true conservatives aim ing only to insure to themselves that i'm partial protection which is the right ot every British citizen. They will submit to be subjects to the British crown if they can everywhere and always claim like rights with English citizens as Saul o1 Tarsus claimed to be citizen of Rome.
 But neither citizen nor Senator is sacred tc the brutal and bloody Balfour. The alliter ation is good in it's appropriateness. Exer else of constitutional and immem oria right to criticise his policy transforms the representative of the people, clothed witt the immunity of a member of the British Parliament, into the criminal forced by luck to wear the convict's garb. He re sorts to needless cruelties, overriding pre- cedent, which is the life and criterion O. constitutional liberty; while his victims protest, and will protest until deatl against indignity not demanded by lav and forbidden by usage. In olden time English tyrany left to the victims of it State prosecutions the emblems and sem blances of dignity beftting those who wer inculpated because of political dissen not by reason of personal crime. Tn cynical little tyrant who has been set overawe Ireland with the venom of the as and the stoniness of sphynx is the frs to try to degrade the statesman by tn treatment of footpad
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 ENGLAND AND EXTRADITION.
 The proposition of MT Belmont to tn House-at the instance of Mayor Hewit