Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-18
THE PROPAGATION OF IRELAND.

Ratification after a new process and yet not new for as poor Ireland is con- cerned. Ratification by provoking peo- pie beyond the limits of human endurance; pacifcation by proscriptive laws, ma liciously enacted and tyranically admin istered: pacifcation by the bayonet, baton and bullets of an obedient police; pacifica- tion by prison plank-beds and all the surroundings of penal servitude cells. And, as if this series of pacific ameliorations were not equal to the desired end, there must come as there has come, the design of more active measures embraced in the atrocity of indirect murders. There can be no doubt of the design, for the expos ure comes from a source the veracity of which will not be questioned. Balfour the Scottish adventurer entrusted with the actual government of Ireland as Secre- retary to the Lord Lieutenant, has sup plemented the duties of his bureau by aspiration to become the executioner of Irish patriot suspects. The unhappy peasant who, influenced by "the wild justice of revenge" shoots at the landlord who had thrown himself, his wife and children and aged parents on the road side in mid winter time, to starve and die, stands guiltless before the eye of God in comparison to the wretch who claiming to be of gentle blood, and invested with high official position, meditates the murder of his political opponents. Our readers have perused, doubtless with horror Balfour's plan of campaign as disclosed to Sir Will fred Blount He would consign one by one, or in patches to suit his purpose, the members of the Irish Parliamentary party to foul and feted prison pens; he would break their spirit and undermine their health until death would come to them and be accepted as relief; and then would come the pacifcation of Ireland in pro- stration of it's energies; in the decimation rather the wholesale extermination of the leaders who had stood in the breach and bearded the tyrant to the hou1 of sickness and sacrifice.
 We confess to having had doubts on this newest revelation of England's policy; until memory came to our aid and circumstan- tiality of detail gave endorsement. Read the old book ''Pacata Hibernia," doubt less to be found in Bronson's Library for instances of the peculiar methods resorted to in former times for reducing Ireland moir of Ireland, Native and Saxon fol further Illustration; and if there be doubters still, consult Leckie the Protest ant historian, and we believe Fellow of the Protestant University, Trinity College Dublin. Balfour's policy is but a revival of the ancient patent process for pacifying Ireland. A nobleman of the pres ent century, more in sarcasn easiest plan for curing the ills of Ireland would be to submerge it for twenty-foul hours in the Atlantic. Balfours plan i far more practicable. Kill off all who can by their patriotism and power, keep alive the spirit of nationality; the people with out leaders will be easy of subjugation, an6 then will come the long yearned-for con summation of plotting out the name o1 Ireland from the map of Europe and re baptizing the ''Insula Sanctorum," as the West Britain of the enemys idea, long be- fore this West Briton assassin, Balfour had disclosed his demoniac process to thai end. This is the proposed pacifcation o Ireland:-persecuting her foremost men tc death provoking the people to premature and unprepared for resistance and the1 } perpetrating to grand consummation-tht foul crime conceived by Castlereagh, predecessor of Balfour in office at Dublin Castle. The one bribed or bullied the ma tion to suicide in the surrender of it's Parlia ment. The other with the stealthiness O. the secret poisoner would murder the ma tion outright.
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