The Irish standard., 1888-07-21
SATURDAY. JULY 81, 1888.
ALL ON ACCOUNT OF KERRY.

HI We nope the Irish people Will uraW
one good lesson FROM the great debate
that ended the other Wednesday morn
ing at Westminster with the vote Of an
ot,sequious majorityin favor OF q Gov
eminent utterly worsted in argument.
Mr. Goschen, Mr.. Russell, Colonel
Saunderson and Mr.. Balf0ur had but
! one poor corner OF ireland from which
TO draw a Justification for the Coercion
r,eeime. Only for Kerry they would
have been completely strstnded--kerry,
that hardly knows the sound OF an
Irish leaders voice, and chat has no ex-
perience Of the Plan OF Campaign.
That one black SPOT on the map Of Ire
land is all their justification. AS the
Dublin irish Catholic tacetious]y puts
they irnprison priests at Glare and
donegal they hunt Irish members in
E.lS'ipperary and Louth; they dispense
meetings and bludgeon the people i'll
CorE aud Galway; they prosecute, i'm
prison, baton and ev!ct; and all because
SSof Kerry. OF :cu1se it is iudicrous, ab-
i'ssurd, provoking; but they are playing
Tor gallery which Shey hope knows
netting Of Irish geography, and they
may win. We do not belieye they Will
though. The Irish people Will keep
5his pestilential crime circu1nscribed
within it's present limits, and time will
nypose the cruelty OF Coercion code
that has such a wretclled Justification.
Of course the result in the division
lobby was what everyone expected.
AS MIR. CyBrien put it, men in q con-
tle,nned cell must he careful to vote
fsr the abolition of capital punishment,
and the Liberal Unionists are not
likely to hurry forward the date of their
political extinction. But the chief Ell
fleets Of the discussion are good. The
Liberal Unionists are made responsible
once mora for the whole Of Mr.. Bal
tours doings. They cannot go to the
country and say his policy is not their
policy. BY it they will have to be
Judged and their pretentions to the
name OF Liberal decided. Moreover.
once again the issue between Home
Rule and Coercion has been stated, and
the truth impressed on the minds of
The people of Great Britain that Home
Rule is the question Of tbs hour. The
Alinisterlallsts pretendto see an anxiety
on the part of the Liberals to hide the
issue. But no such anxiety exists, and
this debate is the proof. 1t is new
pledge of the sincerity of the Liberal
party in the cause, new assurance to
Ireland, and new announcement.
And large as the majority is, it is but
the register of a decaying power--from
ore ore hundred and forty to ninety-that
lis she record Of Balfourism within the
House.
The Irish people should be hopeful,
then; and, being hopeful, they should
ard eircumspect in their
action. They must not allow suffering
to tempt tkem into deeds that would
have even the appearance Of crime.
Let the uses to which Kerry has been
but pe lesson. While arm in self-de-
snsiye action let them remember that |
f too wrongs that in the old bad days
would be irreparable there will soon be
& remedy, and that the worst their
enemies can do is to inaict temporary !
evils. And in this hour Of hope they
Will not allow MISUNDERSTANDING to
disturb the trusts and loyalties which,
inS the days Of trial, were their unfailing
gpstenance.