The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-11
IRELAND AND UTAH.

The ruling power of Great Britain has at
last succumbed to the demands of justice
Tor ireland, and Queen VICTORIA has an
nounced policy of Home Rule What an
earnest, patriotic but turbulent people had
struggled for many years to achieve for
the Emerald Isle has fallen like ripe fruit
at the feet of the suppliants after almost
the last hope had disappeared Irish local
government Is the boon which agitation OF
her rights before the worlds tribunal has
produced for the country of GRATrAN and
OF BURKE. The wrongs of this whipped
Save OF oppression have cried to Heaven
ana awakened the slumbering pity of man
KIND. The grand old man of Hawarden,
whose years and honors have blessed every
cause IN which his voice has been raised,
aroused the sympathies of nations for the
bleeding victim, until with shame and hui
imitation the Queens government bows to
the universal appeal.
1t may BE that accumulated decades of
Despair found expression in reasonable
aces and threatening words on the part OF
the Irish people; that British agents were
treated as spies; that the eloauence of
irish anathemas was hurled at the British
throne itself; that Irish wrath and Irish
courage combined to make spectacle of
revolt as magnificent as it was futile But
IL was an endeavor for freedom, a fight
against coercion, which, despite its impru-
cent methods and great hazard, commanded
the admiration of both hemispheres. Long
time those people worried, watched and
waited. 1t was not Ireland's poet but
highlands who wrote:
Freedoms battle once begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son,
Though baf1led Oft, is ever Won"
THE confidence of the government il
the country's fitness for local self govern
ment;" conditions now prevail in ireland
, which justified the government in giving
, that country extended power of local self
tron-these are the words OF the dis
patches announcing the decision of tbs
government And yet but a few week:
ago the utmost turmoil existed at some o
the elections. The church authorities wer,
said to be arrayed on one side of the con
troversy, and alien constabulary were sta
toned at different points to preserve tht
peace.
Shall we draw lesson from this, in con
nection with the condition of Utaha Her
are quarter of million of peaceful, in
telligent Christian people, of all nativities
all creeds. They are obedient to the laws o
the country, and are no burden to the PEG
5 pie OF the nation. They live under the Amer
: lean flag, the symbol OF freedom, suffer
ance and civilization. They desire to b
governed by laws of their own making
and yet are domineered over by Fedora
o appointee, who not only exercises an abso
Lutte negative upon their attempted legisla
ton. but assumes to dictate the languag
Q in which their enactments shall be couched
: Upon these people are quartered represen
!. tatiVes Of the general government wit
powers different IRON any that belong t
d other communities of the United States
To desire of the majority for a close
union with the people Of their country, an
nearer resemblance to their mode of ad
Il minlstering laws, tenth Of the resident
OF the territory interpose a rebellious op
position, Insisting upon tyrannical rule O
the minority. Should they be able to cor
D, tinue their influence with the dominant pr
e litical party, they would, in the event
- Iust party RETAINING tnaI conlrol, Keep = Ia
in condition of yassalage indefinitel
= that they can make it serve their purpose
= Of plumber, persecution and intolerance
To-day the spirit of this minority is nor
fanatical, bigoted, arrogant aud intoleran
than that which animates any people on til
face Of the earth. 1t is unrepublican to III
last degree. Its only use for the govern
ment is TO employ its power for purpose
y of oppression. 1t does not want Utah eve
to be state, and it would if it possesse
the power 1t Graves, cut it loose from an,
DO the mostremote, connection with the Uniol
AZ One thing at least is sure; this minori,
u will never consent for Utah to elect its ow
officials until it feels sure that it was passe
from minority to majority.