The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-19
, YooLrsH AND reSoKAsr MAN

william Lyman. treasurer OF the
Irish National League. has Issued an
absurd manifesto. Ia which he ad-
vocates revolution ~ the only
means by which Ireland can sehievs
the restoration Of her rights After de-
claring that the Irish cause has been be-
trsyed by Gladstone and Rosebery, the
address says:
'"The question is. who car save II. reyo-
!utionlsfs or rnetorscians2 Take the MS
tory Of Ireland for 100 years. What vic
tories have rhc rhectorians gainedf None.
Ireland has got 70 depend on revolution
lists. The revoiutionists only can save
her. We must have no more TAX We
must have deeds. One blow struck at the
enemy Is worth q thousand speeches Re-
member this. each and every one OF you.
and the end Of the struggle must soon
come IN blaze Of glory. Now for revoiu-
tion, and revolution only"
The facts of history are all against Mr..
Lyman. The only lrishmen who have,
dnring the past one hundred years, gained
anything for Ireland have been the con-
stitutionai agitato.s or ''rheioricians." a.
Lyman Is pleased to call them. It was GRAFT
tan and Flood who won the frst Irish home
rule parliament, which might have lasted
until this day had not the revoutionists
OF l7ss frightened the English government
into forcing the act OF Union of iSo0-l8oL
Grattan. o'Conneli and Curran all held
aioof from the rebellion Of 179s and de-
piored IL ~ sure to retsrd the advance Of
ireland to constitutional liberty. for after
you friehten powerful coward you only
make him worse, a. Charlotte Corday
did the Terrorists when she murdered
Marat When Robert Emmett and Lord
Edward Fitzgerald rose in rebellion In
1903 O'Conncll, Grattan and Curran- again
protested against their folly. After 1903
England put the screws" to ireland, and
there was no relaxation until "rhstorician"
or rather constitutional agitator Daniel
O'Connell, by his eloquence and efforts
within the Law. extorted Catholic emanci-
patton from Great Britain In 1879. 1t
was O'Connell who subsequently up to
Is43 extorted from England reforms In tho
1.-THE laws.
When O'Connsli broke down with old
age and retired from active politics the
revolutionary" party. who thought they
knew more than O'Connell, tried their
hand. and in 1s4s, after O'Connell's death.
came the wretchsd fasco of the Irish ris.
ing Of is45, whose only result was to send
Mitchell. Meagher, Duffy. Smith and
O'Brien into exile In the penal colony Of
Van Dieman's land. After 1S45 nothing
was accomplished outside of the stupid
~
picked up tho flag Of constitutional agita-
ton for home rule that was dropped by
the dying O'Conneli. Under this flag
Parneil forced the passage Of the first land
reform acts, and yet his progress was re-
tarded by the Irish nihiiists who MUIR
dered Blake and Lord Frederick Caven-
dish. brother OF the Duke of Devonshire.
Finally Parnell converted Gladstone to
the cause of home rule, and under Glad
stone victory 10 In sight. though Glad
stones efforts have been repeatedly
blocked by few msrplots like John Red.
mond. who had rather see Ireland starvs
than accept halt loaf when she cannot
get whole loaf Of Rsdmond's baking.
The pretsnse that Gladstone and Rose
berry are traitors to home rule Ii utterly
false and absurd. Lord Rosebery and the
English Liberals could not afford to let 70
of the home rule causc today if
they wanted. To abandon it would
mean not only the loss OF some eighty
Irish home rulers. but it would
mean the loss of those Scotch and Welsh
members who are anxious for the estao-
lishment of the principles Of home rule for
TIE sake of their own selections. Dillon,
o'Brien and MacCarthy sec this. and they
also see that the shortest road to home
rule is to stand in with tho English Lib
erals for the mending or ending of the
hereditary legislature Of the house Of lords.
Lord Rosebcry has repeatedly and en-
phaticaliy declared on public platforms
his thorough approval of and warm SYM
pa.hies with the home rule cause AMI his
determination to continue TO support it
and sustain ID. His great strength in
Scotland il due to his declaration on this
point bat he sees. as Gladstone said in his
last speech. that the hereditary legislat-
ure must lie inended or ended before any
radical legislation by the house of COM
mons can 10 secured. What is true of
Lord Rosebery is true Of Mr.. Gladstone's
iieutenants in the house of lords. and il
especially true Of Lord Kimberly, whom
Rosebery has given . high place in his
cabinet.
Lord Kimberly, when he was viceroy of
Ireland from 1884 to lssss. saw The germs
OF future trouble maturing for Ireland.
lie told the house OF lords, 81 a time when
Fenianism Was only laughed at. tia, It
had taken deep hold upon the Irish peo-
| pie, only few years ago he had the
courage and the generosity 70 assert in the
/ hereditary chamber thouse Of lordsl tn a.
the leading Irish Naiionalis;s. again,,
whom terrible charges had been made.
! sere as patriotic and a. worthy OF respect
as any member OF your iordships'
| house"
There IS not the slightest Gouh, that
! Lord Resebery. from motives OF persona al
| honor and sympathy as we'll rs political
| ruls 40 Gladstone. t,ladsioas never would
| have surrendered his staff OF Office into
Lord Rosebery's hands il he had been able
TO assure the Irish Home Ralers tha, h,.
successor would faithfully uphold their
dag whenever II was possib.s 10 win a
victory under it, Lord Rssebery, Of
course, viii meet the factions, fAreicsi
opposition Of Redmond JUST as Gladstone
"a, sixsys had to NEE. IL bat Gls1stons