The herald., 1895-05-04
A NEW CAMPAIGN FOR IRELAND

Yesterdays Herald contained the out.
line IN a New York dispatch of new
movement soon to be started to help the
Emerald Isle achieve home rule. 1t is
intended apparently to unity the various
bodies of Irish sympathizers in the effort
to make, the subject of Ireland's emancipa-
tion one OF international consideration.
They are going to bring external forces to
bear on the British parliament. OF course
they do not mean to enlist the physical
powers of other peoples in their behalf,
but their moral efforts. Their plan is to
agitate and argue and engage in task of
propagandism until throughout the civil
lied world the fires of sympathy burn
brightly for the Irish cause, and there is
aroused sentiment that not even the
srolid, uncompromising Briton will be
proof against. This may seem slow
method OF attaining the object nearest
and dearest to every Irish patriots
heart, but it is probably the only sure
one. Ireland will never again engage in
the Quixotic attempt of winning inde-
pendence in an armed conflict with an
opponent possessed of the measureless re-
sources for speedily quelling insurrection
that England is. And the futility of
guerilla warfare, assassination campaigns
and boycotting schemes; has been too
frequently demonstrated. In fact, it is
certain that the last named means for
striking terror to the heart of the op-
pressor were worse than futile. No peo-
pie with the stubborn courage and OBJ
stinacy of purpose that are such
conspicuous attributes OF the Eng
lish character can be phased by such
methods. These things were
deemed reasonable and lawless, and
in the mind of the conservative English
man such exhibitions of rebellious ten
denotes should be peremptorily suppress
ed, and when the ordinary machinery of
law proved inadequate. more coercive
measures were invoked. If necessary
martial law would have been declared
throughout Ireland and soldiery enough
to literally police the island would have
been landed. Such contest could have
but one termination. and before reaching
the latter the tyranny of coercion and the
despotism OF military rule would aggra-
vate many times the old evils. Besides
the violence and murders like those Of
Cavendish and Burke in Dublin, which
were OF course the concomitants OF this
kind of war. are certain to cause reaction
in the gradually developing sympathy in
other countries for the Irish and instead.
as each new outrage. assault. manning
or killing would be reported. resentment.
disgust and Indignation would arise
and all the benefits OF the worlds moral
support lost. People admire and
sympathize with frank. open war
fare. but loathe that sort that stabs
men in the dark, shoots at them
from ambush. burns dwellings and
mutilates animals that, belong to the OBJ
iects of hatred. The cowardice and un
fairness OF these modes Of avenging
wrongs obscure in the minds of disintcr-
ested people the grievances that have in
spired such irregular and uncivillzed
ways OF making fight for freedom.
There are but two ways for country sit
uated as Ireland is to win the concessions
desired. One is by political skill and in
trigne, and the other by convincing the
power from which the concession is to be
wrung of the absolute justice of its
claims, and then shaming the opprcssol