The Irish standard., 1900-06-02

therefore, IN It's cnagrln, IL says:
eve cannot but regret that the pre-
mier should have chosen such time as
this for criminatory and harsh remarks.
We find in his speech no recognition of
the new situation which has been Gre
ated, no sense of the Importance OF
seizing tie golden moment which was
reached by the heroism of irish soldiers
and the statesmanlike initiative of the
queen. In speaking as he did Lord
Salisbury for once failed rightly to
voice British sentiment. For from John
O. Groats to Lands End we are one
people in our admiration of and our
gratitude to our cousins across the
western channel"
The London Star has scathing at
tack on the premier.
cat time," it says,' when England
and Ireland are nearer to one another
than they ever were in the long story
of their dismal connection Lord Sails
bury steps in and sunders them again
At time when the queen, by splendid
act of self-sacri6ce, has struck the note
OF sympathy and trust between the two
peoples the premier of England revives
the old hideous causes of enmity and
fans the dying enlbers of fear and sus-
picion to e fame again.
Worse than all, on the morrow OF
the battles in which Irish regiments
were decima,ed in the interests of the
empire Lord Salisbury resumes the old
hateful talk of Irish disloyalty and the
Irish peril.
ellis tongue still drones out the stale
stock rhetoric of the Tory platforms OF
the '8o's and he has undone, so far as
he is able to, the grand work of the
queen in Ireland"
The London Chronicle looks upon
the speech of Lord Salisbury as full OF
indiscretions and egregious blunders,
and adds that Gin these latter days for
some occult reason the leader of the
Conservative party seldom opens his
mouth in public without letting some
inapt and tactless words fall from his
lips.s He emphasized his ability in this
direction by the comparison he drew
between the Transvaal government and
tile Nationalist party in ireland.
In referring to the declaration of
Lord Salisbury that the safety of the
country was the urgent business of Tie
rcople themselves the Chronicle re-
marks:
when the head Of the government
can make such speech it is difficuie
to repress a suspicion that all may not
be we'll with our line of Defense
The London Express is OF the opin-
ion that the dark days one associates
with "No I" and lie Caron are not yet
completely tided over as commonly be-
lieved, but it finds encouragement in
a politicians statement that "the police
have a grip on these dangerous gentry"
and then goes on to say:
'We must not live in such FOOLS
paradise as to be confident that the des-
perate element in Irish politics strictly
outside parliament has been utterly
eliminated. Some seeds of it, even if
dormant, may exist. It is we'll known
that in America there is party which
still hugs with affection its 'old dead
body of hate and it may we'll have
some agents in ireland.
However, that party has no rela-
tions with any Nationalist M. P. of to-
day and probably views Irish parliamen-
tary opposition with impatient con-
tempt. But what is even more to the
point, there is no sympathy whatever
between these physical force men and
the great body of the Irish people, who
have just given the queen such splen-
did welcome to old ireland"
This should be a consoling thought
for the loyalist and it would be cruel
even to hint that the absolute truth is
that the great body of the Irish people
is in thorough and hopeful sympathy
with the physical force plotters and ever
will be while ministers like Salisbury
control their destiny and deride their
appeals for justice. Mr.. Asquith recog-
nizes this fact, for in a speech at COL
chester the other day he said it would
be folly to ignore that Ireland was the
one spot over the whole empire in which
genuine sympathy was felt for the
Beers, and because they were enemies of
the queen.
There was a historic cause for this,
said Mr.. Asquith, because Gin ireland
the people have never been allowed in
matters of purely domestic concern to
follow the bent OF their own natural
genius and according to the ideas they
conceived in the interests they under
stood far better than any parliament
far removed from them. That was the
root and source of this scandal and
black spot upon our imperialism. The
moral was surely this, that the way to
make the empire strong and great was
to make local autonomy, in all matters
legislative and administrative, as large
and as free as was consistent with i'm
perial unity"
There is wisdom and Cancellation in
this, but such talk will not lessen in