The Irish standard., 1900-06-02
Sarcastic Remarks on His Harsh
Ill-Natured Words.
NoPPoRfuNE AFTER QUEENS VISIT
The Brutal Candor of Cecil Has
Provoked Animosity.

Lord Salisbury's speech before the
Primrose Leaguers continues to be
subject of comment and discussion, says
the Dublin correspondent of the Chica-
go Chronicle. So far as his references
,to this country are concerned, the brutal
candor of this descendant of the willy
Cecils has aroused only defiance. His
vicious hout at Irish treason" and his
threat that home rule is an impossible
concession has had the effect of arous-
ing and unifying the purpose of the
people in this land instead of creating
fear and helplessness.
In referring to the speech the Daily
Independent, the Redmondite organ of
this city, writes:
stIf the queen came back to Dublin
she would be a much astonished wo-
man. Black flags would be mingled with
the bunting of the decorations commit
tees and the groans OF an indignant
people would drown the cheers of the
loyalist colony.
"Her prime minister has thought fit
to let the world know that all the talk
about a good understanding between
the peoples of ireland and England,
which was to ensue if the queen were
courteously received here, was mere
moonshine and that the predominant
partner is determined to remain pre-
dominant and to refuse to grant this
country that measure OF justice which
must be conceded before the feud of
centuries can be ended and mutual good
will and confidence substituted for mt
tual dislike and distrust. -
.'The question for England is whether
she prefers to have Ireland ranged in
the ranks of her friends or in the ranks
Of her enemies. She knows the price
that Ireland demands If she is not so
great fool as she is bully she will
lose no time in fastening to pay il"
y The Freeman's Journal thanks Lord
Salisbury for his frankness. His words,
it adds, clear the air, and it commends
them ito the lord mayor and the rest of
the so-called nationalists who pretended
while the queen was in ireland that
they were serving the Home Rule cause
by identifying themselves with her Wis
it." The tone of all the other nationalist
Journals throughout the country is in
the same key, and even the loyalist Or
gans in ireland are critical and depre-
catory.
1t is in England, however, that Lord
. Salisbury's speech has created the great
est shock. Nothing but taunts and
threats was expected from him here, for
he and his colleagues always have re-
garded an appeal to anti-Irish senti-
ment as a good card to play in the
game of British politics. He seems to
have gone too far, however, for no
London paper approves of his fout at
ireland, not even the Times. But out
/. side of this his speech is one to alarm
even the jingoes.
His pronouncement that elements
: and causes of menace and peril were
accumulating;;" that England could
have no security or any confidence in
the feelings or sympathies of other ma
tions;" that everywhere they saw the
powers of offense increasing, and all
these things might by one of those
strange currents which swept across
the ocean of international politics be
united in one great wave to dash upon
these shores have had their effect.
If the above and other expressions
mean anything but blazing indiscre-
tions," as one paper characterizes them,
they mean that the day is near at hand
when England must take up arms in de-
fense of its homes Surely no more
pessimistic speech ever was made by the
head OF government, nor more SOM
Der picture drawn of England's position
and peril.
And yet it is at this moment, when,
according to his own confession, Eng
land is detested the world over, that
Salisbury lifts the brutal lash of hatred
and oppression against Ireland and
scouts her hopes and aspirations.
The London Daily Mail, the loudest
OF jingo slouters, seems hurt at Lord
I Salisbusy 8 speech. for that journal has