Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-04-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TEE IRISH REVOLUTION.  HER MAJESTY'S Ministers have had an anxious and laborious time since the assembling of Par. went. The Egyptian question in foreign affairs. and the Irish difficulty in home matters, have required grave consideration by day in the office and the council chamber. and in the legislature at night our ruling statesmen's attention has had to be given to these among various other matters. With a full programme of legislative business to carry, out, and with " interests " everywhere clamorous for expected relief or advantage, Ministers had, up to the adjournment of Parliamentfor the Easter recess, been engaged in what we may call the work of clearing the decks for action. And, as things stand, there is a prospect of this preliminary labour continuing for some time. Easter holidays will, therefore, have scarcely afforded them much leisure for rest or recreation. Not to mention the various other matters of business competing for their attention, there 'is the one supremely grave subject of the present condition of Ireland. The leading members of the Government must have recognised in Mr. Goan's speech on the eve of the adjournment the expression of a feeling of alarm and impatience shared in by a large portion of the public. This feeling will only be appeased by Ministers taking the Irish question vigorously in hand on the reassembling of Parliament. Foreign relations must, of course, be attended to at all times, and the financial work of the House of Commons must be carried on; but it is beginning to befell by the community that important political or social reforms in Great Britain ought not to oc cupy the time and energy of Parliament while an integral part of the United Kingdom is in a state of revolution. The term is Mr. GLADSTONE'S, and not ours; and though he may qualify it by defining the present agitation and violence in Ireland as constituting a social rather than a poli. tical revolution, yet it is well known that the ultimate aims of the revolutionary leaders are political. Mr. PARNELL has never disguised his design to work the land movement as a lever to obtain Irish legis. lation, if not entire independence. The prom..ters of the present agitation are all Home Millers in politics when not absolute separatists, and these are now receiving the co-operation of the Fenian fraternity on the strength of the anti. British tendency of the land movement. It is futile to call an agitation non.political, because the persons engaged in it do not assemble in areas far overt attack upon the Government, who secretly and in detail they are undermining the authority of the Government and paralysing the execution of the law. It would be far better for the Government to have to deal with a cansoli• da,ed body of insurgents in one particular spot, than with numerous assailants of law and ordei scattered all over Ireland. In its methods of ac. tam the present revolution is peculiar, and may pei haps be characterized as social, but in its ulti Mate aim it is political, and this the Government ought to recognise in dealing with it. But, be the final ol.jact what it may, and be the manner or attack as singular as it may, Ministers are callad upon as their first and highest duty to repress this revolutionary lawlessness. If the method of the malcontents be peculiar as it is detestable, the Executive will have to devise equally extra. ordinary but effectual remedies. We can no longer speculate on the probability or possibility of els. turbance dying out in face of the benefie.ar operation of the Land Act. With murder, outrage, and intimidation daily continuing, and even in .creasing, the duty of Government is to rester, order at any. necessary and temporary sacrifice ..f public freedom. The Government can obtain readily from Parliament full powers to take any aneasures necessary for vindicating the law in Ireland, and, with the resources which would thus ibe placed at the command of the Executive, tit. latter ought to be more than a match for tha cnost widely-ramified conspiracy. There can been .slSUbt, either, that the great majority of the apublic would fully approve of additional measures of repression. This was pretty clearly indicated .by the deprecation expressed at Mr. PARNEWS reported release from Kilmainharo, until the public mind was reassured by learning that the release was only a temporary one, on parole, to enable that gentleman to attend the funeral of a near relative, and that he had undertaken to ab stain from all political action during his *mew tram the prison.