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Show rUTUEE CANNOT EE PREDICTED. P.Y JOHN DILLON. The English nation has been told by Salisbury that Ireland is a hostile country, and must be treated as such In the future. The complete subjugation subjuga-tion of Ireland should, in his opinion, be an easy task, for the life-blood of ' the country is being poured out by emigration at a rate unparalleled in recent years. Ireland is bleeding to death, and nothing is being done by the government to stop it. Our reply to Sa'isbury is: We are hostile to the British government, and to the system which has planted in Ireland Ire-land Knglish landlords and their understrappers. un-derstrappers. So long as that system goes on, so long w ill we remain hostile, . so long will we carry on that struggle which the Irish nation has never given up the struggle for the right to govern gov-ern itself. - The future of Ireland must be governed gov-erned by circumstances which in themselves them-selves cannot be controlled. Who. for instance, would have been bold enough to predict the I'arnellite split? And but for the Parnellite sVHt. Ireland would have been free today. The Irish party, nevertheless, is in a better position po-sition now than ever it has been since the split, and Irishmen, with true hearts, will continue to press forward toward home rule, with the hope still as strong as ever that Ireland will he free once more, enjoy the liberty so long denied her, and -will be prosperous under the rule of those who have her best interests at heart. Politics, however, how-ever, are too uncertain to "attempt to ascribe a date to the realizations of that freedom. Ireland is still the same Ireland. The belief is deep-rooted among Irishmen that the Queen went to Ireland after 'nearly forty years' absence to counteract counter-act the effect of the strong condemnation condemna-tion of the -war by Ireland and Ireland's Ire-land's .widespread sympathy with the Boer republics. The visit, at first announced an-nounced to be of a strictly private character, ' was turned into a state f ' function. Life Guards were brought J specially from London, a fleet of war-- I ,pR 1111(5 a la-rge body of troops ac- "'nupanied her, and no money was J - - - |