Show NOT ALL WHEAT 1 1a i SALT LAKE CITY Nov 261SZ1 Editors Herald I > Inspeaking the unhappy f cpnj t ditiou of Ireland and in i expressing tha1oonYietJontKfttth8anhappineas is largely the fault of the Irish themselves them-selves I do it with a knowledge that i many of the Irish people both at i home and elsewhere are as good subjects sub-jects or citizens as any other people are and have deservedly attained to eminent position and obtained high consideration But I am saying nothing to the discredit of such On the contrary I reckon them upon my list of friends aa I do all respecters of law liberty life and property and all upholders and lovers o peace and good order But there is a large number of Irishmen who are not of this worthy stamp but who evidently delight in turmoil and turbulence in disorder illegality violence sedition revolution and anarchy and do it under the specious pretence of patriotism patri-otism Upon these my animadver gions fall At least for such characters are they intended If we were to believe some persons we must accept the idea that the Irish in Ireland are the finest people that God ever made the best people under tho sun that for those monstrous mon-strous Saxons Ireland would be a veritable paradise of peace propriety and prosperity that the Irish were always well behaved that they never ware guilty ot act of barbarity that the Ulster massacre of 1641 is simply a legend that Cromwell was a monster mon-ster of cruelty towards the unoffending Irish hat the English in Ireland and towards Ireland have always been of that character and a great deal more of that sort of stuff Now I do not accept all this kind of talk by the panegyrists of Ireland and the Irish nor many reasons one of which is thai it doss not accord with experience Irish blood all the world over is proverbially hot and hasty and that is inconsistent with a high degree of peace and good order Within my own personal experience the Irish quarters of towns in England En-gland are known as the moat quarrelsome quarrel-some and turbulent the places for rows and fightings preeminent It is related that a traveller in Ja western town or city in this country asked a resident young woman if the inhabitants of the place were a cultivated people and that the young woman promptly answered You bet your boots they are a cultivated crowd Just so if one were to ask a lauder of the Irish people if they were very good people the answer might come back swiftly You bet your boots they Pore a saintly set For my part I have been looking all my lile for a perfect people a perfect community a perfect nation but I have not ound euch things yet certainly cer-tainly net among the Iriah ia Ireland by any manner of means Individuals I Individ-uals may have traveled through Ireland Ire-land and have reported most favorably favor-ably of the Irish people If I were to travel in Ireland and sympathize with and flatter the people while I abominated abom-inated the hateful Saxons to the lowest degree I have no doubt that the sons of Erin would give me avery a-very warm place in their hearts But if I were to candidly tell them that I did not think the Saxons were altogether alto-gether and alone 10 t blame for the unhappy condition ol Ireland that in my humble opinion that condition was in a great degree the fault of the Irish themselves I might be likely to be shot from behind a hsdge by some patriotic and indignant peasant Judging from the past and the present I pres-ent it is not unlikely that future panegyrists of the Irish people will deny that there ever was any Boycotting Boycot-ting or any landlord shooting or any no rent cry in Ireland and will assert that the people of that country were too pure and too peace loving to do any such desperate deeds tht tbe reports of these things were all lying Saxon inventions to cover up their own tyrannical and wolfish proceedings pro-ceedings among the poor and oppressed op-pressed and lamblike Irish As to the massacres in 16il and the Cromwellian expedition a few years later history says Fifty thousand 77W l thou-sand English people perished in a few days and rumor doubled and trebled the number Tales of horror and outrage such as maddened our own England when they reached us from Cawopore came day after day over the English Channel Sworn depositions depo-sitions told how husbands were out to pieces in the presence of their wives their childrens brains dashed out before their faces their daughters brutally violated and driven out naked to perish in the woodsJ The horror of the Irish massacre fill I m ine4 living in every Eoghsti fi-ll and the revolt in 1649 was looked upon aa a continuance the I massacre mas-sacre So Cromwell went to Ireland with an army and on his landing Braid b-raid We are come to ask account of the innocent blood that hula been shed and to endeavor to bring to an account all who by appearing In arms shall justify the same The temper too of Cromwell and his soldiers was one of vengeance and of their they gave no quarter to some opponents But the rule was to kill soldiers only Cromwell himsalt afterward challenged his enemies to givean instance of one man since my coming into Ireland not In arms massacred destroyed or burned Some who praise the Irish deprecate depre-cate the English and claim that other European nations are farm n advance ad-vance of the British in civilization and liberty It may be that In ape m 4 v this is oial departments of civilization to rmi extent true but that it IB true in a general aanae and eipeoially as Sri8 actual CiVIl and religious 07lubiflf I deny If perwai think there Is more liberty in France Germany Ger-many Austria Spain or Italy they can 10 and live in either of those countries if they wish to do 10 in preference to living in England But let them begin to teach freely doc trinea unpopular universally unpopular unpop-ular in those countries and they would soon find out that there was not much liberty to boast of In universally diffused education abstract thought and scientific investigation inves-tigation the Germans are far advanced ad-vanced In the elegancies of civilization civili-zation and in outside courtesy the French excel as also in cookery and general economy In the last named accomplishment the French stand justly very higb Their rigid economy econ-omy is a great advantage to them Of all peoples the Americans are the moat extravagant the English next while the French are entirely the other way They contrive to get more out of others and spend less tban any other people In their social so-cial parties they manage to secure the maximum of enjoyment at the minimum of expense The Scotch are held to be very economical very closefisted The canny Scotchman does not like a baubee to slip through his fingers very easily He must look at both sides of it first But when he is under the painful l necessity of spending a whole bit at once he says with a mingled air of semiregret and semi eeltreproacb Bang goes another saxpence But the French surpass the Scotch in the mysterious art of living upon little It ia said with emphasis tbat a Frenchman would live where a Scotchman would starve that two Frenchmen would live where one Englishman would starve that three Frenchmen would live where one American would starve and that the waste of American hotels would feed the whole French nation Old America outside of New England Las little to boast of in the matter ol economy perhaps not in New England Eng-land in thee latter days but Young America much of it does not seem to have the ghost of an idea of the meaning of the word This wonderful wonder-ful economy it is that makes the French people rich and contented at home in France and that enabled them to so quickly rise superior to the weighty indemnity they bad to pay to Germany for the luxury of the late war between those two countries Notwithstanding all this when we come to the important matter of personal per-sonal liberty the liberty to think and say aad do what one lines within the limits of the law and that law a very liberal one and generally administered adminis-tered with remarkable impartiality I say emphatically of all countries in the ola world let mu live in Britain Brit-ain and all conveniences of civilized life considered in the west end of London or in its suburbs Ireland has a population ot about 5000000 scattered over nearly 83000 square 1 miles and always in a ferment London Lon-don baa a population of about 4000 000 concentrated within an area of about fifteen miles square which I may sup o3a to bo something like equal in extent to this valley from this city to the point of toe mountain south Notwithstanding this immense im-mense population London is one ol tie healthiest moat peaceable moat orderly moat lawabiding and beet g Wued of the large cities of the world with as much personal liberty 88 a reasonable man can wish Four hundred years ago Pnillippeda Com ine speaking of his own time and In my opinion oi all theetate in the world that I have seen England Eng-land is thy country where the com monweaUh is best governed and th people lust 1 oppressed Professor Bluntchii thankfully recognized the services rendered by the English PH pie to humanity in the struggle for personal freedom against tyranny tbe Englishman manfully IbdeIIUi his independenco of all authority but that of law In fact betveeti English Eng-lish law and Irish lawlessness there is a very great gulp In the American revolution Alexander Hamilton locked at the British form of government ao too model form t > l government after all nud in our dov OolonelBobIn er8oll expresses bin eelf as holding it aa an axiom tbat tbe presence of the Angbriiixon means liberty With such an enunciation however I am ears the Irish anarchists anar-chists will not agree Which reminds inc thai a genial Saxon and a hot beaded Irishman were onto discussing discus-sing political masters with little agreement agree-ment until by way of a Hnaiusf remark re-mark toe former said Well Pt let ua hope that we shall melt in heaven at last To which the impulsive im-pulsive son of Erin quickly responded respon-ded NOt u bit ov it ban We ehall meet in tbo other place TASA + |