| Show THE GREEN AN AND D THE ORANGE LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL who is very much of a demagogue thought he was doing gladstone andl parnell serious damage when he went to belfast the headquarters of a and nd endeavored to stir up the hot blooded anti catholics to hostility against home rule in ireland he made quite astir stir for the conservative free lance is a taking speaker and has i a dash and vim and lots of tricky ways 1 whick commend him aim to the mob but he did not accomplish much except to tc arouse some easily excited enthusiasm enthusiast 1 n in the public meetings which he a attended t Ulster which is the root and heart of 0 has not been captured by conservatism parnell secured four out of the nine countries of the province and there are advocates of nome home arule crinkled prin kled pretty thoroughly through the remaining five counties the attempt to turn the irish against themselves and to enlist the prejudices of factions and the animosities ot of opposing religious orders in the tory war against gladstone has been a failure and will bring no glory either to the free lance churchill or the cause of his chief lord salisbury the celebration of st patricks day this year was signalized signalizes by a new departure orange flags were carried in several of the processions professions process ions and a disposition to unite the hitherto discordant elements of in a festival to do honor to the patron saint of the emerald isle is certainly both novel and encouraging and it is a striking rebuke to the demagogues who ha vought have sought to stir up the spirit of antagonism between irish protestants and their catholic compa patriots for selfish ends and party pur purposes oses any one who has been in ledfast belfast when the rival orders have collided in the streets and the shillelagh and the brickbat have figured as tre the chief exponents of tile the opposing creeds will marvel at the possibility of mingling the green and tile the orange and the fraternization under any circumstances of the sops sons of st patrick with the followers of king william but this ia is an iconoclastic age and a period of sectarian and social revola blue and the gray grav now blend together in the american union and may be in the coming kedem redemption eption of green erin from the tyranny of the saxon her fiery but patriotic children will abolish the hates of old time faction and learn to dwell together in comparative unity under the flag of a free and prospering country |
