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Show A Lying Blackguard on His Travels. Chicago Citizen: Friends in St. Paul. Minn., have .sent us marked copies of the Dispatch of that city, containing letters from some knave of an Englishman, Eng-lishman, or some bastardized. West British "Irishman," signing himself "Onlooker." The fellow i an Ignorant fiaud. Otherwise, he never would commit himself to such blather as the following: "Who w ill be bold enough to deny that alcohol, agitation and anarchy, which lead to idleness and degradation, degrada-tion, are not the principal causes of the largest percentage of misery in all countries, and Ireland is no exception? May it not also be said that if Ireland is subjected to more misery it stands at the head of the list in the consumption consump-tion of alcohol, and as for agitators it is far away ahead of any other spot on the globe, and with much less reason rea-son for" complaining.y A people that sends about 100 members to the Brit- j ish parliament for 4.00O,ooo of a population, popu-lation, while the city of London with U population of 6,000.000, hs to be j content w ith about forty members. surely has- nothing in complain of in j regard to representation. They ought lo be treated to "a dose of Krugerism j where they would be compelled to do ! without any representation at all. And j as for liberty of speech and liberty of the press, where is there a spot on earth with so much liberty? England or the United States, the freest nations na-tions on earth, cannot compare with the Emerald Isle." It i-s enough to say. in reply to thifl lying ruffian, that England's governing govern-ing power has reduced the population of Ireland just one-half within sixty years, and, but for the "agitators," the race would now be ' ' out on the native soil. We havs not the figures near us, but we venture to say, judging judg-ing from recent statistics, that the Irish do not consume as much alco- holic drink in proportion as either the i Kngli-sh or the Scotch and that wife-! wife-! beating and child-desertion, brutal pugilism and facial mayhem, are not national pastimes in Ireland as they seem to be in England, judging by poliee court reports in the English I newspapers which we read. There is i no man, woman or child of the age of I reason, in Ireland, ignorant of "God. but there are thousands in England who are so sunk in vile incestuous-ness incestuous-ness and in every species of moral and physical abomination, reeking with a foulness which cries to heaven. The vices which called down the wrath of God on 'Sodom and Gomorrah are so common in the cities of England as to excite no special horror. How dare this English blackguard the cowardly, coward-ly, sneaking, lying cur. who hide-? hi repulsive personality under a nom de Plume revile the Irish nation, which is the most crimeless in the world and to whom unnatural vice was unknown until the infernal Castle p:nglish introduced intro-duced it there? As for the proportion of representation, representa-tion, it makes little matter whether th Irish delegation to the British parliament parlia-ment numbers 100. ten or none at all They are powerless, anyhow, against the combined vote of their British enemies, ene-mies, unless, as in the days of Parnell they hold the balance of power between be-tween the two great thieves called Whig and Tory. "Liberty of speech." in Ireland, is now represented by three members of parliament, among others jn jail for daring to employ it, and "liberty of the press" was illustrated by the seizure and confiscation of the United Irishman Irish-man in Dublin a year or two ago. The dastardly threat to disfranchise Ireland was well met by the Irish leader, Mr. John E. Redmond, in the English house of commons last week, when he said, in the teeth of Chamberlain, Cham-berlain, Balfour and Wyndham; "No penalty this house can impos will deter us front doing our eluty as we see it. . The government may be brought face to face with a contingency contin-gency in which the whole Irish representation repre-sentation may withdraw front this parliament. We would far prefer to se-e the attempt to govern Ireland arbitrarily arbi-trarily as a crown colony than by the fraudulent pretext of e-onstitutional rule now existing. After a few months of that experiment England would be glad enough to offer Ireland home rule." |