| Show UNHAPPY IRELAND A caustic discussion of the recent illel where the blame lie lies EDITOR 1 the bad sad deplorable plo rable and lamentable events which have recently taken place ill in ulster ireland must be looked upon as a public disaster by everyone who deserves the name of patriot or or whose corno como cornmon common o 0 mon sense and humanity have not been disabled by rabid or ignorant prejudices it seems astonishing that in this time of widespread wide spread knowledge and eriend extended tolerance auch such lawlessness and outrage should be possible in ulster the most enlightened province to be found in ireland in the year 1886 of the era of PeAce and goodwill to all men there has been riot running unchecked through the streets and the flames intolerance and caste hatred blazing as fiercely o 0 is in the years of the christian fathers who burned each other at the stake or at a later period when the prophet joseph smith was martyred by a fanatical mob at nauvoo but eo so it ii is many lives have been lost in this barbarous feud the slumbering demon of hatred has been rouse roused from bis his lair air and the seeds of bit and revenge haye have grown in to rank weede weeds which will require of the legislative ae gil dative husbandman many years of labor before ho be can hope to eradicate them the riots happily arc are at an end so much at all events may be as fumed from the tele telegrams grai th that at have reached us and we may now begin to inquire who has been to b blame lame for or them the roman catholics Catholic saro are not blameless in the matter and a catholic irishman never needs much invitation to a battle tread trend on the tail of hia coat and bis his celtic blood at oace becomes eager for the fray but in the late shameful scenes of anarchy and bloodshed tho the aggress eora sors undoubtedly were the orange ak loyalists they were the begin t nera ners of the outrages and the came loyalists were the very men who stubbornly held the field against and flagrantly resisted the author ity of tho the government they so 80 highly value when its enactments are to their aasta if however we would learn how I 1 the shouldering ing embers of dietr distrust and animus were first fanned into oi flame of rebellion wo we must turn to englund there we shall get scent of certain office seekers and certain zealous newspaper editors who in their fervor ef of political party did drop a number ot of more or les less plain hints that a little energy en on the part of the ulster loyalists would be useful to the good god cause nor i is s this all for it was gravely asserted on more than one occasion that naval and military officers offic cre holding high in the queens service would throw up their commissions and become rebels if bill for a rate irith irish parliament should be passed and become law there then we b have lave english journalists english peers aers english gentleman gent lemin and english en sh officers so base aye and so vil vile as to delaber abely foster class ana and sectarian feud in poor unhappy ireland for th ahe ja ake sake of gaining a paltry party vi victory over the grand old man alan reverse tho the order of things irow how the lindou times would have thundered forth its benun denunciation cl mationg agai 1 aist the he irish people if the roman catholics or nation 46 aliete ts had been the first cause of mhd riots and blood sh eddings but the pious orangemen break out into revolt in the cause of order arid add commits murder in the name of rillo religion g and the fine city fB elfast bee becomes a pandemonium of anarchy and mad fury while the great british press contenta contents i itself with mild platitudes and tamo lame generalities and tb the prime ePrime minister who now rules the I 1 roost oost cooly says that it IL will bo the stern duty of the government the loyal men in ireland to carry on their advona eions in in peace and in that ask task they wall wi 11 have an ad advantage vantage over their inasmuch as they cayea a mandate from the po peo pie to re return turn a firm neg negative tive to the question t ion which has eo so troubled d kes ireland reland at thie this distance from the beenes of anarchy and rebellion we cannot annot well be charged wit with h party ary bj aji in the matter atter la we vc feel no party part triumph defeat but we yo do feel that adye nod and reason are more potent than bayonet and bullets and that the main principle bf of arc are charity good fellowship and peace and that a country divided against itself can neither be pro prosperous sperows roul nor happy NO N 0 bide side i sues of rubric or dogmas ever did or ever can justify a curee or a blow LIBERTY ent f kept 90 1886 |
