Show THE visit of the Prince of Wales to Ireland will doubtless fail of its object which was a conciliation of the Irish It is sought to heal the wounds of many years with the salve of a royal visit applied ap-plied for a few days If the Prince had resided there for the past fifteen y ars and studied the character and wants of the Irish and tried to make some improvement im-provement in the condition of the people and when those who could not pay their rent were thrust into the streets or the fields or the jails he had been among them cheering theln with his presence and a kind word and aiding them with the money which he was spending in pleasure and dissipation elsewhere else-where he could have endeared himself to them But his presence among them I now is almost a mockery and in the wake of the royal progress there follows insult and riot and Dublin has officially ignored the royal presence These visits of royalty at best are but parades and fine displays in the presence of distressing poverty are ill calculated to have any other effect than to irritate the populace In Ireland the Castle has merely served the purpose of a stronghold the same as the castles of the feudal barons in the Middle I Ages when the people were held in subjection I sub-jection to serve their masters and from those castles there were ever issuing predatory expeditions and each expedition expedi-tion made the people poorer It is so with Ireland and each change that is made in her administration seems but another predatory expedition visiting the country I The methods that many in Ireland have used to counteract the evils of these expeditions ex-peditions have not been such as to command com-mand the sympathy of those who recognized recog-nized Irelands wrongs and they have done her more harm than good Mr Parnell condemns them as much as the most intense Tory Nor are royal visits a cure any more than these methods |