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Show A REMEDY FOR IRISH TROUBLES. . The state of Ireland is one of continual turmoil. To England chiefly belongs the credit for this condition of things, although al-though the Irish themselves have given very considerable : aid. The English having failed to solve the Irish question according to English ideas, have determined deter-mined to boycott the Irish, so says a London Lon-don special to the New" York Sim. If such is the case, it will but make bad matters worse in Ireland and will work such hardships to the Irish who leave their own Emerald Isle each autumn to seek work in English harvest fields, and those M ho find emploj-meut in mills and factories, that the suffering consequent thereon will simply be appalling; That the Irish pay this political allegiance to Parnell is true, and this allegiance makes them hostile to their English employers, em-ployers, and it is this fact that has caused the bitter feeling of the workmen of England Eng-land towards them. The hatred between the Saxon and the Celt is of the most intense in-tense type, and seems to be irreconcilable. The boycotting M hich has become so universal uni-versal in Ireland now threatens to become as universal in England, but there it Mill be against the Irish themselves. Its employment em-ployment M as wrong in the first place and it will be just as M-rong in England as it has been in Ireland. It is the method of those times M'hen the law of retaliation Mas the law of high and low, and the nineteenth century has thought that that law belonged only to a barbarous age gone never to return. - Irs extensive reappear ance in the ninth decade of this century should teach us that time advances far more rapidly than man and civilization. |