The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, And Saturday Morning. Tuesday, January 29, 1889. THE IRISH QUESTION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 253, 29 January 1889, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, And Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, January 29, 1889. THE IRISH QUESTION.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aira’at at be thy oountry’i, Thy God's, and truth’s.

Ths gravity of the political situation in Ireland has in no wise relaxed, and the latest telegrams from that unhappy country prove that, however successful the Coercion Act has been in the suppression of the liberties of the people, it has not stamped out that spirit over which the law has no control. We in no way attempt to justify these fierce outbreaks, for they only tend to damage the cause at issue; but the time is surely approaching when Ireland will be treated justly, and all this turmoil subside, to give place to peace and progress. An excitable people may well be excused if their overpowering feeling of indignation and sense of injustice, occasionally find vent in violence for which both sides are to blame. The Times-Parnell Commission is still dragging on slowly, but as yet these has been no proof of the charges which it was formed to enquire into, and people have become tired of the continual repetition, of outrages that have been committed in the past. Even assuming that . Parnell and his colleagues are guilty of complicity in the horrible affairs with which the Times seeks to connect them, that does not affect the question, Is Ireland entitled to justice ? Many brutal outrages that have occurred tend greatly to prejudice the mind against the Irish cause, but that cannot form a basis for denying to Ireland that to which she is justly entitled. As we have said before Home Rule must be granted to them in time, and though passing events may help considerably to impede the current which is setting in in favor of Ireland, it must before many years have passed reach the turning point in Irish history. It is impossible to say who are most to blame for the recent riots, but when the brutality of the police and the excitability of the populace are considered, it does not need any stretch of imagination to know that both are to blame. The police are really primarily responsible, for their incompetence in allowing O’Brien a chance to escape until the judical forms had been gone through. The result, encouraged by the brutality of the police (who hate and are hated by the populace), might have happened in any other place. These occurrences, however, are always to be regretted, for while they form new grounds for unscrupulous agitators to work on and excite the feelings of the people in other districts, the true cause of Ireland and the only way by which its troubles can be adjusted (that is peaceably) are lost sight of.