A CANADIAN VIEW OF THE IRISH CONTROVERSY.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1581, 18 March 1887, Page 4

A CANADIAN VIEW OF THE IRISH CONTROVERSY.

Never to be forgotten in this Irish controversy is the practical testimony of Protestant and loyal Ulster to the advantages of British connection. The relations of these men to Great Britain are precisely the same as the rest of the people 01 Ireland, and they live under exactly the same laws and institutions; yet they are prosperous, and are ardent supporters ot the Union. Ihe voices of their representatives, protesting against a separate Parliament for Ireland, are still ringing in our eare. Mr. Davitt, when asked by the interviewer of the Pall Mall Gazette how he proposed to deal with the question of Ulster, is stated to have replied—" Leave them alone to us, and we will make short work oi these gentry. They are not Irish; they are only English and Scotch who are settled among us, and it is preposterous that they should be allowed to dictate to Irishmen how Ireland should be governed. Mr. Parnell, Mr. Biggar, Mr. Sexton, Mr. Uealy, and Mr, Davitt are, as their names prove, only English or Scotch settled in Ireland, though they have turned againet their own race. But English or Scotcb descent cannot affect the significance of the fact that the Proteßtants of Ulster prosper under the Union, and are striving with all their hearts to uphold it The soil and climate oi Ulster are not superior, on the contrary, they are rather inferior, to those of the rest of Ireland; it is the character and industry of the people that the province has been made what it is. Nor is there any doubt, if they lose the protection of the United Parliament what their fate will be. " Suppress Orange linen," Baid a Nationalist journal, "and you manumit Ulster. Break the power of the ' linenites,' and the Loyalists are, if not killed, scotched." Suppressed Orange linen unquestionably would be, and the loyalists would be killed or scotched, unless it should by chance turn out, as it has once or twice in the past, that with their industrial superiority there wasconnecttd a superiority of other kinds, which enabled them, though overwhelmingly outnumberad, to hoid their own. We have some Home Rulers," says the American, Mr. Joseph Cook, " that we hope will go home to rule." No doubt, and to rule at home the Boseas woulo certainly go as soon as the dazzling vision of an Irish Parliament, Government, and patronage was psesented to their patriotic ambition. Nor would Orange linen long survive the effects of their sway—The Week.