The Irish Irrecoucilables.

Southland Times, Issue 4630, 14 May 1883, Page 2

The Irish Irrecoucilables.

— «i The London Times says : — Perhaps it is not altogether to be regretted that the Irish Irreconcilables should once more have, shown their hand. The English people the most lenient and the most easy-going in the world, is always too much inclined to be sceptical about political outrages till they are proved, and to forgive and forget within a short time afterwards. It was not till the tragedy of the Phoenix Park that the mass of Englishmen realised the tremendous nature of the struggle that was going on in Ireland ; and it is only by outrages like those of yesterday that it is likely to be convinced of what the authorities have known all along — that there are in London men as desperate, as determined, and as uncompromising enemies to Eaglnnd as any of the Invincibles of Dublin. Now, however, it is to be hoped that the public will come to know with whom »'t has to deal. Ithas to deal with men who hesitate at nothing ; with men to whom human life and the works of human hacds, and the fabric of society itself, are as nothing in comparison with the satisfaction ef their own wild demands. These men ,'can be met in only one way — by a resistance as stern and as uncompromising as their own attack. This is the lesson that the past three years have brought home to us, and that the events of yesterday are likely to impress still more deeply into the hearts o£ Englishmen. If the Irish Irreconcilables are in very deed going to reply with dynamife tp any political action of the Qoveynment whicfy does not satisfy their impatience, one thing at least is certain-^r that the day of remedial legislation for Ireland ig over, Let Mr Paroejl and his'

friends lay that lesson to heart ; for it is true beyond any manner of question. For a long time past the zeal of the British constituencies for the removal of Irish erievances^haa been steadily waning ; and what is likely to take its place^ is a feeling which we may depreicdte; but which the Irish themselves have called into existence — a feeling oi deep aud profound disgust with Ireland. and her people. In Manchester, in Leeds, in Liverpool, in London, the feeling of the English workman towards his Irish companions, which once was sympathetic, has become cold ; it only depends on a few more cases of dynamite to turn it into a feeling of angry hostility that authority will find it very difficult to control. This is a danger of which the Irish themselves must consider the bearings ; but for the Government and the people of England, there is but one course open at this moment — to unite to put down, by every means known to a civilized community, the policy of outrage, its authors, and its advocates. — March 16.