How the Fire Is Fanned.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2072, 25 May 1887, Page 2

How the Fire Is Fanned.

This is the sort of pabulum supplied by the purveyors of literature for the Irish. No wonder that ignorant and excitable people, after reading such stuff, resort to dynamite, assassination, and other delectable methods of venting their animosity. The extract is from the “ United Irishman”; — We have repeatedly stated in this paper our unalterable conviction that the English are a nation of scoundrels —the most unprincipled, dishonest and rapacious of the human race. N<> private assassination is too cruel, no public massacre too widespread, for this nation of incorrigible miscreants. This we deem it our duty to repeat at every possible opportunity. An ignorance or forgetfulness of this truth has led to all the disasters of Ireland. Until it is thoroughly understood until Irishmen take it thoroughly to heart -uniil it becomes the primal article in the political creed of the Irish nation —the independence ofthe Irish nation is wholly impossible. ihe freedom of Ireland is incompatible with a good opinion of Englishmen. Their lower classes are brutes, their middle classes are swind - lers, their aristocracy are foul, loathsome aud degraded blackguards. If the Irish people thoroughly understood the profound depravity and, abominable wickedness of the English character they would never expect from Parliamentary agitation the concessions which guilty oppression will yield only to panic terror. Nothing will teach honesty to a nation of swindlers except abject fear of a violent, bloody, and immediate death."