THE IRISH PRESS FAVOUR THE OBSTRUCTION POLICY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 233, 19 October 1877, Page 15

THE IRISH PRESS FAVOUR THE OBSTRUCTION POLICY.

The sentiment of the people of Ireland will, we think, be found in favour of the Obstruction policy of Messrs. Parnell and Biggar ; at any rate, if not in complete harmony with it, the condemnation will be very mild. The '< Castle" papers in Ireland, of course all condemn the policy ; but the Irish papers of all shades, Radical, Home-Rule, and Conservative (well represented by The Irishman, Tlte Nation, and The Freeman's Journal), are a unit in favour of Obstruction. Tfie Nation, says :—: — +t, * " A11 7 h J on l our an <* gratitude are due to the gallant band who fought that good fight . . While, only a few men are engafed m it, and while Mr Butt is hurling reproofs and condemnations upon them, it is, in some measure, open to Englishmen to say that they are only a .little clique, and that their policy is a craze. But let a considerable proportion of the Irish party join in an obstructive policy, and its true nature and meaning will at once be not only reco«niized but respected It will then be raised to the dignity of a national pro' test, and will acquire from that circumstance immense moral right 7A c , T !L ishilM ' l > tlle organ of the Fenian sentiment, says :— • iT r r 1 s de ««nciation of the Irish members will cause profound pain throughout Ireland. He might have acted otherwise than supporting a Government which has contemptuously trampled under foot every one of his Irish Bills. The latest instance of Government obstruction, the defeat of his University Bill, ought to have taught him to feel no pity for the Tones, any more than for the ' dignity' of a House which has no sympathy for this country. The manly, independant conduct of Captain Nolan, an officer in the Queen's service, will command the admiration of his country." The Freeman?* Jmmial, the organ of Conservative national opinion widely read by the Catholic clergy and gentry of Ireland, says :- ™a -ii T? *? W ™ that hard as the ministerialists strove, and will strive, to justify themselves on the plea of resistance to wilful obstruction, those proceedings of Tuesday night and Wednesday were so distinctly apart from a systematized obstructive policy, or its merits, that its moving spirit* were in reality English Liberals, although they had the weakness to leave the burden of defending principles they J ad ° n ™ c ,i ated oV? 6 shouMers of a few Irish members made of steincr stuff. Englishmen, in their more generous moments, will, we are pretty sure, remember with a blush some of the clumsy weapons of personal virulence that were brought to bear to strike down foes who were, at all events, few and courageous ones." The .Flag of Ireland, an extreme revolutionary paper, says :— m i~h*A ? ? as , done sometbin g> conciliation nothing. Both Mr R»t£ fi gre ? C e ft •** le f * Some I>eo * )le think so - At ail events, r£»u it w, U^ S party - would of course mean its dissolution, a deiSnv, ft ™ Obst ™ ct . ioili «ts and non-Obstructionists will alike deplore. Ihe Obstructionists arc the skirmishers of the Home Rome ££• w ai T nC °f Sa • y *" Ot ?? der tbo irainc di*to control of their leader, but yet render inestimable service to his cause. It would, therefore, be a pity that such a leader and such followers should be