Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 14, 2 January 1891, Page 5

Dublin Notes.

(From the National Papers.) mmssm vu xaris teat M. De Pressense, editor-in-chief of thp 'n.r,,,,. S» excurstn of ,f P R U .f y tOar ° £ inveßti g at^n as compared wit

■§§■■ %/K E£ and £t?bSs z^^t^^^ as hrv:a h er l ttw i /i^ d a r mm h P^%rr; o d . them ' and J Bhoaid BteHtS^hi'l f'f oallyo ally fi » ne> iD / leW ° f ' he noto "°™ that every R i V i QUee ° 88 l 0l 0W n f0 f NeW York was ran Backed8 acked by detecan Mr O'Hd n """' ° Mtle ™ 8 Well advißtd that Mr - »"^ an. Mr O Buen meant to go, and were on their guard. Id B*ron warrant 1 " Thej bad thelr ammumt lO n ready/ A warrant was obtained oo a sworn infoimation that there wmi reasonable belief (for once a true stntemeni) that they w^ re fhtm d,° b 2 ?« hh CC ° antry H' the detCCtiVe BhadoW9 hov « ed «^d them oight and day ready to pounce at the first symptom of departare. Apart frum this al.ogether. Mr. P. O'Brien, &.P., W a ß arrested T)?il n n r haye f ad °P ted th(> same course in regard to Messrs. d ai M?r C ,; lf nec fßSa^?f BSa^ ? The Castle was outwi.ted aad de&a.ed. Mr. Golfour m^tkes himself rlnculous by the effort to cover up the de<cU with incredible falsehood. We r'ad that two Mr Q.ad.tone has concludtd his arduous campaign in Midlothian The most varied and wondtrful acbiev, me..t he has yet accomplished' U, » P k !.-? the J GoverDm e n «' policy untouched, he toacned ootbine hat he did not demolish. He effectually Blle nced the parrot cry o! SETS 3SZ ml,!m 1 ,! Ji^i^s? til r*ißMr * iBM thtt c?; » P h? n ", ?W? W B ' andfi the caße - and how 19 Justice to be doneTand who are the true authors of the Plan of Campaign (hear, hear) ? I mii e ,J y p? e emr l n 6 aUth ° r8 ° f the I>laD ° f <S"»V"gQ aJe t£ who made the Flan of Campaign m Ireland an absolute ntceseity (cheaT.) These are the members of the present Government and the majS n tho present Parliament. How do I make good what I«, 1886 -here was a gre*. failure in the Iribh crops. The greatest dmpav'tneir"; nl; V? kn ° Wn that the pe °P le -uld o^u abl e -o Klf h t G " verDmt ' nt issuea a c -mmission to inquire Biohmnni P h° P I **' reD ' B ° T " Ot ' With the Du^ of Richmond at their head, I think. And what wa,, said by ns and by I r h members? Wo saui ■ How are people to live whfle the com 7 nms.on is inquiring ? If y ,, u your elves admit that there may be ao ncapac-.y of the Iri.h p. Op l e tr pay ,heir rents why don't you make some temporary proven to preveut the exaction of rent until the truth can be ascertained .' Not tho alights attentioq was paid to

this demand. Mr. Parnell brought in a Bill to make some provision of that kind. The Bill was thrown out upon the second reading. We a<ked (he Government to produce a Bill of their own. They refused, and what was the consequence f The people were unable to pay their rent«. It wai outrageous that they should be made to starve, and the Nationalist leaders brought in the Plan of Campaign. Well, gentlemen, I say this. The proof is followed up in this wav that when the commission had reported in month of May or June, 1887, then the Government, when it was too late, acknowledged the necessity, and brought in a bill for the further reduction of the rents. But in the meantime the peiple could not starve, and the Plan of Campaign was simply a device to prevent them from starving." The authors and advocates of the Plan of Campaign desires no nobler justification, no higher praise. It was theirs in a deadly m'sis of their country's fate to save the people from s'arvation. With such a service as this to show, they may set detraction at defiance. The coercionists and the cranks combine in deploring the inadequacy of the Home Rule programme of Mr. Gladstone to satisfy the immortal yearnings and aspirations of the Irish people for a National freedom. They denounce the degenerate Nationalist of today for condescending to accept it. The patriots of '§8, the patriots of '48, we are assured, would turn from such proposals with scorn, and woold inflnately prefer the perpetual coercion which the Tories are kind enough to provide for the country. It Is curious how popular dead Irish patriots are with the coercionists, and the accuracy with which they can divine what their action would be in any given contingency.

But Mr. Gladstone has delivered a staggerer to the cranks and Coercionists combined from which even their audacity will not easily recover. He quoten against them no less an authority than Thomas Davis himself. He proves that his Home Rule was the Home Rule of Davis's aspirations.—" I do not seek," wrote Davis in the letter to the Duke of Wellington which Mr. Gladstone quoted— " Ido not ■eek the raw repeal of the Act of Union. I want you to retain the Impel ial Parliament, with its Imperial powers. I ask you to disencumber it of those things which exhaust its patience and embarrass its attention. I ask you to give to Ireland a local legislature. It is not impossible to combine an Irish legislature for local purposes with the integrity and foreign importance of the Empire. A local Parliament granted soon, and in a kindly and candid spirit, would be fairly accepted, and would conciliate that large and varied body which, from want of wisdom or w?nt of patriotism or ambition, are intolerant of having their local laws made and their local offices filled by Englishmen." Davis was not merely the first of Irish poets. He was the purest, the greatest, the most gifted of Irish patriots. There never was an Irishman who so concentrated on himself the affection, the respect, the confidence, the admiration of the generation in which he lived, and of posterity. All true Irishmen— the most moderate and the most extreme— speak of Davis with a reverence that comes nigh to adoration. The Home Rule that was good eoough for Davis is good enough for tbe Irish Nationalists of to-day. Ireland wants no more than Davis claimed for her.

Three cheers, and three times three, fur the firemen and sailors, staunch men and true, who taught the exterminators and their backers in the Cork Steampacket Company a sharp lesson, and a wholesome one. These are the men worth working and fighting for. The story is very short. A drove of Emergency cattle were with great difficulty got aboard the steamer at Cork by Mr. Maurice Beattie and »hree amateur cattle-drivers, the regular hands litera ly refusing to so much as touch them with a forty foot pole. But their troubles only began when they goton'deck. The firemen and sailors forthwith deserted their posts and refused to stir hand or foot to work the vessel until the horned Jonahs were thrown overboard. " They would «ot," they declared, " encourage wrong to their country." Soft wordß »n i hard words were tried on them in vain. '• You will bring poverty on yourpelves/' said the benevolent Beattie. •• We are well used to it and not afraid." paid the undaunted men. Finally, they triumphed, as resolute combination always triumphs. The cattle were driven off the deck of the vessel with even more difficulty than they were driven on. There the matter ends for the present If the Cork Steam Packet Company are well advised, they will let it end there. They have already s*d experience of the result of attempting to convert their line into a floating Emergency Association. As to tbe resolute men, they have but to stand firm and have no fear. The whole country is at their back.