hank thee, Jew,
for teaching me that word. Those who believe in the security of the
Gladstonian safeguards, and the pacific disposition of the Nationalist
party, will perhaps be able to put a friendly construction on the
passage which begins:--"And it is already settled that no man in
Ireland is to bear a rifle unless he be a soldier of the army of
occupation, which will still be encamped on our soil 'to mak siccare.'
This hateful and degrading prohibition is what no Parnellite can
pretend to consent to for any reasonable or unreasonable fraction of a
period of reasonable finality." Those who believe in the severe
commercial morality and rigid honesty of the authors of the Plan of
Campaign will doubtless find their favourable opinion confirmed by the
succeeding remarkable complaint. "And the Irish Legislature--would it
not be better policy now to refuse to regard it as a Parliament and to
refuse to call it so?--is forbidden to take away any person's property
except by process of law, in accordance with settled principles and
precedents. There's trouble here." There is indeed trouble here. An
Irish Parliament which could not "take away any person's property
except by process of law" would be shorn of its principal functions,
would fail to justify its existence, would fall immeasurably short of
the popular expectation, would have, in fact, no earthly _raison d'
etre_. An Irish Parliament without power to take from him that hath,
and give unto him that hath not, would be without functions, and the
foinest pisintry in the wuruld would instantly rebel against such a
nonentity. The farmers remember the oft-repeated statements of Mr.
Timothy Healy to the effect that "landlordism is the prop of the
British Government, and it is that we want to kick away." And the
benefit accruing from this vigorous action was by the same eloquent
patriot very plainly stated. "The people of this country ought never
to be satisfied so long as a single penny of rent is paid for a sod of
land in the whole of Ireland." And they never will be satisfied, with
or without rent. Their dissatisfaction has enabled Mr. Healy to put
money in his purse. The wail of a great people whose Parliament will
not be allowed to rob from all and sundry is accounted for towards the
close of the article. There will be trouble "as soon as the Dublin
Legislature becomes hard pushed for money, which will be desperately
often from the beginning, as is now plain."

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