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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 116, 7 April 1887, Page 2

Oh, the black ingratitude of those ■Irish ! The good Tories of England — God bless ye merrie s gentlemenhave just brought up another Coercion Act (making abdut the fiftieth in the last fifty years, one for every year of Victeria's reign^ a beautiful Coercion Act, and still these Irish are not happy. For the last hundred yeats. or so, they have experienced some of the most famous famines oa record; they have been evicted, their dwellings burnt; they have been imprisoned, transported, shot, and hanged; everything in short that beneficent governments could do to amuse and excite them has been tried, and even now they do not lov.e England's government of Ireland! What do they want? They cry for land, without, which they cannot live. But should the Irish be permitted to live at all, considering the annoyance they are to the English, who as we all know, are the only people authorised by Heaven to exist ? And why can these Irish want to moss about with a lot of filthy soil, dirtying their hands and clothes'? Why cannot every Iririnnau mike himself a lawyer, or a ptiest, or a politician ?— nice clean professions which enable a man to keep' his coat on, find his hands and . soul as pure as unsullied snow. These Irish with their land cry are as ill-bred as those French J revolutionists who called out for bread when they might just as well have eaten buns. Depends upon it diet ia at the bottom of - this Irish questions The Irish, as every chaw bacons inEnglish shires tell yous positively refuse to eat anything but potatoes— sometimes they are too -obstinate ta eat these^ and die of starvation. Now the potatoe is a heating, inflammatory,, mutiny-disposing piece of food, and it makes these Irish proud, stiff-necked,, and rebellious. • Let England, therefore, pass another Coercion Aefc, inak- , ing it punishable with death for any Irishman to eat a potatoe, and compelling them by police supervision to a diet of roast beef >' venison^ plumpudding, and charlotte n/sse, and I engage, in six mouths, every Irishman would be quiet— and buried< Many sillier and few simpler schemes for the pacification; of Ireland have been proposed. There is another method. I claim ho originality for it, because many quite persons have fre- .