DISORDERS IN IRELAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 24, 3 May 1916, Page 4

DISORDERS IN IRELAND.

Unhappy Ireland has had her full measure of tragic episodes of the kind she is now going through says a Christehurch Press writer. The Fenian conspiracy, though it gave rise to serious disorders, never readied ihe dignity of a rebellion, but the affair of 1848 might easily have developed into a graver revolt. Indeed, if Mitchell had been free to organise that dreadful business the task of the authorities would have been far more difficult and the sufferings or Ireland would have been , greatly intensified. Xo doubt it is in the rebellion of 1848 rather than in earlier affairs that the present generation of rebels finds inspiration, because the sons of the men who suffered in '4B are not likely to have forgotten the stories their fathers told of the sad days. The leaders of the present revolt, however, are not men of the character of Smith O'Brien and his friends. They belong rather to the line of those who broke away from O'Connell and who later ousted Parnell from the control of the Plan of .Campaign. They are of the Fenian type of irreconcilable, and it is not very many years, since they were the ringleaders of the agrarian outrages. There is nothing romantic in their movement, though sentiment unquestionably accounts for the magnitude of the following they can command when rebellion is being talked.