The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21 00:00:00

PRINCE BISMARCK and the ENGLISH

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PROTESTANTS.
The following is the reply sent by Prince Bismarck
to the address presented to him by Mr. Arthur Kin-
naird, M.P., on the expulsion of the Jesuits
germ, sept.
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To THE IluN. ARTHUR KINNAIRD,
" Mold warmly do I thank 3 ou and the gentlemen who '
were oyaignattiries of the address you were good enough to
present to me for this encouraging mark of approval. Your
communication, Sir, possesses a greater value coining from
a country which Flurope has learnt for centutiee to
regal,' as the bulwark Of civil and religious linerty.
Rightly does the address estimate the difficulties of
the strsggle which has been forced upon us, contrary
both to tne desire and expectation of the German Govern-
ments, It would be in 11411 t task for the state to preserve
peace and freedom of com.clence even were it not
made more difficult by the misses of legitimate authority
and by the artificial disturbance of the minds of believers
I rejoice that I agree with you on the fundamental
principle that in a we lloretered conmoinity every per-
son and every creed should enjoy that measure of
liberty which Is compatible both with the freedom of
the remainder and alas with the independence and
safety of the country. 0,11 will protect the German Empire
in the erugale for this principle even against those enemies
who tale, ly use Ills Holy nanio as a pretext for their hosti•
lite tea:stoat onr internal peace; but It wi:l be a source if
re joh•ing to every one of my countrymen that in this contest
Germany has met with the approval of to numerous and in-
fluential a body of Englishmen.
'1 beg you. Sir, meet warmly to thank your co.signataries,
and to assure them of my highest consideration.
"BISMARCK.
"MANFRED."

'mai be found to be most satisfactory. If it were !memory
for the proper and uniform won king ol the Act theta decla &-
tory Act should he passed by the Legislature. that cour.e 0u6..t
to be adopted: hut lie did not this k !each action will be ie-
(mired, for ho believed it the law was accepted in the spirit 111
which it woe passed, it would be found that the landlordsloat
litths on the one hand, that tie landlord wool the debarred of
any right before claimed which just men would have enforced
in times past, and that though tenants have greater semi-
rity thy will not, on their part, claim more than they lam
been secostomed to in times past. If the law were received
as it might to be—'rankle—by the landlords, and in the
same spirit as the teitankright and goodwill had been ac-
cepted and worked on such mangea as the Duke of Alter.
Corals, the Marquis of D....hire's, and on this It enebtort
eetate (applause) for tlnies past, and if, on the other hand,
tenants claimed nothing more than they had been accus-
tomed to, and which the law means them to Lave—if they
did not allow themselves to lie Iva astray by thnAe who ouily
sought to create ontentiou, and if the two parties stood
firmly and fairly on their own ground, without encroachment
—all would be right."
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Lord Lisgar then referred to the question of emigra-
tion. Ile did not believe that the Land Act would I
Aleut emigration one way or the other :
" Ile young, dram, and hopeful would naturally go 1
abroad with the view of bettermg their condition, while
those who were couteuted with their ciuditiou In Ireland
wonld remain, as they had dnee in times past. What would l
natty stay the tide of emit:ration was the gradual enfold.- i
tion of the wngos and advantages enjoyed in Ireland to the
w,ifes and advantages euj o ett In Canada and the United ,
states. They were now nearly on • par, for he saw in a
Tramatiamic paper that the farmers were holding out ,
against giving th ir labourers 51. a day, and be knew that no
man could be got to mow hay for lees than 4s • day, at
Ilaillehorough, lie also knew that as. a day here were worth
inure thou 51 a cloy there. It woo idle to talk of depopula.
tloo of the country, or of one class forcing another to emi-
grate. Why he ventured to say th it if they had a prise pro-
posed for landlords who wished that people shoultt emigrate.
and that wages should he auguieuted, the judlrs would
. have a precious small class to adjudicate upon. It
was the interest of every landlord that wages should net
rise very high, and therefore it was their interest so far that
emigration should not he pushed forward. It was also idle
to speak of depopulation of the ,country in that sense, or to
say that the landlords and tenant fernier* whined to sire the
people leave the country. Only them leave Ireland who
think they have a better opening in those other countries
than MO lie found in this. The idea of supposing that it is
in the power of any man or any set of melt materially to
alter the condition of %pi:A:More, Of to alter the state of
tl.o unai.ets, N.l mid of the wildeet WO most iniagitiarY
that c•allil be laid ,le ,en. What is happening in Ireland now
was the converse of what happened at the close of last cen-
tury and the hegiuning of the present. At that time there
was a very high price on grant, and the wines of cattle
were low, for the reason that steam m.vigation had not
Ithen GnILO sat', ini'lin, and them wore not the Caine foe:.
Miea for tiansporti, g cattle to Englatid. The grain,
how, nor, was high in price, and was easily tranw.
Iporte I. The consequence wee that a goat deal of laud
was broken up, and, with the great sehdiviiion of
farnis, the population was greatly inereneed. Now, however
the conditl.lllB were all altered. The cattle were easily trans-
ported to the English market, while the openieg of the E..g,l:h
market 10th, grain of the whole world bed reduced its price.
There was no means, however, of keeping down the
price of cattle, and, consequently, It was much more profit.
elite to have cattle than graiu in this country. The
farmer bought out his neighbour because he warded to
Miro n larger farm. It was uot that the landlord wished to
torn the truant out, and the man who WWI bought out went
willinuly and contentedly away with the tummy he got to seek
his fortune elsewhere. That was what was going on at pre-
sent, and blame c•mld not be laid at the door of any chine .
It was even beyond the power of legislation, for if legisla-
tion were inv. .kid It would only evoduce. as in many other
MA nrecisely the opposite results to those which it was
. called in to effeot. lie trusted the farmers in Ireland would
. not seek relief ill any measure of legislation to further their
! efforts, but would depend on their own exertion, and they
I would remember what was as wise counsel as was ever given
7 to a nation—the counsel of the merchants of France to the
I greatest Minister of the day, who wanted to know what he
- could do for them—' Let us alone.' So it WAS with the
, traders, or farmer., or fishermen who wore now making an
f outcry in Ireland ; the best thing the Government could do
) was to let to, in alone—give them a fair field and lair play,
s and leave them to their own ingenuity and their own isgerts.
- (Loud applause)."