Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-28
spEo1mrN WRONGS 1N mE1ANp.

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We have recently heard people inquire
for particular statements of the wrongs of
Ould Ireland. We are satisfied that the
histories Of Erin that have already been
published, and they are generally approved
by critics of the Irish school, would meet
q ready sale in this section of the country.
Burial is respectfully advised, accord
ingly. A good epitome history of the
Emerald Isle, extended in recital Of, details
only during those periods when the OPP
pressiye lawsLwere originated. or most
rigidly enforced, would be awork of GER
tain popular repute and acceptation. May
this hint go forth.
At this present time we do not know of
any greater service that we can render to the
Fenian cause than by relating some of the
grievances under which Ireland has long
suffered and is now suffering. The pub.
lie mind of this country only needs to be
informed in the premises to be convinced
in judgment, and raised, or confirmed and
enshusiacised in will for the redemption
or disenthrallment of the Land of En-
met. .r. .... .. ...
1t has become a proverb among the
people in this country, that security in
titles to real estate Is the grand basis of
prosperity in any community. In proof
of this come the well known facts of eligi.
Bile sites for commercial cities being aban-
doned for less commanding or agreeably
situated places, by reason of insecure titles.
And the progress OF cities, in every re-
spect of advance, has been intellectually
retarded by unsoundness and insecurity of
landed title. Now, still back of this rea-
son for lack of people prosperity, is a sys-
tenn of rule which practically excludes the
mass of the people from owning the land
at all, or to any profitable extent. Upon
this principle, actual Slavery is a curse /;
but peonage system is worse, so far as this
consideration is concerned, and exclusive
Tor nearly SOY landlordship and tenantry
is superlatively evil. To state the case
directly and sharply: the Irish tenant is
in most instances financially worse of
than were the slaves Of the old South Of
this Union. The landlord. nobleman is
absent; the landlord proper, his fully au-
thorized agent, is on the farm that is let,
knowing every potato vine that is growing
and every blade of grass that is mown; and
the Inherent is mercifully graduated-ac-
cording to the harvest ~yield-up to the
very border of living license TO the poor
husbandmen. This is the system Of affairs
in tenanted Ireland. Note this in pain
full illustration Of England's justice by
this permitted, enforced system: The
first fruits go to the landlord, the Golfers
of the absentee /; and during the famine
years-'46 and '47--three times the amount
Of provision material was exported than
was required or would have been needed
to pl~entifully feed the entire population
twenty times as much was taken from Ire
lands ports in '46, Of grain stutfs and an
imals fatted for food. than was returned
in any compromising form, any equiva-
lent supply for the p~erishing, by the peo-
pie or Government of England, during
both years &c and ~. 1t is n notorious
fact, under this damnable tirst-fruit system
Of landlord draining loads and trains -oi
wheat and barley rolled by the doors Of
starvation. were hurried, with armed
guard, through villages where the famine
dying were to be counted by scores
where their groans troubled the hearts "
Of the soldiery that kept the cargoes Of
provisions from the piHndering hands Of
the perishing ~peasantry! 1t may be fifty
noted here, that though Finland had her
great benevolent meetings for the purpose
OF Ireland's relief in this time Of her awful
distress, the United States donations
were largely in excess of the gifts, Of the
literal bread-delivery of the English. The
fact being that my Lords and Ladies'
pounds and pence were filtered through
the hands of committees composed OF
these same absentee landlords and their
heartless subordinates. Recollect: this
same system prevails in Ireland to-day :
unmitigated to any appreciable degree
from the date of the Famine years. 1t is
not for US nov to inquire what belongs of
rightly attributed blame to the system,
and what to the character of the parties
acting under it. The matter Of gist is:
the system should be abolished, even
though it cost the lives of the landlord
p~otentate and his INSCRIPTIONS and SOLE
less agents. Ireland cannot flourish, her
people can never rise in the world, can
never do aught to promote or originate
general prosperity until the landlord sys-
tenn, as now existing, is demolised.
We will go further on this subject to-
morrow.
H.. T---- - III