The workingman's advocate., 1869-11-27

members of the government, there cannot,
think, be any doubt uf this. Besides all this
demonstrating aud fierce talking will make the
work Of the government difficult in deal
ing with the tenure Of land in Ireland. | ad-
nit that the Irish people have claim on the
government for the release Of :hese men, as the
admission Of pas. mis- government, proved ad-
4 ditiOnally by present sweeping concessions,
furnishes a certain justi6c alton of resistance to
/ Law, and IN this light there il reason in the
{ demand for an amnesty; but it certaiGly is on
( ly 10 the interest Uf the men themselves, it
! ought 10 be made in a different time and
Z spirit
Il TIE battle on the L.nd Tenure question
grows moIe arm. Great meetings are held in
Ireland, and the demand made has t,ken def
f. Dite shape. Fixity Of tenure with a septennial
. valuation no evic ion but for non-payment Of
reut. believe that the Irish people will rally
for this almost to a man. They have as it were
got flag and = batIle-crY, and YOU may be-
\ eve me when / say that If they do not get
Something approaching pretty nearly what
thev ask for, the struggle will be a very bitter
one, and no settlement that will make the lives
Of he landlord will be Effected IL is a pity
that the English press is not Keeping the sub
lect in its true light before the English people
The idea cultivated here is that the Iri-h are
always looking for something -xtravAgant and
unreazIble and the press il nearly alto
gether on the side Of property o~ners, this
prevents the English people, except on very
rare occ lsiOns, giving that help TO their Irish |
brethren which they would most assuredly
give them it they understood their position bet |
Ter. Still have some hope that as the discus |
sion goes on, light will penetrate the darkness |
ard justice, or something approaching = it, |
will be done.
What we call the respectable portion Of the |
press here-I mean the papers read by rich |
people-seem really in state of bewderment
to what will come to pass in England now
that the working peoele have go. possession of
the franchise They Try no, to appear alarmed,
but their ears c,nuot lie hidden. The Times
is dong all it can to alarm the rich, by prepar-
ing carefully and issuing ISLANDERS of the work
ing people. 1t invented aud circulated = story
about the Basle Congress, and when Mr. Ap-
pegarth c0ntrAdicted il, refused insert his
letter. It wanted the Ii. t. ciTcul .te uncon-
tradicteG, and nov the Saturday Review has
taken up the matter and tells its readers verv
deliberately that "ihe workingmen assembled
at BaSe, not excepting the English delegates,
pledged themselves to perpetual hostility
against the middle classes, whom they hate,
not only because they employers OF labor,
talsehood is inveuted and sent round, gruwing
a. it goes, unIil it becomes fx-d III history AS
ind sputable The Times mas a good deal 10
answer for on this he d
curious sign of the times may be seen in .
an article in the Pail Mall G. .zet'e Of October ,
the % J, in which the writer in a most lab red ]
and earnest manner counsels a lesgu- between :
the meu cf properly and the OF brains. tor I
the purpose of ketpi g the prizes Of the State |
to themselves H. seems t. tunk that if such
a compact could be formed, the mere yorker
whose hands are too hard and not quite delicate
enough t. dip into the national purse, might be
kp pt IN his prop place but he forgets Ih It il !
would be an, thing but safe to supply a
motive "a this for political reasons to the gen
eral public. l have no doub however. that
We stall night our political blttles in Old E1g- [
tui on ground 80 mean aui mercenny as
this, aud | only mention the mater that you :
nav D drrstnd what A bmudjIed state thea
upper and middle class mind OF the country j.
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w. L.. J.