The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-29

ENGLAND AND IRELAND.
,,,,c Emancipation and the Con.
C''DO%SIi tIon Of Land Tenure.

c'''0'SdiI alton Of Land Tenure.
an vRorpE's LAST LECTURE.
re- ' lanes Anthony FrOudo, the Eng
w ,' s1 delivered the liflh and las
- ls s,ic' oi lectures on "The Relations
= , d: s, England and Ireland" at Asso
,,,Ss llsIl, last evening
ai W. 1.ssn by speaking Of the contiDu
hs s.SSes n The social and political lltt
y ;ii, sI each change no better thar
o ns, Tsnt before, and asked what wa
ao ~, viii Ireland. 1reland's real enc
ia' ~, II" The landlord. An EngliShman Oh
0! !, W." would buy an estate, would
's'Snsb large farms, build barns, cattle
, ,.J. mi his capital into tho ground
i i.,ir he water, plant and manure, Find:
,l,' Va , property the first year Uttered
w D n.bDers he would clear them away.
s w. Ne psupcrs were human beings, and
o '., .bot landlords or bailIfs on sight.
w G,cb Ireland remained after the union
r, MN n,In points have to be considered
r ,s was, first, tho character ofthe Irish
,. mi, Their trials were as much from
r instances surrounding them as from
lin Of their own. They had been train
N. I'm A system which was compounded Of
,-,, n and injustice. The law had beer
NJ. ,,i,e1emy, therefore they were lawless.
I TSey gained nothing from being indus
,-09,' therefore they were idle. Time
sIT With a better education and better
l1iuistration Of law, could remedy the
~ that was so dCep.rooted.
SeIt smOro effective police was want.
i The grand rudimGntary elements Of
TrliZtion arc incompatible with the
nm and pistol. Again, the whole con.
irion Of The Irish tenure law had TO be-
,ryi,ed, and lastly, there was tho relig.
sg difficulty. Ireland was in the Eng.
h dOmlnl0ns, and yet she held to the
Poye,oi Rome. The Pope had relieved
5.fl Of their allegiance to England, and
Me Irish felt that their duty was to the
Pore, and not to the English sovereign.
us The English sovereign to stand by
,ol lei the enemy walk over the kingdom
5,tspse It chose to clothe itself in the
Mantle Of religion? Itwould DO much as
Prince Bismarck should be called upon
% let the Jesuits control the State pol
M Of Germany. With the accession oil
Ne house of Hanover the Roman Church
t9.Dged its tactics.
Wien tho dangers Of society were no
.ager from religion, the first desire OF
tie EDClish statesman was to remedy the
At traces Of disability and to place the
Catholics in all respects on an equality
9Th other subjects. But for the unity
d lrishmen in the Rebellion Of 1913 Cath0.
&c emancipation would have formed one
d Tho chief conditions Of the active
.niOu.
This was the chief political question
'lAt came to the front. 1t was carried
iyDAniel 0Connell, and il Daniel o. Con.
atl had never been born, circumstances
vouIl have compelled this act of jus.
ice
Two measures were passed after the
reign Of O'Connell, but they were the
NGEOf Sir Robert Peel and the English
Dbers's BY the first oil the .wo the Eng.
Ish peasantry Of Ireland were armed,
sad The well,known Irish police, COM
pselOi the same clements as the widest
Ftnsn mob, controlled the country. The
rH'ire nation was mGtamorphosed, and
% our whole dOmiuiOns there Is not a
iice more trustworthy nor more efficient.
That was one thing; another more i'm
P)'tant measure was that education, I'm.
scarian in character, was provided in
''ery corner OF the country, opening to
he poorest its advantages, and tree alike
70 The Catholic and the Protestant.
The sOrest difficulty that remained un-
iouched was the system OF landed tcnures.
A third part Of the Irish soil was still
oEaed BY abSenteeS, half OF the rest be-
o1ged to needy, thriItlCss gentlemen,
'l'se estates were mOrtgaged up to the
onn, In 1852 Ireland had 100000 in.
S'Oliants; in 1916 the 100000 had be.
,one 100000.
Thus ii was when the famine came to
i'eIand, through the failure OF the potato
''op. A quarter OF n million OF people,
81 least perished from natural hunger
notwithstanding the help sent to them
'mnall countries. : '
The famine produced one or two i'm
pofta1t results. The English Parliament
PSsei laws TO tho end that the Irish land
gould support lrishmen, and that every
4''t'ct should be furnished ut least with
"Vd The exodus was the most importat
2a%quenee. Between four and five mil.
1oHs 10 all must have migrated.
Meanwhile, In ireland itself there wAs
! great social revolution. The larger
talIoFGS had learned their lesson at last,
framed agents took the place OF the mid.
.tlgn; rents were cut down and wages
hIed to twice what they were before
'al hundreds and thousands Of dollart
y ~ COW expended In improvements in
,aecOuntrH In the great baronics the
Ie1sa1t is far better oil than the English
EIlcuItursl laborer.
= lie Rebellion Of 1913 collapsed, as diC
ttnisaism, which followed later. l dc
ao' blame the Irish people for wishing tc
re Their country free, but l do blame
~. aSa for conducting themselves like
The present system of ma
GoaaI education in Ireland is equal L
1 W which exists in the British Empire
'as lsSrt Of many complaints of the trisl
%oG'e lies in tho land; land is the lilo Of
rs ltlsh Agriculture is their only in
. :,tt many Of the peasantry have beer
, .y by rich landlords, and it Is THU
, EapSef that has smitten the most beau
~, land in tho world. The Irish Land
n. passed three years ago, is the most
"'A"ng measure for Ireland.
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