The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-11-10

thfa calamity va peculiar. OHConnelt haa
declared that Repeal was the cure Tor l
everything, and Young ireland took him
ct his word. They blew up the 6res OF /
revelation once again, and inspired ~
what was going On 10 France. Ireland Lev
the world know in le4e that ACC, goo patri-
wrongs Of their land. The dsnouement
was strange. Up to this time revolution in
Ireland had been short-lived, but IL had
never been ridiculous. This time it was
. laughable farce. It commenced In pa
triotic songs over ladies pianos, and IL
ended in q scuf1e with the police In . cab
bage garden. The leaders Of that move
ment have long aimee wiped the disgrace
off their escutheoD, and some even have
died bravely for the republic OF America
A more vital consequence was the Degin-
ming of the great emigration, which mas
reduced the Irish population to exactly one
half Their place has been filed in q mea-
sure by farmers from Scotland and Eng
land, and under them tho peasants were
we'll treated indeed, better treated than
Englishmen of the same class. The Ea,
cumbered Estates act also greatly changed
the character Of the country, by saosti-
tlemen, who thought they had nothing to
do in life but ride to
FOX HUNTS
and lose their money at race courses.
Some of the new landowners under this
act were business men, who bought estates
at ten years. purchase in the first confused
workings of the machinery OF the new law:
They proved the hardest landlords, and
evicted their tenants without mercy.
They discovered that four families were
living on land that would only support one
family, and they turned off the others with
out the least scruple, telling them to 60 to
the devil. So these people went to America.
Naturally they came here without feeling
much attachment to the Government that
permitted them to be turned to the hill
side. But the English Ministry had great
opportunity, which they missed. They
might have directed the stream of Irish
emigration to Canada and to Australia !;
they might have offered them free passages
and two hundred acre homesteads. They
then would have made Ireland grateful and
filed the colonies with ardent friends at q
Less expense than the Abyssinian was, and
at q tenth of the sums that were buried in
the mud at Balaklava. 1t is needless to
say that England did no such thing, and
the consequences were that the Irish in
America became fierce enemies, and those
who remained in Ireland formed secret So
cieties and administered their rude ideas of
Justice by means of the pistol and the pike.
The discomfort smoldering in their breasts
burst forth as usual in Ireland in political
agitation, and developed itself in Fenian-
ism. What the Fenians accomplished
amounted to just nothing; to attacks upon
q few handfulls Of police to bursting open
walls of prison houses to infant schoolboy
spite, smashing furniture to annoy the
pedagogue. The English were determined
that the Irish should have as little to COM
plain of as possible, and when Gladstone
became Premier az the inaugurator of
IRISH REFORM,
he was seconded by an immense majority
His first blow was ct what he termed the
Upas tree of Ireland, the Protestant ascen-
country without taunting Professionalism
generally, however, but certainly the effect
of the charge has not been SO great as the
believers in Gladstone anticipated. The
great evil lies in the land question. 1t was
the secret splinters in the wound, an6
Gladstone's measure, passed three years
ago, was the most healing measure ever
adopted, and one for which English and
Scottish farmers have pleaded in vain
But the Irish are not satisfied. They want
home-rule. The best argument against
this is, that no Irish Parliament would
have passed that land act under any cir.
cumstancos. They would not have re-
lieved the peasant until Doomsday, late in
the afternoon, and then not if they could
help it. The only result of home-rule
would be to compel the Protestants to va
cate their property in the Southern coun-
ties. And if Protestant ascendency was
evil, surely Catholic ascendency would be
more 80. In an Irish Parliament the Pro
testants would be outnumbered three to
one, and they would no more endure to be
governed by Catholics in Dublin than New.
England would endure to be governed by g
Catholic Government in Richmond. The
lecturer then entered into some considera-
tons on the tenure of land. and the injus-
tice of giving to any one the power o,
eviction, stating that though the landlord
was obliged to pay the tenant five
, years. rent if he evicted, yet the Irish were
80 attached to their native hills that they
would rather remain among them than re-
ceive hundred years. rent; and in con,
clusion, he advised both Irish and English
should stand together to obtain their rights