New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-26

known nlsn Fep~an mob controlled the country. Tho
entire nation metamorhOso nnu ~ 4 t m,,o w
minons there is not force more Trustworthy nor mOre
efficient. .,o., ,.uo ionor,or, ,Oooaura
- ~ % eduratlop unsectarian In chnTacter was pro-
v,ed in every corner OF the country, opening to the
poorest its adyantag :, and roe ake 20 ne Ca'1nnS
rds are brought up together and learn even one thing
that they made Of common hesn that tne Po9P n
one another, the priests do not Ike the
arrangement; They consider their young ,s Peo
They wish to retain the control Of their education II
they can aud would divide the sheep from the goats on
this side OF the day Of Judgment daughter and ap,
pause Some Of English philosophers arc SO iona
OF liberty, OF so fond OF priests that tney are 20
himself tnat Voltair' Dderot aud others were eau,
Gated by the Jesuits, aud when the euucanoh oi
atheist daughter aud alpiauSel Inc worm mas hnu
enough OF sectafan bigory No wise statesman wishes
TO Indulge its continuance foster If he help IT,
OF foster thing that divides any nation INTO hOse
camps upon question about which OF us knows as
much as another, aud all know next 10 hothlhs'
tI2ughter.l
IRISH LAND TENURE AND IT'S EFFECTS.
These two measures, the establishment OF tho Irish
police and the establishment OF Irish national education
have in every proved admirable, but the soresV u
Aculty that remained untouched was the system OF
landed tenures third part Of the Irish soil was st
owned by absentee half of the rest belonged TO needy
thriftess gentlemen, whose estates wore uP
IN tho br without shilling TO spend onfarin Ouungs
In 1Ts9 Ireland had 5000 900 inhabltans In 1916 the
5000 900 had become 100000 Inc Cathono yhtS ier
Encouraged early marriages among the people III VLueI
10 promote morality aud virtue, and when any yOunE
lad and fell in love ana we're married they were
assignrd an acre or two OF irrecainlabe bog Into e
bog they put few potatoes anu began narile9 ny,
not having five pounds In tbelr pSeke'Si amu yTD
duced dozen children with the most pious confidence
that God Almighty had sent them ana t I Coz 900
Intensely aecuonate. Fathers, mothers ana children
cling TO the spot where they were born ana l,,
The parents at the timo OF the marriage cut
the acre of their holding into half dozen DIVISIONS,
where formerly then hardly land enongh 10 produce
for their families the loving and eternal potato ana so IL
went on OF the nine millions II was reckOneu tneIe
were at least two millions of beggais creatures aoso-
utely idle wandering cabin to cabin through tho
land asking charity Tor the love Of God ana never
ing III vain. It is wonderful commentary on CanohU
| emancipation and the government 0f lreiahu ny
Thus il was when the famine came 70 ireland. note
OF warning been sounded by CobDett long DelOe'
He had shown the folly OF peoples lepenGlhg upon
precarious root FOR their s1hslence put no Que
| listened 10 CObDett-nOb even O'COnne HIS gl0rO V
theme the multiplication OF the lrlsh peops. ne
produced his andes oTatorlcai eecIs WnGn no AZ
| men England was learning That tue chef business
hest Government hat most let every alone. The
irish landlords and the IRISH peasants were considered
no business Of Ministers Pariaments to interfere with
them. Thus aud more the people were constantly
deprived OF the main staple OF their subsistence 100
much credit cannot be allowed to the
patience with which the IRISH bore up throasl!
those dreadful years Tic Irish peasanry from our
! first acquaintance with tnem; have shown capaeiy
and high example Of the silent endurance s GI their
methods when they We're distinctly lraeeaIle as II
| Injustice,
| laid upon them by an insorutable Providence
| AGoNIEs or THE FAMINE.
When that famine came they lay down and died IN
complaining quarter Of O million, at least persisted
from natural hunger Ships were sent around the Hsh
coast by the English Administration to distribute corl
10 the starving people. The Parliament voted ten mil
lions Of money and employed agents 70 use IL ~ that
desc ated land Eight millions OF II were embezzied by
was intended; but that not England,s fault Enor
| NOUS sums were collected and dispensed nom
| Heir luxUries to supply food 70 their starving
fellow-subiccts America sent her magnificent e0Dtti
bntinug and the world smitten with sympathy. At
length the plague stayed; II was not stayed unt
every peasant cottage IA the land lad been earcAel
by uuspeakahle agOnies. AS usual in this world the
blow had fallen aud reduced ,, those o VINO Gs
served least TO suffer The political ee9noui ~
be better instructed IN these matters OF population.
when the political economist falls back upon Dean
swift the suggestion would have been that the Catholics
| Should have Killed The babies ana eaten thein Long
seo famine worse than that which desOlatcd Ireland
oce fe on Palestine and the Hebrew king fell on his
face IN sackClOth and said: have snned anu zone
! evil, but these sheep, what have they donef let
! them depert and be laid me and my
I fathers bouEo and not on my people That
viii say 10 more OF the famine, have 70 speak here
Of the consequences, the profoundly Sghncaht c9hse
Quences resulting nom the same, ana l"lH iaho tLetl
Up one by Grattan was TO have created mn,
lenum. aud all OF ms endeavofs III lat way resuiie
In corruption ana apprehension, Out OF when
grew tho Rebellion of 49, Catholic emancipation
to have brought IN the mlleniGm, 9qV INC mo ~,
IN another shape OConneIl sald tne 0ry tn-ne
TO mend matters in tue country was repeal Inc young
/ lrplQ
them iook OConne at his word and thought repeal was
lie remedy. aud the revolutionary fires Of rs
men were prepared to strike blow for free
dom. / was myself in ireland at that time,
thought the day OF judgment was come at last for
unjust authority considered, as men OF 80 years OF
age are sometimes apt 70 do that IT was simple tlng
10 overthrow social system and substitute better one
for it, had gone over TO see what the irish WOuld
DO cannot say lhat expected very hrSn ron
had learned already that noise and action were usu-
ally in an inverse ratio cannot say thaE
en- ION
was put down by handful OF Irish police, and the civil
lzaton and ancient gorles OF Gland suffered an *
nominious defeat, aud that was all
Was 1t for want OF cOuragei No one who knows the
iIcsdom That vanished before the appearance OF po-
cemans musket. Let that insurrecton perish out 81
Inc stains iron their own escutcheons some OF them
here gaining glory under me american nag, Inc
ment the Landlords Parliament, resolved al once tbat
the h land should 30 rent bSd 20 ne
into landlords pocket but INTO every mans st0nacn
and that should be at least supplied with lood
Amounted at that time 10 conilscauon The sqlres aud
spendthnfts who had encountered their estates were
ruined; delicate ladies brought up with al the injuries
life turned ou to battle In the ranks OF labor LOT
WAS staying for year Of the famine in Irish
house, aud was invited TO banquet IN The Pats IEo
scotcninan who had come over to ireland
TO make his fortune by sheep farming.
here there may be one but certainly not two who sup
pose that they into the world for any other pur-
their money in horse races. They will ind some day
that not the purpose for which they were sent into
the world at all"
CLOSING REMARKS.
Famine came and swept these fine gentlemen away,
aud the memory the class to which they belong has
died away out OF Ireland by this very great measure Of
purgation The other the exodus. There wer0
1000 600 -of peope In Ireland I'm 1916, there are
no. five and One-haf millions. quarter OF million
died IN the famine Allowing for the natural rate Of
increase there have been between 100000 and
100000 that have migrated, half many again as all
OF the inhabitants OF Scotland. In the first
shock Of the calamity they went away In hundreds Of
thousands. For mauy of them the passage money was