The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-11-01

The cultiyators of the land in Ireland
i mt own a rood OF it. Nor can they
saw thew own a sack of grain, nor yet
animal, nor yet a chicken
that thew raise. The Belgian brings his
surplus grain, his surplus animals,
his surplus cheese, butter, and
eggs to market in the manufacturing
towns. and for the proceeds buys new
clothing for himself and family; buys
furniture, new farming implements, ana
other household necessaries. for ne IS
constantly adding to the comforts OF him.
self and family, and thereby giving con-
slant employment to the town artisans
and creating home market for the
fabrications of their hands.
THE IRISH.
The Irisman brings all he raises in
the way of grain and animals to the
market, reserving only potatoes for his
own food The proceeds OF ali he
raises that is saleable must be given or
sent to the landlord, who spends 1t for
him far away-thatis. eats and drinks IT,
CANDLES and debauches 1t with thieves
and immoral characters, in the haunts OF
sin all over Europe. The whole produce
of Irish labor is annually and utterly
| wasted The whole produce OF Belgium
labor is garnered, accumulated, repro
duced, and wells up in thousand places
to stir up new enterprise, new INDUS
try. so that all kinds Of labor, skilled
and unskilled, find constant employ
ment in Belgium. In Ireland every
trade languishes employment for labor
!, to be begged: the reward of labor is
fitful, is inadequate: and the youth OF
the nation, as they grow up, have but one
leading aspiration: viz, to get out OF
the ilI,tatsd island as speedily as they
can. The wealth and the population OF
Ireland move off by the same steamers.
year by year. whilst those who remain
: are eaten up in poverty and despair The
: town shopkeeper and the country laborer
are equally depressed and in despair.
| Every attempt at starting new indus
e tries is chilled IN the conception. Hence
f decay in every useful branch of employ
q ment-porter and whiskey manufactures
4 being the chief branches OF employ
f ment tor three-fourths OF the people,
d saddening and destructive occupauon
a BELGIAN PROGRESS.
l. Turn which way | will in Belgium
n see progress and prosperity written OF
# every face. See how neatly the corr
= and hay stacks are built up behind tn
D. white, cosy, sequestered cottage. Thos
D. whe at stacks are thatcned for the win
FL ter with the greatest care, even tn
d. incest art. That cottager has some an
o. bition. His wheat is not to be threshe
IN Tor the November rent, for he has
be rent to pay. He keeps it sweet and dr.
5. for summer prices, and sells only whe
SO no finds a fair demand. The Belgia
II. cottaper has a laudable ambition
se make his home neat, pretty, and clean
as, all about; to plant handsome trees al
,er shrubs around his porches and portal
because it is his home, because he cal
he disturbed. He has an ambition
ers blow his burrows SO straight, TO weed
Iii fields so clean, to teed his horses so we
tty and keep them in such excellent ord
ers N flothe his little children so neatly, a
ur- feed them with good food, the produ
per OF his own fields, and they do look
leir healthy; and then in every town Q
uld sees new buildings going up, and he'
oft with the rising sun the muse ofthe bril-
ray LAYERS and stonemason's trowels, WI
The is so pleasant to hear. An air OF 81
ave stantial wealth and plenty is worn
t of everybody. No leveling OF hou
h OF there; no notices to quit, thero;
I by eyictions for higher rents there;
,ese wholesale emigration of the people IT
ldu there.
oc IRISH DECAY.
and would here adopt the words OF
GOV. Rev. Isaac Nelson, the Presbyterian
and ;ster of Belfast, recently addressed
the him to meeting of tho North OF
| in land Home Rulers:
sent. Nov. in the present state OF dlsai
o be ton, Ireland is this moment justine
being hostile to England. 1t is cat
by Injustice; it is caused by lll-tr
men,: it is caused by robbery. Chez
The land belongs to the people. Ia
ers of Tyrone. listen to that. pa
''o' through Belgium the other day. d
from Brussels to Paris, aud | saw Ia
this there, and tell you this, without
ltiful sessing much power OF mind on
lands subjects, it is my belief that the
luare crop, more golden wealth lying on
and level plains of Belgium in one SO
own mile than you have in FIVE. And "
with They have Home Rule in Belg
upon Tcheers1 and the farmer Is owner OF
onSes farm he cultivates; and he IS reat
d the shoulder the musket 10 defend the
green Loud cheers.
eyes No words that / can think OF can
with correctly express nv own opinions
of an this momentuous subject than tho:
ill in tered TO the men OF Tyrole by the
of the erend speaker. The land has, I'M
c. He been robbed from the Irish people
nat in band of scheming. bloodthirstv will
land WIZ bequeathed or sold to successor
land which belonged not to them; and
lillion successors, wnen tracing up title, !
Yates. rooted in robbery, murder. and l
land They must render back this land
which Irish cultivators, though 1t cost
n. In hundred millions of q national de
Island. condone with present claimant
res, IS though it costs three hundred tho
,usand lives. if that be rejected. to iorclol.
t men eel their fraudulent claims. One
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