The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-19

Play Compared with
What the English
Have Made
Ireland
Suffer.
From The London Universe.
It is wonderful how we'll posted up the
people OF England are generally Kept as
to the affairs of foreign countries, how
prominently misrule abroad, whenever it
can be discovered, is held up to public
gaze, and how. on the contrary, care
fully the detects OF our own government
are hid from view. So itever has been
with Great Britain in her relations with
other countries, and so, we tear. 1t Will
ever be. This is not credltable to us,
but it is nevertheless true. We have
been always great sympathizers with op-
pressed nationalities abroad, whose ex>
istence cannot possibly Interfere with
what we may consider our interests, but
woe to the nationality whose preserva-
ton does not suit our convenience.
We are Just now exciting ourselves
over what are called the Bulgarian atroc-
tiles. AS a nation we are shocked at
the mode adopted by Turkey to put
OOWu TCUclllOu.
How many Englishmen who have
been reading these horrible details know.
that in comparison with what their pre-
decessors cody and Systematically made
the people of Ireland suffer, those atroc>
tiles are after all, mere chlld's play:
Notwithstanding our boosted freedom OF
inquiry and thought, and education gen.
erally. how many living Englishmen
have ever gone to the trouble OF instruct
ING themselves in the history OF the con-
nection OF England and Ireland? Were
thew to do so, they would cease to be
puzzled and surprised at the persistency
of Irish discomfort and the long continued
arrangement Of the two countries would
not be an untatnomable mystery to them.
Once fully aware of how much the irish
people have suffered by English mlsrule,
they would comprehend the causes OF
Irish discomfort; they would realizs the
extraordinary virtues displayed by the
Irish under the most hapless and tan
TALKING circumstances; they would be-
come intimately acquainted with the con-
fiscations. the robbery, the domestic
treachery the violation OF ali puollc
faith and of the regard due to treaties,
the ordinary wholesale massacres, the
planned murders and the ATROCITIES ana
iniustices of various kinds which Eng
lish governments have from time to time
inflicted upon the people OF Ireland.
No wonder that the history OF Ireland
should be kept as far as possible out OF
the hands of the English student. No
wonder that.t should be represented to
be uninteresting and not worth perusal.
1t is not pleasant to hear OF DEEDS wnlcn
would disgrace the most barbarous OF
races as having been committed by Eng
fish. ..heroes." Such study may not be
agreeable, but it ought to be duty on
the part OF every English person with any
pretensions to intelligence.
Talk of Bulgarian atrocities. Just
look into the means adopted under En-
glands tavorite monarch. Queen Eliza
beth. to denationalize and exterrninate
the people of Ireland. Read something
OF the enforcement OF the penal laws in
Ireland, remnants OF which enactments
are still passed by the Imperial Parlia,
ment. And as tor the Union. 1t Is
we'll established tact that rebellion was
got up for the special purpose OF en-
aiding the British Government to eN-
tinyuish the Irish Legislative lndepen>
dence. and that the misnomer known as
the Union was accomplished by the
combined operation OF fraud. terror.
force. and the corruptive expenditure OF
about $4,000, 200.
Talk of these atrocities IN Bulgaria.
Pages OF The Universe could easily be
filled. week alter week, with extracts
from the history OF Ireland. showing that
for generations plunderlngs and massa>
cres and horrible violations OF sancuty
and modesty were almost everyday
occurrences in ireland. and that the per-
petrators of such deeds were our own
predecessors Has anything been As yet
heard OF large numbers of innocent men,
women. anb fore childrened eintodngi
Bulgarian castles and other buildings.
and there deliberately burned to death9
Look into the history OF Ireland and you
will see plenty of such things recorded.
Talk OF the Turkish atrocities What
body OF Bashi> Bazouks have distinguish
ed themselves to such an extent as to
take up infants on the points OF their
spears and whirl them about in their
agony" and when expostulated with
excusing themselves on the plea that il
they suffered those little innocents to
grow up they would become Popisn re-
belsa When or where in Bulgaria have
YOU heard Of children being taken by
the legs by soldiers who knocked out
their brains against walls9 You will
see plenty OF records in Irish history of
such acts By Englishmen in Ireland.
The Bulgarians, indeed. Where. in
the whole Of the Turkish empire since
the be ginning OF the present shocking
war. have women been discovered
hanging on trees with the children at
their breasts. strangled with the mothers
hairs- Look into the history OF Ireland.
and YOU will find the soldiery ofEngland
reveiius IN such things. We read. re-
specuny other occasions. Of all the inhab-
itants OF An Irish town murdered during
ing one nicht-S.o0o men. women and
children-Ata time when none OF the
Catholics oil that particular part OF the
country were in state OF .rehel1nn OF