The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-07-29
A CHANCE FOR Ireland.
Ist Louis Messenger ]

Many remedies have teen proposed for
greland's distressful state" but the
xkings of injustice just now most forci
suggest a perfectly practicable aud
set wholesome curative process-a dis
|khralment from a most degrading bon
H&Re, that would be of priceless value to
81 8 country and people, and all the more
hluable. because self-applied.
Mr. Mitchell Henry has lately brought
|efore the House of Commons an addition
n wrongful infiction on Ireland and her
|esources, that has grown up within the last
|axenty- five years. Commencing with 1853,
fhen ireland was beginning to get out of
BE agonies of the famine, the government
Ef the day laid on each year additions of
|pme shillings gallon duty, until the duty
"a 1858 was more than treble, and made
|svo and half dollars the proof gallon.
|Ehiskey, it is to be observed, is the prin
|&pal inebriating drink in Ireland, whereas
|zCrter and ale are the favorite drinks in
and those are lightly taxed. The
Ebsnlt of this is, that the revenue extracted
Rom Ireland is for every head of the pOpu-
ktion three and half times greater than
q was in 1858 and whilst Irish income ie
assessed at thirty-two and onebalf mil
lions and English income at five hundred
Ind forty three millions, Ireland vas made
10 produce eight and half mlllion poards
DC the public revenue out of the thirty two
Ind one half millions income Eng!aud,
but of an income of five hundred and forty
Ehree millions, had only to pay seventy
tight millions. Could it be any wonder,
fhen, that Ireland, having to bear in pro-
*ortion to her resources double the taxation
Ia England, 10 addition to the absentee
landlord drain, should DO impoverished d
lad necessitous, and that her children
|hould fly from herf
FL Mr. Henry laid the case, and not for the
ret time, before the House of Commons,
r. h, ;-.- rha
|bjustice could not be denied, but all
dress was sternly refused by majority
152 against "a.
Fl Now, this ID a matter, fortunately, in
hich the Irish people can, if they please,
4s0vide redress for themsefves-a redress
80, incalculably more beneficial than any
hat England could afford, a redress for
English injustice and hideous wrong,
Forked out through their own moral and
material elevation and their freeing them
|&elves from the crushing yoke of a degrad-
ing and most ruinous passion.
Il What signifies the much sougbt.for boon
fof closing drinking houses of Sunday or at
|cersain hours of the night, when compared
with she total abstention, in the name OF
Ireland and of justice, of the Irish people
From maddening and man destroying whis-
|keyf
Fl DIR. Doyle's appeal to the Irish people
Drmerly was "Msy your hatred of Tithes
le as lasting as your love OF justice" And
hnder that withering denunciation Titbes
eased their pestilent existence before
|nRDy years were about.
The Irish people were of old credited by
he Englishman, Sir NJ. Davis, with being
overs of equal and impartial justice.
ehey should be so still but they cannot be
nless they are resolute haters of injustice
Ind can the Irish people be real and
borough haters of Injustice, if to inflict a
he castigation on the unsuitable avarice OF
heir English tyrante, they shrink from the
|eady, cafe and moet eficacious mode oi
fling that avarice by abstaininga from
be highly taxed and worse than worthless
hiskeyq Thus they would achieve q
reat revenge, aseert their self control
how their superiority of the beer swilline
Eugliehman, and their aptitude fer achiev-
hg and enjoying their great purpose o
Home Rule"
1t would profit much many Irishmen ou
bf Ireland, as we'll as those in it, TO imbut
themselves with the spirit of the foregoing
uggestion.