Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-02-23
NUMBER 8.

The London correspondent Q: tho Irish
World, very excellent paper published
in New York, has this to say:
If we once recognize the right and pol
icy of rich men to buy up the land, the
fish, and tho mines tor money, wo surren-
der the rights which our Almighty Fa-
ther endowed US with at our births.
see it stated that ore man in tho
State of Maine owns six thousand acres
OF land. What can he possibly want or
do with all that land ? He won't part
with an acre of it. 1t will go to his chill
dren in block, and they will, if hs
shall not, demand rent for the use Of il.
This is what " Free America " is coming
toto this English landlord and tenant
system "the land of the free and tho
homo of tho bravo is fast drifting If tho
men of labor do not step speedily into
powor and stop it. As these lands and
mines that have been given for nothing
will generate, by-and-by, n swarm ofntis-
tocratic owners, such'as we have in Eng.
| lhUu Htlu IlttNUu, WHO VIII dtliluHu ItlllS
and royalties for lands, mines, and forests,
and upon those rents and royalties will be
families " with pedigrees and hcraldic
insignia, who will sond their agents to
collect their rent couple of times year,
as they do in distressed Ireland down TO
this very day, while they themselves are
of in the gayest parts of the world sport.
ing and squandering tho sweets and pro.
ducts Of tho toiing ,eris, whom, by n net
work of fraudulent laws, they have bound
hand and foot to labor for them.
SEQ how rich men have boggarded the
people of England and Ireland. There
no country on tho faco OF the earth saw
India, famine-stricken India, where there
is more poverty, more squalor, more
crime, moro demoralzing and more enor-
mousy rich men to be found thar in Eng
land. Here, for instance, Is tho Duke Of
Norfolk, who has several large ostatos in
England, whose income from those o,-
tates is f300, 200 a yoar Excluding the
81 Sundays, and few holidays from the
year, this man has mn income OF el 600
(S5, ,OO0) n day ! Say tho legal day is
eight hours, this man draws 9i25 (S625)
an hour as his pay, and docs not work
How can this man spend all this money
What docs he do with iii While there
are millions Of countrymen who do their
full days work in tho world, and aro
grudged l0d IN hour, nay, but Cd. Nh
hour and moro millions who labor from
sunrise to sunset in tho worlds work who
do not got Sd. ah hour, how comes this
thing to pass uLehallenged II comes be-
cause the universities, the colleges, tho
schools, the pulpits, the bar, the press,
all arc in conspiracy to uphold this mon-
strous fraud.
| ask this Duke nt tho years end
Where ia your G3O0.0 900 What have
you done with it p IIe answers with in
dignant surprise "Dono with it /? Who
are you that ask have eaten it, ant
my iunkoys, md parasites, and slaves,
two footed and rour-tooted, in way that
docs honor to the kingdom, in Il digniled
and ornamental manner. and am here
alive by il; | am realized by it to you
rs II pillar OF tho nation" That is, sub
stantially the answer Of this duke, and tho
; answer that would be given by hundreds
of his sort in England, Ireland and Scot.
land to the question What do you
with all those yearly tributes ofthoussnds
and hundreds Of thousands Of pounds 7"
This inequality in the enjoyment OF the
gifts of our great Creator, this robbery OF
the laboror by tho ider, is done by
House Of Lords Gdlers), backed by
House OF Commons Gdlors), who make
laws to enable the idIor, to rob tho labor
or, and the system which generatei, up
holds and extols this robbery is pronounc.
ed by Irish bishops Of Eroat and varied
learning to be the best balanced conEtitu-
ton IN the world-a consti. Ition which
according to another bishop who was
suddenly snapped from us) to oppose, or
try to overthrow, justly subjected to the
hottest part of hell for longer term, II
possible, than eternity