The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-12-12
Ireland,s woes-A Pathetic Anreal.


respondent of the New York Herald and
published in a recent issue of that paper. by
giving 1t a place in the FREEMAN. Canon
Burke is said to be related to the eminent
Dominican FTiar, Father Tom Burke, and IS
priest of considerable influence in Mayo
Miss Boyle has decided to place copy OF
the letter in the hands of every Senator and
Representative in Congress, with the hope
that something may be done to alleviate the
present suffering in Ireland
CLAEKNoRRIs, COUNTY MAYO. Ireland,
November Eve, 1879. /
NY DEAR MISS BoYLE-Tt is now six months
people were hopeful that, after the unusually Sc
we're winter which had passed, the summer would
with abundant return the laOors and trials Of
the year. The contrary OF all this has come 20
pass Since 1915 the Irish people have not had so
bad failure in the potato crop. In some districts
it is at present onehaH, in others three fourths,
and have been told that some farmers have lost
even more than threetOurths of the normal
turn. The cereal crops are not all that one could
chill northern blasts. and even in this the last
evening OF October, there are many cornnelds nm
reaped and few not wholly ripe. Peat or turf
Is. in COnnaught, the only ruel; this years peat
for ming is not yet dried. fuel famine threat
ems. Along with these misfortunes sent by God
for the chastisement and improvement of our peo-
pic, there exists also great epression
The price for sheep. cows, oxen and all kinds of
live stock fs only one-half what it had been two
years ago aud this depression is notably low in
regard to the poor mans stock because there fs
no demand for animals that are not marketable or
in good condition. American farm produces has
He1ce you Will see that sur people cannot pay
the high rents which they are accustomed to pay
TO hold on to the farms they have hitI erto TILED
They will have quite enough to do this year to
Isl merely they viii not be in position to sup
port their sons and daughters and prepare them
for the battle OF life.
Already the cry has gone forth, What Is to be
done for the reduction Of rents7 Most Of the land
owners in this parish have remitted twenty -hve
per cent. Chose landlords who hold extensive
property have given no reduction.)
FUTILE APPEALS TO GOVERNMENT
Abatement such as this, however, is not sum
cient. All the priests and people Of Connaught
Lord Lieutenant who rules Ireland to give the
people employment at some remunerative work
Maiesty's Vicegerent to save the peoples lives.
This days FreeHdnS Journal contains the strange
/ news that His Grace the Lord Lieutenant has
turned deaf ear the appeal OF the Irish bish-
ops. Today the Corporation Of Dublin lays the
! prayers OF famishing nation at the feet OF its
Governor. This day will witness the same callous
reply.
l must express opinion which Is known by
many TO be true, that His Grace the Duke OF Marl
/ borough personally feels for the peoples wants
: but as a member OF the Earl Of BeaconsheId's
4 government he viii do and can do-nothing. On
the FIRST week in November all the Irish members
/ Of Parliament Will lay similar appeal before the
. Irime Minister. DIsraell will simply laugh at
their apparent earnestness. What does nc care II
/ leo 600 irish people die of famine? Nothing!
! He regards IriShmen Just as he regar.:s their
/ Aryan cousins 10 the and OF the Indus
Like the lark in the fable. the irish people seem
TO thlnk that they must depend on themselves and
! on the children Of their race. The distress
which has fallen on this country is in truth great
l and the people, fear must suffer The only n
! mediate and direct remedy is employment. This
they are not likely, as you see, TO obtain. Immi-
grafton, therefore, 10 America, in winter and in
I the coming spring, is likely to be renewed You
cannot but observe the traternal spirit in which
hihg ALFONSO Of spain mas acted toward those
who, in his province OF Nurcia, suffered from the
late floods He, like father ran to aid his chill
How differently, compared with our rulers the
Emperor and Empress or Austria acted last spring
to those among their subjects VINO in like manner
had suffered! -Four years ago the Garonae svol-
len by the rains of the PyTcnees, mitted great
devastation 10 the south of France The then
President, Marshal MacMahon. went in person TO
relieve the sufferers. The people OF these nations
ask for bread and they receive ahundance OF
bread and every requisite. We ask COR bread a nd
are given a stone; fish, and behold serpent
l. presented DIsracii does not govern prin'
ciple Of right Of distrbutve Justice or with iath
erly concern for the subjects Of this nation. His
. rule is one OF policy ana stateeraft directed by
imperial Interests. and sGen1ingv the omtco,nc q,
political pressure. You were never in Ireland -
/ Many Irish men and women now in vour country
yrere n ireIa-,i in sae Iss- 80 Tess m 2SI - I ,
. how multitu'ies then asked for bread and there
were none to break it unto them" Then as In
Jerusalem during the captivity. the children and
the sucEltngs tainted away in the streets"
FAMILIES STARVING.
myeon saw strong men and young women dIc
: OF starvation: one young girl especially, Of nine
teen, the eldest OF poor family OF nine struggle
in the jaws OF hunger tor six months and ther
perish, literally reduced to a heap Of bones aid
my best at the time 10 help that family wa
then only eighteen years oS age I saw Two men
dead with grass IN their mouths having strived IL
vain TO obtain sufficient nutrmeut sustain lii,
! from the grass Of the field. Scenes like thes,
were then common. Many would not believe tha
such things occurred, but l saw them l saw
hundreds OF children, from the age OF two {,
twelve, with ha!r on their skinny arms and check
fully onehalf inch loug-a false growth caused by
decay and hunger. saw over one thousand N Ell
and women and children OF IL sizes and ages out
side the poorhouse OF Castlobar. assembled Tor in
spection by order of the poor law guardians les
except those who were actually a. the time live
/ cannot say in the flesh, for flesh they had none
l Their presence at the time. young as was re
, bones bel he by ID
shall scenes like these occur againg Con forbid
: Shall the children of Saint Patrick-the sons 0
saints and sagcs; the descendants OF NOBLE race
the o. BoyIes. who have come down from tho con
I quering Mall the Great; the O'Briens. tn
l Oponnells, your cousins from Donegal; tn
= UKelly and all the O's and Macs Of the gran,
MilesiHn stOck-persh miseraby from neglect
3 Shall the children OF the highr1fn,,e1 ana Fa-y
vet noble Norman families share the same fate
Away with the thought!
. The times are changed Food at all events :
cheap. Our friends in America will send re- lie
5 the trst moment the real crisis which is hasten
ing shall come Let MT ireland be \ -5ssi
was in the days Of jeremiah. "A lauEhIDg stool
or derision 20 all the peopie-their song all ds
3 II God has not blessed us with abundant veal,
he has given US n noble heritage in an anccstr-
iustrious for noble deeds and for the greatest G
people 50 giGed with natural and supernatural
: cndovments is worthy to be saved. JUDAS Nac
5 the Jews in the days Of EpiphaaSs OF snt75.bIs
judith was their saviour when HgIoferres threat
10 the taIOuc OF Ahasucrus to fol the vilIary O
I the Prime Minister of Aman
WILL AMERICA uELP7
Can you do any good Tor your people in the Ian,
OF America The two great ends be attaine,
are, nrst, TO relieve the people IN their present dis
tress and trials; the second TO fix them in IN
tors Of their farms. This latter is dificult
, yet the cry has gone forth. and all Irishncr a
nome ana abroad, nave echoed the call aud pro
claim that the Irish race viii be satisfied viii
: nothing less. There is peasant uroU-5ctarv 4,
Belgium. France, Sweden. Norway Dc0-1srLr
Holstein, Prussia, Russia. Austria. Switzerland
land? Ihis is the teaching OF be state.I9e17o
, England and OF her sCh0lars-Fri.sht. C9hd su
LORD SgEn Russell. J 5l.1 stuart NH. aaI o
= Baron Won Stein. the great Pruss!sn statesuo5n
II peasant ITc pr!etary has made America anr
otheT nations rich, eun;cnted and happy, VII,
Shcutu II not N AXE ireland rich, content.d AM
happy 1t is worth while to try IN. Gucsf ior
. Is, HOW ! ug-est, to. reclaim the waste lands
10 Nuy those estates offered for sale. ia sinh
divide them into farms OF twenty acres mon, ~.
tenants now in possession. t54t In three Tss-,
in ten tie tenants would boLouIs iartS : -
= owners OF their own farms. X wan 10 secu-s
IFCe homes for our Irish farmers dwelling now or
irish soil The government could Il Il so pitased
buy Up the RI hi oi the landlords and settle the
matter at once. But the present government ~
THIS country viii not DO this. A II av4iIahIa r,er
sHssion Ehou.d be brouzh to bear 10 convince
. mem ILAt nothing cisc but this remedy, except
s.ltleSislation, viii ever make Ire!and-as sie
9ukht 10 he-grest, glorious ani free. I am your
ULIcK J., CANON BoURKs. p. MIRA
TO Miss EsMERALDA BovLE Washington ID. q
United States, America.
SpECIAL AGENTS FOR TIE NEXT CESsr-s
Inc following Is a list of the Special
Agents Of the Census OficC, Departments az
the Interior, appointed to investigate in
their economic relations the mCst impor:aDr
industries Of the United States. and the STA
tistics OF telegraph, railroad, express trans
portatlon, and insurance companies also tc
. collect the social statistics Of tho copr4r,-