Smyrna times., 1879-09-17
Reasons for Emigrating.


Our last advices report the discomfort in |
both England and Ireland as rapidly in |
creasing 1t produces characteristic re.
suits in each country. The English mill
hands and tenant farmers have either sub
mitted to the requirements of the manu-
facturers and landlords, or they are pack
ing up their miserable little belongings to
emigrate to this country. Few of the
emigrating parties have started to Canada
or Australia, in proportion to those coming
here; they have had enough for the
present, apparently, of English law.
The malcontents in Ireland, however,
lrishlike, neither give up nor run away.
They grumble and starve and threaten
fight according to their old habits. At
most of the massmeetings held in August
to ienounce the oppression of the land
lords bodies of armed men appeared. At
the meeting in County Mayo, at which i'm
perative demands for reduction of rent and
change in the land system were made there
was a show Of cavalry and the old parade
common in 1898, of pixies and green ban
ners, with rude picture of captive Erin
in chains appealing to her sons to set her
free. Indeed, there is a curious likeness
between the progress of the present
threatened tenantry-insurrection in Ire
land and that of the rebellion of last cen
tury. Each was. proceeded by failure in
the crops and frightful destituton among
the Catholic part of the population. In
both cases the landlords were implacable
and in both priests and peasants made the
same frenzed, hopeless attacks upon their
sense of justice, worded in almost pre-
cisely the same language. The land system
in Ireland is of so Oil a growth that it
would require something more than a
miracle to open the eyes of the absentee
landlords to its injustice. From the begin.
/ ming of the eighteenth century until the
present time; one season of want and
absolute famine has succeeded another
De Hauranne said fifty years ago, "It is
the land of anomalies-the most constant
deplorable destitution in the richest o.
/ Soils" Thackeray tells of his horror o
seeing "a people dying of hunger in one o
: the most fertile countries in the world.
t The London Times forty years ago dragged
e the secret of the whole matter to ligh
. when it declared that Ireland was tn,
q victim of an uneXampled social crime
/, that of the landlord against the tenant
e "If England" it said, "has to support hal
e the population Of Ireland, it is because sh
|. has deliberately allowed them to be crushet
It into a nation of beggars."
IS The starving Irish tenant of last centur
e fought because he had no other remedy fo
y his grievances emigration was as yet
l. more desperate chance than passive sui
/, mission. He threatens fight now simpl
n because, like the dogs bark, ait is h
s, nature to.' But he won't do it; til
e. mounted contingents," pixies and gree
of banners will amount to no more than til
ID blast Of trumpet melting in thin air.
the course of a month or two we shall he's
le that he, like his English neighbor, is pacl
n, ing his kit and following the crowd
to Kansas or Minnesota. The Irish peasal
bit is no less loyal than his grandfather
a 1898; but he has acquired q good de
in more worldly wisdom. He knows We
no we'll that "green Erin has given hi
er nothing but patch of potatoes, a mi
lr- cabin, a ragged coat; why should he fig
es to live on costly patch of her worn-o
ch soil? There are more Irish in this count
gh than in Ireland. He will follow his kin
er and in a year or two will taste sweet
nd satisfaction in going to the polls in a broa
We cloth coat and high hat, with his vi
sh looking on, than in the approval of all t
be Irish kings and old nobility to boot
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