The New York herald., 1879-10-15


the county to pay more than FL an acre for land
may bring his coffin with him.
PANAcEAs FOR IRISH EvILs-NR. BIGGAR's
PROPHECIES OF BLOODY REVOLUTION AND MR..
JUSTIN M'CARrHY's SUGGESTIONS OF HOME
GOVERNMENT.
Mr.. Biggar. NJ. p, believes that the true panacea
for the evils OF Ireland is to buy out the landlords
and convert the occupiers into owners. At meeting
held in Drapegstown resolutions were passed in
which It stated that owing to the depression of
trade and agriculture reduction Of rent is impera-
lively demanded but that the only satisfactory
tlement OF the land question is sto declare the
industrial occupers the owners Of the SOIL" Mr..
Bggar in supporting the latter resolution said they
did not propose that the land should be taken from
the landowners at all. but that the landlord should
be called upon for the public good to sell his land to
the occupier at fair purchase and that the govern
ment. which should have the interests OF all
classes at heart. should interfere to facilitate
tho arrangements between landlords and tenants.
If the landlords refused the reasonable and fair
cession now asked for they might have to suffer
groat deal. because ultimately bloody revolution
might take place in the kingdom and the land might
be taken entirely from tho landlords. 1t In
France. He did not timagine that that would be DONE
or thats likely to take place at any period not
remote, but it was within the range of possibility
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, NJ. P lecturing at Liverpool
said tho elementary right of man was to live aud
to be allowed to work for his living. The right of
nation was. if it claimed it. to have national
istence. Difference Of nationality was constituted by
difference of race, OF history. tradition. religion
perhaps OF language. Where these differences ex-
listed there of necessity distinctive tendencies
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ton which suited such people was not
by any means likely to suit the other.
He did not rest the claim of Ireland to local self
government on the presence now Of grievance or
oppression. The days Of oppression happily
over. No one supposed that the great majority Of
the English Parliament would knowingly consent
to oppression. But the claim that Ireland
constituted distinct nationality. and had
right to system of government suited to
her own conditions and conducted by her own
Parliament. Tho special commissioner of the
Frees,ans Journal takes up the already mooted sub
ject Of reclaiming waste land. NEARLY fourth Of
Ireland" he says sis In waste land. or about I've
millions acres and that vast waste instead
of decreasing has increased by 900 acres within
the past year. Galway contributes nearly
quarter Of million Of acres to that and
Mayo-anoiher Connaught county-sO7. 1886 acres.
acres In the province of Connaught are returned
as under bog and marsh. and. besides that. barren
mountain land finds room In Mayo to the extent of
237 676 and In Galway to the extent of 21794s
acres Now. how is it that instead OF being reclaimed
from waste into cultivation tho land Of Ireland and
especially the land Of Connaught. Is reverting into
black morass? Is 1t that the tenants have no en-
ergy? Is 1t that they have no industry? 'Tis no
such thing. The men who go to England every
year, as their fathers. before them. who reap tho
harvest there and come homo in timo to reap their
own. with some savings from their cross Channel
earnings-the men who send home money ut the rate
of f4lO Saturday. paid In one small country town
in Post Office orders-these mon are not lacking in
energy. in snew In strength. ave. In enterprise or
moral soundness. They may take q wee drop too
much at fair; they may revel at a wake or like
hurting; but. my goodness! they to have no
diversionf Arc they to be toiling and moing. hew-
ing wood and drawing water merely for the master
to feed his desires at home or abroadg opine very
hunbly. but challenge counter opinion that
these mems strength might well and politically be
diverted into another channel the channel of rcca-
mation--a work neglected by harum scarum land
lords. but which would be undertaken by stalwart,
resolute men. il tho lands they wrcsted from tho
lcprechaun and>t the will O. the wisp were theirs
whio grass grows or water flows"
ROWING I'M ENGT AMI