Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-22
THE IRISH PROBLEM.
An Irishman Who Thinks He VIII Ii
Crowded out, If ANY More Of His C0ur

THE IRISH PROBLEM.
An Irishman Who Thinks He VIII he |
Crowded out, If Any More Of His Coun-
trymen Come.
To the Editor of the Globe:
ST. PAUL, Dec. 20, 1s79.-1n your issue of
the other morning, you advised a sweeping
emigration, and leaving the country to tho
az the best settlement of the Irish
question and the surest way of touching the
landlords pockets. This is just the remedy
proposed by the English government. Let
the landlords have their "pound of fesh,n
and If evictions and famine follow, then
ship the few fever stricken half starved sur
vivors to America and Zululand! cannot,
under heaven, understand why any sane
American OF Irish-American could ~vish to
see million or SO of people, made paupers
by law, cast upon the shores of this country,
next season. The working class. generally
in this country have enough to contend
with, especially in the cities and towns, with
out having thrown suddenly among them a
crowd of refugees to struggle with them for
the little subsistence they now have. The
mass meeting, Thursday night, took the
proper and most practical course-aid to the
Land League of Ireland,
which aims at keepinp
the people at home and on the lands, with
the ultimate view of making them the own
era Of the soil of Ireland, we'll capable of
supporting three times the population the
island now contains. The Rev. DR.. Breed
and Governor Davis in eloquent words por-
trayed the true condition of the Irish ten
antry and like true philanthropists they
echoed the sentiments of every thoughtful
American when they said to the British
government, ''We will aid the Irish people
now but you see to it that the causes are re-
moved" Repeal the unjust laws that alb.
sorb the subsistence of the people for the
enrichment of the few. Let the tiller of the
soil have the just, honest product of his
labor. ..-
The mass meeting did not alude to the
emigration scheme. If it did it would be to
condemn it. presume the honest, fair
minded gentlemen who addressed the meet
ing were silent on the subject lest their
words might be construed into deviation
from the fixed American principle that this
country opens its arms to the oppressed of
all nations. But Irishmen, who have the
welfare of their countrymen at heart, must
governments attempts to ship the people
reduced them to poverty. II the impover-
ished tenant farmers of Ireland are shipped
to this country they have not the means to
reach the cheap lands of the West where
they might follow the avocation they are &C.
customed to-, and they would be forced to
take up the bod and shovel and help to
make more wretched the condition of the
laboring classes of this country. God
knows there are enough of Irishmen now the
"white slaves of this country without hav-
ing their ranks recruited. If the Irish work.
ingman OF this country has dollar to give
to alleviate the suferings of the Irish people
he will best consult his own interest by CIV
ing it to help to keep his low-countrymen
at home, to break up the Ubiquitous land
system which absorbes the whole substance
of the people and never allows the emigrant
to leave with more than what will pay his
passage to New York. The bishops of Ire
land have united in condemning the emigra-
ton scheme; Archbishop Croke, of Cashel,
says ''tho people must not CO., and the ven
cradle Archbishop Of Tuam says 1--WE must
not be considered mendicants PROSTATE at the
feet Of cur neighbours" They both approve
Of the land agitation. The Irish National
Land League, with Parnell for president,
is composed of the leading men of Ireland,
lay and clerical, Protestant and Catholic. It
1T ls as yet the only central organization
for the relief of the Irish people. Already
the land meetings., conducted by it with
the approval of the clergy, have caused
hundreds of landlords to offer reductions
in rents from IS to 50 per cent. But in
many cases this is not enough. The peo-
pie must be left enough to support them
over winter, and not e dollar should they
pay to the landlord unless they have it over
and above what is required to keep the
wolf from the door, neither should
they be evicted if they have not bread
for themselves and families. The land
lords mus be made to bear the burthens
caused by Their own greedy injustice. The
last appeal of the Land League says:
''fhe agitation for the reduction of excess
sive rents must be sustained, so that the
in bringing land to fair valuation. in order
to enable its cultivators to become the owners
OF their own farms. upon terms within the
means of every occupier.
"For this and other purposes beneficial to
the farming classes organization is required
among them; and to sustain this land move
ment and encourage such organization. a.
we'll as to, render assistance when necessary
to victims of landlord oppression, we have
appealed for money to our banished kindred,
and for these purposes, and these alone we
now appeal to you for whatever aid you can
afford to render.''
A generous response to this appeal will
prove the most practical kind of charity.
The Land League proposes to assist the
"victims of landlord oppression" before they
have become actual paupers, before they are
cast into the bitches to die of famine. A
dollar given for the purpose now is worth
hundred dollars to feed the people after they
have been robbed of everything by the
landlords. Money sent as relief for the
poor to districts where there is no organized
system of discussing it, will, in many cases,
find its way directly to the pockets of the
landlords, and, like in 1918, the tenants
who thus pay their rent, that the roof may
remain over their heads, die of starvation
within few weeks after. Every dollar sent
to the Land League will be discussed for the
benefit of the people, and in snch way as
toprevent as many more dollars of the peo-
Pies earnings from being grasped by the
rapacious landlords. The land movement,
then, offers permanent remedy for the ills
of Ireland and should be generously sup
ported. Yours, ETC., G. N. MAoCARrHY.
SATURDAYS COURT RECORD,
United States Circuit Court.
Before Judge r. R. Nelson.1 .
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