The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1879-01-19

| REVOLUTION IMPENDING IN THE NKAI
FUTURE.
The following important letter from Mr. A
N. Sullivan. N P, for Louth, has been extern
| sively published by the Irish press:
House OF COMMONS
London, Dec IA, 1873
My Dear Mr. Caraher.-II have to offer voc
sincere thanks for your letter the land q q ga
tion, valuable tc me ae rejecting the opiuion,
and setting forth the views of one 80 we'll and
80 intimately acquainted with the county, and
wish most warmly to acknowledge the kind
ly terms in which you refer to me, aud the
confidence you are good enough to express in
my loyalty to the cause of the Irish tenaptry.
Upon this question of the land there can be nc
rest, no trnce, no pause. Formidable as are
the obstacles before US, discoursging and des
Perate as may be our task, we are bound to
press on, for, in n cause like this Of the Irish
tenant, tipe-that is, time allowed to pass
without protest-works against justice, and is
ever strengthening wrong. In the eighteen
years of delay between the demand of the
Tenant League in 1852 and the passing of the
Gladstone Land Act of 1870. tenant property
amounting in value to nearly 60 600 600 as
sold as landlord property in Ireland, the ten
ants being robbed to that extent on the sales
OF landed estates with tenanoies at will in our
unfortunate country. !, for one. feel, there
fore, and have ever felt, that every year ia
working it's havoc on the teuent claes, aud
that it is an imperative duty to cry aloud
against such wrong and to labor hard to stop
it.
What are the chances or prospects ofjustice
for the Irish tsnantry in this present legislA
turef Dark and dismal, indeed. There are,
verify believe, SCORES Of men voting against us
on this question from sheer inability TO realize
it's force ard meaning as we see ib in Ireland.
England Is 30 thoroughly Commercial nation
that the commercial idea permeates and doni.
mates everything. You mi ht as we'll argue
with blind man as to the difference between
red and blue, or with deaf one about the
n a "a m hr fyu Tn OF FbaaG
men TO understand why land should u OF be q
mere matter of contract or hire-like a cab or
a threshipg machine.
The peculiar circumstances of England have
kept them till now from feeling the pinch of o
tenure question here. Their gigantic CONNER
cial and manufacturing development drew off
the people from the land, and allowed the
Ian dloTds TO estabiish the idea that no one
under Code sky had right in or on the soil
but themselves. So, when we come to talk to
this House of Commons of the occ a ancy right
of the Irisa tenant, the members all around us
stare in ameZ smeBt or indignation, and We
might we'll for the time be trying to demon
strste Q proposition in Euclid to the king Of
the forest. Remember the case we have to pot
to taem is not merely one that does not arise
with their own tenantry (oWing to the excep
tional circumstances hitherto prevalent here),
but is, moreover, one which strikes at the per-
oal interest, as they regard it, of every man Of
The English landlords shudder at the idea'of
the right of an occupying class to |
3 hold of tenure on the soil.
But unless fail to read the signs of The |
times the day is coming when there will be o |
and question here in England that will shake |
,he fendal systeB into the dust If tie oheck |
If the manufacturing development of this |
country continue, great and immutable law
# nature will be seen asserting itself. The |
population will turn around from the huge
oWns and seek the land. Then, perhaps, the
masses of the English people will see how they
ave sold their birthright in this matter, and
WI thamaalvRR To ha ont he anfl 1
nd happy will England be IL in that hour the
and question be settled here as psacesbly, as
almly, aud as equitably towards all parties
nd all Interests as we in Ireland are now
irving to settle it.
We, however, never allowed such fatal
gstem to constitute itself unq uestioned in onr
lidst. We have made protest and war Rgsinst
% wrong, and that war and protest am for
resolntely still, Add whyf Shall
deceive my constituents and loW.oountry
len by holding ont the idea that this leRisls- /
are is likely TO pase, not merely Mr.. Bate I
and Bill, bat any land bill that will give
kitty of tenure at valued rentsf No, I cAnnot
md myself to such q cruel delusion. But cen I
y that honestly believe that these two ad.
antages flow from persistent effort on our 6
art.
Firstly, believe in the inevitable triumph 9
onr principles not merely Ia ireland, bat =
re in England and we are, IS it were, hold
1 say that sad as are the evils the Q
ish tenantry suffer from, as it is, things q
ould be thOussndfold worse II it were not for d
e activity of public opinion which we TINS '
aintain on the question. For proof of this t
ed only point 20 own county and the o
cd accomplished by you and your respected
lleagues of the Tenants Defence Association. b
ell you there are hundreds of tenant farmers g
tiBg by their own bearthsdes tonight in Ire D
Id who would be on the roadside, houselees IL
d farm leSP, IL We were inert and silent and %
epiDg uppO vigilaut war on the land system. Il
hat proof can Sdduce that there is o land
eStiOn arising here 10 EnRlsnds Look b
'und. Note that every essentially popular p
.anizStiou in this country, north, south, K
Il and west. is now Addressing itself to- E