Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-06-13
Ex.GOy. DingIey at Ho'


"Po" ~, INT speech, from which We copy the
q" ,,,..ine upon topics of general interest:
An American needs to go abroad to thor
oughIy appreciate how grand a nation the
United States is, and to feel how great a
triumph awaits her in the future. Before
crossed the ocean, | thought | loved my
country. thought veneratcd those 'nstl-
tutions which have made her so grand in the
past and will make her grandcr in the future.
But. NV friends, | did not half appreciate
free institutions and the character of the
American people | come back to you,
must confess more thoroughly an American
and citizen, and more satisfied than ever, that
this is the grandest country that the sun
ever shone upon. Applause.
Nv friends, YOU will say that this is cXtrav
agant But, if you will allow me, | will
briefly indicate few facts, which came under
nv observation, that will satisfy you that my
statement is not over-drawn.
What do we find in England to-day, and in
all Europe? Men and women are divided in
10 permanent casses-classes formed by
birth and not by any superiority of mind or
character. And between these classes there
is as wide a gulf as there was between Dives
and Lazarus. These class arrangements are
not recognized and strengthened by law, but
by public opinion. Men are born mobiles.
and men are born serfs 1t is difficult for any
man to pass from one class To another. No
such state of things exists here. We have
men who to-day are rich; men who are in
moderate circumstances; and mel who are
poor. But, my friends, these are the circun-
stances of the hour. The son of the poor
man of TODAY will almost certainly be the
rich man of Tomorrow. We have none of
the cast-iron arrangements of society. These
..t fh.a hns A. -
ever devised for giving every man an equal
chance, and free opportunity to make of hin-
self just what he is fitted for.
| desire to call attention to another impor-
tant difference between England aud
the United States-that is in the
ownership of land In this country
nearly every tiller of the soil owns his own
lands and cultivates them. But in England
and in nearly all Europe, the ownership of
the soil is manly restricted to few titled
families The men who cultivate the soil are
tenants, and in most cases practically tenants
at will, liable at any time to be elected from
their homes.
Two weeks ago was in Ireland and spent
a week in that green isle travelling from Lon
donderry in the north to the Lakes of Kill
larney in the south. Seven hundred men
own about half the soil of the whole island of
Ireland This large extent of territory is cut
up into small farms cultivated by tenants.
who, as they told me themselves, pay from
three to eight dollars per acre annual rental
for the privilege of tlling the same. l be-
leve it is utterly impossible for any country
to thrive, when the farms are not generally
titled by their owners. In a uaton where
the land is generally held on lease, there can
be little real property or progress. To
this the woes of Ireland are largely due. and
until this system is changed her woes will in
crease.
took a great interest in visiting the beau
tiful Lakes of Killarney because knew that
many of our adopted fellow citizens came
from that portion of Ireland. | there looked
upon one of the fairest spots upon the face of
the earth. But the evidences were unmis
taxable that things are going from bad to
worse in that unhappy land
One intelligent young man in that region
with whom | conversed, said that he paid 50
per acre for the little land he lived on, only
a part of which could be cultivated. The
rest he used for a pasture for sheep. He
told me that it was impossible to raise enough
on that land to pay the rent. He told me
that only once for year, had he tasted meat
None of his neighbors had tasted it oftener-
and that was at Christmas time. Their prin
cipal living consisted of potatoes, cabbage
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