Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-11-26
THE IRISH AGITATION.


There is at present a. profound excitement
in both England and Ireland over the arrest
Of Daritt. Daily and Killew, charged with Sc
ditien. The trouble grew out of the agitation
regarding the refusal of Irish tenants to pay
the exorbitant rentals of the English land
lords 1t seems almost incredible that in this
age men should be imprisoned for expressing
their opinions as these men expressed them
In England sedition embraces any language
used in public which is calculated to incite
dissatisfaction or set one class against another.
Il is plain that England has made no advance
ment in the science of government during the
past few centuries Its rulers have not laid
aside the robes which cloaked royalty in the
middle ages, and Queen Victoria hand still fon-
dies the sceptre of tyranny which her ancestors
welded in the days when the ak of the execu-
toner Glove the necks of the enemies of the
crown. Ireland is suffering from dreadful OPP
preston. Any man who makes a living in
Ireland and pays the e1tortionate tribute ex
acted by the British landlord must of neees-
sity be slave Ireland is not a productive
agricultural country. 1t is mostly boys and
rocks The Irish farmer can never look for
ward to the time when he can be Independent.
He toilslik quarry slave through the twelve
months, and all that he has made beyond a
frugal living for himself and children, is taken
by landlord whose heart is as pulseless of
the throbs of pity as the stones upon his ten
aat's land If the land is improved by the ten
ant, both rent and taxes are raised and the
work of wrestling anything more than bare
living from the hungry soil isworse than climb
ing trea-dmill England's rule of Ireland
has been one long strain of nonstrous oppres-
sion. The Irish are sucked dry by high rents
and merciless taxation. England feeds its
royalty upon the sweat of Irelands brow, and
fattens upon its privations. The money vrang
ports family of lazy mendicants. Windsor
Castle is the sink Of all this wealth, and year
after year the Queen calls upon Parliament to
stand and deliver. Millions Of pounds ster-
ling roll into the Golfers Of the royal family,
and the sisters, cousins and sunts of Victoria
divide the spoils 1t would seem that people
possessing the ordinary attributes of human
ity would not enjoy life of such extravagant
ease, if they for moment reflected that the
clothes they wear and the food they eat were
furnished them at the expense of families in
Ireland, who were shivering with cold and
wasting with famine The probabilities ara
that they never reflect. Yet when men who
have felt the burden of these tyrannies, rise
In public to discuss their wrongs and denounce
the cruel policy which instigates them, the
strong arm of British law lays hold upon them
and lands them in British prison. The hor-
rible barbarities inflicted by the Russian gov
eminent upon its political offenders and serfs,
have caused the civilized world to stand aghast;
yet Russia in its war with Turkey was off
cially endorsed by the Bishops of the English
church, on the ground that the arm of the
Lord should be with the cross of Christ as
against the crescent of the Prophet. Under
these circumstances it is not to be wondered
at that the church of England endorses the
brutalities of the English government The
arrogance of the Crown will not always be toll
Grated, and system of government belonging
TO the Middle ages cannot long stand in the
march of present enlightenment. The time is
approaching when England, beside struggling
to maintain its authority in Ireland will find
sedition of still more serious proportions to
grappe within it's own borders.