The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-12-11
The State OF Ireland.

| Ireland presents o spectacle which no
other people could possibly match. Men
who have been elected TO Parliament,
and who call Themselves leaders of the
Irish people, 60 about haranguing great
crowds, advisi6g tenant farmers TO pay
10 rent, and to band themselves together
/ TO resist evictions for non-paymenf and
| asserting that the tenant has the best
right to the land. In these incendiary
speeches no allowance Is made for those
farmers who are able and willing to
| pay; but these are called traitors to the
rest, and are liable to savage ma!treat-
ment and to the destruction Of their
property if they pay their just dues.
Tho ignorant masses of that iDflamma.
BILE people are not slow to embrace all
that 10 Implied by these harangues. 1:,e
laborers fancy that they also are to be
benefited By rcbbng tho landlords. And
! go these declamations of the demagogue
leaders are responded TO by cries OF
"Dowu with landlordismI No payment
Of rent. No eviction" and SO on. And
60 repudigtion of the dues to landlords,
the holding of land without paying for it,
| and the banding of the masses to resist
| collection or rent by law process, and
the treating of farmers who pay as out.
lava, have come to be the principles of
the Irish cause and the cause of great
popular uprising.
The energies of tho farmers and farm
laborere In the West of Ireland appear to
DO aii expended iii huiding monster
meetings aud marching in great process.
gions to listen to inflammatory speeches.
Masses represented as suffering from
poverty have plenty of leisure to give to
the work of agitation. Farmers have
risked all their future on political revo-
iutiop' and on resisting the law. They
who are really embarrassed are adding
to their troubles. The farmers who do.
| sire quiet and are able and willing to pay
their dues find themselves degraded to
| outlaws, and liable to destruction OF
property and to murder by their own
neighbours, merely because they have no
cause for robbing their landlords.
The sentiments declnimed at these
meetings 60 to the ex!aut of suspending
oil law, and placing the country in q
state of revolution and anarchy. Their
effect has actually done this in large
district. They pronounce the overthrow
OF law, and that landowners are outlaws,
and yet they talk of this as "constitu-
tionnl agitation" Mr.. Parrnell is COM
ing to America 70, get help in money
contributions to keep up this anarchy.
But 1t is mu' Nplying the real troubles Of
the Irish + lie, and 1t does not point to
any ration or possible benefit
A country in which such senseless ag.
itations are chronic; whose inhabitants
can Mt any time be inhamed into state of
lawlessness by demagogues, can not invite
slfe investment Of capital, nor. have o high
IiS deyeloped industry. The irish masses
are increasing their poverty by this
disturbance. The excitement alma at
nothing practical. It can do nothing for
them. twill play put in time, and leave
tenants to settle with the landlords after
having stirred up hate against them, and
Involved themselves deeper in debt,
while wasting their savings and time in
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