Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-30
MORE. IRISH CONUNDRUMs.

drank skim milk from q wooden piggen, and
peeled spuds potatoes) served up on q
borawn with my thumb nail, surely may
claim some right to designate myself Ga
true friend of Ireland even should it
offend Mr.. MoCarty, who has been
blessed with all the advantages of
ancestry, race and birth, that, alas, I cannot
claim. Nevertheless I adhere to the opinion
that to turn over the real estate of Ireland
to peas proprietary (if such were pos
sible) would only lead to greater distress and
woise trouble in the near future than now ex-
lists, because, unless the island was divided
g. ually between the present occupiers, there
would ba reaI s'irish rows.'' Statistics say
trai only 1850, ccS1 acres is productive, and
the eseat majority of it can only be used for
grazing, the rest being either mountain
weste, water, bogs or sand bills, there being
j1O,8o families occupying the land, it would
only cut up into 25 46-1OO acres holdings,
and even with this division, were it practio-
able, the people could not be satisfied, ow-
ing 70 the difference in quality and value of
the land; therefore I for one will leave to time
and the encountered estates to court
the establishment of a peas
ant proprietary-particularly as a
law. passed some few years ago requires
that all properties offered for sale should be
SO divided as to enable the occupiers to pur-
chase in their holdings, and this desirable and
just law hes resulted IN nearly all the glebe
lands passing into the hands of tho tenants,
who occupied at the time of the disestablish-
ment of the Irish church.
Mr. McCarty lays the entire deplorsble
st .te of society over there to the landlords,
buj say that the excessive rents paid there,
Cfor excessive know them to be,) is entirely
Gue to the acts of the people themselves.
Their etsed for land has ever been such that
when farm was for rent, they rushed for it;
they outbid each other; they "blarneyed" the
wife, sons and daughters Of the owners, (ol
if an absentee, his agents, while they stoop
ed to bribe the bailiff, the hired man, the
cook, tutor and my laly'a
taaid, and as Irish landlords, like Ameri-
cans, or any other race, accepted
the highest oIer. Again the 1riehman'a
love of homa IS SO great that it is only ex-
ceeded by his desire of having his children
about him, and 10 this very commendable
trait of character may be traced the sad con.
dition of that noble rac,. Every record and
tradition tells clearly that what is know as q
.o:71alGnd was originally oe ,upied BY one
tenant, who, yeare rolled on, he, and his
generations after him divided and sub.
divel amongst their children until there are
now exclusive of holdings in cities and
towns) ia ,989 holdings valued at under "a
(Which is equal to $17.36); 142,468 valued al
ca and under f8 Tor $o4.72-1OO); A8, 400
valued at IS and under e10 (or $500; n,
8Q5 valued at G1O and under G15 (ol
$72G0); 1919 valued at ELS and under
eco Tor $4,000; 85,259 valued at EGO and
under ESQ Tor 1919, and only 1856 valued
at $50 and upwards. Just think of it and
picture to yourselves, you prosperous people
of this country, 1889 families occupying
holdings and houses only valued for $17s36;
What Irishman who ever witnessed
the misery of the struggling people of hia
native land, and who himself, Of necessity,
was forced, against his will (for none of ue
came from choice), to emigrate to this coun-
try, where they found every blessing that q
bountiful God in his goodness can bestow,
can raise up his voice against emigration,
but, forzooth, Mr.. McCalty, from Canada,
would do so and ADVISE the rsople to stay In
Ireland and endure star vation, for what!
sUst to spite the landlords and English gov
e-,ment; but, as believe that God, in hi
ia6ri:s WELDON, in the days of Jacob, caused
sanrine in tho land of Canaan that it might
lead his chosen people to the land of prom
ise, SO has he in our time caused dearth in
Ireland to lead the Irish to the United
States, and as know that here there is
plenty, I say to them, "Get you up and
come hither, that you may live and not die, -
while ADLER men and greater statesmen than
C c solve 'oi the Irish ri land d's pro6 Sne
il s somewhat strange that the greatest dis.
tress always e-';ted in that part of Ireland
to which it is said Oliver Cromwell gave TIE
/ Celtic chiefs the choice Of going to-, or to
and where the majority Of the land is still!
owned by gentlemen who rejoice in such Celtic
names a. O'Day, Barry, Broderick, Barrett,
OByrne, o Driscoll, Callaahan, Cummings,
McCarty, O'Dowds, Ieahy, O'Flaherty, Nc
Sweeny, O'Briens, O'Callaghan, O'Donovan,
O'Farrell, Quinn, O'Malley, McShane,
O'Grady, OLeary, O:Leahy, Power. Lynch,
Hurley, O'Sullivan, McGillicuddy, % Cornell,
Fitzgerald, McMahon, Burke, Blake, Be ik;7,
MoG Guinness, O'Mahony, ETC., eto., while
from the provinces of Leinster and
Ulster, which are owned by the descendants
of the early English settlers, comes no report
Of dire distress. To refnte my statistics
McCarty enters into TRADE of abuse of the
landlords and government, and tells the stale
old story about Lord Castlereagh in fit of
insanity (Which disease he forgot to add is
hereditary, or that Q year or so ago another
Lord Castlereagh also committed suicide),
and also Of some other poor mailman follow
ing suit because he fancied he would die of
starvation. A True FRIEND OF IRELAND.