The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-09-12

| iathcr nau 10 Ieavc them. w hen StOnCWall
jackson was dying, he said in his delir.um,
"lct us cross over the river aud rest in the
shade of the trees"
As the years pass by the Confederate
soldier fulfills these dying words of the great
jackson. The ranks are slowly forming
over the river. The great Captain is alrea.
dy there, and one by one his generals arc
taking their places by his side, and the
brave men who followed them are slowly
crossing to their rest under the shade of
the trees Of lbe Paradise of God.
| !. SSp----.--.c 60
Is IaskAaR ess
fiasf6w<h Of tf6165 Hdt y ika6d sign1E
Eieant than the chronic political brois which
affiict that lovely Isle. The riot at Lurgan
| ON last Lady Day" took the conventional
| form of a conflict between the police and
the Home Rule mob, the Orangmen acting
III this instance only as a sort of proximutc
causes of the row. The efforts of Home
RULER to "sct at" an antagonistic Orange
man led to the arrest of the former, and of
course, as natural consequence, to an at
tempt at rescue. Thcu the police fired
on the mob, several persons were killed or
wounded. and coroner's inquest was held
in which the Orangemen had majority
of the jury. aud brought in verdict
justitying the police. A minority verdict
signed by eleven Home Rulers found the
facts exactly the other way, and so Irish
opinion is, as usual, divided, and when Par.
Lament meets again new cause for agita-
tion will be ready for the honorable mem.
bers
But at the bottom of the present dstur.
bance is more important and ominous
question than the difference between Orange
and Green. A movement has been recently
started looking to the abolition of the pres
ent Land laws Of Ireland which promises
to cause most serious trouble in the immc>
diate future. Parliament ut its last session
repealed the act making it illegal for any
number OF persons to meet in ireland as a
convention" elected to represent special
classes or interests in the country, and the
result has been that already convention
has met at Castlebar and has established
'The National Land League. of Mayo
With most elaborate and ,eemprehensiye
providing " machinery sfor the protection,
as far as may be, OF the tillers Of the soil
from rack renting landowners, and the
ultimate abolition OF the present Land
laws OF Ireland, and the substitution in
N their place Of such system as shall be
in accord with the social rights, the tradi.
tcns, and the moral sentiments of the Irish
race" The Irish landlords read this as
The starting of an agitation to abolish them.
The Irish Land laws arc admittedly, even
now, largely in the interest of the landlords,
and if these laws are abolished, with such
substitution as that indicated, the landlords,
us an inevitable consequence, would go
overheard with them.
y movement like this presents q plat.
form upon which almost all the disaffected
classes in Ireland can stand together. AS
9 matter of fact both Feniaps aud Orange.
lsinnn L,-.i.o
mitted to its support. The breaking up of
the great landed estates aud the establish.
ment at peasant proprietary arc advocated
by journals representing all shades of polit.
zeal opinion. AS the case now stands, three
hundred persons own over 100000 acres
OF Irish land, twelve of the three hundred
owning 1927 1888 acres between them.-
The agricultural population have no inter-
est in tho soil, and their condition, even in
times of comparative prosperity, is most
degrading and deplorablc. But the pres.
ent time Is one of unusual depression. The
annual return of the Registrar General for
ireland shows decrease within the year of
20 900 mlch cows, over u 900 sheep and
1877 400 pigs The potato crop shows signs
OF rot and is said indeed to be in condi-
ton closely resembling that of the ever
memorable year 1913. And, to crown all,
the effect Of American competition upon
the cattle market has been most disastrous
American live stock and American meat
can be carried from America to England
as cheapy as from Ireland to England, and
OF course this means ruin to the Irish gra-
zeis.
1t is probable, therefore, that this agita.
tion over the Land laws will have very i'm.
portant consequences. From every point
OF view the question is besct with difficulty,
and, with turbulent and discontentcd pop.
ulation at their back, the Irish agitators
will be certain to give serious trouble. Eng.
land has her hands full already without
this additional problem. 1t remains to be
seen how Parliament will deal with it,
Neps and Courier.
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