New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-12

Onr Inst adyices report the discomfort Ia
both England and Ireland as rapidly increas-
i.r. Ii produces Characteristic results in each
country. The English mill hands and tenant
farmers have either submitted TO he require
mcnts of the manufacturers and landlords. OF
they are packing up their miserable little be-
loncinss to emigrato to this country. Few of
The cmicraiinc parties have started TO Cam
ada or Australia, III proportion to those
coming holej they have had enough for tho
present, apparently, o. English law.
The maicontcnts in ireland, however. l1ish-
like. neither give MP nor run away. Incy
arumhle and starve and threaten fight
according to their cd habits. At most Of the
moss-mectiue- held in August to donounce
the oppression of the landlords bodies
of armed men appeared. AT the meeting
i'm Comfy Mayo, at which imperative de-
mand- for reduction of rent md change III the
land system were made there was show Of
cavalry and Inc old parade common IN l7JS,
OF pixies and green banners. with rldc pie
turo of captive Erin In chal Is appealing to
her sons to set her free. Indeed, there Is
curious likeness between the progress OF the
present threatened tcndntry-nsurrcctlOn IN
Ireland AMI that OF the rebellion OF last CEN
tuly. Each was preceded by n failure
IN the crops and friehtful restitution
among The Catholic pant of the popu-
lation. In both cases the landlords were
nplacable and in both priests and
peasants maze the same frenZied, hopeless
attacks upon their sense of justice, worried III
almost precisely the same language. The
land system in Ireland is OF so old growth
that it would require something more than a
miracle TO open the eyes of the absentee land
lords to its injustice. From the beginning Of
the eighteenth century until the present ume
one season Of want and absolute famine las sue
ceedcd another. De llaurannc laid iifty ycar'ago
eli the Land of anomalics-the most constant
"dcplorable destiiuiou in the richest OF soils
Thackeray tells OF his horror OF seeing "a
"ptoplr dying of hunger IN one Of tie most
fertile countries in the world TIE London
Times forty years ago dragged The secret Of
the whole matter To light when it declared
that Ireland was The victim of an uneXlmpled
social cYimc-that If the landlord against the
tenant a. England" it said, 4" has to sup
port half the population OF Ireland, il is be-
"cau,e she has deliberately allowed them to
abe crushed into nation OF beggars."
The starving Irish tenant Of last century
p
his grievances, emigration was a. yet more
desperate chance than passive submission.
He threatens fight now simply because, like
the dogs bark, cit is his nature to-" But he
won't do il; the amounted cOntingents,"
pixies and green banners will amount to no
more than the blast of trumpet melting in
thin air. In the course of month or two we
shall hear that he, hike his English neighbor, is
packing his kit and following the crowd to Kan
sas or Minnesota. The Irish peasant Is no less
loyal than his grandfather in 1898; but he has
acquired IA good deal more worldly wisdom.
He knows very well that "green Erin " has
given him nothing but patch of potatoes,
a mud cabin, ragged coat; why should he
fight for leave to live on costly patch OF
her WORKOUT soil : There are more Irish III
this country than in Ireland He will follow
his kind, and in a year or two will taste
swecter satisfaction in going to the polls in q
broadcoth coat and high hat, with his vito
looking on, than in the approval of all the
Irish kings and old nobility 70 boot.