The daily gazette., 1880-01-17

AID FOR IRELAND.-The meeting
last night of Irish sympathizers was
largely attended by the Irishmen and
sons of Irishmen ; and great interest was
manifested in the efforts about to be
made to receive Messrs. Parnell and
Dillon, when they come to this city
Our local columns will show what was
done, and how strongly the old love for
Ireland still lives in the breast of her
absent sons who have adopted the Uni
ted States as the scene of their future
homes.
In referring to "Ireland and her poor
the New York Herald says its scores
pondent, who has spent several weeks
among the lowly cots and novels in the
distressed districts of the west of Ireland,
and who sends us an equally interesting
account of the state of things prevailing
in the counties he visited gives us a clear
view Of the terrible extent to which the
credit system has been carried on among
the small farmers, and how, after bad
season, the impoverished peasants find
themselves in the clutches of a merciiess
set of usurers and plebeian land buyers
who press their claims for their pound OF
flesh with vengeance worthy of Shy
lock himself. 81 unhesitatingly aver"
our correspondent writes, ''that the cred
it system is equally responsible with bad
land laws and bad taxes for the present
debased and demoralized condition of
the Irish peasants. More money is to-
day owing to storekeepers and money
lenders than to landlords, and it is GER
tain that if the farmers pay one they can
not pay the other" And yet Mr.. Par
nell has urged more than once that the
shopkeepers should be paid in preference
to the landlords. Another point touched
upon in the letter published this morn
ing is the hatred of the tenant farmers
and laborers 10 entering the woIkhouse.
The poor law system Of Ireland is ap'
parently radically bad, and there is nc
good reason why outdoor relief should
not be extended, so as to save the people
the humiliation they feel at becoming
occupants of the house." Sixty able.
bodied men were admitted to the Kill
larney Workhouse on Wednesday, and
poor, starving woman, who applied fo
admission on Tuesday, brought one O
her three children with her dead in hel
arms. She had walked forty miles tc
find relief The facts needs 10 com
ment. Such report ought at once be-
ia ken into consideration by the govern
ment and the poor laws so changed as tc
bring relief to the sufferers
That is the condition in which tn,
richest government on the face of til,
earth finds her children to-day, and ye
no effort is being made by the British
Parliament to aid those whom hard anC
oppressive laws have taxed until nothing
is left Of all the long years of labor and
toll that have elapsed since Ireland wa,
fruitful and bountiful country yielding
readily under the culture of ber sons.
Why does the Queen not open he
purse now TO the poor of that section o
her realm from which came many of he
greatest beroesP Why do the Lords an,
Commons not see that the government
exchequer could not be drawn upon 10
more praise-worthy purpose than 70
the relief of the distressed people of Ire
land?
These are pertinent inquiries. Bu
they will not be answered and Americf
the nome aud asylum OF the Irish, nee
not wait for an answer. Those VIII
have charity in their hearts will see th
need of immediate action; and the
will see to it that, as on a former occs
sion, the sails of every United State
ship that enters the ports of Ireland WI
be regarded as white winged messer
ger of heaven.