The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-31

end to end, and spoliation sand murder. That
pious scoundrel Cromwell himself massacred
5000 at one time and appended to his dispatch
announcing the bloody deed "Glory to God!"
This is but one incident Of hundreds treaty
was never kept with the Irish. You judge q
mans motives by his acts. The English gov
eminent having conquered il, divided the land
among a favored few. Before that time the Irish
had held their lands us lands are held in Amer-
ca-alodially, so to speak. But the feudal sys-
TEN having been forced on England by William
the Norman, in 1865, the English government
forced it upon Ireland; and they have perpetu
ated the system by the existing laws Of primo
geniture for the benefit Of the eldest son, and Of
annuities to support the balance of the family,
who were never guilty Of earning living These
laws ought to be done away with SO that the
workers, the thrifty, can buy themselves homes
These are the evils Parne is striking at He
says to the government of England, you have
robbed us for 700 years, yet we don't ask you to
refund; we want the people to work but want to
have it possible for the people to stay at home
that the people who till the soil may have .
chance to become its owners | believe with
Beccher, who said that the government that had
emigration should not exist. This aid we send
is useless unless it says America is ready to as.
sist In permanently relieving Ireland. Look
at her government Thirty years ago two mil
lions OF the people died since then two millions
more have left their homes and yet the people
to-day are starving And this may happen next
year or the year after Compare her government
with other EusSpean countries. In Silesia there
is famine Immediately it came, Emperor
william subscribed sec, 900 and the government
inaugurated great systems of public works cost
ing from two to four millions and relief came.
For the Irish relief Victoria subscribed $500 and
the government has done not one thing In
Austria when the floods came the Emperor and
Empress were the first to go to the scene and to
subscribe for the peoples relief; when the Irish
famine comes, Victoria goes to Scotland on pleas
ure tour. Over EGO 600 900 are annually sent out
of Ireland in rentals alone, yet now the people
are starving, few, II any, OF the landlords come
to the relief. We ask now for charity; but TAX
ing American history into consideration, Ireland
has q right to that American sympathy that
shall force from England one net Of kindness -
the removal Of the oppressive laws and let the
people own the land they have earned by the
sweat OF their brows.
Hon. VIM. REDpICK said there was branch of
the subject he had not (nor ever heard discussed
Americans hardly understand why the Irish, with
all their thrift, their courage and daring; why,
with men like Wellington and Nelson, the Irish
are still vassals Of Great Britain; why having
fought others battles they cannot win their own
| independence What is the reason? In the first
place Ireland has but 5000, 600 of people; Eng
land, Scotland and Wales combined as they are
on one island have about 10000, 600. Ireland is
but little larger than London alone. These So,
000 900 easily keep down five, especially when
the latter are not allowed to make or bear arms
hardly dare to catch a tsh!-The nearest part Of
England to Ireland is distant but IA miles; the
distance between the islands at most is but 40
miles; and the English army and navy command
the Emerald Isle. Suppose in l776, or when the
| l3 colonies revolted, they had been in the same
positon,-Washington and his friends would
never have gained independence; separated by
1000 miles they had to fight seven years to get it.
| In 1912 the English were able to ascend the Pc
tomac and burn our Capitol and White House In
our very faces. And this is the reason why Ire
her great wealth. for her money can get for her
soldiers and arms and ammunition; but Ireland
without these can't turn 'rouna to help herself.
Goldsmith says
| III fares the land, to fastening ills prey
| Where wealth accumulates and men decay
That is the condition of England to-day. When
we Of America look at the condition of Ireland,
ali we have to remember is that, as ! have before
tanEn is he
whole human family. l thought SO daring the
days of slavery in the United States. knew We
could not hold four millions of slaves in bondage.
| 1t is true that when men will not do right for a
long time, the Almighty will make them do right.
Great Britain may glory in her fleets and armies;
but let her remember Belshazzar's feast and Cy-
rus. 1t is the part of wise statesman to look
on the past for, rs Solomon SAID, what has been
will be. While now all is dark in Ireland, the
sun may burst out there tomorrow. "The Harp
that once through Tara's Halls" may be silent,
but the voice Of the minstrel will yet be heard in
the land We must go on. Give me free schools,
a free press and free pulpit, and I'll move the
world. These are what Great Britain fears.
| He thought, also, that as Parnell had only a
certain number of days to spend in America, 1t
would hardly be right to ask him to come here
where the work has already been done. He can
do more real good elsewhere.
A discussion then followed as to how the money
should be sent and where The treasurer, Hon.
VIM. Reddick, was at length authorized to send
it for the relief of the immediate necessities OF
the poor through the person or persons in Ire
land his judgment aeemed best.
Adjourned for one week.
! There we're four Of them. One is the dis
penser of wet groceries over the bar Of a fash
ionablc saloon, pstronized in chief by the young
fellows about town. Another was hostler OF
a livery stable across the road and spells his