New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-08
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| PARNELES ADVAAC CID IDEAS
| The Chief Justices ill-timed invective
| against Irish lawcssness has stirred Mr.. Par
| nells blood The thin mask which he has
| worn falls from his face. He denOunces the
Government and all its WORKS. its menaces OF
! coercion. and its promised land reforms. lie
| defes Ministry which he considers too weak
to enforce its policy. He declares that the
Land League revolt cannot be put down until
| two great ends nave been worked out. One OF
these ends is distinctivcly agrarian: the hller
"oi the soil must become its owner; aud the
other is pollticai: the country must recover
its legislative independence" A few weeks ago
| he was content to warn the peasantly against
occupying or allowing anyone TO occupy farms
| from which tenants had been evicted. ana also
! against paving any rent which might seem to
them unreasonable Ills latest utterances mark
decided advance in the movement The two
main objects of this great uprising, as he now
defines ttem are the abolition Of landlordism
and the establishment of an Irish Parliament.
| Before we condemn such programme as
| this as unreasonable and demoralzing, let us
| take the Judgment OF one OF the mos progress
| sive Liberals in England on the merits oil the
case. Under the first head let us CHE Mr..
Brcht's recent speech at Birmingham, i'll which
| he land bare the evils of the lIish land system,
showing how the great estates many OF item
mort gag ed and embarrassed. had been trans
mittod from generation 10 generation, from
fathers TO their eldest sons, under conditions
of entail whereby they could neither be sold,
divided, nor improved. The consequence had
been that one-third of the island was owned by
292 persons, one-half by 711 persons, and two
| thirds by 1,942 persons; while on the other
! SIDE there were 10000 tenants, representing
from $500 600 to 100000 persons abSo-
lutely dependent upon the SOIL living IN con
| tinual insecurity and having no means OF
| escape from the cruelty of Their fate cXcept emil
| grafton. "What they want" cries Mr.. Bright,
is thiS-that when a man has house over
" his head when he has built it himself, and
"whcn he has his little farm around him, he
| shall not be necessarily tortured with tho
"potion that any day he may have notice to
ouit and be turned out of his farm and home !;
and that the rent shall not be constantly
added to and added TO until even going out OF
" his farm is preferable to remaining upon IT,
| This great reform he hopes can be accomplished
| by means of a Government Commission which
will add rapidly to the number OF proprietary
farmers. That is to say, " the tiiler OF the soil
will become its owner" to use Mr.. ParnelPs
phrase. and the odious system Of landlordism
as it exists to- day will be virtually abolished.
1t would be idle to search tor any passage in
Mr. Blights speech which could be construed
as favorng Home Rule for Ireland. Progress
sye Liberal as he is, he is first and always an
| k,i hat nstf m III
legislative independence was closed 10y William
| Pitt and can never be reOpened. Yet e con-
ftsses frankly enough that if English rule had
been meIciful and just Ireland would be AS
closely welded 10 England at this moment as
Scotland is, and Irish patriotism would not
have degenerated into hatred OF Protestant
ISM landlordism. and England. But was Eng-
land ever more merclless and unjust than in the
year of grace 1900, ghrn. through monstrous
| system of corruption and inquty, the Irish Par
| liamput was dispersed and a PROSTATE people
were dragged mo political union with the
nation which had fist conquered and despOied
and finally degraded themi If that great
crime had not been added TO the cOntiscation
of the soil and the barbarity of the penal code,
if the legislative independence won by the
genius of Henry Grattan had lot been snatched
away, would it not be as difficult to-day, If we
may repeat Mr.. Biight's own words, " to raise
| the flag of instruction OF discomfort in Ireland
| as il would be for Prince Charlie again TO raise
that flag in Scotland" " Religious grievances
have been redresSed, and Land Reform bills have
been passed, but the dIsaflcction remains; and
| if Mr.. Parne is to be believed, it can never be
alayod until the Irish people hay Parliament
of tbeir own.
| That the main objects of the Land League
| are both reasonable and patriotic cannot he
denied by anyone who accepts the logic OF Dir.
| Brights speech and recalls the shameful means
| by which Ireland was deprived of it's indepen-
dence. But the ends cannot be compassed with
| out intermediate agencies, and here the weak
ness of the Irish movement is exposed. Mr..
| Parneil would abolish landlordIsm-but howl
! BY confiscatiDg outright every acre on winch
rent is paid7 BY a Government purchase in
voying several hundred millions stcrlingf He
| does not say ; nor does he explain how Graf
| tan's Parliament can be restored in a country
where lawlessness already prevails, and where
the rights of the Handwriting class would be
sacrificed during the first legislative session
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