Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-12-14

be done to cancel the heavy
balance.
The Irish people have at last
succeeded in giving to their well
founded discontent very practi-
cal shape. "Boycoting" is likely
to become as famous word ~
" Burking" was a hundred years
ago. The grievances under which
. people suffer have to be very
great to admit Of nation banding
together almost as one man to re-
fuse intercourse to those who stand
by an oppressive landlord caste.
The American people have but q
faint conception Of the extent to
which the Irish teDantry have
been robbed. Nearly the whole
mass of the cultivators Of the soil
are tenants at will. They may put
all the earnings Of years on theil
heldings. just In proportion to
the industry and enterprise Of the
tenant is the landlords epportuni'
ty. Tho very labor Of the tiller Of
the soil has Increased the value Of
his farm; and, some fine morning,
he receives q peremptory demand
for largely increased rent. In
vain does he protest his inability
to pay 1t. He receives the brutal
reply that If he can't meet the ex.
action he must surrender the place
upon which he and his ancestors
have lived for hundreds of years,
and which was originally acquired
by conquest, to some one who says
he can. He is at once thrown on
the highway, to beg or starve'
Such an ubiquitous system, with
no redress in the courts, has led
the oppressed tenants and the Irish
ma sses to refuse intercourse, bust
ness or other, with their opprees'
ors. The man who takes farm
from which the tenant has beer
svicted finds himself surrounded
by wall of FIRE. The Irish Lane
League has proved that 1t rsmifiel
through all classes and all trades
The laboring man refuses TO worl
for the new tenant. The trades
people refuse to buy his produce o.
to sell him supplies. The singular
spectacle was witnessed, the othe
day Of Boycott harvesting biz
grain under the protection Of /
whole company of British troops
No such universal uprising coul,
ever have been produced by ligh
or trivial causes. In many In
stances as high as twenty-five dol
lars an acre lie exacted for farming
lands, the landlords in most case
being absentees, who spend tn
money wrung from the Irish PEG
pie In England or on the continent
entrusting the government Of thei
estates to heartless agents. TIL,
London Times, in our telegraph
columns, draws a very graph
picture Of the thorough organiza
ton and resolute purpose of th
movement, which, under tn
leadership Of Charles Stewar
ParnslI and Biggar, has sprung "
to resist this terrible programm
Of the spoilation Of a whole peepl
under the mantle of the law. 1t
= matter Of notoriety that no jus
or consideratc landlords hav
been in the slightest degrs
molested. Mr.. Parnell himsel
il a man of. property an,
has remltted one-third Of his rent
rs q concession to the hard times
The London press is Obliged to ad
NIT that, Notwithstanding the oc
oasional shooting Of a landlord
there Is less crime in Ireland thar
in any other portion of the British
empire. The Irish nobleman VIII,
was lately shot and killed turn
out to have been notorious liber
tine, who had ruined upwards Of
score Of innocent girls, taking ad
vantage of his position to und'
them. He was shot by the brothe
Of one Of his victims, who went 81
the way from Chicago to do thi
act Of vsngeance-shall We no
say, of justice? Though Eng
land may ship her Coldstrean
Guards to Ireland, we do not se
how the Irish people can fail t,
triumph II they continue ~ the,
have begun. All classes Of tn
people, as we'll as all religion
scots, are enlisted In the move
ment. Its leaders, Parnell AMI
Biggar, are Protsstants, and th,
oppressed Protestant tenant, equal
~ with his Roman Catholic neigh
Dor, cries aloud for redress. Owinf
to their cordial cooperation, Eng
land now sees In the Emerald Isle
> spectacle of that Emporium II
imp srio which lay at the root O.
her old time ferocious laws aeAfns
. proNswMtre. But the age ha,
changed, The world has advanced
and fsrocIty y new NO lopssl
|elther profitable OF reputable.