The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-29

600 by the American Congress went out
to meet the $50 600 900 voted by English
Parliament to the relief of Ireland. and
private henefcence in New York Wed
with Queen Victorla's donation OF $lO,-
600 from her own private purse, and
Persia, and India, and China and Egypt
Joined the Christian nations in a Crdeade
of Charity-many Of the victims as he
roic as the Irish wife who said to her
husband during those awful days.
"Come here and let us die together,
rather than touch what belongs to an
other" A famine so'awful that its re-
membranes sent in nineteen years to
America s, 8,5690 600 of the people of Ire
land. And now the famine of 1880 has
come. The deluge of last summer which
l watched for three months in Great
Britain and Ireland foretold this. Prom
inent citizens in Belfast and Dublin and
Londonderry told me then that famine
was inevitable. And a fortunate thing
now is that instead Of having the news
come by steamer, as in lS46, taking two
weeks, and two weeks necessary to send
answer in return, now thanks to the
heroes of ocean telegraphy-in flash
we get the call for bread, and in a flash
it is answered. o, my country, laden
with the magnificent harvests of the last
three years, in Gods name, with all your
rail trains, hasten down the breadstuffs
for dying Ireland. 0,merchants of New
York, standing in the radiance of this
new morning of national prosperity,
keep the telegraph going, commanding,
in your prompt benefcence, the foreign
granaries to come to the rescue. 0, ye
people of smaller means, gather not your
children at your own tables to-day until
you have planned, in some way, to help
the starving families that gather at Ia
bles with no bread. l implore in the
name and for the sake of Him who
said, II was a-hungered." God has
merCifully kept the most of us from
hearing that which is heard in thOus
ands of homes of Ireland at this hour
the unavailing plea for bread. No par
ent's heart was ever made hard enough
to calmly endure that, l do not Won
der that they get desperate. II my fam
lily were starving, and could get nei-
ther work nor food, while in sight there
was that which could satisfy their hun
ger, and l saw my children dying by
inches for that of which others had a
superhuity, and could neither by i'm
ploration or purchase get anything to
relieve them Instead Of fnishing
that sentence, / will say, God keep me
from temptation Huoger is an awful
thing when it settles down upon the
household. All the work stops, all
laughter ceases-all conversation-snd
there comes a hollowness to the eye and
a pinChedness to the features and sub
dued ferocity, and the animal glares
through the human, and there is wild
looking for that which comes not, and
despair. When the ships
of relief came up to the city and bread
was thrown to the docks, in their rapac-
ity some of the poor fsmishing creatures
cboked themselves to death.
1t is an awful thing to stsrve, and this
moment the process goes on, and will
continue till the combined charities of
the world bid it Cease. Famine among
the Irish is especially painful, because
their affections are peculiarly strong
Who doubts that who has seen the self.
denial Of many of the serving girls in
this country that they might send
money back home to pay rent and buy
and transport their relatives to
this plentiful land? Multitudes of such
in this country have sent back every
penny not positively necessary for their
existence. Amid affeCtionate hearts like
these the terrible work goes on. This
the population of some of the
cities of Ireland are wandering up and
lown the streets With the black hag,and
he best way to put down such riots is
oy giving them bread rather than bull
cts.
What makes this famine especially
oaintIl Is that it is surrounded by the |
most brilliant scenery. Destitution is
he more grastly when crouching at tue |
'oot of such hills and looking into the |
mirror of such lakes and begging at the |
rates OF such castles. Never were there |
more fascination of landscape found in |
he same distance. An island of two |
lundred and thirty miles long by one
hundred and ten wide, rhomboid ia
Jhape, its rocks showing more divine
kill than any rocks on earth; witness
he octagonals, hexsgonals and pentago
lals in granite, the forty thousand col.
INNS of Giants Causewsy, some of them
et up like the pipes Of the king of mu-
icsl instru nents, and called the organ
md stack" enough to have finally played
lpon them the grand march of the Last
Judgment An island indented with
ninety harbors, among them beautiful
islway and Donegal and Kingston and
yslenCis. Her coast at night illumiua.
lated by sixty.two light houses, two
hundred fairy islands sprinkling her
dges with brightness, Lochs Earn and
dask and Corrib, and that stretch of
andscape flung out of heaven the Kill
rneys. What silvery sheen the rivers,
hannon and Boyne and Foyle and
Brandon and BlacKwater, and others.
ich with salmon and pike and trout
What fora, what Alpine plants in An
rim, marvellous ferns among the Kerrys,
nd sea-weeds that are the bewitchment
I beauty, 80 that one goes away with
is hands, arms and soul full OF them /
'hink Of the horrors Of hunger set about
nth such loveliness, gorgon among
1ch angles Of enchantmentl Moreover
he surrounding capacity Of productive.
ess makes famine the more deplorable.
oils that wait to send forth greater har-
ests than Russia or America can yield
4 the same number Of acres. Loan of
fertility. Flax harvests only
le forerunner Of richer fax, and hemp
nough to hang all the traitors to liberty
nd righteousness the world over. Great
ealth in minerals, copper and lead, and
on and silver, and gold, having given
int of their presence. Capacities of ag-
culture, which developed, will make
mine an impossibility, and fill her
ands with charitable supplies for other
atoms. The time is not far ahead when
'eland, no more the mendicaDt, will be.
,me the benefactor Of others, for they
'e generous beyond almost any other
eople. The genuine Irishman will 20
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