Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-23

are recognized as men and human beings.
Parnelra proposition to the Government to
buy the laods on terms possible was rejected
by the Goyernmeut-at least no response was
made to it. Parnell told them they would
regret it. The Griffith valuation is helping
the people. Some years ago a valuation was
put on all lands, to fix an impost, and all
people, of all ranks, admitted it to be just.
Now the people declare they will pay rents
on that Griffith valuation. and no more,
for it was much lower than the claims
were made Rack-rent is the most
terrible evil of all in Ireland. A,
rich landlord, owns some worthless
land. B, q peasant, wants the land to work.
A says, under the system of land tenure, he
viii only lease for a year and st 10 cents
an acre. B replies il is the best thing he
can do and takes twenty acres. A sees him
improve it. and develop it, and reclaim 1t,
and il not utterly heartless, tells Il, at the
end of the first year, to go on another year
The third yesr 3 builds a house and makes
the place blossom as a rose. In the fifth
year here comes along A and says, Here,
this land is now worth So an acre rental, and
you must pay it OF 60" Rather than give
up all and &c out into the sleet, b yields and
pays the IS, and goes ON with improvement,
thinking that sum all that will be asked.
But in few years more comes AS agent,
and, for the tyrant living on his tenure, de-
mands $50 an acre, and here stand six or
eight cormorants ready to make the offer to
take BIS place at the new rental, and so out
must go, and all the results of the labors
Of his youth must be given up. Such was
the case before the Irish Land League rose
up and declared: $50 be it; evict these
men, but no others shall occupy the places. :"
Applause and cheers
NO oUTRAGEs
Are being perpetrated in Ireland, no crimes,
but the landlords are fleeing. A few years
ago the people were fleeing for life to this
glorious land of America now they have re-
solved to stay at home, and the landlords are
the enigrants. lApplause.l The people are
not preparing to fight the Government Of
England with arms. They are fighting
within the Constitution, and, as Parnell says,
when they propose to fight outside of it they
will give England notice. [Applause.l
AN APPEAL.
The speaker then referred to the needs Of
the Land League. The leaders are under
Indictment, they appeal for help. If Par
nell and Dillon and Davitt are convicted and
executed-which, God forbid-other leaders
will rise up. 1t costs money to feed and
clothe the evicted tenantry and to enable the
League to push on its noble work of reform, and
it asks for help from the friends of Ireland.
He declared the League to be composed of
men of all faiths that it is not in the interest
of the dominant religion in Ireland, but that
the clergy and laity of all churches there are
represented in the front ranks Of the League.
Protestant and Catholic cergymen alike
belong to the League officers holding :" Her
Majesty's" commission belong to it, and its
great leader, Charles Stuart Parnell, is "the
little Presbyterian from Wicklow" He is
not the best citizen who says, because of
my religion am better citizen than thou
nay, he is the best citizen who loves
his country best. [Applause He con-
Guided by quoting Emperor William of
Germany as writing to one of the royal
family of England that the landlorGisn Of
Ireland is scandalous to monarehial institu-
tions, and said that the world had indeed
changed when the great octogenarian ruler
expresses his sympathy for Irish peasants,
instead of offering an army to crush them
[Applause.
A committee, by request of the President,
then went through the audience, soliciting
Subscriptions and signers to the roll of the
League, while large number came to the
stage and signed while Mr.. Kelly recited the
poem "Shamus O'Brien.
The Chairman, Mr.. Woods, then made a
strong appeal for aid for the Sacramento
branch of the League, and thanked the audi.
ence for its attention, and the meeting was
dismissed, after giving three cheers for the
League and Parnell.