The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-07
ON PARNELL's PILLS.

New York, 6.-TelegrRms by lie
say 81 fve-column letter from Earl
DunIaven on Psrnen and his mission,
has been published, from which the
following extracts are taken: VI all
uuack cures for hard times the patent
Parnell pill is the simplest and most
deleterious in its consequence. II
consists in the maxims: When hard
up, don't pay your debts; pay your
rent when it is convenient to do sc;
if it ia inconvenient to pay do not;
unite and you can't be compelled to
pay; neither can you be turned out.
Robbery organized, ..on such a scheme,
would, of course, be hard TO zeal
with, aud there would be some sense
in the idea il the Irish tenant farm
ers were devoid of all moral feelings,
but they are net 1t is obvious
that if the tenant farmers paid
no rent they would be better
off for a little time in the
same way that the- would
be better of If they did not pay for
the clothes and for provisions they
purchase. The proceedings OF the
Psrnellites are peculiar. They assert
that the farmers cannot pay rent in
the bad times, and as q remedy pre-
prose that they should pay rent and a
large sum in addition to government
for term of thirty five years. Are
they certain there will not come q
bad harvest in that period? Do they
think government would make abate-
ments and trouble their heads about
the condition Of their tenerts7 The
Parnellites recommend the tenants to
do that which is illegal, but beg
them 10 keep within the limits Of law.
They urge them 10 keep possession OF
the property, money or land. belong
ing TO others, and excite them to eX'
pressions Of sentiment, which Imply a
determination to shoot one class OF
creditors rather than pay the debts
due them, and apparently fail to see
that they are recommending theft
and oondoning murder. They claim
to have the welfare of the Irish PEG
pie at heart, and they endeavor &c
prevent them lettering their condition
by recommending emigration. II E
Country can only be farmed success
fnlly in large holdings, you cannot
alter the circumstances by changing
the tenure of tie land. Emigration
is powerless to deal with the immedi
ate need, and relief must be obtained
from other sources. The government
appears to have wisely decided agsins
granting state aid to Ireland at pres
emit. State interference in such mat
tiers is usually injudicious. 1t is essen
tial that private charters should
be carefully administered and money
Ijudiciously employed. If large sums
of money, after the present pressing
necessities of the county have beer
relieved, can be sent, they will be
certain of profit one way only, anc
that ia by helping and encouraging
emigration. An experiment in the
way of peasant proprietorship might
be tried. 1t is hard to theorizs in
such matters. In very exceptional
cases il might prove a success, and
an unusually prudent man might
succeed in getting and keeping biz
freehold, and where a farm contained
a large proportion of unprovided, bat
improbable land, its yield might keep
pace, for a time, with the increasing
number o! human beings to be sup
ported by it. l fear, however, that
the experiment would invariably prove
lamentable failure. Ireland ought
to be fairly prosperous. One such
period of agitation, however, by dis
!urbing mems minds. by inducing
them to indulge in foolish dreams, by
destroying credit. by alternating
English capital and by producing in
the English mind q feeling of disgust,
will be to create such a condition as
will be efaced only with great diff
Guilty.