The daily gazette., 1880-02-11
THIRD EDITION
JohA .Brsght's gpeech at Bsr-
natnghGm.

Mr.. BhGht referred 10 tso fsets which /
be ilipstrsted yeTy forebly - follOwE
Tbe@e .se ~ Isslsnd zbos1t twenty MIL 4
IIons-a fiffIs over twenty miliIons-oi \
acres Of Land. VI these z1z-that IL
perhaps ~ many people a. there are 10 4
one Of these side gzIlaTies-1n occupy l
ey5OoAOO aeTes, being eiose upon oGse-
third of tha Whole area q the country. H
('s5heme - Well bal iet me iook II The H
GALLERY 0pEosife or this gallery behind
me. There are psOoAbiy CD E 80 i
persDns in each Of these galleries But 4
IA persOns IN Ireland are the owners VI 4
9,Elz,O00 scres of Land, being nearly /
ons-baf Of the land 10 Ireland
(sShame,") Ard twelve men in Ire
lsnd-yes, twelve men, no blame 70 |
them n all, I am speaking Of . system |
-uofie N 10 could complain If we had
been what ne should say tie foFtDn nate
inberitos Of property like this-twelve
men, say, 10 Ireland occupy abou; L.
10000 acres, or more tIan 1OS, 20
LANDLORD AND TESAxT.
Nov, TIE sbOIe u the prOpnstOfs Of
IreIand-Nbat We call landed propr7e-
tors, do not near people sbo gar
den, OF 81 much a. their house staods
upOn, but what we call landed propr-e-
tors--<fe whole a them are probably
10, 00O or ~, 600 in number. What are
the tenants Of their iarms They are
600 900 In number. There is about one
real proprietor in about sixty tenant
farmers, and Of ,bese 6O0,ODO farmers,
5OO,OOO-tbat 10 equal 70 something less
than 3 ,0O0,OO0 Of people, but probably
exceeding $500, 0,OCO-tbey are tenants al
will, having no lease, Liable TO have
their rents raised, or notices Of eviction
served upon them BY ejectment, enforced
al some SIX or twelve months notice,
Il The will Of the proprietors, with
whom they are connected. (C1es Of
aShame,") Well, tha, IL not all. /
must tell you that very large proper
tion-AOme people say ole-hzlf Il bope
1t y not 20 many I-Of these prOpriefOFs
are what are called absentees- That l.,
they 90 not 1--we In Dublin or in Ireland.
Many Of them live ia this country, and
spend their incomes, 1t may be, III Lon
don others In another country, ey
spend their incomes In Paris. But they
are absentees, aud need not tell you
that the Ients fDiiDw tie owDers.-
(EHear, hesr") II the owners are iIL
London or England, the rents come 70
London or England and II they are 10
Paris, the renss 60 10 Paris aud thus
ireland pays an actua, tTibate u sever
al millions a year Of the produce Of It's
soil 70 owners who fulfill 10 petition ri
the duties Of owners, and VITO indulge
ib none Of that expenditure Oh the sp ),
where the wealth 10 created which would
fGFfh 10. fnrra~aa he fFH kxI
DfigbborbOOd, and 10 afford employment
and living W tie people. (''Heai
(bearfT
THE EFFECTS or THE PAMISH-osK
THOUSAND PEOPLE STARVING.
f"Tbe parish Of Carnagb ranges for
eighteen miles over the wild rocky
prOmOntOry Of Erris-annagh. With
perhaph a couple Of dozen executions
the whole population, s14 families
numbering some five thousand souls
are on the high road TO death by starv-
alton. Hunger has Oyertaken one
third Of them or more already. The
local relief cOrnmittee-pTesided oven
by Protestant gentleman Of much
local usefulness and popularity, Mr.
Hazel, and reinforced by the Protest.
ant rector, a. well az by the Catholic
priests-baye made careful house ID
house calculations, according 70 which
OF S6 families in the tOwnland Of
LoughconiOre there are 21 at this mo
ment wanting food 25 families out OF
the 81 in Kilsallagh /; % families out of
2o in Rusheen and Drinagh 20 fami+
lies out Of 35 in Alnabrone "a fami
lies out Of 20 in Bonrouchard, and sd
ON through the misers BILE roll. Those
who have anything 70 eat are living
upon the seed potatoes. Every dan
sOrne family is eating its last meal Ol
them. Hardly anybody any longer en-
Joys three meals a day, even Of rotten
dwarf potatoes. Two meals are now
the average allowance, Numbers thai
have met squat in their hideous ca4
bins around the morsel Of live turf all
day long in order not 10 awaken the
pangS Of hunger by active exercise and
think themselves happy if the mother
Of the family is able to beg or borrow
few pounds Of Indian meal that they
may not go. supperless to bed. And
oh the patience, the endurance, the
seif-sacrifice Of those wretehed peasant
mothers who stumble over miles of
Sharp pointed rocks with their bare
feet TO implors that miserable meat for
their whining children--who carry
loads Of turf or dripping seaweed o
their backs for ten or fifteen miles like
beasts Of burden-who alone in those
little doomed households seem TO have
heart OF hope left in them The first
stage Of starvation in already past for
many OF the men they have reached
that condition Of spathy and languor
in which they hardly care to raise their
heads. have come upon them buried
in the gloom Of their cabins, those
frghtful, silent family circles-the
shivering, half naked children hud
ding together for warmth the motha r
rocking little box of dirty rags in
which blue-lipped little baby is sleep
ing the man with his hat over his
eyes, his head bent to his knees, his
eyes staring fixedly forward with a
dull, stupefied stare--so sluggardizd
by want and despair that he hardly
turns while be tells you, in his hope
less way, that his last potato was eaten
o fortnight ago and that he has been
existing ever since upon a meal pei
day Of dogfish, or periwinkles, or In
dian meal Cruel And TO think that a