The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-05
IRELAND.
Generous Gift of tue Great
American Publisher.
The Distress and the Land
Laws

London, 3.-The Standard states that
amoug the measures promised by govern
ment to be presented at the opening of
Parliament, IS q bill regarding the dis
tress in ireland.
Dublin, Sat the annual meeting of
the Home.rule League, to-day, William
Shaw disclsimed any pretensions to be
considered a leader of the Irish people.
At a meeting of the Irish National
Land League, to-day, it was resolved
that Michael DaYitt should be deputed to
wait upon editors of French and other
continental newspapers 10 enlist their
support in efforts for the relief of distress
IN Ireland
The daily, hourly cry of distress in
Ireland becomes more and more urgent
and widespread. Every day revesls new
horrors in the catalogue Of suffering. The
outlook for the coming months is gloom
Ter than any prediction has yet painted.
No language can describe the appalling
privations, the utter destitution which
prevails. 1t is impossible to overdraw
the situation. So rapidly do matters be-
come worse that what might have been
an eXsggeIati0n yesterday will to NOR
row be an underestimate. Three hundred
thousand people are slowly starving, and
can only be kept alive by superhuman
efforts on the part of their fellow crea-
lures. Some of them are living on one
meal daily, of turnips or meal. Thous-
ands are con5uming their last potatoes.
Local efforts are becoming feeble. Peo-
p are looking 10 the world for succor.
The land agitation has hidden its head
for the moment, the agitators lending
q hand in the common cause. Parnel's
attack upon the Mansion House and the
Duchess of Marlborough funds is q crime,
the responsibility of which no man
should take to himself. If Parnell be a
rue Irish patriot, he will sink animosities
which even his friends and sympsthizers
and will become champion in !
America Of that cause in which all the |
world is one-the cause of charity.
New York, 4.-The Herald publishes |
/ long detailed list of suffering by viii |
ages in Ireland, arranged IN tabular |
orm, and announces that it will receive |
and begs people to give |
quickly.
The Herald editorial, after calling at.
ention to its tables showing the Irish
distress, in making this appeal 10 the be- |
levolent, deems it fitting to set an
which will be taken as a proof |
# its sincerity. The Herald, therefore,
,pens to-day a subscription for the Irish |
elief, heading it with the sum of $780,
100. 1t solicits other people to give in
to their willingness and |
1t will receive subscriptions for
my amount down to 25c., carefully pub
ishing the name and residence of every
and, when desired, the place |
If his former residence in Ireland, that |
he people relieved may know to whom |
hey are indebted.
Dublin, 4.-The Mansion House Irish
elief fund committee publishes extracts
# letters received from Catholic arch |
bishops testifying to the efficiency of the |
committee and the impsrtiality which |
,haracterizes the distribution of funds.
Lord Mayor Gray and the corporation |
nd civil officers of Dublin will present q |
petition Of the corporation in favor of re-
productive public work and an amend
nent Of the land laws on the part of the |
House of Commons on Friday.