Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-08
PARNELL'S WORK.

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Letter of Lord Dunraven In Criticism of
the Land League Organization.
NEWARK, N. j., Jan. GA monster recep-
ton to Parnell and Dillon this evening by
the Irishmen of Newark. They were met at
the depot by the Irish societies and military
organizations and escorted to the Grand OPP
era House, where mass meeting was held.
Fully 1000 people were present. Rev. j. E.
Forester, q prominent Universalist minister,
presided. On the stage were the Very Rev.
Vicar General Doane and a number of Cath
Ollie clergyment and prominent citizens. Ad-
dresses were made by DR.. Forester, Parnell
and Dillon. The meeting was very enthus-
iastic. Parnell was received with great ap-
plause. The resolutions promised aid to the
Irish league.
DUNRAvEN ON PARNELL.
New YORK, Jan. 6.-The Telegram has
by cable a five column letter from Earl
Dunraven, on Parnell and his mission, from
which the following extracts are taken: OF
all quack cures for hard times the present
Parnell pill is the simplest and most deli
ferrous in it's consequences. 1t consists in
the maxims: When hard up, don't pay your
debts; pay your rent when it is convenient
to do 80; if it is inconvenient to pay,
do not, and you can't be COM
PEELED to pay; neither can you be
turned out. Robbery organized on such q
scheme would, of course, be hard to deal
with, and there would be some sense in the
idea. If Irish tenant farmers paid no rent,
they would be better off for little time in
the same way that they would be better off
if they did not pay for their clothes and for
provisions.
The proceedings of the Parnellites are
peculiar. They assert that the farmers
times, and as remedy they
propose they should pay rent and large
sum in addition to tho government for a
term of thirty five years. Are they certain
that there will come bad harvests in that pc
Rod? Do they think that the government
would make attachments and trouble their
heads about the condition of their tenants?
The Parnellites recommend to do that
which is illegal, but beg them to keep within
the limit Of law. They urge them to keep
possession of property, money or land be-
longing to others, excite them to expressions
of sentiment, which imply determination
to shoot one class of creditors, rather
than pay debts due them, and ap-
parently fail to see that they are recon-
mending theft and condoning murder. They
claim to have the welfare of the Irish people
at heart and endeavor to prevent them bet
tering their condition by immigrating. They
assert that no landlord has an absolute title
in the land, that is to say, that even if he
bought his land under unencumbered estates
or from farmer proprietors, and they COM
mence an agitation for the avowed object of
creating number of landlords who are to
have an absolute interest in the land, but
they do not condescend to explain how the
future landlords can obtain any better title
than present proprietors possess.
Proof of the assertion that peasant proprie-
torship would be benefit to the country
no one has ventured to explain What size
holdings are to be, whether owners are to
to be restricted In their rights of sale of let
tings and of subdivision. If not one, or at
any rate two generations will be sufficient to
turn the farms of Ireland into potato
patches, and two or three bad seasons will
see the sale or mortgaging of the farmers
freehold to usurers and shopkeepers, who
have advanced him money or allowed him
credit.
| If a country can only be formed success
| fully in large holdings, you can't alter cir
cumstances by changing the tenure of the
land. Emigration is powerless to deal with
| immediate need, and relief must be obtained
| from other sources. The government ap-
pear to have wisely decided against granting
State aid to Ireland at present. State inter-
ference in such matters is usually injudicious.
| It is essential that private charities should
be carefully administered and money judic
iously employed if large sums are subscrib
ed. The money, after the present pressing
| ecassities of the country Rave been relieved
can be sent with certainty of profit in one
way only, and that is by helping and en-
couraging the immigration experiment, and
the way of peasant proprietorship might be
tried.
1t is hard to theorize in such matters. In
very exceptional cases it might prove sue
cess. An unusually prudent man might sue
coed in getting and keeping his freehold,
and where farm contained large proper
ton of improved but Improbable lands its
yield might keep pace for a time, with an
increasing number of human beings to be
supported by it.
fear, however, that the experiment would
prove lamentable failure. am sorry, for
should like to see q numerous class of
prosperous small proprietors. The sense of
ownership, the feeling of independence
arising from it induces self-respect and be-
gets manly, patriotic spirit.
Anything that encourages the unnatural
accumulation Of landed property in the
hands of few is to be deprecated, but if it
tends to do go through purely natural causes,
nothing short of unnatural and improper
means can check the tendency.
Ireland ought 10 be fairly prosperous
One such period of agitation, however, by
disturbing mems minds, by inducing them
to indulge in foolish dreams, by reducing
values and destroying credit, by alternating
English capital and producing in the Eng
lish mind feeling of disgust in everything
Irish, sets the country back years and years.
Feeling this strongly as do, and seeing
that Mr.. ParneH proposes to devote the
funds he may obtain in America, to foment
and keep up state of things
fatal to the country, do most sincerely
hope that his success may be small. No
one would more heartily wish success to his
mission than were the money to be applied
in any practical manner that could benefit
the people.
The earl concluded by saying that he
looks in vain through all the speeches of
Parneli and his adherents for one little
glimmer of practical common sense.