Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-27
"AULD IRELAND"
She Still Bears the Sores of Calling Cent?
ries Produced by the Yoke OF England

She Still Bears the sores OF talllnB Seulu'
ries Produced by the Yoke OF England
LONDON, November 25.-It would be
fatal u any just view OF the Irish qnes-
ton OF to day II ignore the rule OF the
Saxon over the Celt in the past. Ire
land to-day bears the sores OF gilllng
centuries produced by the yoke oi Eng
land. The Eng.ishman who reads his
tory Alright and is honest OF expression
will admit this; and some will aid,
even at this hour, with sympa-
the,ic salve to heal the old Tester
ing wound The average Englishman
in England.is more ienient and more
Just, as well as sympathetic, toward Ire
land than the average Englishman out
of Ergand. In England the 'creed
cries" the "Orange boys" or the "Crop.
DIV, lie down" shibboleths are compara-
lively unknown. In Englind's colon
ies-in Canada and Australia-they are
a fierce following OF fanalicism, ever
fresh and ever new. All men know
that severe ailments require drastic
remedies, and that freedom won is more
precious than freedom bestowed.
II in the present struggle some Irish
men have given way to undue violence,
it must be kept in view what huge
burden, the oilSprin. OF past English
misrule, they have had and still have to
contend with. Centuries G: systematized
violence, legal,zed lust, Parliamentary
power and clique faith-faction control
by the Saxon must be considered side
by side with the consequences thereof.
4 l.
peTused Rand in hand Wltn ,he chan,.,s
on present agitation w." -, =
conquest and ConiiscatiOn ot land Is a
dangerous doctrine to broadly advocate
in any county. What people could or
did ever assent mildly to the ruthless
seizure of their lands, even Ev military
conquerors, to say nothing ol political
"carpet.baggers?"
IL no less dangerous doctrine,
however apparently equitable, to advC,
cate the rights OF previous possession"
after the lapse Of centuries. What pro-
cess will or can establish successive
rights to the soil" as Mr.. Parnell up
holds? What class OF legal title t. ten
ure can be easily established by the pre-
conquest occupler, his heirs and success.
sor,a "The tiiler OF the soil is its mas
ter" we are sold. A very broad doc.
trine is this-involving much revolution
and upsetting OF equity. Ireland Is
Celtic in spirit anil Catholic in faith.
Irish land tenure in its inception Is tri-
bal. England is Saxon in sentiment
and Protestant in belief. English land
tenure and landlordism is i'll its spirit
and practise ieudal.
The Celtic spirit and the Catholic
faith in Ireland has for centuries (irom
III, when the Island was annexed to
Enyland) been subject TO ribaldry and
ridecule, to persecution and prosecution,
TO insult and injury, to Incidence and TO
infamv. But both the spirit ami the
faith have remained true to this hour
with the Celtic and Catholic lrishman.
England had failed to annex such lrlsh'
men, and has only succeeded in annoy
ing them. Lands may be conti,cated
and conquered, fallen churches planted
and propped up, but the Celtic and
Catholic withstood all. England is a
workshop. Ireland is farm. To de.
duce comparative arguments oi the
bro. p-rlty OF the one aud the poverty oil
the other Is rot Just. Therefore, claim
the distinction Tor the one and disorder
for the ,thrr as not common basis ii
logic
The strength and prosperity OF coun-
try depend upon the suppcrt and
strength Of the people. England :
wealth to Il g extent OF one seventh Only
comes from her agriculture, lr, land : %
the extent oi more than onc.hall.
Hence, when the former cries Quito tie
latter to become elnai with himself N
industrious manufacturing, the l"l.a' y
uI Ills appeal Is arp.s.nt IN Won
shop ending the farm Is the weak cry:
England has always condcnned lre.aLd
lor lack oil mechanical industry. lre'
land has never rctOrt.h hy presenting
the picture oil John Bull unable 10 pr .
duce his own bread or his own meai
sufficiently.
Ireland has 100000 tcnautS, who's
| sole acreage each durs not average TWEEN
| ~ avres 10 All average family q! scd per
sons. She has IN tHCsc people tii" nur'
sery OF pauper.sm, by reason oi landlord
aggression. She LAS 2>) 600 more ten
| ants with an average uI ten ICrrs PEI
eight pei sons, and tn Sc constitute lhe
| annex 10 the above NURSERY. She his
! liO 600 more oi an average family oi tve
that does not hold n.ort than ivur acres
per family, and they are the nursery ant
the tomb ui riupsr Ireland II i IN
possible ior such occupiers o! suci! pot:
OF land 10 live in other taaa paupeilsn
| when the climate, the crops an 1 IA,
absence Of capital are considered.
omit the landlords rule OF terror, dis
traint and destruction. And Yet yot
ere a. "a why these people ATE not ilS'
the Saxon prosperous mechanic.
There are 1. .S16, ,C0O acres oi waste Ian,
in Ireland, the English reioruer all
manufacturer will TIL lol. lrs; Uu
they are acres of swamp and boz, T.
gether with irreclaimable mountain
land. Ar;eral and surface DRAINAGE L
redeem this land requires money. I'M
money has not been supplied. Anu th
Irish peasant is made the poor scape
goat for his marshy and mountain acres
already too we'll Watered and hnp'lnte'
by the tears OF his broken heart, hl
crushed children's sobs, and his attenu
ated wife's signs.
Never was a country in a deeper deg
radiation never acountry more lns;iti'-
in revolt. Gaunt poverty stalking aoHu
in daylight trains u midnight compail