Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-05
Tie irish Question.

Our country will now be agitated for some
time with the Irish famine and land ques-
ton; We will be solicited to feed and clothe
the destitute ard to divide the soil of Ireland
among the small farmers, after some fash
ion.
Why the Lard League should send talking
men to America to solicit aid, and not to
England, Scotland, Belgium, France, and
Holland, the richest countries in the world,
merits consideration. Why, above all,
should Minnesota be called upon to contrib
ute dollar, while SO many of our frontier
settlers are desperately destitute? We have
poor everywhere. Destitute people in large
and small cities. Our frontier poor were re-
duced to restitution by our excess of mis-
fortunes. Grasshoppers devoured the fruits
of their hard labor, followed by two years of
drought, yet the young State strained her
credit to meet the terrible disaster, and in O
small measure mitigate the evil. We made
no appeal to foreign countries-sought no
foreign aid. 10 day our State frontier coun-
ties are filed with temperate, worthy families
still struggling under the most adverse cir
cumstances. A distinguished State official
told the writer that he dined with an Ameri-
can family on o remote prairie whose only
food was mash from bran. I should add, he
left $40 for his entertainment without re-
vealing himself. I could fill a large sheet
with such sa(sstories.
At the pregent there are famines in three
diferea. pts of the world, more severe
than in Ireland, where the government
rallies to relieve the suffering as we did to
help our own poor.
Ut course we all agree that the hungry
should be fed and the naked clothed, but it is
legitimate subject for consideration, who
should do it. Nothing would be more graft
flying to the English people than to see vol
untary subscriptions from America lift this
load from their shoulders. If Americans, in
their impetuous generosity, will tax them
selves to keep the burden from English
property, the Britain would be fool to
complain. That is what we did in 1948 and
are expected to repeat the remedy. Mime
sofa is now paying interest, for which all
property is taxed, on about $150,O00 "grass-
hopper bonds, but no one hears of England
paying our famine bonds. Generosity is a
good quality in man, but the wise bestowal
of charity enhances its value. Minnesota,
in common with all new States, has suffered
her full share of affliction, from the effects
of which we are yet far from having recov-
cred.
AS to the Irish land question, about which
Mr.. Parnell and others have come over to
enlighten us, this concerns US no more than
does the the present squabble in Maine con-
Germ Ireland or England. 1 believe the ten
antry system of Ireland bad one, which
would justify extreme resistance. That is
their business and not ours. 1t cost the
lives of multitude of good men in our
country to preserve the integrity of our sys-
tenn of government, and 1 fail to understand
in what way the life of an Irishman is more
precious than an American. If the Irish
open their country for free fight and am
bilious Americans want to take hand in,
that would be after the American fashion,
always ready to succor the weak.
The Public Back APP the Globes Adrice to
the Irish A1itators.
To the Editor of the Globe.
ST. PAUL, Jan. Sd, 1SSO.-Decency at least
should impel Mr.. MacCarthy and::h oppo
nent to cease their wordy warfare in the col
umns of the GLOBE, which good sense or in
telligence never would have commenced. It
was hoped that the good advice of the GLOBE
given some days ago, would have been taken,
but as it has not, it Is time for the public to
back it up and sit down on these two school
boys. Let them shut their mouths and open
their pockets. The facts are that the Irish
people are in want of food. That is all the
good people of st. Paul wish to know, as
manifested by their ready response to the
call for aid, and in the face of such a
response, it is indecent and oil out of good
taste, to indulge in such exhibitions by men
calling themselves Irishmen. 1t is not his
tories or theories that Ireland wants, but
bread. Let those two Jealous patriots send
it and disgust the public no longer.
An FRESHMAN.