Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-27

T6IudIkS 6rOuSou IGlIIy uedIeuluS applause
and whose speech throughout was greatly
epplauded.
|
Mr.. ParnelLs address.
Mr.. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
wish that could initiate the cultured elo-
quence of Bishop Ireland in attempting to
place before you the case of my country Bish-
op Ireland's name is household word to US at
home. He is known as one who attempts, and
successfully attempts to smooth the path of
the poor Irish American, who when driven de-
spairing from his own country finds a shelter
in your noble country here. (Applause.) And
well would it have been for our people if in
1877 and the subsequent years Bishop Ireland
had been in the position to carry out the noble
work which he is now engaged in. (Applause.)
thank him for that work, and thank him
for his eloquent address tonight; thank him
that he has thrown in his voice and given his
powerful word in favor of the right of the
land where God has placed him. CRenewed
-pplause.)
Ireland, as you know, is passing through one
Of those periods of famine which seem to have
almost become necessary to us. Many who do
not know that country think that our land
must be poor OF our climate bad or our people
lazy, iudolent, or incapable, but none of these
things are so. We have soil of capability not
inferior to that of any country in the world,
and think we have a more equal climate than
that possessed by any other country. Our
people, you know-America knows-are ener-
getic and hard working beyond expression,
when they work for themselves, and yet they
starve at home, while in every other country
they become rich and prosperous and contrib
D. H. so1~a aud of
other country. How is this? The landlords
have made various excuses for this state of Of.
fairs. They told us at first that it was because
Ireland was too crowded, but this is not so. We
have in Ireland thirty acres of good land for
each of tho six hundred Thousand
tenant 1T. farmers but but the III. people
of Conomara and Donegore, where they have to
starve for a beggary of existence among the
rocks and endeavor to pay impossible rents.
In these barren districts l admit that they are
too crowded, (applause). but if they were al
lowed to live on the rich and fertile lands of
Ireland where at present we see nothing but
bullocks and sheep, contend that Ireland
could support in prosperity and comfort at
least double her present population. (Cries
of Hear! Hearty The landlords, when driv-
en- by the inexorable logic of statistics and fig
ures from the untenable position that Ireland
is overcrowded, and that its population is t 90
great, seek refuge in the excuse, it is the relig
ion of the people. If they would become Prot
estants Ireland would become very prosperous
and there would never be any famine. Laugh
ter and applause.) And they certainly would
have seemed to indicate in the years past by
their unremitting attempts to make the peo-
pie of Ireland became Professionals. They GER
tainly would seem to have indicated their
belief in this wonderful statement.
But somehow or other the facts are sgainst
them again. The Protestants of Ireland are
Just as much disconnected with the land sys-
tenn as are the Catholics, applause and laugh
ter), and the Irish shoe of landlordism is
pinching them just as hard, although they
originally got the best lands, and the picked
and chosen lands in that country to live upon,
and when we 60 elsewhere we ind that there
are Catholic nations in France, in Belgium,
even in Germany and Italy, who live in pros
perity by agricultural pursuits. France pre-
sents to-day remarkable spectacle of a nation
of small tenant proprietOrs who are able to
pay by their own resources the gigantic war
indemnity which Prussia inflicted upon them,
and France to-day is one of those countries
where there is both agricultural and monufac-
turing prosperity-one of those countries
where they produce surplus of food after
supplying their own wants to feed other na-
tions. But 1 do not think I need bring you
very much further than the evidence of your
own senses, because America is largely depend
ent for her prosperity upon the exertions, the
untiring industry of the Catholic people of
Ireland, who have come here. They have built
her cities, made her railroads, and it is not an
exaggeration to say that America would not oc-
cupy the position she now does in
material prosperity for another twenty-five
years were it not for the exertions of the Gath
Ole Irish. cloud applause.) And then, when
they have been beaten in all these matters, the
landlords made a last and despairing attempt.
They say. Stop politics" QLaughter.) This
is a season Of suffering in Ireland. Only the
voice of charity should be heard there-the
voice of landlord charity. 1 suppose. Derisive
laughter.) Let us all unite together to allevi-
ate the distress and let us not have anything to
do with politics until it is over. A voice, in
sarcasm, "Oh, no.'D This would be a very con-
venient method of settling the land question if
we allowed the landlords to kill our people by
famine and said nothing about it while the
process was going on. daughter and ap-
plause.) But we do not intend to adopt that
easy way out of difficulty either. We have
got the landlords into corner (laughter) and
we intend to keep them in corner and to
half starve them in the bargain before we let
them out. Great laughter and cheers.) They
say, as you know-you who are students in
English history know-that the constitutional
| remedy for all English grievances-for the
grievances of all English subjects against the
crown of England-is stopping supplies.
(Laughter.) Whenever an Englishman has
any grievance to complain of
against the government he stops
the supplies of that government.
Now, after long consideration-after having
gone through at least three famines in Ireland
owing to the attempts of the Irish tenantry
to pay impossible rents. those 6Oo,0 tenants
at will have come to the conclusion that they
will try how it will answer to partially stop the
| supplies of the landlords. and to use some of
| the abundant sums that they have been receiv-
ing up to the present in feeding themselves and
little ones. loud applause.) And they think
that wheh that process has gone on while, that
| the landlords will come to the conclusion that
it is quite as much to their interest to settle
this Irish land question it is to the interests
| of the Irish tenants. know not whether the
peaceful solution of the question that we have
proposed-a solution which requires the strict
eat regard to the interests of the Irish landlords