New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-02-18
The Irisl, land Question.

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The Irish land Question.
Iberia, Jan. 7th. 1880.
! Editor Repien:
In the absence of any local news of
Importance this week, will write Il
short article on the Irish land ques.
ton. For centuries English govern.
ments have been trying to stamp out
disaffection in Ireland. Wing, Tory,
Liberal and Conservative ministers
have in turn taken up the lash and
tried to scourge the people into sub.
lection. The gallows, the prison tor.
ture and the convict ship have been
used long and unsparingly against the
rebelliously inclined; and yet to-day
in the hearts of the Irish the unquench-
able love of liberty burns just as bright
as ever. To-day her furnishing child.
rem cry for bread; and while they APP
peal to the dominant brutal power
who holds them in subsection for re.
lief in their starving condition, Lord
Beaconsfield sends them more police,
more dragons, shot and shell and
grape and canister to intimidate and
overaw the starving people; while the
landlord disposesses them from their
wretched cabins and forcibly robs them
of their last morsel of food. Recent.
~, in Co. Galway, where force of
fifty cOnstables assembled to protect
one Fenton while he served processes
of ejectment on several tenants who
were unable to pay their rent, the
women tore his processes into shreds,
and those brutal hireling police Club.
ed and bayoneted them numerically.
Many of them were not expected to
recover from their serious wounds.
Some may wonder what the men done
when they saw their wives sisters
and mothers blood reddening their
thresholds in defence of their humble
homes. The men became so enraged
that they caused the police to beat a
hasty retreat. This is a specimen of
the servile minions of that power who
boasts that the reveille of her drum
goes around the earth with the rolling
sun. England boasts of her MAGMA
Char1a, the great bulwark of human
liberty; boasts Of her free speech and
her free press. All her professions is
huge lie; liberty of speech is in a
felons letters; liberty to write is lock.
ed up in British dungeons.
David spoke no treason, melted no
war, proclaimed no insurrection; he
simply spoke the truth and was lock-
ed up for it.
Killen wrote no libcls, no SANDERS,
no inceniary appeals; he wrote the
simple history of the land laws by
which English landlords starve Irish.
men; he was incarcerated for having
the boldness of telling an unpalatable
truth.
DAILY published the reasons for re-
form; the reason why tyranny should
! cease, and why Irishmen should be
free; he was manacled like felon and
thrust into the dungeon hells of Eng
land. Neither freedom of the press
nor freedom of speech exists in Eng
land. Dare to question the right of
her keeping iceland manacled to a
landlord tyranny, which robs the ten.
ant of his labor, his manhood and his
substance, and the manacles Of the
English police are on the limbs of the
man bold enough to advocate the
truth, or plead the righteous cause of
outraged and suffering humanity.
Charles Stuart Parnell is now pleading
the cause of down .trodden, suffering
Ireland before the people of America
and right nobly are the generous
hearts of the noble people of this
county responding to his appeals. Mr..
Parnell is member of the British
Parliament and landlord himself.
He is also President of the land leag-
ue whose object is to COMPEL the Eng
lish Government to step in between
the people and landlord and purchase
the land from the present holders and
sell it in small parsels to the tillers of
the soil, on the same terms as
Frederick William Of Prussia did
after the treaty of Tilsit in 1907.
The State took all the land from the
old feudal Barons and issued National
bonds bearing per cent. interest,
which they gave them as payment for
their lands and the present proprietors
paid the Government S per cent. of
the principal each year and in Al years
they had paid the State all the princi-
pal and interest. Since that Prussia
has grown from one of the weakest
powers in Europe to be now the arbi.
ter Of the policy of Europe.
NIKE DINNEEN.
Albin Items.
Albion is silent as far as correspond
ents are concerned. Only now and
then when the merry marriage bells
i joyously ring, or death comes to bear
some loved one away, does some one
take up the quill to tell us Of the hap.
/ piness or misery caused BY the same.
Our former correspondent is engaged
4 elsewhere. So we are not permitted
!, I to hear from him very often.