Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-12-02

thess Of Poland fully six hundred
years. Poland has attained . per.
hap undue prominence In the his
oory Of violated nationalities be-
cause she was spoliatsd upon In the
light cast on atrocity BY the
eighteenth and nineteenth cen.
turies. But the probability ID ex-
1roms that no phase Of Russian
brutality in Poland has ct any
time approached the drssr and
ehastly reality Of British atroci-
de- In Ireland. It 10 to the credit
e the English people Of to-day
that they are sick Of the bloody
annals, beginning with 6troDgbow,
illustratsd BY Cromwell and Will
liam Of Orange, and still later IL
luminatsd BY the treachery Of Cas-.
tlersagh and his companions,
which have made the story Of the
Emerald Isle . theme for indig-
nant poets and trsnchant historic
ans.
Spanning = slight gap Of years,
thsrs are two gratifying episodes
- the story Of the oppression of
pooples. One Of the most incredi-
bly, bloody aud repellant chapters
81 history is that which records the
exploits OF Lord Give In India. by
which . very considerable section
Of the peoples Of the globe wac
thrown prone and PROSTATE at the
feet Of British power. The lust OF
money, more than Of conquest, Inn
PEELED Give and his Englishmen
% the preparation Of their enor.
mites In India. Give loaded him
eelf up with laos Of rupees stretch
Ing into the tens Of millions, and
xeturnsd to England richer than
Marlborough.
Lord Give, with all the glorlee
Of his Indian achievements fresh
upon his head, after having bought
the manoriAl seat of his ancestors,
committed suicide.
Castlsrcagh, the successful man
who sold out ireland, his native
country, and became premier Of
Great Britain, cut his throat
The rightful Irish discomfort at
spoliation and conquest, which was
handled very neatly and conserva-
lively by O'0onnell, and which,
under O'Connell's management,
resulted In Catholic emancipation,
has now struck phase of agita-
tIon which has resulted In the Or
dsFing of the Coldstream Guards to
Ireland.
The question arises az to whether
The English Of to-day can afford to
order : Wholesale slaughter of the
Irish people, In the interest Of
landlords whose title II derived
from conquest and eonfsoatlon and
who dare to demand ~ high % SIS
an acre for land.
The Land League of ireland il
the outgrowth of unspeakabls op-
r-...inn According to the Eng
llsh laws wnscu to-u.y govern Ire
land. . tenant may put tue labor
Of . life time on his farm and be
peremptorily evicted therefrom, at
: momsnt's notice, without . dol.
lars compensation for his improve.
ments. The process Of eviction 10
20 psrsmptory and msrciless that
al readers Of fiction and history
are Informed Of its details. The
nrst note to leave, conveyed to the
tenant who resists excessive Do.
msnds, 10 embodied In the tearing
on Of the roof Of his humble do.
miclIe. Neither sickness nor the
exigencies Of childbirth have
ever naitigated the rsmorse-
less severity Of these laws.
What wonder that their inexora-
BILE aud Implying rlgor has re-
suited In assassination and In the
naurmurings Of revolutious
It II quite possible that the well
armed British people can again
Moot down tho unarmsd Irish
masses. But can England, with
Liberal statesmen at the head Of
British affairs, afford to repeat and
Improve upon the Turkish atroci.
ties In Bulgaria, and other prov.
1ncss Of the o toman Empire,
whose mere recital, from the pens
q newspaper correspondents.
etlrreds to It's depths. the heart Of
tns English people, = year or 80
agos We think not. Should the
8rlsish government meet the cry
~ the starving and oppressed Irish
With The mailed hand, we should
not be surprised IL that empire
should be called upon, all atoncs,
y meet resurrection 10 South Az
fjoa, India, Afghanistan and Cam
~. The spirit of justice IL allthat
can rescne the British empire from
~ present psrIls. Ireland might
- temporarily crushed into the
&loot; her people might be conn
rolled to take refuge In the boys
~ nountain Businesses Of the
nlcsnld Isle; but where would be
~ pse9t In I'll this7 Such state
eoinGs wcuId slmply make i'm
1tlt ~ meeting o. the de-