The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-11-25
PLACING THE CASE BEWORE EN-
GLISH RADICALs.

At meeting Of Radicals held in Lon
don on the 3Oth ult,, Mr., I. 2. OConor
M. p, delivered a speech that was high.
ly commended by Mr.. Justin Mccarthy.
He said a previous speaker had spoken
of the dimlnution in the annual value Of
the potato crop of Iceland during the
last few wears, but he had forgotten to
tell them, side by side, with the connec
ton of the tenants, what had been the
action Of the landlords. Tie average
value of the potato crop had been 60 522-
000 The value of the potato crop in
1875 had reached &l2 466 000 In 1877
its value had fallen TO e5 282, 1000; in 1878
to G7 680,00O while in 1879 it was but
GA 623 000 In other words, the Irish
people lost half of that on which they
were depending to keep body and soul
together Such was the position of the
crops What was the action of the land
ordsP In 1875 the number of evictions
wa 269; in 1877 they had increased to
1923 III 1878 they had further increased
TO 749 and in 1879 when the people
had lost half their food, they had inCrea-
ed to 1907. and in the first six months
of 1880, they increased to 2470. He
would read the commeuts upon this ap-
palling contrast, between the increasing
distress of the Irish people and the in
rreasiug tyranny of the landlords. Mr..
Gladstone had estimated that Is 600 per
sons would be elected from their homes
without hope of remedy iu the course of
the present year. They would put the
evictions at $4,000, and if each eviction
was q sentence of starvation-or, as Mr..
Gladstone said in 1879, equivalent to a
sentence of death-lhere had been pro
nounced by the landlords of Ireland dur
ing the present twelve months, ID 600
sentences of death. What was assassin
alton? Who was the assassin The
man who went behind hedge, or the
pampered sCoIndrel who, in times OF
distress, pronounced what was 9alled by
the Prime Minister a sentence of stsrVa
tionP And they must remember, in dis
Gu sing his question, they were not
dealing with sentences of death upon
men, but upon their helpless wives and
their still more helpless Children-upon
the women with babes in their arms
who had died by eviction. And in the
face of these facts--in the face of 10 600
sentences of death by the landlords
how many crimes of an agrarian charac
ter did they suppose were committed by
the peopleP But how many had been
the murdersP Four, and therefore the
balance sheet was l5 600 sentence of
death by landlords against four senten-
ces of death by tenants in Ireland.
What became of the Infamous fasehOod
that crime was never so rife as at pres
enP He asked the meeting if they yet
really knew the meaning of what was
going on in IreIandP Had they endeav
ored TO grasp the real magnitude of his
question? He woald tell them in few
words what it was. Il was a fight of two
millions aud half of peopIe-men, wo
men and Children-to get back the land
from tne eight thousand individuals who
had desolated the population, and in nu
merous cases had debauched the fem ale
virtue of their tenants. They would win
with or without the aid of the English
Radicals They would go on in spite of
Radical detection, and in spite of the
buckshot of Woolwich Arsenal they
would attain their end.