Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-12-27
LET US MIND OUR OWN
. BUSINESS. ..

The National House of Representa-
tives, on Monday, passed a resolution
introduced by Calkins of Indiana, ex-
tending the sympathy of the House to
the distressed Irish peasantry in their
efforts to establish a less oppressive
land system than that now existing.
This resolution is nothing but the
cheapest kind of political "buncombe."
What would be thought if the British
House Of Commons should pass reso-
luton extending its sympathy to the
Ponca Indians. who have been unjustly
evicted, or to the Nez Perces, whom our
government used so shamefully. or to
the bull-dozed and tcrrorized Southern
Republicans, who for ten year have been
robbed by violence and fraud of the
right of suffrage, who have been assas-
sinated, whose property has been burn
ed or stolen at viii! of the White Lea
guers? We are very strongly of the
opinion that the British government
would be invited to mind its own busi-
ness, and not make itself the political
Pharisee of the period. The purpose of
the Land League very likely commands
the sympathy of the American people,
who show that they sympathize with
the oppressed of every cline by well
coming Jew and GENTLE alike to our
doors, but the means and methods of the
Land League do not, we believe, com
mand American sympathy any more
than the methods of the Southern bull
dozer. The murders, the mutilations,
the terrorism enforced by the instru-
ments of the Land League are revolving
to every fair and law-abiding man in
the nation. The disposition of that por-
tion of the Irish people, who sympathize
with the Land League, to trample on
the whole machinery of law and order,
to mob those of either sex who do not
agree with them, has lost Ireland large
ly the friendship and good wishes of the
American public. The present govern
ment of England is exceedingly friendly
to the Irish malcontents, and entirely
disposed to afford them a legislative
remedy for the evils complained of, if
such remedy exists, but in the mean
time the lenlent and sympathetic atti-
tude of Gladstone seems to be about as
effective as pearls scattered in a pig
pen, for with every effort of the govern.
ment to placate Ireland, by persistiDg
In a non-cOercive policy that threatens
already to disrupt the cabinet, the con.
duct of the malcontents becomes more
intolerably lawless every hour With
the domestic policy of England towarc
ireland the American Congress, as par
of the government. has no more bushes,
to meddle than it has with the treat
ment of the Nihilists by the Gar. o.
the massacre of the Rulgarians by tn,
Turk Non-interyention is the polio,
OF our government, and it is only excit
ing false hopes in the breast of the Irisl
people for any branch of our govern
ment to commit itself to any official ex
preston Of sympathy for the efforts Q
the Land Reformers in Ireland, who ar
almost. if not quite. up to the point o
instruction against their government
Mr. Parnell and his associates canno
shirk the responsibility for the presen
lamentable state of affairs the murder
and other agrarian outrages have follow
ed quickly upon the incendiary speeche
Of the leading land reformers.-RutIan
Herald.