Daily globe., 1880-01-01
IRELAND's WOES.

Not the Least Of Witch Is the Discussion
Ragtng tn the Columns or tbs 'Hfobc."
To the Editor of the Globe.
ST.. PAUL, Dec. 29.-Mr. True-friend-of
Ireland is out again. He pays profound
compliment to my name, birth and ancestry,
the advantages of which he ssys "alas can
not claim" Poor fellow! A man without
birth, race or ancestry is deserving object
of commiseration. But, says he, shaving
been reared on the 'ould sod,' drank skim
milk, ETC., surely may claim some right to
designste myself true friend of Ireland. -
Well, I suppose 80, on the same principle
that Cromwell's statesman called himself
praise God Barebones," and if hog is
raised on the 'ould sod he must be called q
true friend of Ireland because he is the land
lords best friend-he pays the rent. True
friend affects the military, and being him
self distinguished in war (blue berry, he ex-
ults over the defeat Of King James by the
English rebels, at Skibbereen, in the country
of the MacCarthys' Reagh). His ignorance
of history is as profound as his KIN owledge of
military tactics. The affair at Skibbereen
took place months after the defeat
of James army, after he himself
had left the country, and at time when
Clan Carthy's regiment were prisoners of
war at Cork, when Con. Justin MacOarthy
was in France at the head of the Irish brig
ade. When Gen. Owen MacCsrthy (Reagh)
was at Ross with only 600 men, the English
rebels to their king went into the unpro-
of Ill md al urytt tovo
men, women and children in cold blood, and
at this day the OraDgemen who e1ults in
such military achievement has the cheek to
call himself true friend Of Ireland. The
MacCsrthy's haven't forgotten Skibbereen,
and are not likely to. Later, in 1898, one
of them, at the head of few pixies, took
the starch out of two English regiments that
were maraudipg through the same country,
and if he and his SONS were afterwards
forced to light out, his grandson, born in
Canada, is none the less Irish, and, having
taken the oath of allegiance to the Republic,
he would not be, as DR.. Breed justly says,
an American unless he sympathised with
the Irish people. Az he reveres his Irish
born father and mother, SO has he been
taught to love Ireland, and SO does he be-
lieve it necessarily consistent with his duty
as an American citizen to hope and labor for
the extension of the same benifcent laws to
Ireland that he enjoys in this shelter-land of
peoples.
Mr.. "True Friend" who has been fostered
on the could sod," may be citizen of the
United States, he may hold a commission in
the Minnesota militia without command,
and he may be her majesty's consul, but he
is not true friend of Ireland when he ad-
vises the Irish people to bow down and lick
the hand that smites them, to give all their
substance to the land robbers and then die in
the ditch like dogs or suffer the government
to pack them in fever ships, psupers, to q
foreign land. He thinks that if peasant
proprietary were established, there would be
real "Irish rows" fling back his insulting
insinuation with the prediction that unless
England establishes peasant proprietary in
Ireland, such as has given prosperity to the
countries of Europe and America, there will
be such an "Irish row. that Mr.. True-friend
will be glad he left the could sod'' before it
began. He serves up another dish of figures
showing the number of holdings and their
value. and because ia, 1898 families have
been so impoverished by bad laws that their
homes are only valued at $17.36 each, he
advises them to emigrate. These families.
numbering over one-quarter Of a million
people, each live, sleep and eat in one
room mud cabin, because it takes every
cent of their scanty earnings to pay the
ground rent, and if they improved their
homes, Pit would only add to their burthens,
for the landlord would at once raise the
rent, and if after the expenses of improve
ment they could not pay the rack rent, out
they go without compensation. Would
$17.36, the value of an they possess, bring
one member of their families to New York.
where he would be in worse position, body
and soul7 Emigration to the lands Of
America by such people is the veriest
twaddle. True-FIierd, like the ''soupers" of
other days, quotes scripture, end thinks the
present distress is visitation of God. in
order that the pc pie be driven to this land
of promise. The good Bishop Grace, who
is more apt to study the designs of Provi-
derce, in his letter to the mass meeting,
thinks it intended to bring into prominence
the bad land laws of Ireland, the root of all
the ills and deep discomfort of the people,
and to show to the world the necessity for
their radical change or repeal. True-Friend's
figures every one prove the falsity of his