Daily globe., 1880-01-01

hat will make it self-evident. From re-
mt report of Mr.. Bsrrows, United States
consul at Dublin, to Secretary Evarts, l find
hat in one year the small holdings, spoken
If, have decreased and the large ones in-
creased. There has been nine per cent.
decrease in horses, in cows and per cent.
in all other animals. In the past year 10000
acres have gone out of cultivation, and there
are now over 100000 acres waste, ,OOO, ,OOo
Of which government surveyors say can be
reclaimed. One thousand nine hundred and
forty three men own two-thirds of Ireland,
300 persons own 100000, while twelve
persons own 1927 1888 acres, and five million
people do not own an acre. In 1900, when
Ireland had her own parliament and over
eight million population, the rental was |
f4 600, 900; in 1879, with only population |
of five and quarter millions, the rent roll
is f14 100000 In 1900 the alien landlords
were residents, and spent their money i'll the |
country; now they are non-residents, and
five si1ths of the rents are sent out of the I
country without any return whatever.
The annual wheat revenue of Minnesota is
$50, ,OO0,000: and now let us imagine its con-
dition if the farmers were forced to send
1928, ,OOO, 900 of it to few men in New York,
who sent back nothing in return. At True
Friends figures as to the number of acres
productive, and the government valuation of
thirteen shillings per acre, the tenant
farmers pay for the land in rent every
seven years. Parnel proposes to estab-
lish q peasant proprietary on q rental
purchase from ten to thirty years, and
yet True-friend declares it an impossibility.
But here are more figures: During the last
week of November past, 10000 animals, 49,
OOO, 600 pounds of meat were shipped from
Ireland TO England. Millions of pounds of
meat and breadstuffs are being shipped to
feed England, and the money received for it
to pay the rents, in turn leaves the country.
When short crops occur in France, Austria,
Germany or Russia the government prohibits
expectation, the preservation of its people
being its first duty, but England has not pity
for the Irish people. She must have all the
fat bullocks, hogs and sheep, wheat, pota-
toes, butter and cheese they can raise, and if
famine stares them in the face let them emf
CRATE or appeal to their friends in America
for food. Eminent political economists say
that the land of Ireland is capable of sup
porting population of 100000, yet with
one third that number thousands are starv-
ing, and charge it to the bad laws and bad
landlords, propped up by the strong arm of
England. He says that excessive rents are
dus entirely to the greed of the people for
the land, in outbidding one another, and
even going SO far as to bribe the whole
| household of the landlord in order to secure
the holdings for rent. If this
we're true it only proves the base injustice of
the system that keeps the door wide open
| for vice, greed, avsrice and dishonesty.
Having thus slsndered the whole people of
Ireland he next pays his attention to the old
Celtic families for whom he has particular
dislike. He say:
1T is somewhat strange that the greatest dis
| tress always existed in that part of Ireland to
which it is said Oliver Cromwell gave the
Celtic chiefs the choice of going to, or to
| hell, viz: West Cork, Kerry and Connaught,
| and where the majority of the land Is still
| owned by gentlemen who rejoice in such Celtic
| O'Byrne, ODriscoll Callaghan, Cummings,
McCarty, O'Dowds, Leahy, O'Flaherty, Nc
sweeny, O'Briens, OCallaghan, O'Donovan,
O'Farreil, Quinn, OMalley, McShane, o GRADY,
O'Leary, OLcahy. Power, Lynch, Hurley,
OSullivan, McGillicudy, O'Connell, Fitzger-
| aid, MoMaho', Burke, B AXE Bedkin, McGuin
ness, O'hlahony, ETC., etc., while from the
| provinces of Leinster, and Ulster, which are
owned by the descendants of the early English
settlers comes no report of dire distress"
l pronounce this statement a compound
| lie and villainous SANDER. The Celts took
CromwelPs advice and went to Gonna ught,
aud he went to the other place, bat while
| they fled to the mountains of West Cork.
and Kerry, and the wilds of Connemara, the
| English took care to vest the ownership OF
these mountain countries in few favored
'scum of the English nation" The queen
has dubbed her son Duke of Connaught, in
the vain hope that he won't prove a prince
of the other place. A few months ago
he visited his dukedom and
pronounced it splendid country
| to hunt in, and right away the funkies
started shilling head testimonial for him
in order that the starving people might have
an opportunity to propitiate royalty. Ten OF
the above list of Celtic names are not Celts
at all, but Anglo Norman, and the majority
of the lands in the west of Ireland are not
owned by Celtic gentlemen. AS an instance
one of the largest landowners in Galway is
the Earl Clanoarty, who is not q MacC1rthy
at all, bat is French, whose grandfather, Mr.
Dick French, married into the family of tt
t-throat Castlereaghs, got seat in parlia-
ment, voted for the Union, sold the liberties
of the country, and like the ass in the lions
skin, was permitted to clothe himself with
the honored title borne by those he had
helped to despoil. So also is the prese nj
possessor of Shane's castle, and the broad
acres of Tyrone, not an ONeill, but Chi
chester, who in 1868 Her Majesty granted
the right to bear the ancient nam and title
Lord O'Neill. They are only two of the
very many cases of the same kind, but God
forbid that thu old Celtic race of Ireland
should be held responsible for the acts of
such land and title robbers.
have before me the report of the local
government board, wherein l find that on
the 4th October, 1879, there was relieved in
the warehouses; as follows: Ulster, 1O,26l,
Munster, II, 1866, Leinster, 1875, and Con
naught $3.50, and the increase over last year
has been 2 per cent. greater in Ulster than
the other provinces, and in the whole coun-
| try there is 1915 more inmates of the work
house than this time last year. The report
states that ''there is general failure of the
crops except in parts of Donegal and Lon
donderry in Ulster, parts of Cork and Linn
erick in Munster, and parts of Wicklow in
Leinster," so that Connaught, where Crom-
we'll sent the Celts, with its general failure
of crops, has only 5,4SO in the warehouses,
while Leinster and Ulster, "owned by the
descendants of the early English settlers,
has 26,236. How do you like those figures,
| Mr.. True Friend? But this official report
further saws: IN regard to the prospects OF