, 1881-04-10


take place among men Of moroor less means,
srekiu. larger fields for capital and larger
farms for families. These e1nigrants would
reach new homes not as raupers, but with
all the means. education, and business habits
needed to establish themselves.
This 1.and bill does not distribute the land
in Ireland among the peasAntry, but it gives
them tenure Of fifteen years,-a practical
ownership,-with a right OF property IN ev-
erythng they add to the land, and II right in
property OH the surface limited only by their
own thrift, and which in time will make it
more profitable for the landlord to sell the
land than to purchase the tenants property.
' The aggregate production Of tue land, held
by permanent tenants at fixed rents. will
vastly exceed that Of the same land held, rs
now, b. tenants at will, subject to whatever
rent may be demanded. This surplus pro-
duction will be national wealth. It will rep
resent what the country has to sell after sup
plying domestic wants. It will reyive trade;
it will rebuild and revivify the country towns
and villages it will open fresh employment
to labor on the enlarged cultivation of fields
and increased agricultural production; twill
recall FROM England the million atld
half Of Irish laborers, now driven
there to find employment; it will find
work for every mail in Ireland capable Of
labor; it will give better habitatioEs, better
clothes, and better food and more of it to the
great niass OF the people. III short, 1t will
lift :: nation OF comparative paupers to self
sustaining. self respecting, industrious, and
prosperous people. With. or out Of, this
prosperity will arisetha necessity for other
branches Of labor than the mere cultivation
of the land. The means to purchase will
lead to the necessity for manufacturing, and
manufacturing will lead to other wants, to
be supplied by other industry. Ireland is
capable Of comfortably supporting 10000 900
of people, and vet under the present laws
one-half that population are frequently in u
condition Of famine.
One of the results OF this bill will be to re-
lieyc the world Of the unei!ding appeals OF
ireland for cturity-for food. 1t will relieve
the Irish people in this and other countries
Of the world Ct the necessity Of sending
money to Ireland to pny the rents demanded
as tho price Of existence. 1t will relieve
children and kindred in this country OF the
perpetual contribution OF their hard-earneu
earnings to pay the passsge-money Of fathers,
mothers, sisters, brothers, and cousins to
this country. 1t will release IRELAND from
the rcproach Of living on the worlds charity.
When ireland sllall be thus emanctpatel,
thus recognized rs within the pale Of hunlan-
ity and civilization: when she, under free
land laws. shall be at peace and growing in
prosperity, there will be many Of her SONS
who in this and other countries have accunll1-
lated wealth who will find their way back to
the aid land of their youth, and to the graves
Of their kindred, and there in the new and
regcneratc1 Ireland spend their days con-
tributing Of their own accumulations to the
general prosperity.
This moral. social, and political revolution
in 1relanl-the grand, peneeful, and sub
stantlal means Of Which are presented By
this Land bil-wil1 prove, therefore, not
only beneficial to ireland, but will relieve
England of the infamy which las made the
Irish a nation of paupers, dependent on the
humanity, and charity, and hospitality Of
foreign nations. 1t will be a blessing to the
millions of Irish people in this country. 1t
will, IN fact, lie as great stride in the march
of civilization and humanity rs was the
emancipation Of tho lalld!ess pcasantry ct
France. and the removal OF the chains from
the millions of American slaves. It will be
a measure which the whole world will honor
and applaud.