Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-20
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
DDthered by the Special Reporters of the
Dai{y Globe.
SALTWATER.


st. Patrick's day passed very quietly
here, and only for the sight of the green
and yellow ribbons, which indicated that
the day is an Irish holiday, and the cele-
| bration in the Catholic church of high
mass by Father Murphy, we should not
have known that ST. Patrick's day had
arrived In the evening meeting of the
land league was held in Opera hall. 1t
was composed of men and women of all
nationalities, eager to express their con-
demnation of the unjust oppression
manifested by England toward the poor
of Ireland. While the audience was
waiting the band played several airs,
which carried the minds of some of the
older ones back to the scenes of their
childhood and to the land of their ma
tivity. Father Murphy opened the meet
ing with brief and eloquent address, as
follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: 1t is pleasing
and satisfactory duty, | can assure you, to be
permitted as chairman OF this branch Of the
Land league, to offer few words in opening
the proceedings OF this meeting.
| need not say that am more than delighted
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liens on the present occasion. 1t signifies
that whenever any burning question appeal
ing for aid and comfort to the best and no.
blest feelings of humanity agitates the coun-
try at large, the citizens of Saltwater are ever
found its foremost champions.
This thought inspires in one the strong
est hopes, as / look round on this vast au-
dence, that the cause we advocate, the cause
of justice and right-the cause of humanity
will find in every one Of you practical SYM
pathizers. The day itself is one around
which cluster the faith, the hopes and the
ardent love of whole people. A people,
who, though scattered far and wide over
Gods earth by the cruel and 'rapacious ty-
ranny of an INSCRIPTIONS government, are
still knit and cemented together in the bonds
of nationhood by the eonsecrating hands of
patriotism. The spirit of q nation never dies.
On this 18th of March, when we look at
Ireland with her wretched millions struggling
for miserable existence on the soil where
our fathers sleep and which God gave them as
their own when we behold an alien govern
ment whose highest law is selfish greed, forg-
ing new chaius on a long suffering people,
binding them hand, foot and casting them into
when we see her--the only spot within the
limits of civilization-cursed with the damn
ing sin of effate landlordism
when we contemplate these things
we are forced to eschew all
tokens of gladness, and to stand up like men
shoulder to shoulder, with desperate resolve
in our hearts never to cease agitating this
question till the last vestige of human slavery
shall have vanished from the green hills and
fertile valleys of Irelund.
The story of Ireland's wrongs and England's
misrule is an old, old story. About the last
quarter of the twelfth century, under Henry !,
England first obtained foothold on Irish soil,
through treason and treachery. Since that
time England has tried her hand at ruling Ire
land. With what success? Let the pages of
history tell: Those pages, my friends, Gov
ering a period of more than seven hundred
years, are written in blood. They are stained
with crimes of such q nature, and of 50 great
a magnitude, that, whilst they cry to heaven
for vengeance, they make one heart-sick at
their very perusal. Crimes, that whilst they
bring the blush of shame to the cheek of the
honest and humane Englishman; fill the Irish
mans bosom with indignation and hatred.
Wars, pestilence, famine, rapine and mur-
der, all the horrors which flesh is heir to, have
been heaped upon the devoted head of Ireland
by her cruel taskmasters.
"The English people don't appear to bave
have known how to treat Ireand' said John
Bright. eUur forefathers did not know how
entirely to conquer her. And in recent times,
even with the assistance of Irishmen them
selves, We have not known how to govern her
people"
Here, my friends, is the whole difficulty in a
nutshell. England cannot rule Ireland, be-
cause she does not know how. Now tits high
time for her to either give up the job entirely,
or else to bring about radical change in her
treatment of the Irish people. To effect this
is one of the chief objects of the land league
throughout the world. To mould and form
public opinion, and to turn the gaze of nations
on the foul crimes of John Bull. In her deal
ings with Ireland, England has had no con-
science. During the past there were no pub
lie press, no telegraph wires, no mighty re-
public with 50,0C0,000 citizens. England
could hide her crimes, but now it is impossi-
BILE. Therefore, by constant agitation and
spreading the light of facts before the world,
We will tear from this harlot of crime the
mask under which she parades before the ma
tions, and force her to accord just rights to
the Irish people. Father Murphy showed the
practical workings of the land tenure in Ire
land, and recited incidents of the most blood
curdling nature---of wholesale evictions, even
where rent had been paid. He said that all
men with spark of humanity in their breasts
should be as brothers in the cause of the OPP
pressed millions of ireland. He told Irishmen
to be united, and pointing to green sham
rock he wore on his breast, he declared that If
he had an orange lilly, he would entwine it
with the shamrock, to show that all should
60 hand in hand in working out the ameliora-
ton of their native land.
Mr.. c. M. MacC earthly, president of the
ST. Paul Land league, was then intro
duced. MIR. MacCafthy said the meeting
had three-fold significance, first, in
celebrating the memory of st. Patrick,
one of Ireland's most illustrious patron
saints. 1t was also q day sacred in Amer
lean history. He said that los years ago
to-day the English red coats marched out
of Boston never again to disgrace it by
their presence, and los years ago to-day
Gen. Washington gained his first victory
and gave to the American army his first
countersign, which was est. Patrick !"
and, thirdly, they were there to devise
means to liberate Ireland from the curse
of the land tenant system. Mr.. Mac
Carthy's terse denunciation of the land
tenant system was loudly applauded AT
ter forcibly illustrating the sufferings of
the Irish people he addressed his remarks
to the women and their duty toward their
suffering sisters in the old country.
Mr.. Marsh was then called upon and
pointed out the duty of the American
people relative to the Irish struggle for
liberty. He said that from the revolution
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