The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25
England and ireland.
WHY THE IRISH HATE THEIR OPPREssORs
AND SPOILERS.

Ireland hates England, because in the first
place the Irish are a conquered and conilsca-
ted race They have been despolled OF all
they possess They have, as part OF their
conquered condition, been deprived OF every
foot of the land That land was taken from
them and its ownership given TO their con-
querers-a foreign race, speaking at the time
a foreign tongue, and residing IN foreign
land The Irish, reduced to practical STAY
erv, have always been dependent on She
soil for the necessities of existence; ne hop-
resident land owners, by the aid OF Brltlsn
conStabulary and regular troops gatnereu
the products of the land, took them TO Eng
land, sold them, and expended tne money IN
England, or elsewhere out OF ireland. ~
the course of centuries, the privilege OF cur
tivating this land and of producing from IL
the food sufficient to maintain existence, as
sumed the form of a rent-charSe-JhdC i,
instead of taking the products, the lahulotu
dictated a sum of money to be PAID nun Sollll-
annually in lieu of the crop Itself, TINS money
tribute being eXacted without reference 10
the fact whether the land produced an equiv
alent or not.
The most productive seasons leave the oc-
cupants but a bare subsistence after meeUlIs
the forced tribute payment, and IN Oad sea
sons thew are reduced to destitution, and ne
ouently to famine. Without the cash remit
tances sent to Ireland from TINS country,
Canada and Australia there would De alihGsI
annually the sickening calamity OF a nation
of five OF six millions of people dying ol
famine in a land full of food, WITHIN SIX
hours travel of London, and IN what IS an
integral part of the British Kingdom.
An English journal, in the light OF TINS
/ ever recurring fact, processes 10 De lghoIaHIo i
of any cause why the famine-cur9ea PtoP re
should cherish an unrelenting disHke OF
those who hold them in enforced ana perpeU-
ual indigence and beggary-
Ever wear the reSid ent agents IN lrelahu Oi
the nonresident, cOntiScauuC .audlords col
ect from the occupants OF the lrlsh lana Iile
enormous sum OF between sixty ana sSNe!lty
millions of dollars of trlbute-money lor lHe
privilege of living on the land OF which tney
have been deSpoiled. Every dollar OF thls
mOnev-taken as a whole, II IS a trlouJe en-,
acted by the cOnqueTOTS from the conquered
[ and 6iSpOSSeSSed peoples RENTED 10 Eng
land Scarcely a penny of il finds its way
back to Ireland, or Is expended on Jhe ldhu'
in any works of Improvement, or IN any
branch of manufactures or other industry.
. It is carried of in the shape Of gram, cattle,
swine, and butter, exactly as the turkish
Government has collected tribute from
Foypt from Greece, and from all its con
queTed Christian dependencies.
Under the law of Great Britain, these non
resident feudal chiefs exact from these hVe
million of miserable people an annual trl-
butte that strips the land completely or It's
substance, and frequently leaves the farmers
dependent on the charitable contributors OF
food from other nations TO save them from
, death bV starvation. refusal to pay JllS
Observation-Disclosures money is followed by fOrcI-
Bile eviction and denial of the privilege of re
fuCe on any other rack-rent land in Ireland
nothing save the roadside, poor-houSe, or
grave.
And vet the editor of an English Liberal
journal is 5ewildered by the mystery Of why
the Irish hate the British Government.
whose laws enforce the payment OF tins Jrl-
butte.
Her present Majesty ascended the throne
in 1887 Placing the annual tribute gather
ed from these poor, conquered peasants OF
Ireland at only $50 900, 600 year, there have
been collected of them and caTted away to
{ England from 1S37 to 1SS0-a period Of forty
three vears-twO billions and one hundred
and fifty millions of dollars 80, 80, 00O, ,0GO)
an amount exceeding the National debt OF
the United States, Is it any wonder that
under this annual stripping of the land Ire
land has been five times stricken with famine,
/ even during her present Majesty reign?
I When her very Christian Majesty began her
/ GLORIOUS reign" Ireland numbered nearly
! nine millions of people. Depriving them
selves of the food they produced to pay the
/ enforced tribute to their cOnquerorS has re-
/ duced them by famine and eXpatriatOn tO
! five millions al this time and yet the editor
! of the foremost Liberal paper in England Is
unable TO comprehend why the Irish 90 not
/ love the British Government, which main
tains, and upholdS, and enforces this system
/ Of remOrseless plunder based upon whole
/ sale cOnfiscation, and is filed with amaze
ment at the perpetual longing of those in.
I comprehensive CeltS to escape from the
/ beneficent hug Of John Bull Chicago Tri
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