Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-07-25

mons has been willing to give in, the
House Of Lords has
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mons has been willing to give in, the
House Of Lords has
stood By Their Own Glass;
and here, in the last quarter OF the nine.
teenth century, We have an honest and
patriotic man, hotheaded and furious
though he may be, taken and put IN
gaol, though also Il member Ot farlla,
ment, for having denounced and urged
his cOuntrymen to resist, most tyran-
nous system OF eviction. Unfortunately
an immense majority of both of the old
parties OF England have been quite de.
lighted at the arrest of Mr.. Dillon and
cheered at the arrest of Mr.. Davltt.
The history OF the last few months of
Panic and MisRovernment In Ireland
is worth consideration by all who
hold that ire edom and justice are worth
something in themselves, aside from
the question whether party chooses to
throw them over or not. What has oc'
curred since July OF last year is alone
enough to prove conclusively that no
country could be peaceful under such a
rule AS England has inflicted upon the
people OF Ireland. Last year, ter Ire
land had suffered from a period OF
severe privation, which fell upon the
small farmers and the laborers
With Hedoubled Severity,
owing to their being. unable to obtain
work IN England, the land,
lords-or rather few oi
the baser sort-begin to evlct
the ir tenantry. Hunger and sense oil
injustice combined made men desperate.
These evictions, then, having begun,
and going OH in an increasing ratio. the
Government boldly and rightly intro
duced Compensation for Disturbance
Bill" to prevent downright oppression
and tyranny from being brought 10
bear. That bill, after the most hitter
discussions brought into the House OF
Commons and in the press ever known,
was passed by considerable majority,
the Prime Minister saying, what re-
cent events have proved only too
clearly to be the truth, that il
it were. not pas. ed we would be
Within u Measurable Distance OF Civil
War
The House of Lords, seeing the whole
right OF eviction when contrary to COM
mon interest jeopardized by the mea-
sure, threw out the bill. Agitation in
Ireland followed and the Land League
obtained a hold upon the people with
surprisingly little bloodshed or bad
action. A vast agrariap strike was or
yanized, not against all rent, but against
rent above L certain valuation. There
were also "rattenings" and levy boy cot
tings," where men took land from which
tenants had been evicted. Many things,
no doubt were done, and are being done
now, most obnoxious to English
men. The injuries to cattle
in particular are dastardIy in the
extreme. Gradually, as evictions
went on, and help was received from
the sympathizers in America, temper
rose, and the feeling,
Mingled with that of Race and Religious
Hatred,
which is the worst feature OF all, because
the least capable of yielding to reason-
became very bitter. But what has it
been after all? \ triile beside, the aglta-
tiUns of 1918 and 1888 and to be met
that was the Just contention OF the gov
crnment and the Liberal party-not by
but by reform. "Force is no
said the great Liberal leader
and orator John Bright, and force
has been no remedy but
has ouiv aggravated the whole
But what comes now:
The Cabinet having been summoned in
hot haste in December last, decided that
in these days We must deal with popula
grievances, even when exaggerated, by
reason and argument, and
Not by Bullets and Bucksnot,
and reported without calling Parliament
together. 4 little while and MIR. Forester,
the chief secretary to the Lord Lleuten-
ant oil Ireland and a member OF the
cabinet, again comes over with woe
begone visage, and Parliament is sum.
A coercion act and arms act
becomes law, at what strain TO the
whole system of parliamentary govern
ment is perhaps yet scarcely known.
Irish members OF the House OF Com
mons, acting no doubt injudiciously, but
still within their rights, are sentenced
and elected; and Ireland is put
Under suspensive State of seige.
Thus the very Government which had
declared that evictions of a certain kind
were most unjust. and must Ee restrain
ed, put in the hands OF the land lords as
complete machinery ofevctiOn as they
had ever possessed, and backed il up by
pouring troops into the country, and
evictions soon multiplied. Men, women,
and children were turned out under
circumstances which reproduced here
in England would have brought about
an insurrectiOn.
1t is certain that unless the Land
League had been formed, and the Irish
had stood together in a great economic
movement, no such Land Bill as that
OF 1851 would have been brought before
the English House OF Commons at all:
The Land League whether it be called
communistic, nationallstic, or what not,
has brought the first genuine attempts
vet made at reform within the range OF
practical politics. j. +. b.