The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-20


sophistical shape. Upon which a
promipent New York newspaper
observes: Comfort in its large sense
abhors a surplus just as nature alb
hers a vacuum if the comfortable
man has to pay it to somebody else.
No one is ever comfortable enough
to have something over for such a
very unintereSting person as land
lord. Consequently Mr.. Phillips
definition, which is one of his very
best. if generally accepted, will rem
der tenants the very important ser
vice of reducing the species of prop
erty known as the fee-slmple of
| land to a mere claim on the occupi-
or for as much of his money as he
does not care to keep for himself.
He leaves untouched the very seri-
Gus question, whether if the land
does not supply the tenant with
comfort the landlord is not bound
to do so Out of his own pocket"
OF the Irish land bill and the "no
rent cry the Indianapolis NeaOS
says. at will be one of the sarcasms
of history that those for whom so
much is done by this measure were
the first to refuse its help" Dis
tinguished members of the Roman
Catholic hierarchy in Ireland, SYM
pathisers with the Land League,
Stood absolutely appalled, at the
communistic mo rent" manifesto,
and denounced it most rehgously
and most emphatically as the work
of the evil one. Of this cry the New
York Post says, "a more shameless
proposal. has not in our time been
submitted to a civilized people,
"The Land League has now put
itself hopelessly in the wrong"
Further of Mr.. Parnell and the
Land League the same paper says,
"That their last and greatest stroke
should have been a solemn and pa
thetic appeal to the rascality OF their
countrymen, is surely as pittiful a
termination to great effort to right
human wrongs as the world has ey-
er seen" 1.-The organization which
conducts the agitation on the tenants
Sthalf has now no friend of character
CT weight in any civilized country In
fact what is called the public Opin-
ion of every civilized country may
be said to be dead against them. 1t
is not possible for the Parnells, Hea-
lys, Sections, Fords, and Rossas to
find friends in any part of the civil
lied world outside of the circle of
their own contrymen. They are
frOwned upon and repudiated as
much in republican America and
France as in mOnarchial Germany
and Italy. This is almost an UMPIRE
cedented state of things. The
Leaguers are, we believe, the first
Enthusiastically oppressed and long
suffering people who have managed
by their conduct to ALLEVIATE all
mankind or all that portion Of man.
kind which knows anything about
them" 1T cannot be that what all
civilized countries consider OdiOus
and ridiculous is, when practised by
Irishmrn, respectable and apprOprl-
ate. The French Republicans used
in old times to be the warmest
friends of Irish Nationalist The
cause of Ireland, too, from the Reyo-
luton down TO 1913, excited more or
less enthusiasm in this country and
procured warm welcome during full
ly half a century for its apostles and
martyrs. This is now all changed.
An Irish patriot of the Parnell
stamp has really not much more
show In the United States than he
would have in Prussia. Nobody
takes to him except the half crazy
spectators who would like to
abolish property and cut off 100000
heads. None OF the class which in
every country carries on the work
of civilization-the class which
labors, saves, foresees and makes
and executes the lawS-carestO have
much to do with him, any more
than with an escaped lunatic. They
even refuse to believe the undOubt-
edly true stories of the wrongs of
his country, and are now gradually
beginning to doubt whether Ireland
ever had any just ground of COM
plant at all. So much of the patri-
OTIS talk is wild exaggeration, or
ferOcious threatening, that fathers
Of families give him wide berth"
The foregoing extract calls to mind
Johnson's definition of patriotism
the last refuge Of a scoundrel."
The fact is, the doctrine Of the Irish
anarchists amounts to this, that
landlords have no rights that tenants
need respect, and that the estab-
lished government has no rights
whatever.
The complaint is made that owners
of land in Ireland absent them
selves from that country and
spend their money elsewhere. Is it
to be wondered at if they do?I
What landlord or other capitalist
would be anxious to stay in coun-
try where he would be liable to be
aSSassinated on sight by his tenants,
whom he might happen to displease,
and see his Tent-paying tenants
served the same? Who but MUIR
derers and anarchists would prefer
to live among such a murderous and
anarchial population? San Fran
cisco a while ago began to have
taste of Irish agrarianism, or some
thing nearly related to it, and
capital took its flight eastward by
millions. In the decade from 1S4S
to 1858, under the encountered es-
tates act in ireland, between three
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