The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-28
IRELAND.

Recent advices from Ireland intimate that
the land subject agitation is exhausting Itself,
and that peace is dawning in that country.
While there is evidently a cessation of dis
%turbances at the present time, it is not easily
determined whether the apparent quietness
is due to the attitude of the Pope towards the
land league movement, or whether 1t may be
credited to the promises retirement of Fors-
ter from the Chief Secretaryship and the con-
cession of the landlords, or whether the de-
mands that the condition of the crops make
upon the attention of the people at this time,
or whether all combined has not produced
the present lull in the agitation That has dis
tracted the people for so long a time. 1t can
not be supposed that the people of Ireland
are disposed to quietly yield all the points
which they have so long and so perslstently
endeavored to gain. On the contrary all the
pended the agitation for a season. Unques-
tionably the disfavor with which his holiness
viewed the action of Archbishop Croke has
had much to do in moderating the tone of the
people. The Irish people are proverbially
obediene to their church and a command
from the Pope to desist carries with it more
weight than the presence of all the armies
England can muster.
The Pope relies much upon the efficiency
of the land bill now pending in the House of
Commons to mitigate the evils of which the
people complain. should the hill become a
law and fail in its promised aid, and no re-
lief extended through other measures, there
can be lao question but that the agitation
would break out again with redoubled vio-
lence. The Irish people are terribly in ear
nest in opposition to what they consider the
oppressive measures of the Home govern
ment. They may be brought to a temporary
standstill upon the PRONUNCIATION OF a Papal
decree, but the fires that have been lighted
by their Emmetts, their O'Connells and the
hosts of other patriots will never be allowed
to die. The desire for liberty is stronger to-
day in the hearts of the Irish people than
ever before and their temper is much mista-
ken if the first fresh breath of oppression
waited across the Irish Channel does not
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flames.
Another cause that has operated to quiet
the people is the fact the landlords have re-
solved not to execute wr!ts of eiectment. only
in such cases where the tenant absolutely de-
MES their right to collect rent. AS such ca
SEES are rare, evictions will cease and thus
much trouble will be bridged over. Again it
is stated that the farmers have harvested the
largest quantity of hay ever known to have
been gathered during the past fifty years, and
that all root crops promise an abund mt
yield. All this is gratifying to the tenant
and serves to take of the rough or wire edge
of his temper and make him more tractabie
and less inclined to contend for abstract
rights. The above named state of affairs I'M
doubleday has had much to do towards pro-
ducing tina condition in Ireland which some
letter writers have interpreted as indicating
the exhaustion Of the Land League agitation.
While it is heartily desired by all that peace
may reign in that unfortunate land, the pres
ent quietness there must not be accepted as
the accomplishment of that end, for the end
is not yet.