Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-28
gus SugsIes 8erala.
TIE condition of Ireland.
Bx REV. GEO. w. PEPPER.

press are under monarchIal and
landlord supervision. The most
trivial offense is msgnified into
Fenian outrage. In ten years two
landlords have been shot by the
oppressed and exasperated tenants.
In the same length of time there
have been fifty or more murders in
England. Even Lords Leitrim and
Mount Mones, who were shot, did
not meet their fate because they
were remorseless landlords, but be-
cause they were debauchers.
have visited the South and also
portion OF the North OF Ireland,
and I have never seen, not even
among the slaves of the South, SO
much poverty, SO much sinless sor-
row, so much dependency and de-
spAir. A poor, old man, whose
fathers had lived on bis patch of
ground for hundreds of years, was
In arrears. He could not pay all
his rent. The order went forth, he
must be evicted. The officers were
carrying the old man, in his eight
ieth year, out of the door; he
looked and asked If this was
eviction. He was told yes. He
looked up, and was carried out q
corpse.
Hear a neble.hearted English
man state the case: "Paddies and
pigs, more than half-naked child
rem, q mud hut, with hole for a
door, and hole for window, and
one room for pig-sty, parlor. bed
room, drawing-room, kitchen! In
these places, unfit for human habi-
tations, the Irish exist. Such ar o
the abodes of Al per cent OF the in
<habitants of Donegal, so per cent
OF Galway, Sc per cent of Cork, and
SO per cent of Kerry. Between the
years 1641 and 1861 there were 270,-
600 houses leveled to the ground,
representing over millien people.
According to the census commits
sioner there are two millions OF
people living in mud cabins of one
room.n
What is the cause of all this
misery? Popery, cries the land.
lord, with his hand on the peoples
throats. Bah! Have they not
more Popery In France? and yet
that noble nation has eleven mill
ion farmers, and they are content.
ed, prosperous, and happy! have
visited the North of Ireland, in an
exclusively Protestant communi.
ty, and there Is the same wretched-
ness, beggary and despair. Over.
population, exclaims the disciple
Of Nautilus. Nonesense! In lS45
Ireland had a population of eight
millions. She was then compare
lively prosperous; now che has
only five millions, and she is starv-
ing. Besides, according to the
best authorities, Ireland can sup
port at least twenty millions.
The real cause of Ireland's mis-
cries Is landlordism. It is not the
Saxon. Fer many of Ireland's &
best friends have been English
men. Gladstone has done mauy
splendid things fer this country
His land bill, though detective
will be In some measure an install.
ment OF long deferred justice
should it pass, he will go down tt
his grave as one of the creates
humanitarians of the age. Re
ligion is not the source Of this diff
Guilty. God is not going to ours,
one mans fields because he wor
ships him differently from his
neighbor. o, no. 1t is blasphemy
to ascribe such herrid things to oul
Heavenly Father. 1t is landlord.
ism that has blasted poor Erin! II
has made Ireland ignorant, made
1t poor, made it lawless, il it is law.
less; made her by-word amone
the nations. Touch the polished
handles of the aristocratic bells
upon the doors of their mansions,
and they are spotted with blood
The black hero of the Indies swore
that he would make his domain a
hell for the French, and he did
1t. The only remedy for the
wrongs of centuries is the abolish
ment of this accursed system.
There hiss been much said of the
Queen. She is very popular and
much beloved by certain class OF
her subjects. Everywhere in the
large cities you will see inscrip-
tions, showing the high esteem in
which she is held. She'is very
economical. 1t is forty-three years
since she assembled the throne, and
I see by an English authority, that
she has saved one hundred and
forty millions. Her salary is not
very large, only one million dol
lars per annum. She is very be-
nevolent. Last year, during the
great famine, when the fathers
and mothers of the Irish soldiers
who were fighting her battles in
Africa, were in the spasms of star
vstion, she generously gave fifty
pounds-two hundred dollars! !!
Wasn't this really spleRdid?
When heard of this princely act,
l became almost as loyal as the
most loyal Britisher, and ex-
claimed, God save our noble Queen!
1t is no wonder that she is so pop
lar here.
Then her noble son, the Prince
Of Wales! 1t is not long since he
asked an increase of seventy
Thousand pounds to his salary! In
the same paper in which this was
stated there is an account of Irish
women, as refined ia feeling, as
virtuOus, as noble as any Queen,
digging turf on the bogs, sixteen
hours q day, for ten cents, and they
were glad even to get this miser-
able pittance.
As the eyes of the Christian
world look to Jerusalem as the CEN
ter Of their religious hopes, so the
oppressed of this distracted and all
other oppressed countries turn their
eyes to the great republic of the
West. In one of the most remote
counties of the South, where had
to change cars, there was crowd
collected around me in q few min.
utes, who took me for an Ameri-
can. Soldiers were concentrating
to disperse a meeting which had
been called to criticize the land
measure of Gladstone. These dis