The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-20

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are plenty of "neighboring girls" Il. e..
girls from the same neighborhood in the
old country who are earning their thirty
or forty pounds year, who dress better
than the ladies do at home, and to whom
you will be able to give every comfort in
nice hous. of your very own, and per.
haps piece of land. Here you will
have vote, and have the whole sphere
of politics open to you, aud here you will
be free from England. This is the real
free Ireland {; come"-and he goes, aud
the Nation loses him. Let US see who
the Nation retains.
TAKE ANY LETTER FROM AMERICA,
| written from the poor to poor, what will
you 6ud in it? As above to the indus.
trious, to the young, to the strong, and
the good; what to the worthless, the
drunkards, the idlers9 "Let no man
come out to America that will not work.
He will be better at home" Here, he
will starve; here, "If man will not
work neither let him eat" is the practi-
cal rule, and the people know it. The
bad stay at home. How do they live
then? If for the righteous there is
scarcely place found, where shall the
ungodly and the sinners appear? Strange
to say, Ireland is the place for them.
Now will describe their lives.
This man, that "will not respect him
self" that cares not to live honestly, or
cleanly, soberly, or chastely. He mar
ries lin Ireland even the worst will prob.
ably marry at the age Of nineteen, hav-
ing neither house nor means. He lodges
probably with his father-in-law, his wife
being product of the "beggary and star.
vation" described above. They toss heap
of straw in some corner ofthe cabin, and
so they live, as regards their setting up
in married life. He gets job of work,
when jobs are going, and spends good
part in the public house, for he knows
his wife has been working for him.
How? she-very probably trained from
infancy to the business-is tramping the
road with an infant on her back and an
other on each side, stopping at every
house, rich and poor. The poor man
gives his three or four potatoes, his
handful of flour. He thinks it wrong to
refuse. She passes on, perhaps as she
goes by whipping" the apron of bis vile
or his child's shift off the, drying hedge,
and hiding them in her garments to the
rich mans house; there she gets bit OF
silver, or lump of bread, or pot of
dripping, then to the dairy farmers; ;
here she poured into her can cup Of
milk milk not to be bought for the dying
child by those who will not beg. Here
she sits down with or after the laborers
and has her dinner, and perhaps her bit
of bacon. So through the day, till she
goes home rejoicing at night, her bag
we'll filled with potatoes, which she sells
again for money; her second bag with
-four for cake; her little can full OF
milk for her ragged, unkempt, uuschooled
children. The money from the sale Oh
the potatoes turns into tea and whiskey,
aud if times are hard the whole family
will tramp together to some more pros.
porous country, or sometimes travel in
state with donkey cart owned or bor-
rowed.
THE INHABITANTS OF NORTH KERRY
habitually invade Limerick every sum-
mer, when the potatoes fail at home.
The more worthless the people, the more
such manner of living will suit them.
They can eat, drink, and live together
what do they want more? What do
such as they care for cleanliness, or
decency, or knowledge, or God fearing
ness? There is no country in Europe
offers so easy means of life to the worth
less scoundrel and his slattern wife as
does Ireland; no country where an
industrious honest man finds it more
impossible to save himself and his
children from sinking into the class
where easy beggary will provide food
honest labor can scarce secure.
This is the state of the "poor man"
class as it is; is it to continue SOL 1t
neither should nor can continue. Make
the farmer secure in all just rights, give
him his most extravagant demands; you
have as yet but skinned the wound ;
YOU have but yet cooled the lava on the
mouth of the volcano; the explosion
will como. and come quickly-not
twenty years not ten years hence, but
| in few months-it may be in few
days after you have lain aside your
healing tools and your cooling apparatus,
whatever it may be. And this revolution
will be revolution of the most danger.
GUS elements; it will be the rising OF
q class that hates the class above 1t
with an unspeakable hatred, for so the
laborers hate the farmers. It will be q
rising that feels it is lighting for life;
that regards murder as war; that looks
upon the legal attainment of an end
Injurious to = poor neighbor as q crime
to be washed out with blood, that cries
"Amen |" to cursed be he that removeth
his neighbours landmark. A revolution,
not q political revolution, but q social
revolution, of this nature is what the
government will have to deal With, and
that before many days are out-whether
days of years, or OF weeks, OF of days,
know not, but soon. r
If immigrators could make for them
self
COMFORTABLE HOMES IN IRELAND,
see not why Ireland should not be as
wealthy as France, and moro happily
wealthy for the poorer classes than
England. Every island, town and
copntry on the globe. wherein the feet