Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-10-26

0ladss0ne's Diun0eripg.
There are certain aspects of the
relation Of England towards Ire-
land Just now which should be
noted by those who desire to have
an intelligent appreciation Of mat
ters in the latter unfortunate coun-
try. 1t 10 true that the British
Parliament has passed Land bill
which Processes to give relief TO the
tenants of the most oppressed re-
glon, outside of Russia or Turkey,
ever known on the face of the
globe. Mr.. Parnell, and other
Irish agltators, distrusted the pur-
port Of this bill, as they had per-
feet right to do. They doubted it's
honesty of intention; and, above
all things, they doubted its hon
esty OF administration. Certainly,
popular and constitutional leaders
Of an oppressed people have right
to carry their opposition to any
measures Of government to that
extent. In order to test the sim
osrity Of the British Parliament in
granting this pseudo measure Of
relief, Mr.. Psrnell and his associ-
ates got ready number of test
cases, which they were prepared to
press before the new court, which
we're expressly devised to force an
adjudication upon questions of
vital Importance to the Irish ten.
ants. At this stage of a great inn
perial question, Mr.. Gladstone pro-
cseds to Leeds, q great manufacture
ing town of England, and delivers
: speech, large portion of which
was taken up with gress vitupera-
ton of Mr.. Parnell and all who
stood with that gentleman for the
ameliorAtion OF the distressed con-
dition Of the Irish race. Mr.. Par
nell, % In duty bound, responded
in an address of equal vehemence,
in which he arraigned the motives
of the British premier, and ex-
pressed grave doubts as to whether
the so-ealled measure CT relief to
Ireland was honestly intended. or
could, In any event, be effioacious.
The words had scarcely passed his
lips before the British premier,
Initiating Secretary Seward, in
our war of the rebellion, rang his
sslittle bell' and incsrcerated his
opponent in debate, who was also
. member of the Imperial Parlia-
ment OF Great Britain, in Kilmain.
ham jail.
Certainly the best way in the
world to answer a disputant, for
the time being, is to put him with
In the safe confines of prison bars,
and to establish an armed Gordon
around him which shall even de-
bar admittance to his family ply
sician. But the world at large will
ask whether such procedure is
either In consonance with fair play
or with constitutional methods OF
government. By such an act mol
only were the rights of Irishmeu
trampled in the dust, but serious
invasion was made upon the pre-.
scriptive rights of citizens of Great
Britain. The chalice which is Of
fered to the Irishman to-day may
Tomorrow be commended to the
lips Of the Scotchman and the day
after to those of the Englishman.
In imnuring his opponent If
debate In Kilmainham Jail Mr.
Gladstone confessed the weakness
Of bis position; while Mr.. Parnell,
with the patriotic refrain of the
whele Irish people ringing in his
ears, may exolaim, with the cava.
Her of the time Of Charles l.,
sstone walls do not q prison make,
nor Iron bars Gage" He can well
afford to dsspise the malice of his
worsted competitor, however lofty
his station, because such processes
Of rank tyranny and autocratic
government cannot fail to set peo-
pie, even In England, inquiring
Into the essential merits of a ques-
tion In which the masses are ground
under the heels of land and aris-
tosratic oligarchy.
The natural inference from all
the developments so far is that Mr..
Gladstone dared not encounter, in
the court specially constituted by
him, Mr.. ParnelPs test cases, and
90 Imprisoned their promoter. The
Irish agItator had taken the pre-
caution to collect number of in
stances In VIII oh the enhancement
OF rents had been from five hun
dred to one thousand per cent. The
T,s~h r.~nn1o 1nva MT oulx, he 4 -
submit to repeated confiscations OF
lands, which created hostile pro.
pristary, supported by the sword,
but they have seen all their sue
oossive Improvements condscated,
and the very value which they had
impaired to their lands turned int
the instrumentality by which they
were evicted from them. The inn
provemsnts made by the tenant
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