The examiner., 1881-11-19
The March of Events.

The March of Events.
 The struggle in Ireland to establish peasant proprietary is most significant, from the fact that it forcibly voices the growing sentiment of the day.
 There are few careful students of his- tory and attentive observers of passing events, but what see in the signs of the times, evidences that the world is rapidly approaching great and important revo- lution
 Old ideas, long established usages, ancient customs, are no longer held sacred, simply because of their age, but arc now being examined in the light of an increasing intelligence, higher civiliza- tion, more profound knowledge of the true science of government-their errors and voices are being exposed-and they must ere long give place to new and bet l ter order of things.
 In many countries large masses of the people are murmuring at the condition of things, that compel them to recognize the existence of an hereditary right to rule in those who are merely dignifed by accident of birth with ar hereditary title. The reverence for these old doctrines, hitherto entertained, is rapidly dying out, and in lieu thereof is growing up the thought, that the people have some rights-among these is the right to govern themselves-the right to the nndisturbed use and enjoyment of a fair share of Gods common gifts to His children that these rights are God-given and must be est06- lished.
 When the idea becomes fully engrafted on the public mind, that God created this earth for aU of His children, that alI might have an equal share of His bounty that all men have certain equal and inal- ienable rights-that it is treason to liberty and disobedience to God to tamely submit to the destruction of those rights and loy- alty to liberty and obedience to God to fight if need be for their establishment, and supported by pillage will totter to their fall, and the day of common deliver ance will have dawned upon the world.
 Unquestionably, the cause of the pres ent popular discontent, and the growth and spread of agrarian agitation, may be found in the avarice of landlords, and the iqnorunce and o4nb5tioaa of what is known as the ruling classes.
 The history of the world furnishes indu- bitable evidence of the fact that permanent misery, profound discontent together with deep seated national hatred, are always the result of misrule.
 It is not the air of a country that breeds rebellion. ReUolutio7a ds O pta1t sOhose seed WiW germa6aaote asa 0say soal solely fertilized by the saDeot of continually rob' bed and continually pastpe1'iSed labor.
 It is in the cruelty and injustice of gov. ernments that we may find the prolific source of treason to governments. It if from the Joins of tyranny that insurrectior springs It is from the womb of misgov. ernment that rebellion Is born, and its nursery is wasted homes, devastated fields ruined industries and cheerless firesides.
 Gangrene soon enters the wound not permitted to heal by reason of continua probing.
 The wounds of Ireland have been per sistently probed for seven centuries and have long festered with deep and concen trated hate for the tormentor. And who wonders at it The Irish people have been robbed first of their title to the soil and then of the products of the soil-theJ have been shot to death by the thousands after they have laid down their arms and surrendered to English generals-and the English parliament has appointed day oi thanksgiving and prayer to be observed throughout the realm, to commemorate the inhuman butchery.
 Living in land blessed by heaven witt unbounded fertility, and where there should be happiness and plenty, we fn6 them reduced by landlord avarice and British misrule to misery and starvation
 Taught in this school of diversity anG suffering they have learned the lessons O. right and justice, they are to-day in tht van of civilization, and if English stub borness does not prove more enduring thar Irish resistance, they will soon work ou } the problem of Irish Independence.
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