Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-22
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Editor Morning NelOS: Permit me to answer
this question in the widely read columns of
the News, through which your readers are
made daily aware Of the desperate struggle
In which the farmers and p~easantry Of Ire
land are now engaged for a flnal settlement
of the land question, and the overthrow of
the accursed landlord sytem, which for cen
turtles has been the cause of all their sorrows
and miseries, which has by artificial famines
murdered millions Of the people of Ireland,
desolated their fresides, and scattered the
race over the earth like chaff before the
wind.
This feudal system has long since been
abolished throughout christendom, ever by
the reputed despotic and semi-barbarous
Car Of Russia, who, in our recent memo
ries, has been humane enough to abolish IL
In his dominions, making thirty million Rus
sian serfS happy owners OF the n they till.
1t has found its last stronghold in the
British Islands. 1t remained for the free,
enlightened Government of England to sus-
tain the accursed system by all the con-
%stabulary and military force at her COM
mand, consisting at least of fifteen thousand
police and twenty-five thousand soldiers.
1nO lduQlOlQ . PldU Is uTSb TO 66QQ OUT
his process server to serve the writs of eject
ment. This even the women and children
would not allow him to do, but he applies
to the government, which furnishes him
with all the police and soldiers he requires,
usually from fifty to three hundred. With
these he goes into the poor villages, and
serve the writs at the point of the bayonet.
The second and last act in the drama is
performed by the Sheriff, supported by the
crowbar brigade of police and red coated
soldiery. He proceeds to execute his evic-
ton DEGREES, which Gladstone has said are
equal to q sentence of death. The SILVER
ing babe and gray-haired sire are cast out
on the wayside of life, and, at the penalty
of the lords displeasure, forbidden succor
or shelter upon any part of his property.
Here they lie, without a friend, under the
canopy of heaven or egis of British c~iviliza-
ton to come to their relief. Oh, yes there
is one friend. The Land League, who acts
the part of the Good Samaritan, comes to
them with ointment for their wounds, food
for their hunger, garments for their naked
ness, and shelter for their sick and weary
bodies. 1t builds little houses adjacent to
their little farms, and puts a curse upon any
man who takes them until the landlord is
brought to terms rather than see his land
lie an Improbable waste. 1t fights the land
lords in the courts, and tries to sustain the
victims OF his rapacity until the question is
settled.
Does this need no meney? Never in hu-
mar history has any institution had to bear
such a drain upon its charity and resources
as the Land League has every day to bear.
America is nobly responding to the fund,
and sends weekly a thousand pounds. May
God bless you, great and big-hearted Amer
lea, who never regarded color, creed nor
section when suffering humanity was the
question, and to whom no cause, or man, or
suffering child has ever appealed In vain.
LAND Lacquer.