Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-11-11

aised 100 years ago by the public
vIrtue Of Henry Grattan and his
volunteers, and destroyed In 1880
" the brides and bayonsts of Pitt |
md Castlereagh. The state OF
;hings which prevails in this coun-
;ry is an eternal disgrace to the
worst and most uncivilized Gov
Drnment on the face of the globe.
In no county in the world, except,
In Russia, is there so lit
tie public liberty left or 80 much
exercised by the ruling
as in Ireland In 1881.
MILITARY DEsPoTIsM.
Thirty.five thousand soldiers and
IL, 900 military and police garrison
the country. They allow no day
to pass without making the people
feel that now, as in the days of
Cromwell and William,
the sword lie, after all, the argu-
ment with which England seeks to
answer all that the irish nation
demands. Csnnons are planted on
the public places in our cities.
Public meetings are prohibited and
dispersed. The police invade even
the private dwellings to disperse
assemblages. Every mans liberty
10 ct the mercy Of the Chief Score.
tary, acting from the secret denun-
Citations of paid spies and inform
ere. Every day numbers of per.
sons of the highest respectability,
and many occupying representa-
tive places, have been arrested and
flung into common jails without
trial. Among those deprived of
liberty are four members of Parlia-
ment, one Of whom lie acknowledged
to be q leader of the Irish people,
and would under free institutions
be Prime Minister of the country.
The possession of arms, the BIRTH
right Of every member of every
free commonwealth not civilly in
cApacitxted, is q crime punishable
by . heavy fine or Imprisonment.
THE GOVERNMENT ARRAIaNED.
Now two questions arise: First
Can 1t be for one moment pretend
ed that system of government
under which such occurrences as
have been just named habi,ually
take place has any moral right to
EXIST. Second-Would people
who did not eudeavor at the earii-
est available moment, by every
legal and constitutional means, to
put an end forever to such occur
renees deserve anything better
than the seOurge of the slave
driver? Our manufactures zines
1890 have been nearly extingulshed.
We have had since the union four or
Eve famines. Our country has been
depleted by 100000 of persons
since 1910. While England is, rel
atively to taxable ability. the most
lightly taxed country in Europe,
Ireland is the most heavily taxed.
Since 1900 there have been fifty
nine savage coercion acts in force
here. We were promised at the
time Of the union equal rights and
privileges with the people of Great
Britain, but to-day. fourteen years
after the establishment of house,
hold suffrage, and OF compulsory
registration of votes in England
ana Scotland, we are still denied
those important rights, with the
result that while the proportion of
the vote to male population in Eng.
land is one to four, the proportion
In Ireland Is one to twenty-four.
The municipal fraternity also, as
compared with that of England
and Scotland, Is complete mock
cry.
EVIL RESULTS OF COERCION.
It 10 needless to go through the
list Of our grievances. Sufficient
to add that in scarcely matter of
public concern of Ireland has tue
will Of the Irish people had it's
wfy; that every department OF our
business, no matter how little 1T
concern others than ourselves, is
managed by irresponsible and au.
tocrAtic boards, appointed by Eng
lfshunsn and composed to large
extent Of Englishmen and Scotch
men.
Despite this, however, we are
told that we must be governed by
another people, and that, too, for
our own sake. Anarchy, it is said,
would 0vertake US II the beneficent
and retaining hand Of England YVES
taken off from US. A moro impu-
dent pretense was never advanced.
Dur troubles spring from the gov
srnmsnt of Ireland by England,
and from that alone. But Is it for
The Interest of England that the
policy OF coercion should be con-
Einued? Is the present state of
siege fruitful in anything but ha-
sred, ill-will, loss of treasure and
lief What we ask for il only
what is enjoyed by every other
British dependency Inhabited by q
white race. 1t Is only what the
States of the American Union pos-
sess, namely: the power to manage
these matters which concern our
selves alone; those affairs which
concern the empire at large being
left to the care of an Imperial Sem
ate, In which we should be repre-
scented.