Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-07-25
IRISH POLITICS.
QUESTIONS WHICH ARE AGlTATiNG
ENGLAND AND IRELAND.
British Misrule-The Land System of Ire
land d-Agitations Of the Past-His-
tory of the Present Struggle
The Land League.
THE PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS.
.,sl Correspondence Of the Register.


The House OF Commons OF Her Majes'
tvs Imperial Parliament is now occu-
pied daily in the discussion OF the cele'
brated Irish Land Law bill, and Mr..
Gladstone announces that the time ol
the Lower House will be 50 taken w
until the bill has passed that body. The
causes that have forced the present
government to introduce this bill, and
the beneficial results TO the Irish tell
antry, that it is hoped will follow the
passage OF it, are well known to all
readers of current events. There is no
need to 90 back to the history OF
Centuries Of Mlsgovernment
to account ior what We see to-day in
Ireland Doubtless the wrongs OF the
past have done much to embitter the
relations between two countries which
ought to be as one but enough has Oc.
Cured within the lifetime OF the present
generation 30 account for that sad state
OF affairs which politicians OF all par
ties deplore and all ought to strive 10
remedy. In Ireland, as in England and
Scotland, the people have been deprived
OF the possession OF their own land in
favor OF small minority. Such man.
ufactories as existed having been de-
strovei long since by English legisla-
ton, and Ireland not producing iron
and coal in profitable extent, the men
have been unable to seek in the cities
the work which their
Brethren in Des,itution Across the
Channel
were enabled to obtain. Hence arose
that earth hunger which enabled land
owners to exact rackrents, and left the
people TO multiply on poor food, nearer
and even nearer to the limit of Starva-
ton. Foreign Conquests and absentee
ism have aggravated the mischief pollt-
ically and economically. Difference OF
race and religion rendered grave social
ills more difficult to deal with. But
the great catastrophe OF 1917
ought to have opened English eyes
to some proportion OF the truth, ought
TO have shown the people OF England
that there they had an exceptional
problem to deal with, and that such
dominance as had been established was
discreditabe to the rulers and
Ruinous TO the Ruled
That fearful famine formed the starting
point of the modern history of Ireland.
Ii came, as such cataclysms sometimes
do. i'm its moral possible shape, and was
followed up by revolutionary leglsia-
ton which was most unfortunate, and
who that has read through the details
of that miserable time, when men,
women, and children were turned out
OF their holdings, as they are now being
turned out, though happily, by the
operations OF the Land League
in lar fewer numbers, TO yam
der in starvation and misery
along the highways, can wonder hat
generation has grown mp in Ireland and
in the United States which
Regards With Positive Hatred
England and all that belongs to her?
The very Encumbered Estate Act, a
valuable measure in itself il carefully
carried ont, forced the lands OF ancient
proprietors who understood the people,
not into the control OF the State, which
might have acted with some con-
sideration, but into The hands o! foreign
speculators, who bought at low price
with the express purpose ol raising the
rents upon the tenants. An all.
santpeism was thus created
worse than that which had
existed before. All this while, over the
greater part of Ireland purely agrlcuI-
tural community
Had NO Security OF Tenure
OF any sort or kind, and the church OF
the small minority was kept mp at the
expense of those who were OF diiier-
ent creed. lrishmen, Who in the United
STATES did an amount OF hard work which
almost reconciled the not very sympa
thetiC Americans to their Sregarious
habits in the cities, and their religious
belief, so hostile to the Purl'anIsm
which even sceptics in that great Coun-
try still consider it prudent to affect
lrishmen who in the British colo
MES. notwithstanding many de-
fects, have brought them
selves to the front by their industry,
were accused in their own country OF
Idleuess aud Indifference,
berause, after centuries OF misruie, they
rouli see no object in giving their mas.
tprs their labor iOr nothing That was
really the TACT. All accounts agree that
wherever in Ireland man has 4 perma-
nent tenure OF fair piece OF land,in the
great majority ol cases he WORKS as har''
as an Indian ryot or French peasant
proprietor. 1t is absurd, OF course, t"
DENY the influence OF race ana cilmate
none would contend that saxon ana
an Irishman have the same qualities
Bnt the remarkable feature in the whole
mat eris that the descendants OF SaXons
have been lust as much opposed and
more violent in she wing their
Opposition to the Landlord Made hegis-
latiol
,s ,he Irish themselves. Nor have they
been one whit more industrious thaii
their Celtic neighb0rs. The descend
ants OF Cromwcll's soldiery, though
more turbulent under injustice, have
not been any more inclined Ia give th'
| lrui,s ui lheir iahJg t. lh"!r lani.o dS
than the Catholics around them. Rut
wherever tenant right has been intro
duced and iairly held to, there, notwith'
| standing the TACT that economical us
| rnrbance American competition, sack
pnrd demand for stone beasts IN Eng
| land and Scotland,
No Requirements for Casual Irish Aaoo-
| in the summer-have eli. ctrd the wao.t
islani, where peace AMI quiet have III
the main prevailed.
Asa matter q! natlou-' hn>ul':H u
wouli have been cheap to have G\tH
The tenants permanent hold upon iut
soil. even if the landlords had been com
| D. nsatrd b .yUnd the value OF What theE
parted with The cost q! the hAlh''''
nance oi large. army and Sr"ai con-
stahulary in Ireland cannot well he es','
mated in actual money. Mauy cohsi"'
crations are involved. But in any case,
have the English the right to
Prevent $500 900 People From Settling
Their Own Local Business
in their own way? 1t may he thal
Irishmen il left to themselves would not
make the best possible settlement 9'
their own affairs, but are English IahN
lords qualified to Judge OF the mater !tt
ior them any better? They have Eith'
erto constituted the ultimate court oi aP
peal. When the uniarness of lrist
iuries in agrarian cases is spoken o. re-
member the persistent untairneSs oI i'.e
| -, l,,..I;,L ;,,r, nj iaui slatOrs on tins