Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-29
The War in Ireland.
NetO Orleans Democrat.

The popular agitation in Ireland does
not culminate or give promise of a
speedy climax. 1t is the old struggle of
muscle against mind, and, when fought
on any other than war basis, is apt to
be sparing of consequences as OF lives
The troubles against which the Land
| League seeks to make head are legacles
| from the age of the Second Charles. who
confirmed to the usurpers of Irish lands
the confscations that had taken place
under the Parliament These titles and
the cruel tyranny of landlord rule have
never been disturbed, and the Irish peo.
pie have now against them the warrant
that these traditions afford the govern
ment. as well as the power and subtlety
| OF the new English land bill
But the Irish masses show intention.
as well as, so far, stand their ground.
The managers of the Land League have
been successfully arrested from Dayitt 10
Brennan, but the post Of honor and of
| danger IS, on every, occasion, instantly
filled Their orders are regularly an
nounced to the people and received with
enthusiasm. Yet great suffering pre-
walls, and in The Irish common law
courts counsel are daily moving for
writs of eiectment, and everywhere the
| inexorable landlord is trying to enforce
impossible rents. 1t is an important
wage in the unceasing struggle for
human rights, but the immediate result
to the Irish people cannot be foretold.
erywhere-wherever the earth bears
plant or the sea rolls its waves, the Irish
nation is planted Its people are among
the foremost soldiers of every battlefield
where liberty is the stake, and MANY of
them attain distinction where liberty is
enjoyed. Yet poor Ireland has not the
privilege of armed revolt against the
rule she abhors, for her fight is with
penury more than the oppressor. The
| sympathy OF the whole world may be
af1uent with its gifts, but 1t is idle to
talk of sustaining armies when she has
no granaries and her soil is in the keep
ing of the spoiier. ~
The pending conflict, therefore, was
| only the bitterness and not the material
elements of war. 1t is what the world
has had over and over again, and is
having daily in every land--labor II IFS
fierce grapple with privilege. II isthe
industrious and busy bee lighting its
time honored fight with tae idle and con
sequential drone. Here and every where
the contest is going on. bat IN Ireland
the stake is more vital, for il
is a struggle for life as nation
as well as for subsistence as a people.
While the heart of Irish America is
poured out in offerings of material aid
as the sole tribute to be rendered to the
cause, its fervid pulses leap in vain to
the imaginary beat af the drum and the
trumpets biale. But it was wise pro
vision OF the fathers of this great republic
that 1t should never become the self I
constituted arbiter of any peoples des-
tiny. What it does by example is more
than armies could achieve, because il
includes the example of a serene and
glorious nation ever at peace with allthe
world. a.H
But the Issue in Ireland is war, and
the sinews are bread and meat. While
under the pitiless writs Of eieetment the
roadsides are populous with its tenant
peasantrY from many vacant cabins, the
landlords tenure is slowly breaking, and
his grip on nothing growing weak. On
this the battle is to be lost and won. aud
1t is the endurance of Irishmea that
must conquer or fall. While the cabins
that remain tenanted are shared win she
elected households, popular odinm IN
Ireland is lack of power to the Minister
and his act of Parliament. and the laa q
lord wants 6rmer backing than. they
afford. We are not without recent eyi-
dence that he weakens in the throes of
the popular convulsion, but the yield is
reluctant and the gain slow.
We hardly think, however. that the
great question of private title to proper
ty is going to be solved readily. or solved
at all, in the present agitation in Ireland
Il istoo deep and broad an issue for the
forces that are before it, and there are
too many stops and stations on the way
for the Ireland Of this age not to remain
at some one of them. But much in the
right direction will be attained, and the
world probably lifted over the threshold
Of civilization which will exalt the
common mind and take from the rulers
of men their frenzy and their power.