Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-02-19
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The spontaniety and universali.
~ Of the sentiment Of nearly oil
elasDss in the United States In
favor Of the Irish Land Lsaguers
ID enc Of the most significant and
netabls occurrences Of the day.
The rssolution passed BY the
Unlted States House Of Reprssent.
atlves, expressive Of sympathy
With The Land League, was cred
liable act Of that expiring body.
go showed how responsive the
Oenocratie party Is to the call of
1fesdsm In every quarter Of the
world. But these manifestations
e sympathy have not been con-
lined 70 any party. race or religion.
Just ~, In ireland, We find that the
Land Lsague embraces oil ele-
nents Of the population-the
HRetestant PArnsll standin 6 shout.
~ 20 shoulder with the Roman
onthelie Davitt-ws see In the
Ueitsd States tho Protestant min
istsr cheek BY jowl with the Cath
clio priest In the same cause. There
VS. . pleasing instance of this In
0An Francisco, 1t the great demon
stration the other night. Protest.
ants, In the persons of such Pro-
tsstant divines as the Revsrends
Scott. 6tebbins, Kalloch, and
Others, were even moro demonstra-
lively represented than the Roman
Catholic priesthood. All over
the world the struggle Of
the Irish 10 seen to be b
nghs for the radical rights Of COM
non humanity. The fact Is recog-
missed that landlord exaction has
rlssn TO such . height that self.
preservation itself calls for action
on the part Of tho Irish masses.
Many well wishsrs Of England can.
not help thinking that the Glad
Stone government 10 making one
Of those blundsrs which are worse
than crimes in adopting the vic.
lent policy which was introduced
BY the imprisonment of Michael
Davltt and, more than all, by an
Invasion Of the time .honored Eng
lish right Of debate. Macaulay, in
one Of those luminous sentences
that showed his prescispce as q
Statesman was as great as his
skill ~ . rheterician, poet and
writer, said that rs long as five
hundred English gentlemen could
assemble Ia the Commons and de.
batG all public measures without
rsserictions. the liberties of Eng
llshmeu were In no danger. But,
all Ut once, without any warning
the revolutionary change being
shot like . thunderbolt out of a
clear sky-we see British subjects
deprived Of this right of debate.
We zee member after member or.
dered under arrest, and forcibly ex.
PEELED from the House, without
The slightest pretence of treasOna-
BILE uttsrances. We are taken
back, At . bound, to the times of
Charles I. and Of that ill-judg ed
son Of bis, James H., who tried to
revive the Star Chamber. And
this special and incredible outrage
upon the popular liberties is perpe
tratsd. BY a profsssedly Liberal
mtnistry-0od save the mark /!
There IL in this whole proc esding
not only the danger to the liberties
Of England involved in substitute
Ing the methods Of despotism for
those governing the controversies
habitual to and unavoidable in q
free, constitutional system, but
there 10 another peril Of quite q diff
fsfsnt kind. An agitation 90 pro.
nounesd - to call for an abroga.
ton Of oil fair and manly English
presidents. cannot fail to stimu-
late the intelligence of the English
masses. All below the middle
classes have been hopelessly torpid
OF ct least dormant intellectually
until the last twenty years. Brad.
laugh and q half dozen other fervid
and eloquent men have done much
70 quicken the sluggish intsili-
gence Of the English lower classes.
The arrogance Of the landlord caste
for that 10 just what the arrest Of
Davitt and the revival Of the obso.
lsts ministerial prerogative of clio.
swrs msan-will cali the attention
Of the British hslst to his own de.
plorable condition. A school has
been opened 10 which he will
awaken to the privations and con.
straints under which, like patient
boast Of burden, he has groaned
esd swsatsd for ages, without any
more perception Of the harsh dis.
ppnsation under which he has lived
soan the accomplishing OK. The
wave OF the first French Revolu.
etou passed Incidentally over Eng.
land. That epochal event benefit.
% the poor man IncslculabIy In
W end, but he bad not intelli.
oenee enough to analyss the pro-
o0nDoo. But the oDe0t acla Of tha