The daily gazette., 1881-12-20

lRELANDs WRONGS. Father Shee-
by, q Priest lately from Ireland, lee
tured last night in the Grand Opera
House, before large audience, com
posed principally of our Irish people.
The Reverend gentleman portrayed in
eloquent language the hard condition
OF the suffering people of his native
land in consequence Of the high rents
imposed upon the Irish tenantry by
the landlords. He extolled the Land
League and exhorted all here to Join
1t who would better the condition of
their friends in Ireland and them.
selves here. Exactly how they were
to better their condition here he did
not say. But the inference is drawn.
Of course, that after the Land League
had exhausted its money in behalf of
the tenantry of Ireland, it could use
its efforts here to impose obligations
OF some sort. However this may be
Father Sheehy fully impressed his
auditors with the idea that it was
wrong to pay rent under the circum.
stances In Ireland, and that those
who did so were not deserving of the
name OF patriots. "No rent he
assured his hearers, was the policy by
which Ireland was to right her wrongs,
and that If it was perseyered in the
landlords would be crushed ont, and
landlordism come to an end. But in
Just what particular way lie did not
pause 10 state. Nor did he say who
was to till the soil-whether the land
lords would do it all themselves by
hiring Immense numbers of farm
hands and paying them or abandon
ing their lands entirely to such as saw
proper to go on them, or stay on
them, and till them merely for the
tun of the thing /; or whether the
present tenants were expected to set
lpa claim and title 10 the lands, aud in
defiance of all scriptural ictation not
TO "covet anything that is thy neigh
bor's," and to "owe no man anv-
thing, keep them and enjoy them
without money and without price. y
be these matters as they may Father
sheehy IL fine and pleasant talker
and made very favorable impression
upon his hearers, and no doubt many
OF them will join the Land League, and
become great advocates of the mo
rent policy of that institution in
Ireland. It is a great pity that the
irish people have to endure such ex.
treme hardships in their own native
and. The sympathy of the people
oil America has always been with
them and averse 10 the hard laws ot
England. But it is a greater pity to
witness the div sion that has arisen
among the,people OF Ireland and in this
country on this very question of "nc
rent, AMI the prospect that civil
war will bo ushered in upon the nm
happy population of ireland to re,
nuce them to more abject poverty anc
ignorance in the end. 1t is clearl,
evident that the best thing that car
be done for an irish family is to hell
them to immigrate to America
Father sheehy's own declaration
prove that the Irish farmer in Itelan,
could no longer compete with tn
Irish farmers in America and that i,
the end farming IN Ireland would be
us9d-up business. Almost every prc
duct upon which the Irish farme
nsed to depend was now met in th
Dublin and London markets by rival
from America at about half the pfioe
and he named beef, pork, flour, butter
and oats, wheat and barley none G
these articles could be sold in comnt
tition with the products except til
latter, and 1t would soon have to Civ
way when the voice of the people wa
raised against the sale of whisky as
soon would be. The English Govern
ment is guilty of a horrid cine i
not granting to the Irish people NOR
liberal laws, and voting them larp
amount of money to lberate then