The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-07

takes the time 10 inquire knows. The fol
lowing is from Cardinal Manning, who ms,
been frequently charged with being unfavor
able to Irelsnd's cause, because ne wss ar
Englshmsn, and because Psrnell was ,
Protestant-reasons which no intelligen,
Catholic would accept for church digni-
tary's words or acts:
Did ireland suicidally strip itself of all III
lands, reduce itself TO mud cabins, potatos
diet, ard evic,ions, fever and fsmines
\ y Who checked its agriculture
is cattle trade, its fisheries, and its manu-.
features!
have talked freely for many years with
men Of most countries Of Europe. I have
found everywhere profound sympathy with
Ireland in no way flsttering 10 England,
Our insularity keeps things from their ears,
and we therefore soothe ourselves with the
notion of our own superiority 10 other men.
But such an abuse Of the rights of the prop
erty is without parallel, at least in this cen.
,ury, on the continent Of Europe. Our self.
respect should lead us to give up the illusion
that our office in the civilized world is 10
teach tho nations how to live.
II may be thought that have ventured 10
speak upon subject which is beyond both
my capacity and my duty. But / have done
so from the profound conviction that the
deepest and sorest cause OF the discomfort
and unrest of Ireland is the land question.
am day by day in contact with an impover-
ished race, driven from home by the land
question. see il daily in the restitution of
my flock. The religious inequality does, in
deed, keenly wound and excite the Irish
people. Peace and good will can never
reign in Ireland until every stigma is eiIaced
from the Catholic church and faith, and the
calling injustice of religious inequality shall
have been redressed. This, indeed, is true. But
the land question, as we call it, by somewhat
heartless euphemism, means hunger, thirst,
nakedness, notice TO quit, labor spent in vain,
the toll of years seized upon, the breaking
up of homes, tho miseres, sicknesses, deaths
OF parents, children, wives, the despair and
wildness which spring up in the hearts Of the
poor when legal force, like II sharp harrow
gals the most sensitive and vital rights of
mankind. All this is contained in the land
question. 1t is this which spreads through
the people in three fourths of Ireland, with
an all pervading and thrilling intensity. 1t
is this intolerable grief which has driven
n"hui."s VI thousaiius w huierlca, tneTe 10
olde the time OF return. No greater self
deception could we practice on ourselves than
70 imagine that fenlanlsm Is the folly of
few apprentices and shop boys Fenianism
could not have survived for u year if it
were not sustained by the traditional
and just discomfort of almost whole
people. Let us rot deceive our
selves. Ireland is between two great asslm'
iatins powers, Eogland and America me
pay ana actlon OF Americs upon. Ireland, II
u ba seven days slower in reaching Ireland
than tho influence OF England, Is seveniold
mois penetrating and powerful upon the
whole population. me asslmilat-
ING power OF England, which hes overcome
!he resistance oil scotland, ana absorbed 1t
mo herseli' 70 met oy stern repulslon IN Ire
land which Keeps the Two races asunder.
inc asslmlIatlng power In America is met
ana welcomed win gratitude, sympathy and
Inspiration ana ihe attitude Ireland has long
oeen, as oir Robert reel described II in par
Lament twenty-five years agoo,"with her back
turned to England and her face toward the
west"
II any proportion OF the people OF Eng
lish countries were to be seen moving down
upon the FINANCES Tor embarkation to Amer
lea and dropping by the roadside from
huogor and fever, and it had been heard by
lhe wayslde that they were tenants-at.will, |
eVicted for any cause whatsoever, the public
OPINION OF the country would have risen to |