Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-02-10

rMr verrilIl of the opposition, As resoiuuon
e symnathv with the land Ronopoiists Oh
iceland lie then read from the New iork
Herald of Feb. 18th, his own Ieso,u'.o".
copied by Senator Treat and was g,au uA,
The honorable Senator from Rhode isiano
vas following a good example. ne '"e"
said. w;Il
Sir. in presenting these resolutions l WI,
.on.mme bnt little time; but all civilized
neonle are now looking to ireland. Their
ffscas male As thew behold her wants, her SUIT
far;nos. her starving condition. her Ja'is
crowded. her huts, called homes:
and amid all this her patient endurance OF
wrongs. outrage and oppression. she mas
heen beseeching England for centuries
n ameliorate her condition. She has tried
in every way possible for redress OF grievances
and wrongs, beseeching her in some way that
she NAV have some title in her lands. 1hese
resolutions of sympathy are nothing new. As
far back as the dawn of ancient history II was
the custom of nations, Of tribes. and peoples
to send resolutions of sympathy to weaker
nations and those who were suffering unuer
tvranical rule In accordance with that
custom Daniel Webster delivered his great
sneech in the Senate of the United States IN
the opprcssion of the Greeks by the Turks,
arousing to sympathy for the Greeks the ma
tious of the earth And the suffering of the
Greeks at that time bore no relation to the
sufferings of ireland to-day. Resolutions OF
England sympathising with our southern
slaves were ever presented and the lnstl-
tuition characterized as crime against
civilization ; but never in the history OF slavery
have plantations of slaves been starved.
They have always had food and raiment
and babitations in which to live;
but in many parts of Ireland her people are
dwelling in huts, and driven back in life to
the ancient cave jewellers OF Europe. In the
famine of 1913, and also that OF 1879, our
vessels of war carried to the starving people
of Ireland food from this country to feed her
starving population; and whence comes 1t
that Ireland has famine so often and thather
people are calling for food from the nations of
the earth? Let us look at Ireland. She Is
sOI miles long, and 1872 miles wide on an
average She has a population of five mil
lions and half. In 1919, when Cromwell
undertook to force down her throat
religion which was as abhOr-
ent to the C, Lie race as it was
against the Gospel of Christ, the Irish
were conquered by force Of numbers and
four-ffths of their land confscated. In $685.
30 James the Second fled the throne and
sought refuge in Ireland, William the Third
led an army into Ireland resulting in the
battle of the Boyne. The English were
again victorious and another confscation of
property took place. So that to-day
nine-tenths of the land of Ireland is cOnfiscat-
ed. And this land was given gratultously to the
noblemen and gentlemen of England, not one
in hundred of whom ever visit their Irish
estates. These lands are rented and sub
rented and sub-rented on the tenant sys-
TEN. The Justices Of the Peace of each
town are the appOintees of the landlords. Ire
land suffers starvation not because her lands
are not as productive as the lands of other ma
tons, but because of her tithng and tenantry
system. And these lithes must be paid or
the tenants driven off to starve. And while
her people are starving in order to pay these
tithes she sends away one hundred and fifty
millions of dollars worth Of produce a year to
meet the demands of the landed monopolists.
And she sees from her own doors her own
food which she has raised, placed in the
hands Of her oppressors because she cannot
obtain by any means her title to the land.
If England should repeal her law of primo
geniture so that her vast estates might be d.
vided, there might be little hope that she
meant to reform her tenantry system. In
time of peace Ireland has 10000 mounted
cOnstabulary to enforce the law on that small
territory, until ireland to-day presents a scene
of ruin.
1.-The harp that once through Taras hall
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls
As though that soul were dead
| may stand here all day and name over
the orators and poets and warriors but
will name Burke, Grattan. Sheridan, Cur
ran. Goldsmith, Moore, Lord Wellington,
O'Connell. Emmett, Mcmahon, and we can
point in our own late history to the name of
a Phil Kearney, Col. Burke, Fitzpatrick.
Meagher, Corcoran and Sheridan, and the
blood OF her sons stains, aye, rather brightens
our battle flags kept sacredly in the rO-
tunda of this capitol But England to-day
is imprisoning and bounding the tracks of
just such men as these. She has put to death
thousands of patriots whenever they opposed
her tyranny. BY and by
.The blood of her patriots whom England hath slain
Shall fall on her forehead in terrible rain
And to-day England's mode of warfare is
to pit one tribe against another, one nation
against another, until they become quite de-
populated and exhausted. She then builds a
fortress and collects nine-tenths of the rev.
cnues of the country. 1t is so in India. so in
Afghanistan, and SO to-day in South Africa.
For any pretext by which she may in
crease her revenues she resorts to war if
necessary. She wished to introduce tbous-
products of her India fields The Emperor
of China expostulated against the introduce
ton of opium into his country. lie
wrote letters in person to the Queen,
but all to no purpose. And when she re-
minded him that he might get a revenue BY
licensing it, he replied he would receive no
revenues from source which would cause
the ruin OF his people, and this from heather
Emperor to christian England! war fol-
lowed. After sacrificing many thousands of
Chinese their doors were opened to the opium
trade, and China lay at the feet Of English
superiority in arms and opium flowed into her
Empire, until now English opium is DESTROY
ing the lives Of one thousand people daily
Four millions of Chinese are on q race that
lasts but four years. IL is said that
sixty thousand people die annually in
the United States from the effects
of ardent spirits; but four hundred thousand
Chinese die annually, poisoned by the opium
of Christian England. In the Language of
the Declaration of Independence she incites
the Indian on our border. whose known mode
of warfare is the indiscriminate slaughter of
age, sex and condition And her history
shows no reformation in her mode of war
fare. know not what may be the future of
Ireland; but l know that the nations of
Europe have scattered over them their Wash.
ingons, now called, as our Washington once