The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-21
TELEGRAPHIC
GREAT BRITAIN.
The Irish Land BiII-LabOrcrs
Unions. Etc.. Etc.

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Unions, ETC.. Etc.
New York, Worlds London: The
| light is breaking for the premier and it is
now certain that the land bill will reach
the House of Lords early in July. Lord
Salisbury has muttered threats against
it, but the prevailing impression Is that
the upper house will not dare to reject it.
| I heir rejection last year Of the compen-
sation for disturbance bill was followed
| by the present measure, and if they should
| throw the measure out, they may safely
count on being confronted next session
with q much more radical scheme. 1t is
quite on the cards, however, for the bill.
to be amended in Lords, although I have
reason TO know that no attempt will be
made to tamper with its leading prin-
cipies. The most important amendment
| probably will be one in the spirit Of that
movement ii Commons by Mr.. Heneage,
the member for Great Grimsley, on
! Thursdsy. viz, to exempt landlords who
have made their own Improvements, ac-
cording to the usual English system,
from the operation of the clause pro-
viding for free sale Of tenant right by the
outgoing occupier. An amendment of
this kind which would not materially
affect the scope of the bill. is almost sure
to be carried in the upper house, but just
now the Lords are not in humor for
trifing with the behests of the Commons.
Mr.. Joseph Archer, the leader of agri-
cultural laborers, wrote to Mr.. Gladstone
the other day asking when government
intended to bring down the bill for asst
initiating borough and county franchise.
The premier Ia q very courteous and
plimentsry note, replied, that the
bill would be prepared during the recess,
and made the piece de resistance for next
session. the sssimilating of borough and
county franchise will, it is estimated, in
crease the radical strength in the counties
at least 60 per cent.
The sceptre is departing from the par
CON and squire. Hodge, with ballot in
his hand, will be as uncompromising
foe to the state, church and the landed
interests, as any Nottingham or North
ampton "Lsmb." Arch, who is travel
ing through the country holding open
air meetings 10 the evening, makes no
secret Of the future programme of the
vast organization Of labOrers' unions
which he controls. He demands that
the law of entail and primogeniture be
abolished; that the land be thrown open
for purchase; that the church be discs
tablished, titles abolished and 1.-The par
son'-ss the chsrtists used to say
compelled to live on the affections of
the people or starve." Thi. is strong
talk, and there is plenty of it just now.
Under the present editorial law,
there is lodging suffrage" in the
boroughs, i. e. the inhabitants
who pays rent to the amount OF $40 per
year, is entitled to Uenee % whilst in the
counties. The ranchise is confined to |
95 for lessees and 912, occupiers. ARri- |
cultural laborers (who rarely get more |
than from IS. TO 10s. week. only pay,
at most, s6 year rent. They are utterly |
disfrsnchised just now. 1t would be |
madness for the lords to attempt to force |
a fgh* with the government on the land |
bill with these new radical levies within |
a day of the field.
Those of your readers who only know |
English country life from the poems eff
Mrs. Hemans and others, about the
"Cottsge homes" 1.-THE stately homes"
etc., would be taken sback if they were |
to visit rural England just now. Hun
dreds of once magnificent estates, are now
In some countries nearly so
per cent. of the land is out Of cultivation.
Property is drug and rent rolls are
rapidly diminishing. In olden
times, every Englishman who had
made money in business, invested in
landed property, with the object of found
ing family dynasty. The East In.
disns, the nabobs as they were called.
spent frivolous sums in the good old days
Of the rotten boroughs, in acquiring es-
tatss which brought with them seats in
Psriisment, and in the latter times the
cotton lords and other capitalists of in
dustry sunk their fortunes in the manor
assured Of peren NAL income and op.
pressed tenantry. All this belongs to q
past age. The tenant, manacled by
fugal customs and oppressed by titles and
big rents, is unable to face American
and live, and abandons the
farm to swell the angry mob ia the Dor
oughs. The laborer is no longer salts
fed to live from hand to mouth and
enjoy the "bliss of ignorance" He
wants land of his own and threatens to
Iske it if it is not given to him. He be-
belongs to union controlled by clique
IF propagandists of socialism and insists
On the franchise, not as a favor, but ss a
right of which the squire and the
Dsrson have defrauded him through
Ill these years. The clergy do not
ARE much better than the squires. Tithes
Ire paid grudgingy. Hodge has become
dissenter as we'll as a radical, and the
,lect of the drum ecclesiastic, which used
o Brighten him, has lost its terrors The
ords, the natural guardians of the
.hurch, are powerless to stay the tide
hat is washing out the foundations of The
sta blisbmeut, nor can they hope to save
n Englaud the rights of property which
n Ireland have already gone by the
,osrd. Solicitors tell me that for every ,
nan who wants to purchase an estate
here are a hundred ready to snap at half ,
bid. Where al this is going TO end
he wisest men here are at loss to :
now. The harvest prospects have ,
'een somewhat improved by CO. !;
ious showers, but at the best :
! will fall below the average.
The recent Fenian outrsges and repes!ed
umors Of dynamite plots have given rise
o great dissatisfaction at the impunity
nth which such conapiracies are said to !
e Matched in New York. I hsve reason
D know that the report that the foreign
flee will cali the attention of your gov
- mani IN tho rnaftar is well f0undo6 | i