The examiner., 1881-11-19
Nasby on Ireland.
CONVERSION OF BITTER ENEMY OF IREL

INTO A STRONG FRIEND.
 MIR. DAVID R. LOCKE (''Petroleum ". Nasby''O, editor of the Toledo Blade, is one of the strongest writers and journalists in America. He has been known hitherto as a man who hated the Irish people, and boldly expressed his feelings. He has just returned from visit to Ireland, and has begun in his paper series of articles on that country. We take the following extracts from the first article :-
 CORK, Oct 4. 1881. 'sTis the most distressful country that ever yet
 seen,
 They're hanging men and women for the wearin' of the green"
 Cork is sleepy city of perhaps 70,0OO population, made up of the handsomest men and the most beautiful women and children on the face of the globe. You shall see more feminine beauty on the streets of Cork in an hour than you can anywhere else in week. Homely women there are none-beautiful women are so plenty that it really becomes monotonous. One rather gets to wishing that he could see an occasional pair of English feet, for the sake of variety.
 The city itself is beautiful, as are all the cities of Ireland, but it is sad city, as are all the cities of Ireland. It is not prosper ous, and cannot be, for it is under English domination, and England will not permit prosperity in Ireland. It is only the at tachment which an Irishman has for his own country that makes anybody stay there. With every natural advantage, with every facility for manufacturing, for trade and commerce, with the best harbor ir the world, and the nearest point for American trade, it has no manufactures to speak of, and no trade whatever. Its population has decreased 3O,0OO within 15 years, and it's trade is slowly but surely dwindling to nothingness.
 What is the reason for this? It is all summed up in one word-landlo1dism There is no man it the world, not except ing the Frenchman, who will work longer or harder than the Irishman. There is no race of men who are better merchants or more enterprising dealers, and there is no reason, but one, why Cork should not be one of the largest and richest cities of the world. That reason is English ownership of Irish soil.
 FEEBLE EXPRESSION OF OPINION
 Irish landlordism is condensed villany. It is the very top and summit of oppression, cruelity, brutality and terror.
 It was conceived in lust and greed, born of fraud, and perpetuated by force.
 It does not recognize manhood, woman hood, or childhood. Its cold hand is upon every cradle in Ireland. Its victims are the five millions of people in Ireland who cannot get away, and the instruments used are bayonets and ball cartridges.
 It is ghoul that would invade grave yards were there any profit to be gotten out of graveyards. It is the coldest-blood- ed, crueleet infamy that the world has ever seen, and that any race of people was ever fated to groan under.
 Irish landlordism is legal brigandage- it is an organized hell
 Wesley said that African slavery was the sum of all villanies. Irish landlordism comprises all the villanies that the devil ever invented, with African slavery thrown in. Irish landlordism makes African slavery a virtue by comparison. For when negro slave got too old to work, he was given some place in which to live, and suf- fcient food to keep him in some sort of life, and clothes enough to shield him from the clements.
 The Irish tenant, when he becomes old and cannot work, is thrown out upon the roadside, with his and his children, to die and rot. He has created land with his own hands, which he is not allowed to occupy. He has grown crops which he is not allow ed to eat; he has labored as no other man in the world labors, without being permit ted to enjoy the fruits of his labor. The virtue of his wife and daughter are in the keeping of the villain who by virtue of bayonets controls his land In short. to sum 1t all up in one word, the Irishman is serf, slave
 HOW CONVERSION WAS EFFECTED.
 went from Dublin to Cork, the most pref judiced man against the Irish that lives between the earth and sky. In fact, when Mir. James Redpath found me in Dublin, l was engaged in .disputation with MT, Charles Stewart Parnell, the President of the Land League, in which was endeay- bring to convince him that he was dema- gogue, that the Irish had no reason fo1 agitation, that whatever suffering there was in the country was attributable to some inherent weakness in the Irish char acter, that Ireland could only be properly ruled by the English, and that they ought