The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-11

! tlYators of the land were left to die
the slow and degrading death of
starvation. Why, in the late Irish
famine, as the American relief shin
Constellation was entering the baY
OF Dublin, some four or five English
ships were going out laden with the
produce of the Irish soil; and in the
very severesU week enough live
stock was shipped to England to
pay the rent, and give every person
in Ireland good dinner every day
In the seven. Shall this power to
hold and at pleasure sacrifice the
multitude be allowed to continue?
The Land League says, no. Every
honest man must say no. too. The
Land League is organized to combat
the system Of landlOrdism and
destroy it forever. To obtain for
the producer his right to enjoy and
possess the product of his labor; to
practically establish the right of
the tillers Of the soil to the posses
sion of the land; to end, forever, the
famineS that have brought
disgrace and humiliation on
the Irish people; to abolish the
rent system which has been a draw,
not only upon the people of Ireland,
but of America, also, for the mi
guilty that has followed the Irish
people to this side Of the ocean, and
their remittances have always gone
to enable those at home, to pay their
tribute demanded by the landlords,
who set up a prior and exclusive
claim to the soil that God created
for all his children,in defiance Of the
welfare and very existence of the
people. In fine, to establish the
principle of proprietorship, which
has enabled Belgium, with a much
poorer soil, to support, in prosperity,
469 Inhabitants to the square mile,
while IrelandIjs unable, under the
present infamous system, to support
169 inhabitants to the square mile.
No revolution of such magnitude,
has ever been accomplished in the
history Of the world, with less sac
rifce of property and life, as that
accomplished by the Land League
during the past two years in
Ireland. But the government
of England has lately passed a
coercion bill of the most
atrOcious character, placing the
liberties of every man in Ireland
at the mercy Of the secretary for
Ireland, Mr.. Forster. You have
heard of preserving potted meat and
Jam by Theoretically sealing them,
and Mr. ForSter's idea of preserving
Irishmen is by Theoretically sealing
them up in jail. The Land League
has been proclaimed, and the ster-
ling patriot Charles Stewart Par
nell, and the other leaders Of the
League cast into prison, in violation
of all law and justice. The organ
izatlon that was intended to protect
thousands of innocent m6u has
been broken up, and the people of
Ireland are again left to the mercy
of those who never yet showed
mercy to the people. This has been
done, not by Indictment, not by any
means that would give a fair trial
before the world, to the principles
Of the Land League, but by sap
and mine," and the mailed hand of
tyranny. Meanwhile the voice of
the people of Ireland is attempted
to be Stifled by two savage coercion
acts, and by the employment OF
$4,000 soldiers and 1900 military
police, who are spread from Donegal
to Kerry, and from Dublin To Gal
way, and who allow no day to pass
without making the people of Ire
land feel that EnglanI meals to
rule them after the manner Of d
ruthless cOnqueror; and that now.
as in the days OF EiIZ lbeth. CrOm-
well and William Ill, the sword IS
after all, the grand argument with
which it seems to answer all national
demands, notwithstanding the fact
that the present prime minister has
once said in the case of l ally, "Tha
a government 10y the prison WAS d
negatiOn of God " In no country IN
the world, perhaps, except Russia,
is there SO little public liberty left,
and so much deSpOtiSm exercised by
the ruling executive as IN Ireland
in the year 1881. Can it b, for one
moment, pretended that govern
ment under which such occurrences
as above enumerated habitually
take place has any moral right to
exist? And would not people who
did not endeavOr by every legal and
constitutional means to put an end,
forever, to such occurrences deserve
anything better than the sceurge of
the slaVe-driVer? But the work of
the Land League cannot be stopped;
it needs, however, all the aid it can
possibly receive. This is cause
that appeals to all justice-loving
people; it involves the death
struggle of a whole nation against
the greatest iniquity that has ever
cursed mankind. 1t involves the
future happiness of the people. not
only of Ireland, but of America and
all ether countries. To aid this
great work a branch Of the Irish
National Land League is about to
be organized in this city, and
the cooperation Of all who be-
lieYe in the justice Of the cause
is earnestly solicited. Scotland
is already following in the
wake of Ireland, and has common
ced the establishment of her ma
tional Land Leagues. The people
of England will soon catch the
flame; the age is an age of moral
forces-the age of brute force has