The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-04
IRELAND'S WOES.
As ReeOunted by one of Her De.
tenders.
British GrueltY and Irish Chris
tlanlty.
SALT LAKE CITY. Dec, 2. 1881,

observations. To presume TO be-
come teacher Of mankind, is a task
for which few,very few indeed, pos
SesS the requisite qualifications of
candor and wisdom. The solution
of the slow advance Of mankind in
the paths of civilization and true
progress is to be found here. The
human mind is perplexed by the
petit Jogging and alterations of
small-brained individuals who are
unable to grasp but a very, very
small portion OF the truth, and fool
like jump at the conclusion that
they know it all. The wise man
sometimes doubts himself, the fool
never; the fool ruSheS into print,
rushes in where wise men fear to
tread, and instead of an eclairaisse-
ment of matters his prolific errors
serve only to embarasS and bewil-
der the mind, and liSe a mule in a
mOraSS at every fresh attempt to
extricate himself he sinks but the
deeper in the mire.
The Individual Tara" whoever
he may be, exhibits his noble char
acter and high intelligence by as
Stunning a nom de plume that typifies
the glory Of Ireland, the pride of
her, sons and solely for the purpose
Of traducing that same Ireland and
the character of her children. Tara
like many Of his countrymen, ap-
pears to be too bull-headed to have
any proper idea of right and wrong.
His mental and moral optics are
not sufficiently developed to be able
to perceive distinction; he seems
fossilized amid the barbarisms of
the past, and appears as though the
light of the 10th century had never
broken upon his head.
The man who is entitled to be
considered civilized; who by his in
dustry, integrity and virtue seeks to
winan honorable subsistence, should
be welcomed everywhere, but a rob.
bernation, or a robber-people have no
more right to invade, plumber,
murder and enslave weaker peoples
and nations than the highwayman
has to rob and murder the unwary
and defendless traveller. If the Irish
possess ignOble traits they are Justly
attributable to the barbarity of
British rule; if they possess virtues
which they do in an eminent degree
the credit belongs solely TO them.
selves, for England has never yet
placed an example before them.
"On our side is virtue and erin
On theirs is the Saxon and guilt"
Ihave seen the time myself, prior
to the famine years. when gold
placed upon the threshold could
not tempt the people to the per-
petration Of theft.
Had England in her two attempts
TO subjugate France, whose revolu
ton NJ, Michelet has said was &
sublime atOnement for the sins Of
the world; that France which is the
home Of genius, of chivalry and
advanced civilization; that France
which for centuries has been send
ing her civilizing in floods across
the channel, what WoGld have been
her condition, what would be the
condition of European civilization
to-day? Does any rational man fol
a moment doubt that its wTetched
ness. it's barbarity and its degrade.
ton would be only equaled by the
loathsome condition Of the Ireland
of to-day. a country whose people
have been engaged in redeeming,
Improving, fertilizing and making
valuable the land only to see theil
burdens in the shape Of rack-rentS
advance in ever increasing rat c
with their industry and Ifrugality
until az no time was anything left
for themselves but mud cabins and
butter-milk and potatoes, and not
always those for when not being
murdered by a government profess
ing to be civilized and Christian they
were constantly b"!ng dispOSSeSseC
and turned OUT On the highways t
perish of cold and hunger, until
bOpe]essness and despair settled
down upon the land; whilst the
faloniouS land-lordism that was
producing this condition Of thing:
was rollicking in the luXurieS ant
debaucheries OF the capitals OF
Furope, ireland is the only king
dom [ ever heard OF" says Swift il
1928. "either in ancient or modern
story which was denied the liberty
! of exporting its native commodities
and manufactures, yet this privilege
is denied us. If we flourish it must
be against every law OF nature anC
reason, like the thorn OF GlastOn
bury that blossoms in the midst o.
winter. The miserable dress and die
of the people; the families OF farm
ers who pay great rents living il
6lth and nastineSs upon butter mill
and potatoes, without Snoe or STOCK
inc TO their feet, or house as con
yenient as an English hog-sty, e
receive them; the rise Of our rents L
squeezed out of the very blood an(
yitals and clothes and dwellings o.
the tenants who live worse thai
English beggars, Ye; are idle. ye ar
idIei answered Pharoah to tai
| Isrealites when they complained e
| his majesty that they were forces
to make bricks without straw. IN
prosperity of the people is the high
est purpose for which government;
and laws are established. Capita
may be a very good thing, ana ~
doubt is when properly and legltl
mately used, but to allow 1t TO OF
! -, ood CfQrE6 an en-