The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-20
THE LAND OF TEARS.
Pom Picture, Of feasan. 1af0 IN rrol. L

lnau steya W ltelauu, marrIeS NJ TIRES
and.twenty, has any number of 'ctildyer
up to fourteen, without being com mr. TED
upon, except as the father OF 20 loc;. ia mi
!y." For few years his wages ,afice
but soon. children Increase, rainy seasnn
or cold season, or q slack season sets in
then credit 10 called 70 help, then the
"gomheen map" the uuurer; ihen al
resources being exhausted, beggary
begins. The wife aud youngest children
tramp round tho country. or may be seen
as have seen them. aeeking in thu dart
evening and winters snow for th tol
of the seawravk as supper. 'Hov
do the people i've ?" have often asked
Of themselves. "How can the, euppor,
life even in ordinary years? 2" "They do
not live. they atarve," Is the answer have
got. Glow do they bring thei~ children
up9" "They bring them up Ia rags and
beggary and starvation" There Is the
answer, and it is true one. This is the
| reward Of the man who stnys in Ireland,
| and does his work according to his light.
Now for IT,, other side.
| lad or nineteen, atroDg, vigorous,
unapoilt full Of intelligence, aud With q
certain amount of lear nk, asks himsals
what he shall do. HjA brother or his
uncle in some OF the colonies, or Amer.
lea, answers the qu.atlon for,him, and
says, "Come out to me. Here you win
earn from three to seven or more dollars
q day here you will have meat and
cream and good clothing; here you viii
find friends anI kinsf0ik and acquain.
tance; hero ifvOu wish to marry, there
arc plenty of ;neighboring girls" Il. e.,
girls from the same neighb0rhood Id the
old country who are earning their thirty
or forty pounds q year, who dress better
than the ladies do at home, and to whom
you will be able to give every comfort 10
nice house. Of your very own, and per-
hnps piece Of land. Here you viii
have vote, and have the whole sphere
of politics open to you, aud here you villa
bo free from England. This 10 the real
free Ireland F.; come"-and he goes, aud
the Nation loses him. Let us see who
the Nation retains.
TAKE ANY LETTER FROM AMERICA,
written from the poor to poor, what will
you find in it9 As above to the indus.
trious, to the young, to the strong, and
the good; what TO the worthless, the
drunkards, the idlers? LET no min
como out 10 america that viii not work.
He will be better at home" Here, he
will starve; here, "If a man will moi
work neither let him eat" is the prac,i-
cal rule, aud the people know it. The
bad stay at home. How do they live
then? If for the righteous there ID
scarcely place found, where shall The
ungodly and the sinners appear2 Strange
to say, Ireland is the place for them.
Now will describe their lives.
This man, that "will not respect him.
SELF" that cares not to live honestly, or
cleanly, soberly, or chastely. He mar.
ries lin Ireland even the worst will prob,
ably marry ut tho ago of nineteen, hav-
ing neither house nor means. He lodges
probably with his father-in.laW, his .viifa
being product Of The "beggary and star
vation" described above. They toss heap
of straw in some corner of the cabin, and
80 they live, as regards their setting up
in married life. He gets job of work,
when jobs are going, aud spends o good
part IN the public house, for he knows
his wife. has been working for him.
How 2 she--very probably trained from
infancy to the busineas-is tramping the
road with OIL infant on her back and an
other on each side, stopping. at every
house. rich and poor. The poor man
gives his three or four potatoes, his
handful Of fleur. He thinks It wrong 10
refuse. She passes on, perhaps as she
goes by "wGipp:og" the apron Of his wife
or his child's s3itt OF the, crying aedge.
and hiding them i'll her Ga. nents to the
rich mans house; there she gets q bit Of
silver, or lump of bread, or pot of
dripping, then to the dairy farmers;
here she poured into her can cup Of
milk (milk not to ba bought for the dying
child by those who will not beg.) Here
she sits down with or after the lab6rers
and has her d;a:s-, and perhaps her bit
of bacon. So through the day, till she
goes home rejoicing at night, her bag
vel! filled with potatoes, .iich she sells
flour for Gaze; her little can full OF
milk for her ragged, unkempt, uuschoolcd
children. The money from the sale OF
the potatoes turns into tea and whiskey.
aud if times ara hard the whole family
will tramp together 90 some moro pros.
porous country, or sometimes travel In
state with donkey cart owned or bor-
| rOwtd.
habitually invade Limerick every sum-
mer, when the potatoes fail at home.
The moro worthless the people, tia more
such manner of living will suit them
They can eat, drink, and live together
what do they want more? What do
such as they care for cleanliness, or
decency. or knowledge, or God fearing.
ness? There 10 no country in Europe
offers so easy means of life TO the worth
less scoundrel and his sIattern wife as
does. Ireland; no country where an
| industrious honest man finds it more
! impossible to save himgeIf and HE
children from sinking into the class
where easy beggary will provide food
honest labor can scarce secure.
This Is the state OF the "poor man.
class as it is; is it to continue so2 It
! ..c,i:..r .nun:G re- can cor.;rne. ..5esc
the farmer secure in ell just rights, give
him his most extravagant demands; you
have 90 yet but Skinned the wound ;
you have but yet cooled the lava on the
mouth of tho volcano; the explosion
will como. and como quickly-not
twenty years ; not ten years hence, but
in few moptbs-it may be in a few
days after yon have lain aside your
healing tools and your cooling apparatus,
whatever it may be-. And this revolution
will be revolution OF tho most danger
GUS elements; 1t will be tho rising Of
a clnRs thas hatea the eclass above it
with, an unspeakAble hatsed, for SO the
laborers hate the farmers. Is will be q
rising that feels il is lighting for life
that regards murder aS war; that looks
upon the legal attainment of an ems
injnrious TO poor neighbor ss q, crime
to be washed out with blood, that cries
Amen r. TO cursed be he that removeth