Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-02-28

GERS, to raise rents and evict the
poor tenants without mercy, yot
would not be surprised to hear o.
people being found dead on The
roadsides from starvation and ex'
posture, just because their crop fail
ing they were unable to pay ths
exorbitant rent asked by the
grasping vulturss of landlords
But you must remember that in
the year 1S47 100000 persons died
In Ireland from these causes. And
while the people were starving
the roads were crowded with cattle
being
DRIVEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY,
And ship loads of grain were lssv'
Ing the harbors of Ireland bound
for England. Here was the most
abject poverty in the midst of i'm.
mense wsalth-starvation in the
midst Of plenty. Cattle and grain
do not leave Ireland ae they dc
California. When you ship yeur
grain to other markets the money
comes back to enrich the people,
but in Ireland when tho grain goes
away it is lost-nothiDg ever
comes back. 1t ia sold and the
proceeds go into the pockets OF
lazy, thriftless, absentee landlords.
Yes, the failure of q crop ia Ire
land does not create any sympathy
ia the hearts of the landlord or his
agent; failure In crops goes hand 10
hand with rack rents. A calamity
in this country is the signal for
every one to put their hands in
their pockets aud offer help. Ii
Chicago or st. Louis burns, every
city aud town ia this great Iand
comes to the rescue, and notably
those of California. Ii Los Ange-
les were to burn down tonight
San Francisco and every city in
California would rush to her res.
cue; but in Ireland it is a different
thing. When the tenants were so
reduced in'our last failure of the
potato crop, the landlords, instead
OF Offering help or sympathy, were
harsher than ever. Were [ to tell
you some OF the distress and misery
that came under my own eyes in
my own county Of Galway, it
would turn your blood cold. In
one instance about sixty poor peo-
pie were
EvICTED ON CHRISTMAS EVE;
Their cabins were on the sea shore,
and they were driven out into the
blast-the roofs of their houses
were torn off. There they shivered
on the bleak sesshore, and women
held their little babes up to the
cruel tyrants, begging to be left in
their houses; but it was OF no avail.
When they crept into their reofess
cabins, the walls we're pulled down
to prevent them shelter:ng them
selves under them. And when
they went into the bitches and
lighted fires. the bailiffs put the
fires out and drove the poor wretch
es cut again, like wild beasts, into
the blast. Women and children
died, but what did that matter?-
they were only Irish. The Land
League resolved that there should
be no more famine, and advised the
people to keep the cattle, keep the
grain, keep the food, and keep the
rent la the country, too. In AT the
landlords increased their cruelty in
proportion to the distress Of the
tenant, and they have not i'm
proved since-tney have not
changed with the times. In otter
countries changes have come; not
only ia America, where the negro
has been freed, bat all over the face
OF the earth-every where, except
in Ireland-and with the changes
came a larger measure of prospsri-
ty; but Ireland has had no change
and has gone down. In 1876 the
potato crop was worth $50. 900, 900,
aud in 1879 1t was only worth $l5,-
100000, The evictions ia 1S47 were
1924, and in 1878, 26.667. When
Ireia 1d was allowed to send fair
representation to the Parliament
at st. Stevens, Mr.. Bright said we
had received all reasonable rights.
But when these mem bers went
there and told of Ireland's condi-
ton, and asked relief, they were
told that it WAS quite too distress
ing to hear so much about Ireland,
and the aesthetic English members
said it was quite too utterly dis
gushing, all this talk about her Ma
jssty's thread.bare subjects in Ire
land. Finding that there was no
hope of any sympathy from the
English,
MR.. PARNELL, LIKE COLUMBUS,
Started out on voyage of discov.
cry, to find a new country and a
new people, to hear the complaints
Of his beloved countrymen, and
came to America. When Charles
Parnell visited Ireland and insured
the union of the great Irish race,
banded together to free their couD-
try, it first dawned upon the Eng
lish government that they were in
danger, and the result was Glad
stones land bill. 1t has been said
that the Wing party is the friend
of Ireland, but for my part l agree
with Samuel johnson, who said he
believed that the devil was the
frat Wbig. When Gladstone came
into power there were in Ireland
SOC, 900 persons in receipt Of relief
most of it from America, very lit.
tie from anywhere slse-and had it
not been for this relief they would
have died of starvation on the road
sides, like the people in cholera.
stricken districts in India. When
Mr.. Gladstone again took the helm
he had not word OF comfort for
the unfortunate Irish. Mr.. Glad
stone is q philantrepist and o hu.
uianitarian, but he crossed the
ocean to put into practice his hui
manitarian principles. He went
to Bulgaria, Greece and Montene.
gro, aud then crossed over to AT.