Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-22
The Irish Question.


friendliest but frankest manner. for q,
tempting, contrary to his usual prae
tice, to write upon a subject that h
does not understand. The Irish quest
ion has but one side to it. It is simpl
and easily unraveled, If one gets hol,
of the right end of the thread to star
with, but, like a tangled skein. be
comes hopeless if you pick and pull
at whim and random, as your CORE
spondent has done. He is right whei
ne says that Ireland's sufferings ar,
the accumulated results of interna
British misrule. Calcaterra's bruised
head and Judge Pillsbury's buliet-hol,
are the results of exactly the same
misrule which we have copied from
Britain and Instituted here. ats le
gitimate tendency is to divide society
into beasts Of burden and beasts o.
prey" #ss
He is wrong, however, when he as.
serts that England is, under Norman
rule, a relic of Roman despotism
though it must he admitted that En-
gland, and every English nationality
Is fast approaching the very evils that
cursed the Roman empire out OF exist
ence. With Harold the last vestige OF
Roman rule and Roman law expired
and with William came in the sfeudal
system, especially with regard to the
tenure Of the soil, the most vital point
in nations prosperity. English ju-
rists rejected the Latin code, though
English jurists, beth in England and
America, are resorting to all the tricks
and complications of the Roman
lawyers. a1 &51s
We are apt to suppose that mere
form of government will impose tyr
amy or give freedom. This is not
true. Prot. j. b. Turner, of Jackson
vile, Ill.,, said: ''Show me a people
in which the wealth of the country Is
equally divided, and I will show you
people that are free; but show me q
country in which the wealth is not
equally distributed, and I will show
you u people that are. not free,sI care
not whether you call theirsnaeshods Of
government a monarchy or democ-
raoy." Now I will add: Show me a
country where the soil, the source of
wealth, il held for the purposes for
which it was created-for tillage and
improvement-and not for usury and
gain without labor, aud / will show
you a people among whom wealth, the
product of labor. is fairly and justly
I care not whether you
call their system of land tenure -alio-
dial or Latin, feudal or Norman. I'm
der the allodial system, public revenues
are collected wholly from the land, SO
as to destroy every interest of specula-
ton or usury in the soil, and, after the
revenue is collected, the fund SO, de-
rived is divided, or appropriated for
this and that department of govern
ment. Under the feudal system, the
ands were divided before the revenues
were assessed, and the tax on feudal
and supported the army: and navy |
that OH crown lands betrayed the civil
expenses; from church lands the re-
igious and eleemosynary. institutions |
we're supported; while the commons
we're allotted, under certain rules, to
,liens or unfortunates. Thus we see
hat. after all, the difference between
he two systems was one more of form
han principle; that the virtue and
he strength of both lay in placing the
common burden of taxation upon land,
n which all had common interest,
mi in leaving free the products of hu-
nan labor. Under the allodial sys-
EN-, Rome, ON her small but numerous
holdings, raised a crop of
nens that made her strong and famous.
While she prided herself more upon
he results of her agriculture than the |,
rowess of her arms, she advanced
ut when she diverted labor from the
evelopment of her own fields to the |.
evastation of the fields of others.
hen her small estates had been weld
/ into large ones-when usury aud
aves had done for her what usury
nd machinery are now doing for Brit
n and for us, she fell and the histo- :
an wrote her epitaph in three words:
Latifundia perdidere Italian )"
road estates damned Italy,. So En-
and. under the feudal system of Will
M the Conqueror, raised a crop of 7
en that made her strong and famous; Q
1T when, in the very first attempt to
tablish republic, during the Long g
the public revenues were n
inverted into rents, and diverted into a
ivate pockets, and the products of
imam labor were compelled to do C
ty as subjects of taxation, her yeo- I
snry degenerated into nation OIL
and she has been. and 4
" is, great only in a world where al
ammOn is God.
There is hope, bright hope. for Jre-