The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-01-04

dices of a fashionable man. Stop his supplies
and you stop these. He is then disposed to
listen to reason. As it has been, the rent sup
piled these wants, and he has had no care,
and the ten-pound note the prosperous Amer
lean sent for his poor Irish relative is often
swallowed by that rent and goes to buy gee
gaw for my lady to appear at the queens levee
or at some fashionable assembly.
The various public Offices of Ireland are
filled by magistrates, their nominees, or, if not
wholly composed of that element, there is a
preponderance oft. The road committee is
chosen by the sheriff from the landlords. If
Pat wants road to his farm it is often refused
on some pretext, but Lord ::Dod't-Know who,
is able to get his road by the mere expression
of his wish, though Pats money pays for it.
One-half of the poor law guardians are elected
by the people, but the franchise is too high to
call it an election, and an equal number of
landlords are on the board, nominated by the
government as ex-officio members. Thus it
oft happened that an evicted man who sought
the poor-house had to beg relief of the man
who caused his poverty.
The magistrates we're powerful element.
They were nominated by the government, and
without them you could do nothing, till the
league shook their authority. To them par
famentary elections were simply mockery,
but it is altered now, and at the next election
none Of the landlord class will have an OPP
poltunity of disappearing Ireland.
The land league aims at home rule, which
Daniel o. Cornell sought to establish under
present stands, you can form no railroad,
great public improvement without FIRST obtain
inn he cCnconf IF r1;or,ao< To d. fh;c
you must 60 to England, take your witnesses,
engage English lawyers at large costs, and
prosecute your suit before the often not very
intelligent committees of the house OF lords or
the house of commons. Of course the land
lords object to home rule and misrepresent
because they know that with the insti-
tuition of home rule landlordism dies
and they have therefore a powerful
interest in opposing it. The Marquis
of Harrington draws---or rather did draw when
rents were psid-(laughter) $4,000 1884,
ooo) yearly from ireland. He is the son and
heir Of the duke Of peyonshire, second cabi-
net minister, and the probable successor Of
Mr.. Gladstone. One-half of Katy is owned
by the marquis of Lansdowne, and the other
by Lord Kenmare Chamberlain as he
called him, boots-to the queen. They all
know that home rule means personal loss, and
as natural consequence they oppose it.
They know too, that the Irish people are de-
termined to anhiliate pernicious system of
and to drive out root and branch
out OF the land, race alien to it in religion
and nature, who crush the people of Ireland
and degrade her.
1t is said that the government will evict the
tenants, estate by estate, and a
county at a time. Where will they begin, and
how will they do it? Will it be in Tip
perary. Laughter.) Wherever it is, there
we will work. If men are evicted
we will..buy estates, build houses, and place
them in them, watching the vacant farms to
see that no one hires it, if any one should be
mean enough to wish it. No man dare take
a farm of an evicted tenant, and the landlord
will soon get tired of an Improbable struggle
But how could systematic eviction be carried
on 1t takes &c, 600 armed men-more than
required for the millions of India--to keen
Ireland in subsection in the time of peace. In
war they would find the task more difficult
and improbable.
Some are afraid that the no rent manifesto
will cause trouble and misery to many of the
Irish poor. 1t may cause eviction, but that is
simply another name for a temporary removal
rom their own house to one of the friendly
league, and it may occasion loss and trouble
Of a minor character, but the boon they will
gain by success will be more than amply re-
ward by the attainment of liberty and Justice.
When the Bulgarian atrocities were brought
Onward Gladstone had crocodile tears to
she'd, bat when Irish women were shot down
n the street, and little girls were stabbed by
iladstone's bashi-bazouks, in passing from
he scene Of conflict, he looked on
and approved of the act
Ireland is governed by the landlord class, and |
10 justice can be attained without the aboli- |
ion of the system. This can be fairly done
~ buying the land and distributing it among
he people. Till it is done and Ireland gov
rms her own affairs, she will not rest. If Ire
and is still true to herself and has the liberal
Import of America, the day will soon arrive
vhen she will be victorious and the crown of
horns that now encircles her brow, will be re- |
'laced by a wreath of laurels. Mr.. Healey
esumed his seat amid much cheering.
After selection of music had been PLAYED |
ustice Shields rose and in a very effective
peech moved the resolution, which was as |
pillows:
'That this meeting Of Irishmen and their
iends Of western Texas, express its heartfelt
with their oppressed countrymen at
ONE, in their present struggle against English
oertion and the landlord rule, and thor
ughly endorse the no rent manifesto put
orwsrd by Ireland's imprisoned chiefs
ne resolution having been seconded by Mr..
)igges, the honorable chairman put it to the
,eeting' and it was carried against one dis
entient."
Mr.. Lawlor then sang an Irish ballad which