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

"perfectly scandalous, you KNOW
They said, "Have you not friends
on the Treasury benches?u Glad.
stone, all smiles, "Am I net your
frlend?" Yes, he smiles; but
have seen these smiling, oily fell
lows have little heart. Bright,
with tears In his eyes, reminded
US how he had always befrien led
US. l understand that crocodiles
shed tears. Foster, with the air of a
Yorkshire jockey, remarked. "Can't
you wait?p thrust me,n says
Gladstone. "Always your friend
said Bright. Tin the sweet bye
and.bye," softly murmured the
Chief Secretary. But we answered
them: "We were not sent here to
wait and trust to the word OF indif-
ferent English members. The
landlord don't wait; the famine
don't wait; death, in his most aw.
full aspect, starvation, don't wait;
and the people of Ireland are not
going to wait, nor are we,their rep
resentatives, going to wait. We
would be as relentless as eviction;
: ss the landlord and his agents; as
cold, hunger and death. We had
learned their lesson, and we would
profit by 1t. If Ireland's business
could rot be attended to, then
English business should not be.
We ebstructed, and we won; and
in 1881 the Land Act was passed.
voted for it, but I did not care
whether 1t went through or not.
We let them understand that we
must get relief, or the people in
IRELAND WOULD KICK
The landlords out of the Island.
Well, after the Land Act was
pnssed, 1t was said that everything
was going TO be lovely in Ireland,
and the lion was to lay down with
the lamb. One of your preachers
is reported as saying that when
the lion and the lamb laid down
together the lamb would be inside
OF the lion; and 1 think when the
Irish lamb lies down with the Fog.
lish lion, the lamb will have made
good meal eff the landlord. Some
say, Why not accept the Land Act
aud stop agitation? Half q loaf is
better than no bread, and a bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush,
and all those old proverbs.
Well, because the Land Act
was drawn on wrong principles.
We have the landlords In the dust,
and don't intend to let them up
again. What We want, aud must
have, Is tenant proprieters Look
at France, what she has done I'M
der that system. French peasants,
ore Hundred years ago, were in the
condition Of the Irish to-day, and
now see them; 500 how they paid
off their war fine. She shook off
the war fine from her shoulders as
easily as America did her war
debt. We want to own the lands,
and have no master but He who
rules above the cedars and the
stars. 1 was told by some that I
should not come here preaching
such principles. One gentleman
told me he would give me whatev.
er money l wanted for Ireland, but
for Gods sake not to preach "no
rent" and "division" in this State,
as ne owned big ranch and want
ed to keep it.
It is absurd to compare
Ireland with this country. In Ire.
land every foot of land is of eonse.
quence, every perch is an objec of
competition: while here Ii you
cannot get land IN one State you
can go to another. There are mill
lions of acres open and ready to be
taken by any one who wants them.
In America you have factories; we
have none in ireland, but we have
some
FINE POOR HOUSES.
The first thing you see in an
American town is u school house
we have no schoolhouses in Ire
land, but you should see our jails.
We have 100000 of people in Ire
land. You have 100000 in
America. You have %. 900 soldiers
in America; we have $4,000 in Ire.
land. Ireland has no schools, but
jails; no factories, bit poorhouses,
and only one industry, the land.
The Irish are farmers, and it is all
they know; and they must be al.
lowed to make their living out of
1t or starve. You do not under.
stand that condition Of things here ;
but tell you Ireland is in as bad a
FIX as Los Angeles would be If it
was OH . raft out on the ocean
without provisions. [ see that the
English papers, with their usual
impudencs, are writing structures
upon the administration of justice
In the United States, and pointing
at the Guiteau trial. Why this
miserable wretch has had q fair
trial, which lssted for months, and
had all the facilities which money
could offer to defend himself, while
there are $40 prisoners in Jail in
Ireland who have not been brought
to trial and never will be; while
this low criminal Guiteau, had his
trial and all the assistance the
naost exacting could wish for, Par
nell has been Ia cell without a
chance to be heard. What Amer
lea allows to her lowest criminal,
England refuses to q member of
her Parliament, a magistrate and
a gentleman. Yes, what you allow
to low criminal, just England
refuses to the foremost man in Ire
land. They speak in England Of
the
THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS,
But you should see the list of edi-
tors and journalists who languish
in Jail In Ireland for publishing
the truth. The American idea is
the most unpleasant thing for the
English that has ever invaded the
country. The tenants no longer
take off their hats to the landlord
opd hau far A roduntiop nf ront hint