The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-08-01

4 Representative of IA Irish Meth
odist Church Lectures on
m Emerald Isle,

W.
the Emerald Isle.
A large and intelligent audience
assembled in Library Hall, Sabbath
evening last, to hear discussed the
"Social Condition of Ireland, {" by Rev.
John Ker, a Methodist representative
of that people. Although this subject
has been discussed over and over again
by the leading journals of his country,
the people were drawn almost i~rresist-
ably together to hear a native born
which Mr.. Ker certainly is-tell his
story of the present condition of Ireland.
Everybody is taking an interest in the
Irish for above all the spots on earth
no place either larger or smaller has
managed to keep up such a perennial
rumpus as Ireland, and much discus
sioa pro and con has been excited on
lreland's wrongs. Mr.. Ker's ostensible
purpose is to lay bare the true inward
ness'' of the Irish question as gained
from twenty-eight years observation as
a Methodist circuit rider, and what u
Methodist itinerant doesn't observe is
not worth seeing. 1t would be difficult
in our valuable space to give all the
salient points of his lectures, 1.-THE other
occurring last evening in the Methodist
church); but enough was said tt satisfy
all that we got a better insight of
lreland's affairs-at least some features
of it-than we have gained in years OF
reading. He explained that Ireland's
wrongs are being righted simply from
the fact that education is more preva-
lent than ever before; that her people
are not only reading but thinking for
themselves, leaving US to imply that
her present moral force is solely from
this general DIFFUSION of knowledge.
He rave MS such succint portions of
her history as suited his purpose and
brought out in no uncertain light the
fact that if any n supposessIrish peo-
pie inherently incapable of self-gov-
eminent he Is greatly mistaken. He
gave us the Irish view of st. Patrick
what an estimable character he was
how Ireland was converted from Druid
worship to Christianity under the
teachings of that noble saint. But I'M
fortunately while heather rites and
practices, including snakes aud toads,
were banished, myrlads of ghosts and
witches rose up to torment the people,
and have existed until recently.
He admitted the Irish have beer tur-
bulent and restless, but they have been
kept under a vassalAge for the past sew
eral hundred years that would have
ground any other people to a state Of
nonenity, politically and morally. The
reason why the people were not in bet
ter condition was, the laws were capa-
BILE Of such construction under the ma
nipulation of INSCRIPTIONS agents as to
deprive them of all tenu re in 1.-THE land.
Hence the general squalidness to be.seen
by those visiting the country. They
were taxed and abused beyond measure
directly and indirectly by the ostensi-
BILE wne of the soil. Mr.. Ker's ex-
pressions, mixed with hat spice pecu-
liar to the Irish, brought forth consid-
cradle applause, but nothing ..elicited
greater appreciation than the statement
that Irish whisky was much better than
the dirty stuff" made and sold in
America. Nearly everybody is con
nected with some church in Ireland,
either Catholic or Protestant, and the
bitterness which has so long existed is
fast dying out. When an Irishman is
converted he is converted from head to
foot, as it is not necessary to do him
over several times to get him Establish
ed. He held that when the truth ia
known, Secretary Burke and Lord
Frederick Cavendish were not murder
ed by lrishmen that the reports of
killing throughout Ireland were greatly
exaggerated that people of all creeds
and political compilations can travel
from n end of the country to the 9TH
or, barring the landlords who have op-
pressed the tenantry. He stated II his
lecture last evening that the eighteen
million acres comprising the soil of
Ireland were owned but by three
thousand persons ;lthere were 80, 900 one
acre farms and $1,000 of three acres
each. Yet whom the land sold, enough
money was generally realized to buy n
fair estate in our western country.
During her past history eleven million
acres of her soil have been confiscated
under various pretences. Such arc
some Of the reasons of Ireland's power
ty. He closed in each lecture with a
glowing picture of Ireland's future, the
prospectively grand and fruitful devel-
opment and of Americas glorious
character in so generously receiving her
people, In all the lectures were quite
a success, affording considerable enter
tainment for our people and what light
they chose to extract.
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