Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-03-29

cold, while the sharp winds Of mid
winter moan sad misery through the
glassless windows or broken door. /
look upon them dying, slowly dying,
for want of bread, while within their
very view is plenty, the products Of q
son, father or brothers labor, but
which they dare not touch. II must
be sold that the absentee landlord may
be kept In riot and debauohery In the
club rooms of London or Paris. I
ask the candid reader who Ia response.
BILE for the so.oalled outrsges prepe.
trated In search of food3 The father
or brother driven mad by hunger,
supplemented by such scenes as have
vainly attempted to describe, or the
government which by Its acursed laws
sustains and fosters "system pro
ductive Of such terrible results" q
government which when appealed to
for relief gives the sufferers "stone
for bread"-their choice of those (as
Carlyle calls them) "human swineries"
- the poor house, exile or death.
They generally select the latter. Strike
from the record the agrarian and other
political outrages and Ireland Is al
most free from crime. So, then, would
any people on earth peaceably
submit to q system Of government
such 40 emanatee from Dublin Castle2
which the son Of the premier, Her.
bert Gladstone, recently said was q
dt.ov~. an 10 rJysls,.kton II. k1o~n oc.
people who would submit to laws con-
oeived In ignorance and hate and ad.
ministered by drunken ruffians2 who
have been elevated to the ermine not
because of their purity of character
and learning In the law, but % Q REQ.
ognition of their political debasement
and whose promotion depends upon
their ability to interfere with the
slightest possible shade of Justice such
barbArous and antiquated statutes as
that of Edward III, under which the
prisoners at Dubiin and Belfast are
being tried, statute passed before
Columbus set foot upon America!
How can they be expected to 90.
quiescs In the findings Of
jury upon which liberal
Protestant or Catholic, will not be
permitted to serve-the prisoner hav.
ing put twenty challenges, while the
governments 10 unlimited. Or In the
verdict of jury which will convict
upon the unsupported testimony Of
self convicted perjurers and mur.
derers. Would space permit these
statements could be easily substanti-
ated by facts which are OF record.
But they will occur to the reader
without being mentioned here. For
ster's recent brutal and vulgar attack
upon the Irish leader In the house OF
commons, by charging him with con-
niving at crime, Is too absurd to merit
q serious answer, and only deserves
the contemptuous reply made by Mr..
Parnell. 1t Is unreasonable to at
tribute to him that which is standing
menace to his power and fame. Re-
move those "outrages, and England
is left without an argument for the
tyrannioal coercion acts." But they
will exist as long as England refuses
to treat Ireland with justice and hu.
manity, or until the total disruption Of
the hated union-a union conceived In
bribery and corruption, brought forth
amid the walls and solemn pro
tests of despoiled nation, and
perpetuated by psrfdy and cruelty,
unequaled In the history of nations.
But this hypocritioAl Quaker, Fors.
ter, seems to have forgotten his
speech delivered in 1864, In the House
of Commons, when he praised and de-
Tended ss q pure and noble minded
man, Mazzlni, whom Gladstone aoous.
ed Of making common cause with a..
sassins," and who blessed the use Of
the knife and the dagger, and lauded
as q patriotic act the murder OF Count
Rossi, the italian minister, on the
steps Of the Capital. But I have for.
gotten. Mszzlni was suocessful In at.
tanning his end, and hence his fame.
The assassins Of Cavendish and Burke
we're not successful in overthrowing
the hated system Of government and
are consequently ooversd with appro.
blum. BY this do not understand me
a. sanotionlng those heneous crimes.
Far am I from 1t. regard them as
the greatest obstacles In Ireland's
progress and the most effective instru-
ments In the oppression and miseries
of Ireland. They have been for cen.
turtles the apologists, before the world
of English crime and cruelty In
unfortunate Ireland. But I
offer this to show the base
inconsistencies of those Christian
statesmen. To the English govern.
ment must be charged those crimes of
men made desperate by unjust laws
barbarOusly administered, and not to
the Irish people or Mr.. Parnell, their
noble leader.
I was amazed when I read The
BEES editorial sanction of the course
of Russia In calling conference of
the powers to devise means for the
suppression of nihilinm, and the many
other political Issues that disturb Eu-
rope. Would 1t not be more In con.
sonance with the spirit of the age and
of humanity itself for such q confer
enoe to summons the leaders Of those
Issues before 1t and to enquire into
their grievances and try and remove.
them by remedial legislation2 For
grievances, many and great they have.
This Is what Ireland now asks, and
she asks but fair hearing which she
Is determined to have notwithstand.
Ing the Misrepresentation and ISLANDERS
sent out by the minions of q cruel and
unrslentiug tyranny. @. j. s.