Smyrna times., 1883-11-14
Ireland's Wrongs.

all the millions of Erin'S sons TO uSe
my pen III behalf of a much abused
government and an incorrigible people
But no, -Hr. Record. | am not alone for
there are more than seven thousand,
or seventy thousand of the most on.
Ightened of my cOuntrymen i'm the
United states to-day, that will endorse
every word L have written in regard to
ireland. And moreover, | will saw
mat there are more than 100000 men
| OF the best bone and sinew of old Ire
land treading her shamrock sod TODAY
that have not bent the knee to ParnclI
or worshipped at the shrine of Feuian-
Ism or Natlonalism, men who are ready
at moment notice to rally around
the standard of England to protect
their native land from foes within and
foes without.
Have you read the news flashed
across the Atlantic during the last few
weeks? Who is it that is arrestinr thn
march OF the agltatOrs throughout the
North OF that unhappy land ?
| who are those men who ara
arising en- mdSSe where Il Nationalist
meeting Is announced and saw they
VIII nave no agitation and bloodshed
in their midst? Are they the ROYAL
IRISH ConstabularyE No. Are they
the soldiers Of England? No. They
are the cltlZens-the farmers. lahOrers
and mechanics, whose peaceful. happv
homes are about to be disturbed AZ
their coming the loyal sons of Armagh
ana Down, send forth the warning cry.
NO Home Rule wanted here" The
lowly cottager and stalwart mountain
eer OF Fermanagh, echo back the re-
Irall, and next we hear it SOUNDING
over the fertile plains Of LONDONDERRY
ana the Prentice Boys" are muster
ing as they did two hundred wears ago.
ana soon you will hear it ecboinr and
reecholng throughout every county of
OF the north. All! no wonder Mr.
farnell you said to a reporter few
weeks ago, that the move throuuhout
the North was necessarily very slow"
nut think you have been made move
little faster than you Anticipated.
The Record says, Would that An
lrishman could sit for an bour aud
near DIR. John Hall speak of Ircland's
wrongs. No doubt the editor of the
Record has heard DR.. Hall on the above
SUBJECT; if SO, will the Record please
give me one quotation stating or i'm
plying, that the North-the intelligence
OF Ireland is not loyal to the British
crown, or that the farmers of the North
are not as happy and cOntented as any
other farming community it has been
MS lot to visit; and farther. will the
edltor OF the Record give me one quo
tatlon from DIR. Hall, stating or imply
ing lhat the man cause of the poverty
ana wretchedneSS Of the South of Ire
land is English misrule.
myself know that Ireland suffers
wrong at the hand of England: She
mas not Il perfect government by any
means, neither has Scotland, nor even
the English themselves. What coun.
Try has a perfect Government? When
Loo himself was leading his chosen
people and settled them in the Prom
lsed Land, there were murmurincs
and discomfort against His government
ana they had to get King to rule |
over them. And are there not muir
murlngs and discomfort in these |
united States to-day, and as your ora
Tors arise and tell us of the terrible con- |
olllon OF the country, the wickedness |
mat IS carried on in the high places
and the sutferings that are occasiOned |
by mlsadministratiOn what lover of his |
country cannot shed a tear? Well do
remember the first political speech l !
hearu III this country. 1t was at the
corner OF Fourth and King streets
" limington, by an Hon. gentleman of
Delaware, and as l listened to his elo-
4uence and his heart-rending discrip-
-lon OF the state of the country, said
10 myself in the language of the Record.
My God, is this nation of thieves
md murderers, and it must be so or
his man would not stand up before a
respectable audience and say sou
AS for Mr.. Reapath, have no doubt
'ut he has seen the sufferings of which
he mas written from time to time. lido
lot deny that there is, and has been
and famine in the South of
Ireland, but why is it that the North
lnder the same rule, is exempt from
UGH visitatiOns? When the forefath-
RS OF the present settlers first came to
lister, the South was the most fertile
art OF the island. In the beginning of
ne lth century the condition of that
'rovince was deplorable, small part ;
My being under cultivation and
ne rest Il wilderness of boys and
orests; but since the advent of the S
canny Scotch" the wilderness has &
cen made to blossom as the rose and {
he waste places made fertile. Let 6
ne North and the South exchange
laces to-day and in twenty years from i
ow the South would be the garden q
pot of Ireland; the hum of industry /
..ould be heard where idleness and s
lscontent now reign, and where gaunt c
mime now stalks, plenty, happiness '
nd prosperity would shed their ra- t
lance. L
The North has tried again and again I
bring this state of affairs to pass at
ne South. She has sent them her best {
'rmers TO go amongst them to learn o
lem to cultivate their crops and to |;
II the soil, and to learn them espec- e
lily how to grow that best paying of f;
'lsh crops-tiaX-but to no purpose t
ter struggling among them for a
onths they have had to return, in p
very case discouraged and disguised.
mere Is no ambition among the people,
ley do not want to succeed. They
e waiting for the time when their v
merican friends shall join hands with II
eirs and wrench the country from n
lder the rule of England; then they u
lall drive out the settlers of the North Ia
ID occupy their happy homes and fer
e lands. This is no idle hearsav, for a
speak what | know and testify what u
have seen and heard. ia
said before that ignorance, SUPER %
Itlon and bigOtry are the mOnopoiists =,
at put on the chains and enslave ."
e poor Irish people, and contradict ~
who may, l say that this is the 90
eatest wrong of Ireland to-day. She -
bound hand and foot, yea body and !"
ul, to a power who teaches that zig " "
rance is the mother of devotion" to NJ
power who claims authority over y,
ngs and Emperors and counts her es
ives by the tens of millions. Twas +,
e who bound in CALLING chains the ~ ~
ce proud conquOrers of the world ~
d made them kneel at her imperial =.
'tstool as hewers of wood and draw ~
OF water for centuries, until Carl on
ldi arose and partly broke those 80
aims and again gave them a glimpse ~
what they once had been. IT'S She ~,
10 holds in her hand the sceptre of W, vs.
ain and makes her stand among the G1 '
tons memento of the dark ages. -. ~
ID what more could she do for Ire =,
I'd where she reigns supreme? l ~ ~
We seen the poor servant girl who 0''
led hard through the week take her
mtg earnings and put them into her Wa
den Golfers I have caan tho - =