Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-25


taXatlon entities them. 1t may rightly be
said that with these details of internal
management OF foreign country the United
states cannot properly interfere. But their
statement in intelligent detail is indis-
pensabh for an understanding of the
speclousness of the pretence that emil
grafton from Ireland is a neces-
slty OF nature; and in the dealings of the
English Crown with its English subjects is
found the creditable precedent of promoting
tlllage, and OF prohibiting the substitution OF
grass Tor tlith, as was done even in the harsh
days OF Henry VIII. and Edward VI Halt
the entire area of ireland is now under grass.
TO redlstribute the people over Its arabic pOr-
ton and promote tillage is the more a moral
obligation since English law DESTROYED the
manufactures of Ireland and left the people
only the land to draw life FROM
Finally, Mr.. President, the political causes
which keep Ireland poor, constitute her a tax
upon large proportion of the citizens of this
republic, who are annually compelled to re-
NIT money to save the Irish people from suf-
fer1ng and death. We respectfully submit.
sir, that no portion of the American people
should be taxed, directly or indirectly, for the
maintenance of foreign government to
which they owe no allegiance. 1t is within
bounds to say that the American citizens
OF irish blood are compelled to send at least
estimate being based on the figures of a faith
ful British servant, Lord Dufferin This
money, earned in the United States, should
remain in the United States and be added to
True, II is the voluntary gift of the donors :
but II Is at the same time compulsory and of
the nature OF tax, since il is wrung from
them by the poverty of kinsmen whose con-
dItion is the result of political misrule. This
immense annual export Of money earned in
the United States should be stopped, since it
brings no return to this country, but is abso-
lutely profit to foreign power twice expel-
led by the American people IN defense of their
own peace, liberty and material prosperity,
Mr.. President, our census shows that since
1920 the people of Ireland have furnished Is
per cent. of all the immigration into the Uni
ted States. Their contribution was doubtless
proportiOnately greater during the latter half
OF the eighteenth century when the total de-
struction of Irish trade and manufactures by
England cast tens of thousands of her most in
dustrious artisans and merchants into want:
and it could scarcely have been less in the
first two decades Of the present century when
the fraudulent Legislative union of England
with Ireland Paralyzed her reviving
energy, The Irish immigrants and
their descendants comprise now con-
siderably more than a third of the people of
TINS country. They are ardently attached to
It's institutions, to which they render no
divided allegiance. TheirlOve for the republic
is attested by their fidelity in peace and their
yalor in war; and in your own person, sir
they have furnished to the exalted Office of
President of the United States the son of an
Irish immigrant. The divinely planted in
stinct of humanity moves them with pity to-
ward their kindred who are stepped in
misery ana IN Inelr name beg leave to sug
gest:
That, in the absence of legislation on the
subject, the President of the United States
make official protest to the Government of
Great Britain against the further deposit
upon the territory of the United States of
persons reduced by misrule to pauperism in
Ireland;
That the officials of the United States at
American seaports and along the Canadian
frontier be instructed carefully to collect in
statistical and descriptive on the
subject of pauper British immigration which
has already entered or may hereafter enter
the territory of the United States, and that
the reports of these officials be transmitted
TO the Congress of the United States with
recommendations by you for the enactment
Of appropriate remedial legislation;
That the United States Government consider
the prOpFiety of calling the attention of the
government of Great Britain to the fact. that
the political and social condition of Ireland
compels large number of citizens of the
United States annually to send an immense
sum of money into that country to relieve
dire and chronic misery and prevent the fatal
effects of famine in the midst of an abundance
of fOod and, that in the name of humanity
itself, the British government be requested bv
the Government of the United States to re-
m we the causes which create and perpetuate
this misery and keep nearly five million hu-
man beings in unparalleled distress and on
the verge of the most frightful death,
Sir, in listening to such a request from the
Government of the United States, the Gov
Of Great Britain must recall its own
action and the present Minister his own
words concerning the government and
people of Naples, of Herzegovina, of
Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria and Monte
negro. The chronic condition of half
the entire population of Ireland surpasses in
depth of suffering the condition of the inmates
Of NeapOlitan prisons, a condition he charac-
terlzed as the "eXtreWe of horror" He did
not hesitate to urge that the Government of
Naples be brought to sense of JUS
tIce by the influence of other
governments with which it was at peace.
,,llnly a few years since he demanded that
garia, and that Turkey IS excluded in the
name of humanity, from Bulgaria. UerzaonN 70
vina and Bosnia. He went so far as 10 ssy
''Let the Turks now carry away their abursss
in the only possible way, by carrying off them
selves" Upon another occasion he beheld
with admiration ''a band of heroes
stand on the rocks of Montenegro, ready now,
as they have been for 400 years. 4 to
sweep down from their fastnesses," and put
an end to misery and misrule,
That the Government of Great Britain will
be pleased to receive courteous suggestion
in behalf of the people of Ireland it WOnld he
improper to doubt, since the present Minister
has himself declared that sit would be a con-
traventiOn of thes law of nature and God, if it
were possible for any single nation of Chris
tendon to emancipate itself from the Oblira-
tiOns which bind all other nations and to AFRO
gate in the face of mankind position of ne
culiar privilege" Judicial records show that
between lS44 and 1880 no less than
q million human beings were sub
lected, under English law in
Ireland, to what Mr.. Gladstone has pro-
''nearly equivalent to a sentence of
death, "-evictiOn; and, in spite of Intellectual
land reform, in five years evictiOns have
doubled. British statistics exhibit the fright.
full and almost inoomprehenslhle fact that
fifty per cent. of the people of Ireland are
living in mud cabins, half of them novels of a
single room. To point out that compulsory
deportation to this republic is not an eouif-
able or humane method for improving the
condition of these so O-called subjects of Eng
land is surely within the rights if it be not
one of the duties, of the Government of the
United States.
MIR. Sullivan was followed by Henry L,
HOgnet and James Lynch, of New York,
Mr.. Reynolds, of New Haven, and others,
The President replied to the address as
follOwsl
''The subject which the committee has pre-
sented Will receive my careful consideration,
1t has already been under consideration by
the Secretary of State, Correspondence in re-
gard to 1t has been had with our diplomatic
and consular representatives, and an invest-
CATION into the facts is now being made by
them. 1t is, of course, proper that this gov
should ascertain whether any
nation with which it holds amicable relations
IS violating any obligation of international
before calling attention to any
such matter in the meantime.
1.-The law now provides that the officers of
The treasury shall examine into the condition
)f passengers arriving as emigrants at any
port of the United States, and if there should
De found any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any
person unable to take care of himself without
becoming public charge, they shall report the
same in writing to the Collector of such port,
md such person shall not be permitted to land
Attention will be given to the strict enforce
nent of this law,'