Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1883-12-26

murder landlords, and if they suffer tn
; penalty of their crime, they are patriot
VINO have died for their country. VIII,
the murderers of Lord Cavendish mr.
now styled patriots standing side b
side with Emmett, Tone, and Charlie
Stewart Parnell. And ifall the patriot
OF Ireland had just been I'D to tina
standard of patriotism embodied in tn,
J lines
True patriots we for be it understood
we leave our county for our countrys good
Ireland would be better off TODAY am
better and brighter times would soor
OreaK upon that storm tossed land.
Inc Record thinks THAT the peopl,
OF ireland stand together as one mar
IN a decided opposition to landlordisn
and foreign rule" If the Record had
said that the South of Ireland stood
Vogether as one man against English
rule and that the North stood as one
man against Rome rule and home rule
ne would have hit it directly. Does
The Record think that the men of IJIstar
nave no other or higher interest than
their pockets? does he think thew are
willing to barter their fathers faith
even Tor cheap land? That thew are
willing to see Parliament in Stephens
Green? If he asks them to-day if thew
VIII accept the rule of ParnelI. Healv
blggar and others of the same sort he
Will hear the gathering thunder of in
dignant hearts who know there is
something precious yet in faith. some
thing ennobling in immortal memories
and as they look round upon their
homes and out upon their affairs and
think upon the ruthless blasts that
smote them in the dark days of old,
then In the courage of manhood that
rises superior to temptation and in =
majestic voice louder than the shout of
many waters, he would hear a loud.
unchanging, everlasting No. And nv
answer is, never, as long as a drop Of
the blood of John Knox runs in the
veins of the clans of Ulster.
PROSPEROUS ULSTER.
The Record wants little informa-
Ton about prosperous Ulster, "wbat
KIND OF a meal they sit down to theren
Mr. Record farm hands in Ulster 20 to
work about 6 o'clock in the morning
about half past 7 they have breakfast
OF good oat meal "mush" and plenty of
good mllk-the best muscle and brain
1000 known. If the editor of the
record had only had that fare in his
youthful days we might have had
another Horace Greeley in our midst
About 10 o'clock they have their tea.
wheaton bread and oat meal bread and
butter taken to the field for them. At
o'clock they have dinner generally
of potatoes, beef-for nearly !
every farmer there kills his beef-soup.
cabbage and other vegetables, beside /
all the milk they can drink. At 4 /
o'clock they again have their tea taken
to the field as above, thew quit work
about half past or 7, have their SUM-
per OF oat meal "mush," and spend the
evening in recreation, mental imnrovo-
ment or amusement. This applies to
Inc summer season; in Winter thew
only eat four times emitting the fore
noon tea which they partake of at
breakfast. The fare of the factory
hands suppose is little different as
people in free trade country cannot
'e expected to live as high as if thew
lad protection. Free trade is a bene-
IL TO the farmers of Ireland in that
ney can get every thing they have to
'uy very cheap, and as they are not
dependent on the consumers of their
'wn country everything in the wav of
PROVISIONS are high, higher even than
this country. Write all you can ON
MS subject Mr.. Record and show us
he many advantages of free trade
Ign provisions, cheap clothing, and
DIV wages-a subject which if the
dltor of the Record ever tries to gran.
lie with his school-boy information
MI hoist both him and his paper very
Ign, yea, even "higher than a kite.n
nd the people of Smyrna will sec him
eating among the sun, moon and
Jars ON his extensive travels CRYING /
ut U how that blamed Gass has in
ated me-" "Too high to reach Mr..
'ecord, quite too high"
The Record and it's correspondent
link that am no "true Irishman
ell IN their opinion 1 am not. no
rotestant Irishman in their sense of
he word is a true Irishman. The
orth OF Ireland is an English COLONY .
3OO years standing, and the Gets .
INK that they only are the true Irish. o.
ut these fine old Celts when thew first a d,
me from their homes on the Continent u
Europe were themselves lawless in
'ders and mercilessly seized upon X K
hatever came in their way. Willie :"
are settling their claims we also u
ust settle the claims of the Partho- "
ms, the Nemedians, the Fomonians u
e Forbolgians, the Danaans and the !"
iiesians who in their turn ~
ere all badly treated, plundered u
d oppressed. W.McC. "would doubt "
cir cltlzenshp papers if there were ~ ~
any lrishmen of my opinion" but "
IL inform w. Nee. that there are ~
oasands of Irishmen in the United c'
ates OF my opinion, who are the hest ~
citizens and these Irishmen ara freq a'
IN IN the largest sense of the word ~ ~
acknowledge no foreign power, we W
We none. We bend to no foreign "
,lesiastie. We take neither order iPu
laws, nor injunction, nor policy ~
IN any foreign eeclesiastic in thewhsge ~ ~
rid we claim to be free men both -: ~
church and State. Can w. Nee. saw u"
muehF And if any other CORES
Adent of the Record can not say as 80
lch in this free country let him for w u,
sr hold his peace about freedom for GU
land when even in this land of +ho mt