The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-25
THE5..L.AND.5
The Great Lie, Written With
the Sword in the Blood of
the People.

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A Strong Circular on the Land
Question, Which Claims ,s..
More FOrH 'ft kai
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Than 1t is Entitled to, But Which tsThe
h Enquirero Will Not Withhold sa9
f Ii. I'd on that Account. sS!skF
T The following circular has been sent
to this Office, from whence or by whom
Fl cannot say The author PLACES too
much confidence in the restoration Of
the land TO the people he il, like the
greenbacker on the financial question,
and the shorter-hours folks on the eight
hour scheme. The complete salvation
of the people,will never be accomplished
until rent, interest and aPRoFIT.l are. all
abolished, and hetwo former are mere
atoms compared with the latter Y But
agitation on all these points is needed,
and give rooom to the circular, cheer
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| TO the men Of England and America. y .
There is only one question before, the
world. One worth looking atone that
must be settled before petty side issues
can come in zone that will settle them
all. For good or for evil for life or for
death. .a.7y St 20 r.. .-.k T. IT, A.r.
| l. II is the Land Question. "
t. A Great Lie was written into the BOIL
Of England by the Bastard of Normandy.
His pen, the, point of the sword his
| ink, the blood Of the English people. I.
! R The Lie took this shape "The soil,
the mines. the, waters OF, this nation,
were dot created for the'people. They
were created to feed the debauch Of idle
scoundrels who called themselves Lords
tof the Soil" Lord Gods of the soil !, n
Henceforth, the Lie covered the whole
land. Not an acre in England escaped
from it. Not man, or woman, or child
of England but was born and bred up
under shadow of the Lie. That goddess
Lel 1t was ground into their bones. A
vested" Lie. Nobody questioned it.
Everybody believed it. The Great Truth
lay trampled out of sight under its feet.
1t kills, by hunger and destitution and
disease, hundreds of thousands every
year In Ireland (1S47y it murdered
half million of men, women and chill
dren, in that one year. II was year of
great profusion of every kind of crop.
excepting the potato, which rotted
utterly. But everything was seized at
the point of the bayonet by the Land
robbers, and the people were left to die.
In single grave-trench, opened by
Father Matthew, at Cork City, 10000
eorpses were buried--dead of hunger
To bring the same. fate here they are
fastening their chains on this country.
But Truth at last is making struggle
to arise. 1t is looking around at the
world. 1t sees grandeur a fertility, a
beauty of field and forest, and lake and
ocean, that never can be, described, Sees
that ln]its very nature it is an earthly
Paradise. Sees that it has been made to
most OF the human family an earthly
hell. Asks, "By whom" Is answered,
"By handful of scoundrels who call
themselves Lords of the Soil" Asks,
"By what right?" "By this" answer
the little handful Of Lords" and they
point to the crusted swords of the Nor
man Bastard and the sharp.ground
swords of their own hired man-killers,
Is that in the present day sufficient
answer Let US examine. Fifty years
ago the populous centers of England
were strong. ,Bya wave of their hand
they drove, the reform bill through the
house of lords, taking Wellington's
windows by the way. lin 1882 Yelling
ton was prime minister, He resisted
the reform bill in the house Of lords, and
| the people wrecked his ,house-a warm
| ing that brought him to his knees.
The same power forced through the
same lords rush of small and large re-
forms, including the franchise bill y mot
one of which they had granted if they
burst refuse.
This, too, happens. Proclaim down a
meeting in Dublin, and down. goes.
Proclaim" one in London, and it does
not go down. The proclamation goes
down, the queens authority goes down,
accompanied by half a mile Of the iron
girders of her majesty's own Hyde park.
Under the very nose of the Horse
Guards. In contemptnous defiance Of
these organized man-killers. Just whis-
per to the men in Downing street that
Though the people in Ireland. may be
their slaves, tho people of England are
their masters. s: 2:7s ! ~ -.
+ And the Lie has crossed over to
FAmerica. It breeds our Corporations
! It feeds our Courts Our Benedict
Arnolds in congress coverit with their
guns. 1t aims to take full possession in
/ the United States. If it does. it VIII
i trample you and your Strikes" and
4 your Tariffs, and your "Greenbacks,S
and your Socialism, and your Liberty
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