The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
THE LAND OF THE SHAMROCK
Rev. Geo. W. Pepper, of Ohio, Talks at
Acton About Ireland's Troubles.
The Abuses Imposed on the People by the
Landlords-Rev. Sidney Deans Paper
on the Immortality of Man.

W Pepper the widely known Irish orator, now
pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
At Wooster, O., spoke at Acton Park, his subject
being: Ireland and the Irish"
DIR. Peppers lecture was listened to with the
closest attention, the audience giving timely
manifestations of appreciation as the lecturer
nnfOlded his facts illustrated with profusion of
apeedote, and further enlvened by rich vein OF
hurnor He said that the Irish proud OF their
Eastern origin, which dates back to the most
ancient days of history, and would not exchange
ono drop of that blood for all that flows IN Anglo
Saxon veins There three different classes
OF Irish people IN Ireland-ln other words,
three Ireands The first class IS found
in che south and west They are noted for
their hospitality and uncomfortable hostility to
the aristocracy of England. The second class is
Landlord Ireland. These are the carpet baggers
of that country John Bright says two hundred
landlords six million acres of Irish land, and
seven hundred landlords own nine million acres.
These landlords do not live in Ireland, but
abroad, in the European capitals. They take
from Ireland every year eighty million dollars.
Multiply eighty millions by ten and it will be
seen that every ten years the enormous amount
that unhappy country. The Queen of England
hAa reigned forty three years. During that
period these landlords have flched from their
IRISH tenants two billion one hundred and
miy millions AND who has ever
heard of this mercenary Queen raising her voice
even once against this pillage2 The third class
is the Scotch-Irish. Nearly one hundred years
ago these rose in their grandeur and strength
and shook off, as a lioneSs does the rain drops,
!. ~
1898 The most of these Scotch Irish were
Presbyterians, and lived in Ulster. Thirty OF
their ministers died upon the scaffold that Ire
land might take her place among the nations Of
the earth.
The Rev Mr. Pepper showed that all the
leading revolutionists against England were
Professionals and not Catholics the only great
exception being Daniel OConnell. He discussed
the characteristics of the Irish their earnestness
when they speak or write, and particularly when
they fight Their eloquence is not like that of
Scotland where the intellect sways to the ex-
elnsiOn Of the imagination; not like that of
France, whore fancy predomlnates, but like that
of Greece, or to come to the present day, more
JLs that of this country and appeals to fancy, to
imagination and to the heart. He spoke of Ed
mund Burke, Grafton, Curran, Emmett, all of
when were orators of transcendent power, and
all Protestants, bitterly hostile to England
He next treated of their patriotism. The
Irishman loves his country Why not' The
American is proud of Columbia, and the aspira-
tion of every true American heart is that the
flag Of Washington, of Garfield, of Grant, may
feat on and on until the coming grandeur of
the Son Of God. There are three parties in
Ireland now There is the Government party,
that believes in Ireland being subject province
OF England. The second is the Republican party
of Ireland. If this party mad the power it would
cut Ireland loose from England and float her
across the Atlantic and make her State in the
great American Union. This is the Fenian ele-
rnent The third is the Home Rule party, man
aged and led by that matchless of an Ameri-
can mother, Charles Stewart Parnell.
The lecturer passed glowing eulogium upon
Parnell, whose object is to gain the ownership
of the soil for the people, and Parliament in
Dublin to legislate for Irish affairs upon a sim
liar basis to the home governments of Canada
and Australia One among the frivolous objec-
lions of Ireland being self-governing is that she
Is too small for nation, Too SMALL Why,
Switzerland and Greece are both small, yet they
stand in the galaxy of nations. Next they
say that the Irish are not fit for
selfgovernment. Are not Irish cities.
the cities of Dublin and Cork. well governed
as the cities of America, and if part, why not
the whole Statel In hundred years there have
been but two failures of Irish banks. My recol-
lection is we have not done so well in America,
Statistics show that smaller per cent of travel
ing people are killed on Irish railroads than Oh
the railroads of America or of England Another
objection is that the Catholics would kill all the
Protestants In France there are thirty four
million Catholics to two p;iiion Professionals and
it is much the same in Belgium. There is no
cutting of Professionals threats in either country.
The Irish do not want England's rule, nor
Rome's rule they want home rule, the people to
govern themselves.
Mr.. Pepper passed tribute upon Robert EN-
met. the Irish martyr, describing him ascending
tao seatfold with his face TRANSPORTED with an
apostolic beauty. He made an appeal to Ameri-
eans for sympathy for Ireland and demonstrated
from the archives in Washington that in all the
struggles for American independence and
liberty the Irish people were in
favor of the colonies. That in
1851, when Gladstone said that Jefferson Davis
had made the South a great national about
tbs time the Mason and Sldell affair-when all
England was ready to go to war with u.s. 60, 900
freshmen IN Dublin met and passed a resolution
resolving that i'll case England went to war with
the United States Ireland would stand by the
stars and stripes.
The Irish have long memories! They never can
forget the murderous and barbarous record of
seyen centuries. They never can forget the
haBdreds and thousands who persisted by
famine or died upon the scaffold for the coming
Hbrrty of their native land. They never can
forget that religious wars were fermented by the
British government for the infamous pur-
pose of dividing the Irish people, Irish
men never can forget that the press
u England has endeavored to make
Rome and Ireland synonymous, making it appear
that the war or ireland is carried on by Catholics
against England because she is Protestant.
Irishmen never can forget that the noblest of her
Inartys and the bravest of Ireland's heroes have
been Protestants whom Irish Catholics almost
adore. They never forget that within
two years under Gladstone's so-called Liberal
administration it was your land or your life!
They never can forget that under Forster and
Spencer hundreds and thousands of Irishmen
have been arrested at the dead hour of night,
dragged from their wives aud children, and,
without even the form of trial, were consigned to
horrid dungeons In the bloodiest days of Mary
and Cromwell there was at least the semblance
OF public trial. This is the nineteenth century.
American patriots ought never to forget that it
WIS the Irlshnan. Edmund Burke, who poured
the full blaze of his respondent eoquence upon
the darkness of the revolution, and who made
the walls of St Stephens ring with his denuncia-
tSons Of British tyranny as he took
bis stand by the immortal rebel Washington!
They ought not to forget that it was the lofty
minced Irishman Richard Montgomery, married