The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-26
ContraSted with the Tillers of
the Soil in UtalN
THE TWO RIVAL RELIGIONS
The Bitter Feelings on Both Sides
"Micky, Me Son, Hit wherever
Ye See a Head"
BELFAST, July 7th, 1885.


yet to learn that a few machines saw
e many hands. and make the work of th
a few lighter even than that of the many
r, There is, however. Fundamental
reason for this. 1t is not because of tn
unprogressive nature of the Irish-fo
volatile and .infammable people i
apt to run to the other extremes ant
= not follow the advise Of Alexande
Pope. who says:
BE not the first by whom the new is tried
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside"
/ But the Irish farmer does not indulge
Z III the personal luxuryof sulky pillow
: OF q mower, of a reaper, of a thresher
ETC., Tor several reasons, anyone OF
which would be practically sufficient.
In the first place, he can't afford it; in
the second place. he has not land
: enough to justify it; in the third place,
labor is so cheap, and there are so many
dependent on the little ground they
have to work, taat it would hardly be
economy or philanthropy, orwisdom to
introduce the American labor saving
machinery on large scale. 1t would
be all right. if the country were large
enough to offer more room for machines
which save labor, also makel labor, where
there is room, but it would hardly be the
case in Ireland. This green spot of the
ocean contains about 81 600 square miles
that is my recollection. Utah con-
tains So, coo square miles. Belfast has
population OF 100000 souls. or there
abouts, and the whole island not to ex-
coed 5000, 900. Utah. close on three
times the size of Ireland, has perhaps
10000 souls-50000 less than the town
of Belfast, and about a drop in the
bucket as compared with the population
of the whole OF Ireland. 1t would hardly
J be as advisable to introduce labor-saving
machinery an Ireland, therefore, as it is
in Utah. One could wish, however, to
! see the Utah agriculturalist as consider
ate OF their land as they are here. They
do not have, on an. average, to
exceed a depth of six inches of
soil in the province of Ulster; but
they do manage to make it bear well.
They have three to twenty feet in Utah,
and then abuse 1t. A man here keeps
his animals warm, and feeds them well
and treats them kindly. In Utah the |
stables are large; the farmer has airy
barns, and feeds them fairly we'll but is |
not so kind; but they are huddled to- !
gether in ireland, because they have |
little room. Utah farmers, who com !
plain that the country is overdone. I
should learn a lesson from the farmer /
OF crowded and long settled countries, |
Su n as this is. The Irish farmer in F.
Utah, with his careful methods and pa
uence, and industry and thorough cul-
tlvatiOn, all other circumstances being
equal, would not be long in
growing comparatively affluent in
Utah. The Irish farmers wealth
Is his manure pile, and the salts and
phoSphates with which soil in Utah
teens and which lavish nature washes
down from the mountains every wear
are bought here at high prices and are
invaluable. A man buys land
here-that Is. he pays so much money
for the privilege of paying so much
rent per annum. The incentive to
extra effort is destroyed. for the reason
that the more he gets off the land, the
greater VIII be his rental, and he Is
1olng on an average. about as we'll as
when he manages to make both ends !
meet, as when his land is extraordi- !
1arily productive, for the high rent +
! ;stroys the ambition. He has also to /
pay the higher tax, which of course. is
the case everywhere; but the landlord. ;
instead of offering an inducement for ;
The improvement # his land. purSues a :.
course which Is calculated to DESTROY Is
he ambition of the farmer and lead hin, >
greatly to neglect the land. | used :.
)ften to think The Utah farmer was a
very dissatisfied anu unthankful
'reature. l no longer think it. After
eelng the conditions in Utah and com
,arlng them with conditions here. il Il
las become positive knowledge. From, G
he domain of controversy it has passed a
nto the region of indispuiable fact I
attn three times the amount of L
abor; with infinitely less as T
urance OF favorable results, the Irish &
armer realizes about the same results $
is the u tan farmer, and still the latter Il
$ dissatisfied. 1t verifes another of C
2ope's trite expressions: Man never Is
,ut always to be blest." a
July 18th is rapidly approaching. and s.
Is source for rejoicing among the Ii
'rotestant part of Ireland 1t is the a
,reat Orangeman's dav. and is often Il
naractenzed by some terrible rows. S
here IS a very considerable smattering
Il Catholics IN certain parts of the
own, and, as rule, they are not the CT
nor most progressing class. g
nd they contTlve 10 raise Ned. All @
are loyal to the British hi
overnmeDt, and they act on the princi- n
lie that ali who are not for them are 81
galnst them. There have been no OF
ews of any magnitude for few wears or
asst, but some OF the riots had pre- pt
louSly been general, and now the con o.
Is forced to hold all demon th
in partial obeyance. / am told 4
ven now. ii is almost as much as a tW
lan's life Is worth to go up North
treet-and pretty prominent bust d,
eSs Street IL, iS-after, dark for about 1t
ne week after the 18th. A business
ian, whose establishment is on this
rect told me the other dav. that he
as been forced to- close his place Tor an
wen days at time, owing to the an
otous disposition in that vicinity. S 3r
ofth Street IS where the Catholics an
rather, it is in "a,
quarter of the city where a great ~ ~
any OF the lower class of Cath, Les an
ge, and when the, excitement, of each sv
curing 18th offJuly is upon them 4 IN IN
ey are inclined TO follow the advice va
e4rlshman gave to his son before the 70,
tier started to the fair with his black iv
orn; ',Nickee. me boy, hit Wherever
see head!" 90
The feeling is already upon them. and vii
fun has commenced in a small de- svT
&c. At this season of the year the
lools take their outs to one or an Str