The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-30
RNGLAND's NEMESIS.

ENGLAND's NEMESIS.
How Her Injustice to Ireland is Tracking
and Furnishing Her.
Talk about Greek tragedy Where
will you find more tragic situation,
says ths Pail Mall Gazette, than that
which confronts rs in Ireland2 The
slow-footed deity that dogs the steps
of the evil doer has almost overtaken
us, and the repentant criminal finds
his very penitence contribute to his
doom. We use the word criminal, and
we use the word adyisediy. We have
been guilty of many crimes in ireland
which are now bearing like fruitage in
other crimes, and there are many who
regard the crop that has sprung from
our own sowing as sufficient reason for
continuing to scatter the same evil
seed. When we speak OF crimes we do
not mean century-old brutahties. The
nlassacres OF Drogheda and Wexford
weigh lightly on our soul. Even to The
atrocities that marked the struggle Of
'98 we are comparatively Indifferent.
The crimes Of which we have been
guilty, and for which we are suffering
wrong, are less sensational, but more
subtitle. They did not scatter the brains
of an lndiylauaf-they weakened the
brains of the race, They did not sack
q city-rhey merely rack-rented an
estate. Broadly speaking, The Irish
difficulty has two phases. Oneis thatof
the :" incurable dishonesty Of
the Irish peasant on the
's-s astioa of lanasal:--tle otllsr4
the hopeless inpraeticability Of the
Irish people in dealing with problems
OF government, In both cases the dis
ease is of our own making. There is
not an adult in Ireland to-day but was
born in days when the state. the law,
| the judge and the constable instilled
| into every Irish heart the great doctrine
that the commandment Thou shalt
not steal" did not apply to land On
| the contrary, EnglishlaW enforced with
all the machinery of the state the right
Of the landlord to steal bis tenants
property The right OF the landlord to
eyict and confscate the improvements
OF his tenant was outside Ulster as I'M
limited as his right to levy exorbitant
rents upon the capital which the tenant
had invested in his holding Our Par
| lament knew that this was the case
/ ever since 1915, when the report OF the
Devon Commission recommended tho
true solution Of the land question. But
we would not Eiearken. Lords and
Commons, ministers and people, turned
q deaf ear TO the cries Of the plundered
tenant. Not until last Parliament was
| any real protection given to the savings
/ of the peasant. Hence there has been
4 bred in the peasant mind an absolute
negation of the moral law In relation to
landed property. Our law has been the
schoolmaster who has brought him to
1 Mr. Parnell. AS The landlord plundeted
while he was strong; 50 shall he DO
plnndered now chat he is weak. AS
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