The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-31
WHATMAKES IRELANDPOOR
THE LANDLORD AND TENANT SYSTEM.
Patrick Egan, the Renegade, FaIsifyin
History and RepudIating o'ConneIl and
Grattan In the Interest OF MonOp-
oly-Facts For Irishmen.

Patrick Egan Is at present engaged IN
vain effort to ALLEVIATE the Irish vote from
the democratic party by misrepresentation
and fragrant peryerSion OF history, have
written the following for the consideration
OF my fellow Instantaneous
Patrick Egan now teaches the doctrine
that Ireland's poverty is due to En-
glands tariff policy. What are the facts ?
Ireland has an area of 100000 acres.
Six million acres are waste land. The
population is 100000. This 100000
acres must support 100000 people. This
land is largely owned by English land
lords, who charge the tenants enormous
rents and spend the same or invest it in
England. 1t never returns to Ireland.
This is a continual drain upon the revenue
of the island.
But this is not all Let US look further
at this land system. NJ. F. Sullivan in his
Causes and Aims OF Irish Agitation,
says: There is a vast difference between
the relation of landlord and tenant in Ire
land and the relation of landlord and
tenant in the United States Here lease
binds alike the man who owns and the
man who rents. In Ireland the landlord
gives no lease. Here the rent cannot be
increased during the period covered by
the lease; in Ireland the rent can be in
creased whenever the landlord chooses.
Here the tenants right to occupy is good
during the period covered by the lease;
in Ireland the tenant can be
aiaafa1 Of Tho will Of land
lord, and 'evictions' are common.
Here the law respects the rights OF
landlord and tenant alike. In Ireland
only the rights of the landlord are re-
spected; the tenant has no rights in Ire
land" at is obnoxious without further
illustration, SAYS Mr.. Sullivan, that the
landlord and tenant system, which has
prevailed in Ireland would not be toler-
ated for a single day in the United States
or in any other free country on the face of
the globe"
A system established by military force
and the army and navy of Great Britain
have been employed to compel the Irish
people TO submit to these laws To pre-
vent armed instruction, which has been
threatened from time to time. the British
government has kept in Ireland a
standing army varying from one
hundred and twenty thousand men to
fifty thousand at the present, and to make
the record complete by abolishing the
Irish parliament in 1900 destroyed the
last vestige of hope of future prosperity
for Ireland. This is why Ireland is poor;
why her people are uneducated; why she
is without commerce and manufactures
and those are the reasons her vast water
power, capable of turning the machinery
of the world, remains silent, and her beau
tlful harbors empty except where the
British ship is there to carry away the
products of her soil. Patrick Egan is a
liar and a traitor to the Irish cause, and
the sooner the leaders of Irish agitation
rea ,ize this fact and place a curD-bit in
his mouth the better for the cause.
This infamous land system has been
recognized for years as the cause of
Ireland's poverty. 1t was so recognized
by the immortal Daniel O'COnnell. 1t is
condemned on every page of the glowing
works of Henry Grattan. 1t has been and
is being antagonized by such able men as
0'Connor, Parnell and Dillon and the
Irish land league, as the name implies,
was organized for the purpose of correct
ing this system. But it remained for
Patrick Egan. the renegade, TO take issue
with the above named statesmen. Think
of it, you Irishmen. who would have been
willing TO intruSt the destiny of Ireland
in O'ConnelPs hands. How do YOU like
to be told now by an impostor that 0'Con-
nelI's craftsmanship was at fault, that
Patrick Egan is right and O'Connell was
wrong?
One word more, my Hibernian friends,
and | am through. Before you Indorse
the theory of Patrick Egan and vote for
Harrison, Chinese, high taxes and free
whisky, consider well what you do. You
who have the welfare and ultimate
triumph OF the Irish cause at heart; you
who would love to see your native land
once more free from the cruel cross of
British tyranny, | ask you what is there
in the history of this modern republican
party to warrant the hope that the United
States with the republican party in power
will some time intercede in behalf of Ire
land Look at its ancestry. The federal
party opposed the ACT establishing re-
ligious liberty in the commonwealth of
Virginia under the leadership of Alex
ander Hamilton and enacted and passed
the "alien law" during the administration
OF John Adams. From this came the
"whig" and from the wing the notorious
"know-nothing" organization, which was
a party of prescription against foreigners,
more especially the Irish catholics.
| Those are the legitimate parents OF the
republican party, and they seem to have
transmitted all their offensive, narrow
minded doctrines to the offspring, as wit
messed by the insulting references of Mr..
| Harrison to the Irish in a public speech
at Bloomington and the vulgar and NAL
icious utterances of the Journal in 1875
| 1911.
Is it not more reasonable to expect SYM
pathv from the good old Jefersonian
party which opposed federalism and all
! It's odious doctrines; from the party which
opposed know-nothingism and wiped the
| organization out of existence; from the
party whose present leader has demon
strated his ability to so effectuallv manip-
| ulate the British lions tail?
JOHN F. EAGAN.