Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-13

rory hule IN Ireland
Balfour. the ministerial associate of
Salisbury. in enforcing brutal Tory des-
potism against the Home Rulers Of Ireland
recently attempted to belittle and
apologize for the wrongs which the land
lords and the British officials have in past
times inflicted on that Inflated island.
Balfour in his statement contradieted some
Of the important figures Of Mulhall. the
welIknown statistican. For years this
gentleman has resided in Buenos Ayres.
and he has recently written from that city
to the y. Y. Tribune a second reply to
Balfour upon his remarkable statistics a
to the number of evicti0ns in ireland. Mr..
Mnlhill points out that the English Gov
eminent returns Of evictions are incom-
plete. since they do not include the number
Of cottier- unhoused whose case. we're
decided at petty sessions There were in
1871 49l .27s inhabited cabins with a single
room. In 1851 there were 1914. nearly
f02, 900 cabins having been pulled down in
twenty years. These cases were nor in
cluded in the Government returns. 30 that
il il clear. in Mr. Mulhalls Judgment.
that fully 800, 900 families and 5000, 900
person. have been evicted since 1897. He
also demonstrates that the Government
commissioners in estimating the number
Of deaths from famine in lsis-l9 r. G'0,-
900 told only one-half Of the truth. The
real figures were l.I0l 600.
Such appalling fact ought to arouse
every English citizen. who has 4 heart IN
his breast, to abandon all hi prejudice
against Irish emancipation and 10 hi
beat to increase the ranks Of the Home
Rulers go a. TO carry Gladstone 70 the
head of the Ministry, in place Of those
who remain welded to a policy which
tends TO the shame Of England in both
hemi-pheres. Engli-hmen for many
years detained bitterly and justly on the
wrongs which Russia and Austria inflicted
on the people OF Poland, but why was
the iron policy of the Gar in that I'M
happy laad any more wicked than the
administrative outrages with which Great
Britain has long oppressed Ireland:
The national House Of Representatives
il made up Of 325 member. from thirty
eight States. The southern representa-
tive- from fifteen States number III,
triNing fraction more than one-third OF the
House, representing less than one-third of
the population Of the [ Mon. The Chair
men OF the Committees in the crowded
mass of business to be transacted by them.
have a large degree of influence in adj
vancng or retarding legislation. Speaker
Carlisle instead of strictly regarding the
broad nationality of his office. has given
this Southern minority practically a power
much beyond their representative NUN
beers. Out OF fifty-one chairman ships. he
gives twenty-nne, including nearly all of
those of the most Importance. to the fiji
teen States of his section. Thus this
Southern Democratic leader plainly shows
he means to maintaina Solid south against
the Just rights and interests of the largely
preponderating numbers of the Union.
And he is the man who is in alliance with
Grover Cleveland to enforce Free Trade
on the American people for the benefit of
foreign importers, and especially for the
manufacturers and merchants of England.
The public sentiment of Minnesota not
being sufficiently educated to make prohi-
bition practical, in the opinion of the most
thoughtful Temperance people of that
state, high license is being tried. The
latest testimony comes from GOV. McGill,
who speaks highly Of the operations of the
law. The result thus far has been that
the number Of saloons in Minnesota has
been reduced by over 600. and in the city
of st. Paul. where $50 saloons are now
open under the old law, the Governor
thinks that not more than $50 licenses will
be renewed ut the expiration of their term,
on the LIST of next month. In Winona,
according to Bishop ireland, whom the
Governor quotes literally, there is now
but one saloon. instead of eight or ten.
and in many of the smaller places of his
parish drunkenness has almost entirely
disappeared. Bishop Ireland of the Cath
Ollie church, j. an earnest Temperance
worker who is accomplishing great deal
for the good cause among his people.