Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-17
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The English government has another
unpleasant TASK Gu it's hands which bids
fair to become more complicated and
| troublesome than the Irish question. In
Ireland, $4,000 troops mansge to keep the
peace after q fashion; politicians and
newspaper editors are,put in jsil for sew
eral months at 6 time, whenever they raise
| their voices or use their pens IN defense
Of their countrymen. Defiance OF law is
somewhat abated by the presence OF gov
eminent officers and soldiers, and those
who are willing to become martyrs are
becoming fewer, since each must c0ntin-
ually stand in the SHADOW of 8 British
bayonet. In Scotland the case is differ
emit. Here the Impoverished crofters
have suffered in silence Cor years, until
the question of existence has become TO
them tsntamount TO all others. They
have gone from bad to worse, until life
to them has become intolerable, and des-
peration has seizad and yitallzed then
heretofore dropping spirits. They have
no PaTDeu. no Healy, no O'Connor, no
Dillon TO tell the world OF their wrongs
and suff9ripgs, or fight for their
relief Their leader, DR. Clark, is compar-
atively unknown, and possesses neither the
elcauence nor the tsct Ct 3 leader. He
is good m1u Of ordinsry .&billy, but
can never hope for prominence unless
the cause he represents forces it upo0
him. His people are cramped, crowded
and starving. Their little holdings have
been cut up and suh-Givided with each
generation, until they have become mere
patches, while deer PARIS, pleasure
grounds and sheep firms have been
fenced in and the children Of the soil
driven out. Mr.. Ross Winans, s wealthy
American, recently invested some OF his
millions in e large deer park which was
made up from dismsntled homes where
poverty msde delinquentg, ard Writs OF
ejectments and crowoars did Vhe rest.
On portion Of his new possessions he
plsced sheep farm, and the people living
contiguous and those who had been
elected, have foIcibIy taken possession OF
the lands, killed the sheepsor drove them
into the sea sad have declared their inten-
ton to hold their ground ard die in de-
Tense OF 1t. Other landlords suffered
also, and the British government has sent
gun boat to the Island Of Lewis, and
troops will be dispatched to the spot.
Bloodshed may be expected st any
time. and as soon as the
first crofter falls, pierced by e soldiers
bullet, it will be the signal for good
sized revolution. The Scotch have been
loyal and patient. They hsve suffered
much and while suffering were zeslous
partisans who hooted at the cries Of Ire
land. They are loyal still and lsw-abid-
ing, but they have the problem OF txis
tence to solve aud must solve it. The
law that is higher than all human laws
has asserted Itself and the armed resis
lance 10 law has resolved itself into an
armed resistance against desth. The law
of self preservation is giving license to
the killed rifeman to shoot down and
feast upon his neighbours mutton. England
answers only with gunboats snd soldiery
the cries OF the starving crotters. She
can have no other answer as long IS her
land lsws remain SIS they sre. The croft
ers may be shot down and will be shot
down il they persist, but what was and is
their fate will be the fate Of all wherever
the land-grabbing system is in vogue.
Ireland may soon be forgotten in the con-
sideration of Scotland.