Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17
Man's.Inhumanity to Man Makes
Countless Millions
Mourn

Evictious will begin at Glasserchoo
on Monday. Much indignation is /
created by the announcement Of the |
landlord Of the estate from which the /
eYictions viii be made that he will !
burn all Of the houses from which the |
tenants shall be elected. to prevent
their regaining possession.
Bessie DOohen, aged 80 years, who
was evicted from the Olphert estate,
has died from the shock caused by
her removal.
The above is ff6m the associated
press reports. The treatment Of the
Irish renters by the English land
lords for the past five hundred years,
has been simply infamous; often it
has been cruel and fiendish. Again
the thought occurs: What natural
right have these English land own
ers to portions of earth created for
the use of all the human family alike?
Who invested one man with the au-
thority to absolutely own certain por-
tions of this earth? Did these Eng
Iish landlords buy these large tracts
of land from God who created it? If
so, what price did they pay? IF they
did not buy it how came they to own
it? The answer is, by inheritance
from their ancestors, who, by main
force, stole it from former occupants
whom they killed. Could they not
as consistently claim to absolutely
own the air and the sunshine, which
are no more essential to sustain life
than land? That thing called gov
ernment'' has given its sanctions to
gigantic evils in the past, and land
monopoly is one Of them. In America
a few years ago, government permit
ted one man to buy and sell another
man as he would an OK. It allowed
one man to violate every natural
right of the other man. In Great
Britain government permits a few
drones and titled dudes to ''own" all
the land of Ireland, and to enforce
such cruel. and tiendish rules and sys-
tenn of robbery of other mems labor,
and such outrage of the natural rights
of others, that humane and we'll dis
posed people are standing aghast at
the spectacle. Lawyers and states
men talk about vested rights 1t that
these brutal, unfeeling dudes, who
never did a days labor, nor added a
| particle to the worlds wealth mater
tally, morally or mentally, have a de
gal right" to vast tracts Of the Sur
face of this globe and can, if they SC
decide, neither cultivate an acre of il
nor allow anybody else to; or, if they
do, can exact from the toiler what
Will make the idler roll in luxury
while the renter starves. While We
may have respect for the landlords
vested rights, if such rights are found
ed in equity and justice, we have {
higher regard for the natural right.
of the toiling, landless, almost home
less and enslaved millions Of the
Emerald Isle. Human rights ar,
more sacred than property rights
God created and owns the soil of Ire
land, and has caused millions of hi
children to be born there, endowed
with equal rights. By what author
lty does the few claim the absolut,
ownership of the land any more thar
the air of Ireland. Who gave then
permission to drive their feIlOwme1
from the land on which God caused
them to be placed. Is it right for ,
government to allow few of its cit
liens to deprive of their natura
rights the many? No, the law allow
ing such inequalities which nurture
and sustains such wrongs, which
backs up and enforces such unjus
claims, must be wrong. We hope t,
see the day come, and that soon, whel
the one-sided, unjust and really out
rageOus land ownership system of Ire
land will be torn up by the roots, anC
the purse-prOud, self righteous, bru
} tai rack-renters be compelled to earl
an honest living instead of stealing
from others. Land monopoly, I'm
limited ownership of land, has en-
shaved Ireland and is the creates
: evil that menaces many other cOun
I tries, the United States not excepted
.