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An able and eloquent address on
.,The Moral Effects upon the Irish
Character de English Mlsgovernment," !"
was RECENTLY delivered at Cork under
the auspices OF the Young Ireland
Society, by Mr, Richard Ashe King,
author Of the story The W caring of
the Green, z and better known under
the nom de plume OF Basil. s. In the
course OF his address he spoke on the
above subject as follows: S53z
Mr.. King said he had chosen for his
discourse :. The Moral Effects Upon the
Irish Character OF English Mlsgovern
ment''' "a subject so wide and many
( sided that it reminded him OF a cartoon
4 which appeared in Punch MANY years
ago or an Irishman who had, so many
holes in his patched and tatterec old
coat that he was not able to- ind the
arm holes. He had lived many years in
. Yorkshire, and often discussed with the
4 people OF the country the subject of
Irish poverty. Those Englishmen held
that1t was not the lack Of coal or capi
tai, or strikes or absentee landlords, or
agricultural depression, or. Americau
91Ompetition, or MIR. Gladstone or the
aeyil; 1t was, in one word. poor Paddy's
ndomitable laziness- disposition to
L Ard work, both IN mind and body
tie asked his hearers If it were not a
curious fact that in America andin the
Golonies the Irishman chose the hardest
work and succeeded at it. He recalled
to the minds Of his EI glish friends how
an the seventeenth century the Irish
landlords in their selfishness applied to
parliament for q bill, and got it, for the
prevention Of the expectation OF cattle
from Ireland, and how, lot withstand
ing that obstacle to their enterprise, the
Irish plucked UP heart and spirit and
established a wooden trade which had
such success that within thirty years
English manufacturers applied to par
hament to protect them against the
COM mpetitlon from Ireland. He asked
now it was that this lazy race was able
10 compete with the English in their
own markets until the English man
ufacturers strangled their Industries
with both hands and their answer was.
THAT is the way you Irlshmsn go back
upon old grievances and upon old sores
dong since healed. Haven'C you a fair
start now, without any Legislative in-
reference, excapg at ia reference which
ls INF your favor9 Vyhat have YOU to
complaln- OF EoWY Ish,t landlordism
,alia esry kind ,frestr rfsst1on dead now?,
We'll. The asked III return, 1t landlordism
was dead what was the meaning of the
terrible war that was going ou i'll this
country? IT 'andl ,rdism WAs dead IL.
did not know ii, 4, the Irish2 people.
did not know it.ss, sut il ladllordism
did nos know tflstsj. was dead, the irish
speople were pegsiAs away al il to make
fRensibie Of itss mis- fortunes. The lee
1etsi sdsBIs illustrated ss,y9 anecdotes the
Disability under Whisla teland labored.
with reeaId u, tAe glish parliament,
anu spoke off The loss it was to ireland
tohaye her people obliged to 20 to Lon
don for even the most trumpery little
act Of parliament.
4 Carlyle, who hated the Irish people
with q thorough hates said that the op-
p1sssion Of the people OF Ireland had.
gone deeper than mere economics; ithad1
gone into their hearts and spirits and
had disordered and demoralized them
He ltha lecturer) often asked those pre-
JUDGED Englishmen il. they and their
forefathers had been robbed of their
industries and reduced to a state of
more abject misery than the dog ir an
English kennel or the horse III an En-
gIl6h$ stable no w mt ucts sell respect and
seif.reliance tAeys Wo onld have brought
with them into the world; what part. Of
snanhood would they have had IL they
,Rere tocringe every day to the landlord
S,r the agent III ortier to keep their
wives and children cut of the work:
mouse And he told Them that the
yyondar was that when Irisnmen WENT
to other countries their mar nhood should
seassert itself and that they should have
dlsplaged such energy and such indus a
HI that ia 4 few short years they should
nroye tthennsel YEA gt,es the most pros
ssysrous nle,, ia those commll tiles 1l
;ssystpImmissIo oner of The Mall Gtazsttel
7agant out ttt Annarica q steeraea passI
senger from, descsrtiipsI