Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-06-13

"Then Parnell must be the prince Of
Irish fashion," said Colonel Haynes
"Parnell prince" sneeringly said the
Duke of Melvorne. eyes, he is a prince to
gain a hold on peoples pocketsl Why,
even, the Americans were gulled into pay
ing him large sums Of money for his Irish
sufferers"
"But Parnell did not use the money, It
came TO the people, as / can testify. l have
seen ships from America loaded with pro-
visions in our harbors, and have seen
those same provisions portioned out to the
starving people of Ireland. have also
seen the English government paying an
armed force TO evict these same people
without thought of aid" / said, indig-
nant that an Englishman, of all men,
should accuse Parnel of trickery and dis
honesty.
eyes, Lord Waverland, you are right /,
too, have seen ships from the United
States, in the Irish harbors, loaded with
the same provisions that other ships were
loaded with, that were leaving Ireland for
England. IL was not lack of food that
made famine" said Colonel Haynes.
THAT is true, sir, a" l said. "There Is
enough of everything raised in Ireland for
her people to have plenty. At the very
time when American food and money
were being distributed to the suffering
people they were sending from Ireland TO
England thirty large steamers every week,
laden to the gunwales with fat cattle,
sheep, pigs and the most expensive kinds
of food"
"Then what made the faminei" asked
the Duke of Melvorne
taNha fan6a1 cuctatf, NJ land tapura Y,pdoy
which Ireland is groaning IS what caused
it," / answered.
"Why, are you a landlord and yet advo-
cate the tenants rights so zealously"
asked Lord Sanders little annoyed. =
Eyes, Lord Sanders, am landlord, yet
would willingly yield my interest in the
land as the Persians did theirs"
"Why, how was that.n asked Colonel
Haynes.
"The landowners were compensated for
Cnelr lands by the government issuing
bonds bearing four per cent interest TO
them, while the tenants paid the govern
ment five per cent on the bonds" eX-
planned.
Eyes that sounds very we'll" said the
Duke of Melvorne. "But the Irish people
never will be satisfied until they have
uIlNtu every OUT Vi
possess the land free of cost. Then in five
years they will be ready for another gift of
like value. The Irish are a thriftless, vag-
abond people, who never know the value
of anything"
"Then they change nightly by coming
to America" said Colonel Haynes. "To
be sure, some Of them are, as you say, vag-
abonds and drunkards; but the most Of
them are sober, industrious people; and
not only provide for themselves and their
families, but send large part of their
earnings back to Ireland every year"
II have tenants on my estate who could
never pay the rent but for the aid that
comes from boys and girls in America" 1
said. "And they are sober, Woodworking
men, anxious TO keep their holdings"
II think, Lord Waverland, that you
have been taking lessons of Sir Wren"
said the Duke of Melvorne, walking back
and forth through the room, 81 remember
he used to be very bitter against absent
landlords"
'He thinks they are a curse TO Ireland
yet" l said, "by draining the country OF a
million pounds year He claims that no
nation on earth could avoid famine under
such a system"
That remains to be seem" said Lord
Sanders. 81 know there are more tenant
farmers in America, than in Ireland, Scot
land and England combined A large per
cent of the land owners are Englishmen,
too. Why, / derive nearly two hundred
thousand dollars year from tenant farm
ers in America, and am not the only one
who is reaping a rich reward from Ameri-
can labor. But there is no sign of a famine
there, as yet"
NO" said the Duke Of Melvorne, ION
the contrary, America is one of the most
prosperous nations on the globe"
Eve are a prosperous nation" Md Co
lionel Haynes with animation, Jut this
heavy drain on our people may cause SUI.
fering before we are expecting it,"
80, bah, on your sufferingl / expect to
hear the American people begin TO COM
plain as a compliment to this internal
Irish agitation" said Lord Sanders, with
more arrogance than usual. 81 am not
afraid of any complaints, as long as the
laws are made to suit ourselves"
"But the laws are made by the people
and for the people," protested Colonel
Haynes.
TO BE CONTINUED.