The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-02-13

Irish cause and its righteousness
had welcomed them. Wherever he
had travelled all over the earth SYM
pathy and good wishes for that
cause we're not confined to people
of the Irish race but extended to
people of all other na,ionalities.
But while these things were the
greatest encouragement TO him he
must confess that he did not won.
der at all those, of whatever race
they might he, when they came TO
understand rs many now could I'M
derstand the true position Of Ire
land, showing deep sympathy for
that country. When the Irish qncs-
ton was stripped of all cNtrancous
circumstances what was it! NO
thing but an attempt in the face of
great difficulties TO emancipate
people from the results OF long
period OF oppressive laws and tyranny.
Ireland is q country of small farms.
The people have to look for support
to the cultivation Of the land, and
10 the cultivation of the land alone.
In other days the people were DIS
couraged from prosecuting other in
dustrics. It was owing to this fact
that for ages this people had been q
byword among the nations OF the
earth for their poverty. Why should
the nation be condemned to contin.
nal poverty, degradation, and dis
trcss? Not through any fault Of
their own but through the system of
law which compels them TO make
their living through that one indus
try. 1t would be ridiculous for him
to attempt to review their whole
position. Even England had all
mitted the justice of their cause,
and it was conceded that Ireland
had the worst system of land laws
or the face of the earth. You find
the people discouraged from follow
ing varied industries, driven back
on the land--in these facts the Irish
and strangers found the explanation
of their continual poverty, distress,
and disturbance. He found in Aus.
tralia that the object before the
minds Of all intelligent statesmen
was 10 get people settled on secure
tenure of land. 1t was the same
great consideration in the United
States. He believed on personal
observation that much of the stcr.
ling prosperity and strength Of Am
erica was based on the great mum
her of farmers settled on the land
But what what do we find in Ireland
That not content with condcmnin{
the entire population to condition
practically of serfdom, Hntil every
man who tills the land was slave
the landlords proceeded TO drive tin
people from their country. No
content with compelling people tt
live under restrictive laws, the.
took advantage of crisis in tn
prices of nccessaries, and, contrar,
to the land policy of Australia ant
the United States, they took pos
session of the land to turn it irt
sheep pastures and cattle runs, s
that they could put more coin il
their pockets. The abominabl
doctrine was put forward that til
prosperity Of the country was to b
ruthlcssly sacrificed to the interest
of few. 1t was not enoug
That for generation after genel
alton their land was taxed Q
increasing rent. They talk of rot
bling the landlords of Ireland, br
he spoke of what most round til
table would know, when he said til:
three-fourths--aye fonr.flfths-ofth
value Of the land was the result {
the toll of the people who brougf
the land from its virgin sterility
its present fertility. Not only ws
power given the landlords to exa'
ruinous rack rents, but the tenure
,, the land was kept insecure. In I'll
year 1866 sixty thousand tenant
were evicted. The landlords sale
We can make more money by raj
} ing sheep on the land. They sweI
away something like a million and
half of the people because the
were in the way Of bullOcks ar
sheep. No more outrageous Grin
had ever been perpetratcd again
any people, and there was never al
, check TO this wrong until the pr
sent movement was started. The
party had been assailed by calumr
such as no other public men ha'
ever endured. They had hcen a
u cuscd of crimes that never cntert
into their minds, and they cou
!, challenge their accuscrs to produ
any declarations of theirs to Il
!, contrary. They were accused of
! desire TO separate Ireland from Il
Empire, of reasonable intention
t, of sowing dissensions, of inculca
Z ing murder-in proof of which we
: cited murders and outrages occu
ring in Ireland these last ten year
TO listen to these men one won
think Ireland was paradise whe
no injustice was done to anybod
and where there was no crime un
. Mr.. Parnell and his party aros
Was there no crime or resistance
English rule before Parnell? Was
not q fact that at no period betwe
1900 and 1880 was there nome
when four-ffths of the people Of Il
land would nj In N 4 n knn n rmS IN 1