The Forrest City times., 1891-03-06

"The youthful king, Alfred the Great, drank deep from the fountain of knowl- edge in Ireland, Literature and art be. came to him living purpose. He learned to play the harp, and in after years it en- abled him to charm the Danish kings while he was seeking points for attacking their armies.
 When Alfred was proclaimed king of England he established & government founded on the principles learned of the Irish Parliament It consisted of one chamber where nobles, priests, bards and commons all met as equals, and the king sat in the midst of them as president. At Oxford he established . school of learning and sent to Ireland for instructors. He repeated in England the works in marble and stone that he had learned in Ireland, and had his men build the pointed roofs and arches new called Gothic.
 For more than two thousand years Ireland was free and prosperous nation, as history and her ruins proclaim First the Dane made their descent upon the Is. land, capturing many places and driving Irish scholars into all parts of Europe. Af- forwards England realized that Ireland was rich and prosperous land, with every advantage of wealth and culture. The Irish were brave and intelligent people, superior to the English in everything but power Superior numbers have conquered and for seven hundred years Ireland has been made to feel that England is her mas ter and she is . slave.
 "Then, amid the thunders of the Ameri- can revolution, when the British Empire reeled before the blows of the allied forces | when aul Jones, the Yankee Pr1vateer, preyed on English commerce and spread terror along the Scottish coast; when Ire land was without English troops and the only military force in all Ireland was the Irish volunteers. Grattan's parliament as called into existence. Then. like giant released from bondage, the country again advanced, making rapid strides in prog ress, until Lord Clare proclaimed, There is not a civilized nation on the face of the globe which has advanced in cultivation, in agriculture, in manufactures, with the same rapidity as Ireland'
 For eighteen years that parliament met in one of the finest buildings in Europe, and made the laws to govern the Irish people. Then, again, the jealousy of Eng land, through treachery and fraud, de- stroyed the Irish parliament. and Grattan, who had led the Irish people to freedom lived to see her liberties crushed out by the sword and her parliament destroyed by gold. But though prostrate and bleeding, snarting under the sense of outraged dig nity, through years of eviction, famine, imprisonment and death, she has again determined to claim her rights, Another beam of sunlight has touched the living picture, and reveals mighty man, whose hand is on the key board of British pel- ticsl One who has brought forth har mony of class and creed that resouuds throughout the world, astonishing man kind"
 The evenings entertainment was pleas ant and gay, with music and conversation The grand good humor of our host gave 2 tone of cheerfulness to the whole party At a late hour the final farewells were said and the bridal party took leave of their friends at Blue Ridge.
 In tho morning Colonel Haynes, his wife and mother and Sir Wren bade adieu to Ravens Park. but Stella Myrtle and my self formed part of the company as far as Liverpool There the last farewells were spoken while we stood on the deck of the great steamer that was to be their dwell ing place for the next few days.
 Well Waverland," said Colonel Haynes as he took my arm for short stroll on the deck before parting, keep me posted as to the condition and progress of the work in the British parliament, and 1 will send you notes of matters in America We shall be widely separated, yet I shall feel that we are eSiaborers in the same great work. You are engaged in a long death struggle to loosen the fangs of landlordism from the brightest spot of rich green earth on the face of the globe ge to America, to do what can, by agitation and work, to prevent the same monster from stealing the inheritance of the free.t people in the worldi Unlike ehattel slavery, landlord ism is stsalthy and dsceptivel It charms as the serpent, and is as cruel as the grave It starves and debauches its victims to helplessness and revcls amid the suffer ing
 "The curse of Ireland is this same con densed villainyl This same cruelty bru- tality and terror. conceived in lust and per petuated by force have seen it with my own eyes. Words cannot describe 1t. It does not recognize manhood. womanhood or childhood. Its hand is upon every era de Tn Irelandl Its victims are five -.n lions of people who cannot get away. They are held down by the sayonet, while the landlords rob the helpless ia the name of the law
 T believe Irish landlords comprises all the villainics the devil ever invented, with chattel slavery thrown in; for when ehattei slave is sick his master cares for hiin-he is his moneyl When an Irish tenant is unable to work he is thrown out upon the roadside with his wife and chil- dren to perish. In short 1 have come to feel that this system that confronts us is legsiixed piracyl The old Saxon was a drunken. sensual brute, but he had his good points; he was not perfect landlord, but when the Danes, born sea pirates, and the Normans, born land pirates, swooped down on England and mixed with the Saxon such men AS Lord Sanders were ere ated, cold -blooded. cruel and far-rcaching. with his $soo, 900 per year income from his farms in Illinois. He and his brother landlords have already larger holdings in America than they have in Europe IL makes the blood boil in my veins Must we sit idle while these men enact the same cruelties in America that l have seen in Ireland. No, we are ready for work This system we go forth into the two hemis- pheres to fight You are led by the great est men of Europe. Your weapons are truth and justice Your friends have made start. This hot furnace of perdition will not yield easily, you will be beaten once. twice, thrice. but remember the story of Bruce and the spider; thirteen times arc