The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-12-17

paupers. Paupers have no country, no
rights, no duties! In short, if we permit
the small farmers to be reduced 20 penury,
II they are compelled to give up their lands
and throw themselves on the country for
relief, there is an end to Ireland
"It takes an army of thirty Thousand
soldiers to secure the rent now, and if you
band together and ask a reduction it must
come, for no landlord can stand against
you. Stand firm and self-reliant against
this band OF cormorant vampires that have
sucked the life blood from the country:
that have banished your brothers and sis
ters, and made us a nation of paupers!
They threaten you with eviction if you re-
fuse to pay this terrible rack-rent; but
don't forget that an English cabinet minis
ter once said that Eviction under aggra-
waited circumstances is felonyr And you
know it is a maxim of the English law,
that felony can be resisted unto death.
1T is well for us to take lesson from
the English. They are practical people!
[Cheers and eve WILL" from the vast
audience.] You must band together and
shun the man who will occupy an evicted
property, as you would leper. Hold no
communion with him. If his wife and
children are sick let them alone 1t is only
by this means that you can bring the
landlords to reason.
There are large estates growing up to
weeds now, but if you hold to your pur-
pose they will increase thousand fold!'
After leaving this meeting Mr. Parnell
was arrested and taken to Kilmainham
pIison, where number of the prominent
leaders of the Land League were confined
From that day Charles Stuart Parneu be-
came hero! And his noble championship
sacrifices and sufferings in the cause of
Irish liberty have enthroned him in the
hearts of all true patriots. 1t was no hero
worship that had made this great gather
ing possible. 1t was the deep, heartfelt
protest of a Naked starving, outraged peo-
pie. 1t was cry against bayonet rule and
an appeal for human rights
This man had placed himself in sympa-
thy with the peoples needs, and now they
looked at him as their leader protector
and Hberator. They trusted that at no dis
tant day he would overcome the power of
the landlords to make famine where there
was plenty and to rob them of improve
ments that were justly theirs.
The leaders of the Land League demand
ed union of its followers, but strongly con-
demned violence. Unfortunately, many
disobeyed the injunction. When their
leaders were in prison the men who were
suffering hunger and who had seen their
families dying by the roadside, became
frantic under a sense of accumulated
wrongs and were wild with a desire for
revenge. They committed many crimes
Stone throwing, window breaking, and at
tacks on the police were frequent. The
men in prison were not silent. From Kill
mainham came the no-rent manifesto,
which was circulated throughout Ireland.
''Fellow countrymen, the hour to try
your souls and redeem your pledges has
arrived. Do not be daunted by the reno
val of yonr leaders. One more crowning
struggle for your lands, your home and
your lives! A struggle in which all the
memories of your race, all the hopes of
your children, all the sacrifices of your i'm
prisoned brothers, all cravings for rent en-
franchised lands, for happy homes and ma
tional freedom inspire you. One more
heroic effort to destroy landlordism at the
source and fount of its existence, and the
system which was and is the curse of your
race will have disappeared forever! The
world is watching to see whether all your
splendid hopes and noble courage will
crumDle away at the tnreatS OF cOWardly
tyrants. You have to choose between
throwing yourselves on the mercy of En-
gland and taking your stand by an organi-
zation that has once before been too strong
for English depotism:
Every tenant farmer is to-cay the stan
dard bearer of the flag unfurled by patriot
ic women, when they held the officers at
bay, and can bear it to a glorious victory.
The landlord who evicts is criminal and
the government which supports him with
the bayonet will learn in single winter
how powerless its armed forces are against
the will of a united and determined peO-
plen'
This was like a firebrand in a heap of
chaff. Meetings were held. Gladstone
and Forster were carried in ef1igy through
the streets, and We're dragged in the mud