The Eddy current., 1898-04-30

Mr John Byrnc Tuesday 'eiyod
an appeal from ireland Co ht toe
starving peop IN that country ihe
distress amoug the recpucentfoii's 0l
Cuba IS not a circumstance 10 Tire sit
uition lt present Ia Ireland because
The popu alton is three times "a great
and the starving therefore gf6fter.
In many counties every COW was sold
las, fall 90 pay the rent on land winch
produced nothing 80 that for miles rot
30 much a spoonful Of milk can ho
had for the starving children While
This country is appropriating millions
10 free Cuba we sre allowing ihe Eng
lish landlords who robbed the Irish
people Of their lands 20 starye them.
rhe following extract from the Irish
World is only short aud mild dis.
criptiJn of the case:
ireland would require assistance
from NO quarter II she were only mis-
tress OF her natural resources and free
10 manage her own affairs. All she
needs for the support and happiness
OF her people Is the rcp0ssession OF
her own what God endowed her with.
In the Black ~, when more than a
million OF the irish people died Of
hunger, ireland exported 20 England
her annual tribute OF 2O,OOO,OO0 bushels
OF wheat--all 60 pay the accursed
blackmail 20 absentee Angelo Irish
landlords. Even today England
draws from Ireland more food, IN the
shape OF beef, pork mutton and poul-
Try than comes 20 her from all other
countries put together. But this state
ment rests not on an Irish cain, but
on English official statistics statistics
which demonstrate that Ireland Is one
of the greatest, II not the greatest OF
food producing countries.
Were Ireland independent, and were
her industry diversified, as II would
be under q National and Protective
Government, none OF her children
would perish Tor want Of bread. FoT
under such conditions, II food some
times failed "in spots, the country Us
a whole would have a suiilcency, and
a paiernal government would see TO II
that no food was exported 70 foreign
parts until the requirements OF home
necessity we're nrst attended 10.
II may be asked; Why does Ireland
not diversity her industiiesy This is
question which no we'll informed
person will put; for well informed
men know that by positive statutes
England destroyed lreland's mahuiac'
lures aud commerce. The evil effects
OF those destructive statutes continue
TO this day No industry was left Ia
Ireland but agriculture, and that un.
der conditions most harressing and
oppressive to the toiler; and where
aud 20 whom the richest fruits OF this
only remaining industry go II Is not
necessary for the readers OF the Irlsh
World 10 be- told.
But Epgland's connscations and
Obstructive laws In the past, with their
evil consequences coming down "a
the present, are not the only grievance
that Ireland has 10 complain OF. In
addition 10 these comparatively new
method Of plumber has been devised
This more recent method Of plundeI
Is known as the over Taxation OF Ire
land. II has been In operation since
the socalled Union, at the beginning
OF this century, and by this device, Ire
land, according 20 the finding Of a
royal commission, is being oyertaxed
10 the amount Of e2,5O0OOO Oof twelve
million i've hundred dollars) yearly
Oyertaxed, take note not from al
Irish point of view, but according L
the English standard of taxation. The
fac, Is admitted, but the plunder still
goes on!
An this goes 10 show that II poo
Ireland is poor she is so because shI
is robbed. Let every honest man sec
this. Let all the world know H. 1
she had her own there would be M
famine within her borders; or II dis
lress In spots she would be we'll abb,
out Of her own hand, to promptly AM
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