The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-03-17

supposed to be for the benefit of the
poor Some believe in Horace Punk
TITS creamery movement; some believe
tnat knitting industries will solve the
pLoolem, some In cooperation. They
are all good in their way and are all
Wen meant. and If they succeed in pre-
venting even few individuals leaving
the country so much the better. But
they VIII never touch the root of the
matter.
ireland can hope for no prosperitv so
long as English rule exists there For
the whole object of the English policy
Is the determination of the Irish people
from ireland. 1t may be yelled, but It
unoerheS every movement of England
IN regard to Ireland.
England destroyed, one by one. every
industry In Ireland. By a system i'm
posing an export tax on every fabric
sent out of Ireland it destroyed our ex-
port trade in woollen, leather and silk |
manufacture. 1t DESTROYED Ireland's
salt meat industry in the same way. /
When these industries were destroyed |
Tor lack of outside market then the
English removed the export tax
by that time the people had moth
Ing left but the land, and the land was
owned by English landlords or Irish
landlords of English sympathies The
leases were put up at auction and be- |
cause all other means of a livelihood |
nad been cut off, the people were forced |
INTO strong competition for the lands |
ana they were bid up to high rentals |
And the rents all went to England-to |
be spent there. Not penny came back
into Ireland.
NOW that our manufactures had
been destroyed and Ireland made an
agricultural country, the English intro
duced free trade. good thing for
manufacturers, but destructive to the
small agricultural landlord
The result is Ireland's pitiful poverty,
with periodical famines, which are ever ,
the signal for redoubIed work by the | (
English recruiting officer to force the
starving people to join the English ,
army.
In the last famine, two years ago,
when the people in the west were dying
OF starvation, In one village of eighteen | @
houses. there were twenty deaths in y
one month, and in each house visited |
were f1ve or six people lying on the :,
ground In fever ard starvation The |
English refused to give help, and when
the Irish members brought it up in the
House OF Commons, instancing deaths
from starvation, Mr.. Balfour laughed
At them and asked II England was ex-
pected to send champagne to the Irish II
peasants. y
| travelled all through the famine
stricken district and by bringing the
starving people together in the towns
Ind threatening to take the towns
Ind take food II 1t were not given to
hem, I succeeded in getting a certain
mount of help for them
1t Is self-evident, even though there
Tere not too ample evidence and yearly ~
demonstration, that English govern
nent in ireland has reduced the Irish
eople ito the lowest stage of poverty, ~
et she goes still lower periodically |
then she actually starves-has no food Nw
} eat, which is something for the com "a
1rtable to think about "
Ireland is naturally a fairly rich
1untry and so was quite capable of
ipporting 100000 of people when
ueen Victoria came to the throne.
ow that we have been reduced to A.
5000 through English misgovernment: M
lr manufactures destroyed by export | q y
.xes and our farms made valueless by
ee trade our people are worse off and ~
ere is more famine and starvation
ian ever. w