La Junta tribune., 1909-05-08
IN DEFENSE OF OLD IRELAND.

As your correspondent is known TO
have penchant for figures. / would
wish to submit few reasons to
him in facts and figures why the
irishman should not swear fealty TO
the British crown.
In the year 1895 4. d, the public
debt OF ireland was only G3.000. 900.
In 1900 4. ID. Pitt and Vicount Cas-
tlereagh carried the union by pur'
chasing the borroughs from the land
lord class. In 1902 the expense OF
6 E25.000. 900 was charged TO Ireland.
making her public debt f2s 900. 900.
Thus Pitt and Vicount Castlereagh
robbed Ireland of her parliament and
charged her g2j. 900. 900 for the Job.
In the year 1Sl7 when the expenses
Of the Napoleonic wars was divided
between the two countries. Engiand's
public debt was doubled. being raised
from e550.O0o, 600 to e1.l0O.O00 900.
and lreland's debt was quadrupled.
being raised from e2s.000 900 TO
EII2,o00 900 There Is also a joint
fund for the improvement OF docks,
harbors and Notifications. etc. TO
which Ireland has paid 1000. 300
since the act of union. and out of
which she has received for internal
improvement f20.o00.0
Again, the late w Ewart Glad
stone appointed commission of En-
giishmen to examine the question OF
Irish taxation. and this commission
reported that ireland was annually
taxed for imperial purposes f15.o00.-
900 more than her share
Again, your correspondence fears
that Irishmen II not educated Sill
not be able to govern themselves.
And now | would ask who Is lhe
great British statesman. Edward
Wyndham, the author of the Irish
land act, who has earned our eter-
nal fealty. On inquiry we find aim
to be the great grandson of Edward
Fitzgerald. the Irish rebel who He'd
in his prison cell at Newgate June
I. 1898. And this fact Is cumulative
proof. II any were needed. that the
Irish are capable OF constructive
statesmanship and that Euglishmen
never settle any Irish question until
generations and centuries after II is
ripe for settlement.
When King William in 1890 chang
ed the conditions of military service
from a feudal to regular Amy.
then the system of land tenure
should have been settled Why did
he allow the landlord TO become abb
solute owner OF the Aand--a thing
he never was before. As under the
feudal system the tennant had only
to furnish soldiers in war time In
proportion to the amount of land
he held. And yet this juggernaut OF
British rule has demanded sacrifices
of the flower and chivalry of Ire
land of every generation of Irishmen
since whenever they asked for set
tiement OF the land question. 1t was
for this that Sarcefieid nobiy bled.
Wolf Tone and Edward Fitzgerald
sank sereneiy in their prison cells.
Robert Emmet. John and Henry
Shears, Roger Mckinley and Rev
Jackson Orr expiated with the sacri-
flee OF their lives upon the scaffold,
and for pleading the same cause.
O'Connell. Sir John Grey and Richard
Laior Shiel were imprisoned at XII
mainham. And yet for pleading the
same cause the Irish repealers OF
ls4s, the finest body of men who
were ever exiled from any country.
were transported to Van Dieman's
land. and the last words of Gavin
Duffy were that he was leaving
Ireland as corpse on the disseci-
ing table 10 Englishmen.' Gavin
Duffy was thrice prime minister of
the land he was sent to as feion.
and John Dillon were imprisoned and
Parneil was bounded to his death
by such Infamous spies and informers
as LeCaron Richard Piggot and when
the measure of this British spy's
crimes became full he laid violent
hands upon himself. as did Judas Of
old.
And now to conclude, l think it
is question for the scientists to
discover an antidote against the
microbe which causes this seething
saragoosa OF Anglo-Saxon slander Of
the Irish people About the middle
OF the last century We witnessed The
scurrilous writing Of Kingsley.
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