Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-01-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DENTON AND HAUGHTON  EXAMINER.  SATURDAY JANUARY 100‘ 1880  IRISR DISTRESS AND IRISH DISORDER.  The Irish Relief Fund, which the Lord Mayor of Loudon, at the urgent request of the Duchess of Marlborough. opoudo at the Mansion House, does not appear to have made much headway since it was stated a week or two ago. This is not to be wondered at considering that the inevitable results of the anti-rent agitation, realessly begun by Mr Parnell and his friends of the Hotne Rule faction, are developing them. selves now in scenes of lawlessness disorder,  and bloodshed. The people of Engloud and Scotland are well enough aware that very great distress, needing to be relieved exists in those parts of Ireland which were specially brought under public notice by the philanthropic wife of the Viceroy; but they also feel that the present painful state of affairs has been greatly aggravated by the agitators who, pretending to be warm patriots, incite their countrymen, when starvation is staring many of them in the face, to the very brink of sedition. The troubles in which the Irish farmers, great and small, find themselves involved, arise mainly from the same causes as those that have induced numbers of English and Scotch agriculturists to emigrate to Minnersota and Manitoba, and yet the former have been led to believe, by outpourings of pernicious talk, that the British Government is to blame for all the evils they endure, the greatest of those evils being the payment of rent by tenants to landlords. If Mr Parnell had advised the unfortunate farmers, who were foolish enough to give heed to his socialistic or nihilistic doctrines to pay what they could of their rent, and trust to the generosity of their landlords for the remission of the remainder, he would have shown himself to be a patriot and a man of sense; as it was, he only augmented the evils for which he pretended to have found a panacea, and left his countrymen to their fate, in order that he might try and make some political capital of which he stood much in need, by stumping the United States, where he knew that he would be sure of a welcome from Fenian sympathisers with Irish disloyalty and discontent. Sinoe going to America he has declared, in answer to some strictures in New York papers on the mischievoas character of the agitation he started in Ireland, that he has been grievously misapprehended, and that the struggle to get beak the land to the landless was do Agned from the beginning to be a moral movement, contemplating no resort to physical violence. Did not Mr Parnell, before he crossed the Atlantic, give the emphatio advice, over and over again, at excited meetings to p..y no rent, though tenants had incurred their liabilities and responsibilities by taking farms, and how was that advised to be acted upon with effect except by resorting to violence? Mr Parnell may prate as he likes about seeking to gain the end in view solely through the pressure of legitimate influences. He knew well enough the excitable nature of the people to whom he delivered his iDattlll. matory harangues, and he must be held morally responsible for the murderous threats and actual agrarian murders for the resistance to authority, outrages and viol. ease which have thrown Ireland quarters of a century back within two or three months. The attack made in Connemara by a party of four or five hundred peasantry upon the constabulary force who were protecting process-servers may be regarded as the natural outcome of the wild talk in which Mr Parnell and his assoc,ates chose to ;ndulge. The mission of the latest Irish agitator to America has been under-taken for the twofold purpose of raising funds to relieve Irish distress, and of gaining the moral support of the United States to the land movement. But what necessity was there for going a-begging to America be fore the thousands of Irish people in English mid Scottish towns had been appealed to on behalf of their ooun rymen in distress at home? The Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the Viceroy, has proved to be a