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Show : Patrick Tord, X Editor Irish World, JInswets t t : judge hooawm, i Edtitor Salt Lake Tribune. 1 4- -f -f -f 4 -f -f -f 4 -f 4- 4 4 4- 4- -f -4- A WORD TO A SALT LAKE BRITON". (From the Irish World.) One of our readers in Ogden, Utah, sends us a copy of tho Daily Tribune of Salt Lake City, which in an article under the heading, "A Word to Excitable Excita-ble Irishmen," suggests that the Irish who sympathize with the Boers in their grand and so far successful fight against the robber British empire are "loafers" whose object is to "wring more assessments, out of tha Irish-born population cf this, country." The writer of this, a Briton we presume, must be a very ignorant man if he does not know about the wholesale performances of his country-men in the line of "loafing" and "assessments" in every land on earth that they have been able to seize, as they are now trying -to seize the Transvaal. Has hei never heurd of the "assessment" cn Ireland of J12,50o.00' pr annum in tha form of exorbitant and extortionate taxation by the British treasury, as reported a couple of years ago by a royal commission? That commission, appointed ap-pointed by the British government, wa.-i compose!.! mainly of English experts in taxation and finance, and after a full investigation of the subject it declared de-clared that for the past fifty years Ireland ha? been compelled to pay in imperial im-perial taxea from $12,500,000 to $15,000,000 a year more than her fair share. What does Mr. Goodmin of the Daily Tribune think of this assessment? It means the trifling sum of $025,000,000 "assessment" in fifty years by rich England Eng-land on "poor" Ireland poor for no other roa:on than that she has been ami continues to be robbed by her rich neighbor who is rich just because of such "assessments" upon countries cursed by her rule. As a further illustration of the British spirit and practice in the "assessment" line we may cite as "a word of caution" to Mr. Goodwin and other Britons, the following instructive and interratinig communication which appears conspicuously on the editorial pag3 - !; of the New York Sun of Sunday last by way of comment on the proposed . facting and praying in England on account of the whipping the British "loafers" "loaf-ers" are getting-in South Africa: In view of the proposed day o fasting and prayer ini England, I would suggest the following as appropriate texts for sermons: to be delivered on that occasion: f 1. Thou shalt not steal. Exodus, xx, 13. - t ' rj v 2. Thou fhalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Exodus, xx, 17. 3. And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee. I Kings, xxi. ?. . 4. Thus saith tho Lord, Hast thou killed and also taken poe session-? I Kingss xxi, 19. . In order to demonstrate the smgul.-.rly felicious character of these text?, it is only necessary to recall to mind. ; Iie action of the British government in four recent instances, when immensely valuable mineral wealth was discovered discov-ered on neighbors' property. (a) The diamond fields of Kimberley were. taken from the Orange Free State by force (by England and the rightful owners were afterwards offered, as indemnity, $500,000, which is equal to about two weeks-' output of diamonds. i (b) The gold mines of Venezuela wre beinrr treated in the same manner, and their forcible appropriation was only prevented by the action of the United States. (c) In the case of the gold mines in Alaska, the British government has been endeavoring for-many years to "chisel" Uncle Sam out of thorn by chicanery, chica-nery, having made prompt assertion of claim of ownership immediately upon -their discovery. It was not, however, convenient to treat the United States with South African methods.. (d) The last instance is in the gold mines in the South African republic. These are the most valuable in the world. The Johannesburg elistrict. which i tho nniv nnn nf ccvcral and is but narti.illv doveloned at that, was produc ing some $7,000,000 per month prior to the war. i Really one would suppose that it is generally believpd in Great Britain that, when the Decalogue was given to Moses there was a. special reservation in favor of "British interests" in respect to the eighth and tenth command- ment.3. . , , -lb I Provided, of course, that propriety la duly ooserved and tae carrying out or each "felonious little plan" ist officially designated as "rectification of fron- , tier," "extension of sphere of British paramountcy to the good of humanity." who shall now eay that the Rev. Mr. Chauband and the "lig'ht of the tere- j with" had no existence except in the brain of Dickens? ! In addition to these few samples of British "loafing." we shall only suggest sug-gest to the Salt Lake editor as a fit subject for consideration and reflection the moral embodied in the idea of Satan reproving sin, an idea not more incongruous in-congruous than that of England or Englishmen remonslratir.g against "assessment?." "assess-ment?." A WCRD TO EXCITABLE IRISHMEN. -. . (Salt Lake Trib-.tne, Jan. 7.) All races of men have their classes, There ie a claw c f Irishmen in the east, and in the sout'h of Ireland itself, that level-headed Irishmen in America, especially, es-pecially, ousht to be cautioned against. To read the Irifh World, one wouid think that the power and prestige of Grent Britain were thoroughly broken. j There was a great meeting the other night in New York. One man brought in j resolutions to the effect that Great Britain was, in the du?t; that now fe would for some centuries, suffer all the hardi'hins that Ireland has in the past Our judgment, isi that these things are done merely that a set of loafers , - can wring mora asrwsmeni out of the Irish-born- population of this country. 1 The utmost strength that the Boers can bring against Great Britain cannot I exceed 100.000 men. If any other nation would interfere. Great Britain would j ink every transport tihat tried to carry reinforcements to the Boers. More I than that" there is no nation in a condition to make war upon Great Britain t all Ru'ida has several millions' of people in her territory that are in iromi- f nent danWr of dying cf famine. She has unprotected works in eastern Asia I which it will take her several years to fix so that she will be in a condition to meet tacks from the sea, and she l-s using all her strength now. to protect , f thoe works, not 'against Great Britain, but against Japan. France, if let ahr.e, J would make' a good, fight against England, but tue would never dare begin a I trouble of that kin'd, with Germany and her 800,000 trained soldiers on hT f frontier. It would be suicide. In the same way, Germany has no tleet what- ever to compete with Great Britain, and she, while rhe great military power I of Europe, still has France on the ne side and Russia on. the other, and j does not trust either. As for .Austria, Italy, Spain and all the other states of j Europe they are not worth considering. And tibia is all so plain that we think it will" justify ne in saying that the excitement which just now rce I Irfeh are trying to work up is-' simply t rob their countrymen throughout the country, just as O'Donovan Ro?sa did for fifteen years. Our private judgment j ' . ', tho iinnortunitv of a centtirv. Had the leading men 5 is that ireianu uo --- in Ireland when--this war broke out wi;h the Boers-, proclaimed that whatever f . . their former differences might have been, or may now be. with England, the j realm being assailed they were ready to help in the war in favor cf their own country had they done that, they would have had home rule in six month- i home rule as much as Australia or Canada has. As it is, En-land will W.-.io the Boers thie jfear or next, or some time, and w.hen her army comes heme. -th 150 CC0 trained men to back her 750 warships, she wHl not be in a humor to be very merciful .toherpronounced enemies. |