Show rne THE WAND rund QUESTION IN 1119 kland ELAND krena NR THE esth of next month is 18 the day fixed for there the re the british parliament and the telegrams a day or two since informed us that mr gladstone had issued a circular requesting the frien friends daf of the administration to be in their seats beats oa on the day named the character of the legislation in britain last year was waa enough to render glad stones administration one of the most famous in british history not from the fact of great victories gained over foreign foes by land or sea but because of the overthrow of a giant wrong at home n amely namely the emancipation of several millions of people in ireland from protestant tes tea tant taut religious domination or in other words rendering compulsory support to a 9 church in which they did not believe this reform great and just as it was was only a small part of that necessary to redress the wrongs which the celtic race in ireland were compelled to endure at the bands hands of their alien rulers the land question is oIn 0 infinitely finitely greater importance to the masses of that country than the church question the latter aflee allec affected ted their pecuniary interests to some extent but the former involves their all the land question also more vitally affects the interests of the owners of the soil then did the church question and idd ind the forthcoming session of the british parliament we may expect far stormier times than during th the e agitation a of church disestablish disestablishment a benj for the gladstone government is pledged to bring about reform in one case as well as in the other and by the time the coming session is prorogued it is more than probable that one of the greatest wrongs to which any nationality is subjected will have received its death blow this question is the ile great source of fenian and all other agitation and discontent that exists in that country and it is surprising that public opinion in great britain has eo so long tolerated the existence of the abuses of which it is the cause not only in ireland but throughout the whole nation with a population of about forty millions of people the land owners of the british isles number only about thirty thotis thousand and this system is perpetuated and sustained by the laws of primogeniture and entail which prevent the large estates from beli belt being g sold bold out of tb the e great aristocratic families who possess them in england scotland and wales the evils of 0 this system are fearfully apparent ren tand and it la Is the main maln cause of the pauperism with which the nation is flooded hooded but great as are the evils evila there they are not near as great aa as in ireland for with scarcely an exception the mid land owners of the latter country as if carted action while faithful in collecting their rents from their tenants aregust as faithful in expending them in other countries thus draining ireland of its wealth then again the land laws in ireland are such that the tenants have no recognized rights the they are entirely at the landi landl landlords mercy of the landlords thousands of oft the irish people are small tenant farmers and under just laws they might be prosperous and comfortable but there has been no encouragement to their enterprise hitherto for if they at their own expense drained and fenced their land erected good barns and made other improvements in order to render their farms more profitable they have had no assurance that their rent would not be raised on account of those very improvements and the erule theoule th has been to compel these poor people to pay this increase or to eject them and so bring about their ruin the land laws in ireland have permitted the practice of such flagrant wrongs and so generally has haa this prerogative been enforced by the landlord landlords that the enterprise and industry of the irish population have been all but extinguished they have become proverbial for squalor and poverty and in hundreds and thousands of instances the industrious agriculturists of that country have seen themselves and all they held heid dear reduced to beggary tion by the practice of such high ijane hand ed injustice and tyran tyranny they have protested for centuries but bui ut allin all sil in vain yain their landlords have had the law on their elde eide and the impossibility of obtaining redress has driven the tenant farmers to desperation and has led to the commission com misson of so many agrarian outrages or in other words to the theas as assin atlon stion of so many landlords resource reco Beco uree to violence and murder ia 18 to be deplored under all circumstances but where the rich and the educate educated a show so little regard for the rights and lives of the poor and ignorant it is astur sur tun that more lives have not been sacrificed who can wonder that chatin in a nation where the law has saneo sanctioned nei nel such an outrageous disregard of right atthe organization of secret societies for the overthrow of the system of misrule that permitted it and at the hatred existing in the hearts of and irishmen generally against english domination in their much loved lovid country the land itself is one of the most fertile under heaven its people are industrious and frugal yet through centuries of misrule they are reduced to a condition worse than serfdom to abolish this system by legislation is the task before the gladstone government in the forthcoming session of parliament all the power of the landed aristocracy will no doubt be brought to bear in opposition to tonea inea jeo par dising what they through centuries of possession have come to consider as their inalienable rights bah bat the flat fiat has haa gone forth the days of primogeniture and entail are numbered and during daring the coming season beason the hardest battle ever fou fought ht in the legislative halis halls of baj britian tian will viii be fought and it is to be hoped decided on the side of justice and right the passage laws adjusting these long iong pending difficulties guaranteeing the rights of the tenant as well as inthe landlord ln ireland will do what a large military force and thousands of police have never been able to do namely appease agitation and restore content and it is reasonable to suppose will inaugurate such an era of prosperity for her people as they have neverseen never seen the task will be a difficult one but where there is a determination on the part of the law makers to do justice to the many its difficulties are not insurmountable and in the accomplishment of such a great work the ad administration minis of wm E gladstone gladston will earn imperishable honor A litile little three year old girl in new orleans recently astonished her mother who attempted to correct her by motioning her away with a chubby little hand and scornfully saying shoo fly dont bodder me an iowa paper advertises advertis iW for I 1 a girl to learn the printing trade who will wear pants and saw wood 12 A little girl seeing a litter of kittens for the first time expressed her opinion that somebody had shaken pussy all to pieces |