| Show CHICAGO LETTER the emerald gem of the sea and the oll taft diamond of the be union the horrible pilate mate of the former wad and the attempts 1 f the tame name order in the latter the curse of carpetbag carpet bag bile poor field etc NEWS special correspondence CHICAGO feb 12 1887 from america to europe by the atlantic steamers when nearing the british isles are on the lookout for mid land witti with ane anxiety usually attending bendia unaccustomed ocean travelers if at night the vessel happens to come near the land a revolving light esthe is the first indication thattie that the ocean voyage is soon to terminate Date this light is on Sk elligs rock a little islet a mile or two from the mainland here the atlantic dashes with its wildest lury fury here might dwell toe the genius of desolation here can be witnessed nature in her grandest aspects beetling cliffs brownin frowning mountains bare headlands rocky is weta f eta and roaring waters these are the scenes which meet the e eye e and yet this place is not without its its legends its traditions and its history for the american it ought to have a peculiar interest but above all for the citizen of utah it has more than a passing interest at the present time TRIS THIS LAND IS 18 IRELAND a mere little island Islan dRut jut yet with a history more inteL interesting resting slid and more instructive tive than that of china with its millions of inhabitants or of bassia aissis with its incalculable acres and Aud just inside of these coasts at present is being enacted a drama so sad so mi miserable se rable and so sickening that modern civilization has tid co blush for the actors therein this drama Is the result of penal laws and carpetbag carpet bag rule and that Is i why the utah catiz citizen and the utah zoi should dwell with inte interest reaVon OH these shores and on their history present and past not far from here is mount brendan the home of that old saint so famous in song and story brendan the SAILOR BAILOR MONK who in the sixth century to is said to have penetrated even into our america here built him a coracle of wattle and covered it with bides tanned in and softened with butter and set up inet in it a mast and sail and took fa forty aud and started out i on his I 1 voyage ft of discovery the reb reci ord left of this voyage his has formed the basis of many a legend and many a romance sebastian evans has written a poem on it so has matthew arnold charles kingsley says of it this tale I 1 was so popular inthe in the middle age that it app appearson pearin ap earsin different shapes in almost every early european language etwas not only the delight of monks but it stirred up to wild voyages amany a secular man in search of st brendans brendano Bren dans isle which is not found when it is sought but was said to be VISIBLE AT TIMES from palms palma in the canaries the myth must have been well known to columbus and may have helped to seng send him forth in search of cathay thither so the spanish peasants ieli believed eved don roderic had rett retired faour the moorish invaders invader there so the portuguese fancied king sebastian was hidden from men after r his bis reported death in the battle of alcazar the west indies when they were first seen were surely st brendans brendano Bren dans isle auh and the mississippi may have hav e been in toe the eyes of such old oad adventurers as de soto when he be sought for the fountain of youth the very river which st brendan found parting in two the land of promise nw nor ean can the scholar we gaze on the rockbound bo nd cow costi witheat aitho at be being ing I 1 the poet spencer behind these desolate headlands was written the fairy queen etwas it was along alon here th that at spen in company with lord grey witnessed the massacre inas sadre of smerwick asmerwick Sm erwick here spaniards were massacred mab mat sacred IN COLD BLOOD strange to say the poet applauded tie the auth author r of this diabolical deed it was here in 1589 that raleigh after essex got ot inside of him in the affection of the virgin queen came to rusticate raleigh Ild leigh found spencer icer at kilcolman Kil colman and both went on an excursion cur glon spencer says so to the sea we came the sea that is A world of waters heaped upon high rolling like mountains in in wild wilderness horrible Horn ble hideous roaring with hoarse cue crie what a splendid and realistic description crip tion of the wild atlantic as it tolls against those thole tremendous cliffs of the south and west coasts of ireland but nor thought and lain fain would the poetic student dispel it but he cabat bait spencer was a carpetbagger carpet bagger yes spencer the source of inspiration to sor so many succeeding poets was A carpetbagger CARPET BAGGER he was sheriff of this country at tho the back of these crills cliffa and he lived in one of the confiscated castles of of abe chedes des in the revolution of the castle was destroyed one of spencers children burnt and the poet himself had bad to fly the country he reached london and died ded of starvation in king street westminster as says fays horrible carpet buggery may perdition hold the man that birst invented thee even by thee gentle poesy is degraded an ele eie witness to what is DOW BOW going oo on bader what is called the law of ef the land says of this place As sad and dismal as those corridors of suffering through which the spirit of dante ached balked al hed as outraged aud and violated as tle the valley of glencoe tyl encoe over which the muse of scott mourned this kerry glen has been fifles py by the HAND OP OF with associations as depressing depre assine reminiscences ces as brutal the writer refers to the landlord evictions enthat in that country it appears the people are thrown out of their cabins ca and then the thatch la Is saturated with paraffin oil and an the wretched hut but burnt old young strong weak sick and feeble are thrown on the road side yet the ancestors of these pebbly rived lived here bere before rome was founded here alere Is a description of the scene taken from united ireland of tan jan 22 poor old pat diggins tottered out into day daylight hight sick nigh tu death with his hie seventy live years written on his frame at and d on his face the rel reflection lection of the eviction curse that had B BANKED AND BLASTS his fathers belore him and his own four bencs more than once the furniture furni tare was pitched out in the customary style the poor evit fied wretch stood a moment looking around and then with it a little child stood over by the ditch then me lle devilry began the roof in a few moments was in flames and every crackle of the oil saturated thatch met a responsive groan front from the aged outcast ont cast east whose tears reflected the fire destroyed his rooftree the scene recalled the worst phases phase i r tear blot ted led history it nias was hard bur d vy rw aa one stood there in the light ofine smoking burning roof that it was the nineteenth century with men and wamen walking christs world to preach his gospel of peace that statesmen were sai samp mp bon like the pillars of iniquitous 8 state te SOB SV JU B E SAKE that in every london alley an and d slum popular princes and fashionable divorcees were appealing on behalf odthe of the apor and the wre tebea that there was indi indignation na tion for atrocities and sympathy borrus for bus sian rebels in fine that we live in days vv when hen there was a shibboleth for every fad and a defense tor for every defaulter i gladstone who is trying to remove the source of this internal infernal work bluds opposition entirely hom its authors and in america we nave have statesmen states nien god bless the mark atlue legis isolation lation the outcome of which must of necessity be similar to that now witnessed in the kerry Mounta mountains ius HERE 18 scene in which a brave deputy figures it has a striking resemblance to the work ot of a utah deau deputy tt I 1 Goodma Goodin athe anthe de deputy uty a rawboned raw boned youth who seemed as proud as aa if he were engaged in ono one ot the most heroic missions flourished his hia revolver and looking back ot oa the excited crowd of 0 onlookers on lookers as if appealing ealing for witnesses of at his devotion rush rushed alg e at the door but in another moment was b back with 1 li is hand on his ear car seeking protection from the police the bailiffs dually anally smashed in min man his hib henchman and the pol police oe entered ente they hid gotten from r m alie frying pau pan into the fire and ar an angry hous houseful elul it iras was for a while at len lenth length th they succeeded in arresting those citrin within but not without some causes for remembrance of the efforts Need needless Jess to sity say the poor pooi fellows some twenty two in all were MARCHED off the ground for glenbeigh Glen beigh county jail thereafter to be dealt with by some stolid pedant administering the sharp vide bide of a cons titu tion that has driven this sensitive people to distraction it may be asked what crime are these poor people guilty ol of are they po are they murderers are they swindlers lers no their only crime is tiede being alive the deputy and the officeholder office holder want the pound of f alesa but the poor cell alas nottie not the A flesh esh and because ne has not he be must die che mr conybeare M P for cornwall happened ned to be present at this little drama araina etere here is what HB SAYS OF IT it if amongst us ba in rugland england the gobern bovein mient of the country no matter in obeAle obedience soe to what infernal laws the landlords have produced and passed in their own interest it if the government of the country sent an evict in ing f force 0 rc e amongst us sent me mea a with wit h 0 crowbars O r 0 w bg rb and d finc oil and matches i in n 0 order r 4 or uburn to burn down the homesteads jot our miners and other people I 1 tell you before heaven men en that I 1 would be the first to head the rig biggest est crowd ot 0 at stalwart alwart englishmen 1 I could could gather round me and I 1 would not atop for one moment until I 1 had at any rate done something to sweep the curse of which oppresses opp ressen us almost as badly as it does yourselves 0 it maybe ashod why do adle able bodied men stand idly by and witness scenes of this kind why not dot bury bory the knife in 0 the bosom of these MURDEROUS DEPUTIES I 1 no they stand idly by out of reverence forlaw for law only in one case lathe is the courts i of law obstructed and then by a wo man here it is i once and wice once only guly the constitutional regularity of 0 the proceeding was disturbed by an incident that would have thrilled the legal sensitiveness of the chief baron with horror A bailiff was nailing up the door from which a mother and her d dying ing child had been huddled out pitiless pitilessly f Y into the snow when a brave young girl rushed upon him and dealt him a blow on the head that made him reel never was bolder blow struck in a better cause ROE ROB the agent it at once ordered the girls arrest and his command was obeyed under an escort os of ten police with cocked coc led she was earned carried down the road to the main body of the con but her bravery seemed to have TAUGHT MANHOOD to the men with one wild rush they scattered the police like chaff and in a second s more the gul was safe again in the midst of her hei fri freenis enIS mry may GOD prosper her for that brave wow bow struck in the honest heat of her woman s heart at thle the eight of outrage done to a mother and her dying child I 1 for that thai blow may happy children call her mother in the goo goob time coming in the cheerful security of a law latt protected home and to this every honest heart will say AMEN may happy children call her mother and add may her home be secure e re and above all may not the doom oy of the old mald maid await her as it does kate field that heartless hypocritical cre creature sture sapless indu rated tasteless as an apple from the dead sea shore no child will ever call her n other no ut pitying y ing heart will ever utter far her r a prayer Child childless lem and sterile shew she wll lill sink into thebold the cold ground a forcible illustration of the roman poet camellus Ca tellus OLD mard As on the naked field the vines weak shoat mor alor lifts ita languid stem nor glows with fruit but by itself weighed down it lowly strays and un on its root its highest tendril lays the herdsmen then the passing hinds neglect the lonely vine nor cherish nor protect so bosc scorned omed the maid aho vho ho flies the fond embrace and withering adds no honors t to 0 her race so bo fell K kate ate field unwept u apprize d I 1 aho nored and unsung detested and aes ues despised dived it may be asked bow it is that the preat great body of englishmen with their acknowledged spirit ot fairplay and their well known love of fi liberty berty should pass over the hapless condition of ireland as they have done so long the fact is the case of ireland was misrepresented to them perjured preachers and LYING OFFICE HOLDERS I 1 represented the irish peasant as a besotted slave to a superstition called religion these irishmen who went across ithe channel to represent their country were the meanest of crea tion to sell kith and kin god and country for office englishmen were disgusted with them now it is different 11 mr r Ste stead adof of the pall mall mail gazette jr mr labouchere Labouch cre of truth 7 uth mr air wilkinson Wl kinson of the manchester guardian mr paul of the daily news mr farre of the liverpool daily post mr byres byes of the bradford observer and mr cameron oft of the he newcastle leader all ailiese these have visited ireland and have studied the irish quel question stion on the spot that Is why englishmen will yet endorse gladstone if our journalists would take the trouble to investigate the utah question at home we would be spared the disgraceful spectacle of the edmunds tucker comb combine lne 11 perhaps not more than two members of lori on press gress have ever seriously studied for themselves the utah question sad and yet the whole body is willing to past pass laws aws for something that aney know nothing about JUNIUS JUKI us |
