Show IRELAND in ireland the hand of oppression has fastened it b bony finders around the neck of honest labor and prosperity the heartless landlord informs his in dust careful tenant that he must pay an increase of rent whether yield of crops will permit it or not 1 I says the iron tyrant must have my annual rental you have anything left foi oui family 01 not the debt is paid the husband and father looks with a sad heart upon the small pittance remaining for the support of his family of little ones until another crop ripens and is harvested this is uncertain because ireland as well as other countries is subject to droutha and having passed through famines or probably appi cached so near that its pangs have been indelli bly impress ed upon his mind it is not at all sur that he should be with a fit of despen tion approach the den of a tigress and attempt to carry away one of her young or rob her of food that she has gathered for her offspring and you do it at your peril the love that impels deeds of desperation in the dumb animal is but a trifle compared to the love that a devoted fataei has for his children the cry foi bread blinds him with rage and it compel him to mako an effort to enrow off the yoke of oppression and in his desperation pe ration commits a breach of the law scarcely does the cause of law break ing in ireland emanate from a disiro to do bodily injury just for the sake of gain and because that fearless reckless business is chosen as a calling but the wailing of starving families is behind the husband and lather and to save those ha love he will angly bows his head to bo branded with the stamp of a murderer he sees the family of bis heartless landlord copying all the luxuries that wealth can procure while kisoon loved ones aie half clad and half starved with no reasonable hope to relied e them all that he possesses posse oftentimes but littie is sold to keep the wolf irom his door seed time comes on and finds him powerless to till the soil and lie is forced to pom debt for the necessary implements and seed by this succession of events tho high rents scarcity of crops and debts the irish tenant is constantly midnight i and murders in an country and among an oppressed people are not to bo wondered at bo long as monopolies and individuals can grind wealth out of the poorer clashes they will do it with impunity honest legislation 19 the only remedy and if davitt can succeed in getting the government thoroughly in in this ciuc stion it is possible that limes will bo moie cheerful anop arc sed ii eland |