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THE LAND STRUGGLE.
The Duty of the Highl|ri2 CJrofters Done
,^ight is U^Might
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Voum
IU
What a Patriotic Scotchman Has to
of the Late SjjMiamantiny
rices from Glas
erofters have
Is,up—might is
received a
i^a^jyekms spec
racier it attracts
most practical
people robbed
•orse than beasts
irave as lions in
Duncan Maegregm
gow., as follows:
done their duty.
down. Landlordii
terribe blow,. Wh
tacle is here! No^
the attention of .t£j
thinkers of our^ageJig
and spoiled—treate^
of the field a peopl®
foreign wars, yet Hmid as $beep a
home a people. whcpjtave endured tiTi I
endurance ceased ti^ be a virtuq lsj^f
became a crime, havtfpow arisen to de
mand freedom,
to
ftilairn the soil as
their owr^, to TSto- constitutional liberty
by constitutional For the first
time h? Jheir livesfflfty have a vote, and
that vote is the ballot. No
longer do they fua^Jiie laird and the
factor. Ei&h humor is mixed
with their attafe¥ the old powers,
Let me tell Americmg readers what has
happened* and the® will see its pro
found significaffl^«r the struggle now
beginning in Britajgi will have to be
witnessed in AmeriJL $$
Along the west co®t of Scotland are
some two hundred ®|d fifty thousand
Highlanders, who®present the ab
origines of the islaid® Their language
is Gaelic, of muQh ^ra|:gajne kind as the
Irish Gaelic arid kinjfed to the Welsh.,
Fragments are th(J|)eople of the old
clan sjstem. Iia .^5 the victorious
English government determined to
break up the clans,®d so took away
all judicial power"ffi1 ^ie chiefs. The
old patriarchal sysroin was abolished
and the commercials system begun.
With it came tyraffiy, eviction, cru
elty, such as makejdthe blood boil to
read of. Sheep an$T deer were pre
pared to men, so the^rop of men failed!.
So relentless was the landlord tyranny
that the poor crofters looked on the
Bystem as hopelessly, as they did on the
storms that wreckedttheir boats. Thou
sands upon thousand? in Canada and in
the States carry jne&ories and' tradi
tions which form a r*arvelous epoch in
Scottish history. B^l now a new world
arising. The E*vMish language"-^
scfiools, newspapers are being read,
messages come from kindred in Amer
ica, where liberty is known. Informa
tion about the uprising of the Irish peo
ple against their landlords has spread,
and, to crown all, the new franchise
bill has given the crofter a vote. He is
no longer a machine—he is a man.
From London, as from a mighty life
center, land reformers have come down
and have spread literature all over the
Highlands. Such men as Henry George
have lectured to the people. Men with
unusual gifts have risen up among them
selves, and have proclaimed the truth
that the land was made for the people.
Here and there a clergymrn has also
spoken out. Last summer great con
ferences were held all over the High
lands and the people were fairly
aroused. Behold the results. K,:
American readers know something ol
the Duke of Argyll. He is a man of
wide culture and of much ability. His
family have in other ages been cham
pions of freedom, and some of them
have died on the scaffold for conscience
sake. The Duke and his
family
are ot
national importance, and have made
themselves conspicuous by opposition
to the new land movement. Because
Mr. Gladstone gave some justice to Ire-.
land by the new land act my lord of
Argyll took umbrage, and now he and
his family declare publicly they are at
opposite poles from land reformers,
whom they call Socialistic revolution
ists. Like a certain king, they have
placed their throne on the seashore
against the tide and are mightily
troubled at the restless waves. Times
are dealing very hard with crowns and
coronets. Estates do not pay. Ten
ants are disrespectful, voters cannot
be coerced, and my Lord finds new men
held in honor. It was with fear and
trembling I attended some of the recent
meetings among the Highlanders. All
the well known election dodges had
been used to delude them and make
them vote for their oppressors. Pulpits
thundered against Roman Catholics,
for the candidate in Argyll was a
Catholic. Religious societies sent forth
pamphlets in showers. Missionaries
preached against the crofter movement
and counseled submission. Ail in rain,
for when the day came the people arose
and determined to be free. What will
American voters thick of the fact that
some had to walk twenty miles to re
cord their votes, and they walked it
under torrents of rain? In other eases
they had to cross stormy channels in
small boats. So determined were the
people of my native place to vote that
the men joined together and hired a
small steamer. In smother case the
candidate himself chartered a steamer
for the day, and on Its arrival such was
the tempest that the small boats could
scarcely get oat of it Jffot to be beat
en, the voters earried on tbeir shoul
ders a large boat from Car inland and
lauched it for" the occasion. Thus, by
boat and steamer and road^ the new
voters found their wiiy to the far-off
realized they were men of national im
portance. In one instance the voters
failed us, arid that was in Sutherland
shire—fampus or rather infamous for
its cruelties, to the crofters. It was
here that wjiole villages were burned
the ground in winter and the people
left desolate. Many of us looked to
Sutherland with hope. A crofter's
son, Sutherland by name, had taken
upon him to contest the seat against
the Duke's son, the Marquis of Staf
ford. But, lola marvel The Marquis
was ready tp^ promise anything and
everything that crofters could ask.
Did they wish for the famous "three
acres and a cow" he would g^e-it-j
"More land?". Yes. "Fixity of ten
ure?'? Yes. "Compensation for im-i
provements?" Y?s. By sucl^jromises
he won over some of the lead^s' among
the crof ters, and as a conseqtieuce the
crofter candidate was left far tbehind
a defeat wiiieh staggered many q£ t|s
fear the HighlandersNvetfc
for. Better news
s60n. Your readers will remem
if how much time and labor I spent
with Mr. Macfarlane last summer seek
ing his electiod for ArgyUv The result
has been: jauMt gratifying, and now
from Argyll and Inverness and Ross
and Cromarty and Caithness and Wick
I am able to seud the joyful news that
the Highlanders have proved them
selves worthy of freedom. Let Amer
ican readers note the fact that no out
rages have been committed, not one of
the candidates have been insulted. In
England's good old times, as they are
called, when a candidate was on the
hustings, if unpopular he had to face
showers of dead cats, rotten eggs, old
boots, and the like. But the Highland
ers are the most polite peasantry of
Europe, and their behavior has again
commended them to the good will of
the whole Nation. No wonder the
question is now asked by some of us
with much perplexity: How can we
solve the land question for the crofters?
I have before me a letter from one of
the greatest orators in Parliament, a
true friend of the people, one whose
name America respects most highly,
and yet he says: "I cannot see any so
lution for the difficulty except emigra
tion." Some of the best friends of the
crofters say the same, and no doubt
America would gladly give em a
welcome. But here is a Kind to which
the people cling with a tenacity of love
unsurpassed. When compelled to emi
grate they have been known to lift
handfuls of earth and pebL. branches
of trees, and the like, to carry them
over the sea as mementoes of the dear
ud. One solution, and one alone,
ing of the land by the state. A strug
gle is beginning of the most stupendous
magnitude. In Ireland the form it
takes is that of Home Rule-. The Irish
wish to drive out. the English altor.
gether so that they can by that meanP
get back the soil. But the Scotch do
not seek any repeal of the Union. Yet
at the same time the most advanced
views prevail iu the Highlands on the
land question. What a contrast to the
lowlauds of Scotland, and to England,
where the land restoration candidates
had hardly any chance! Most of them
were left in a hopeless minority. What
will the end be? Our Parliament on
assembling next month will find a
deadlock—Salisbury facing Gladstone,
and Parnell is the big boy of the school
who can knock either of them down.
After a short session there will soon bt
another election with some great issues
before the Nation. So the turmoil will
go on and on. Wc are amid a quiet
revolution. Old parties are vanishing,
and nobody knows what the new will
be like. Some time soon I shall tell
the signs of a coming Republic for
Britain, and the signs of the times in
that direction are startling*
a Tree-Olimbing Fish.
Of all land-frequenting fish, by far
the most famous is the so-called climb
ing perch of India, which not only
walks bodily out of the water, but even
climbs trees by means of special spines
near the head and tail, so arranged as
to stick into the bark and enable it to
wiggle its way up awkwardly, some
thing after the same fashion as the
looping" of caterpillars. The tree
climber is a small, scaly fish, seldom
more than seven inches long but it
baa
developed a special breathing appara
tus to enable it to keep up the stock of
oxygen oh its terrestrial excursions,
which may be regarded as to some ex
tent the exact converse of the means
employed by divers to supply themselv
es with air under water. Just above the
gills, which form
of
course its natural
hereditary breathing apparatus, the
climbing perch has invented a new
and wholly original water-chamber,
containing within it a frilled bony or
gan, which enables it to extract oxygen
from the stored-up water during the
course of its aerial peregrinations.
While on shore it picks up small insects
worms, and grubs, but it also has vege
tarian tastes of its own, and does cot
despise fruits and berries. The Indian
jugglers tame the climbing-perches and
carry them about with them as a part of
their stock in trade their ability to
live a long time out of water makes
them useful confederates In many
small tricks which seems very wonder
ful to people accustomed to believe that
fish die. almost at once when taken out
of their native element.—From "Fish
Oat of Water,17 by Grant Allen, in
Popular Science Monthly for January.
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To gel "akin* la Uli, my mmjyok
mo*fc have a geod deal of get
in fmu
^RELAMD'S DESIRES.
Parnell's Alleged Progr^nuae—The Work
that Would Gome Before an Irish
Parliament.
V'rlilii
Some*" of the Difficult Questions
Weald Have to Settle at the
Outatart.
Hi:
From a number of receut interviews
had for the purpose, as well as from
long, confidential, friendly talks during
Chelate session, with the more promi
nent and influential Irish Nationalist
leaders, writes a London correspon
dent, I have ventured to formulate
their demands for home rule. It is true
that no man can assume to do this au
thoratively, for there": has never been
any formal or even general discussion
of the subject among Irish statesmen,
and hence no authority exists. But I
believe that the outline of Irish de
mands which is drawn below does not
differ materially from the sketch which
Messrs. Parnell, Healy, T. P. O'Con
nor, Sexton, Dillon, O'Brien and Mc
Carthy might put down on paper after
final consultation. As the first de
tailed statement of its kind, it ought to
be interesting. One word of preface is
neleded. All talk about separation or
independence is at present rubbish. It
needs only a half a head to comprehend
that. For better or worse—it has been
grievously for the worse as far as Ire
land is concerned—these islands have
been put together. They must stay to
gether for the time being at least, and
the only question worth serious dis
cussion is how to make that stay^ mu
tual. Many Irishmen have, in the fury
of their indignation, talked about inde
pendence, about foreign alliances and
all that. So, many Englishmen, in
their wrathful impatience with the
chronic Hibernian trouble, have talked
about hanging Mr. Parnell and govern
ing Ireland with the nake^l sword. But
a,ll this is merely talk of angry men,
and the visions of the one are worth
about as much as the threats of the
other. We have reached the time when
the English are ready to consider a de
tailed proposition for home rule. The
Tories, it is true, inveigh against such
an idea now, but that is a case of sour
grapes. If they had carried twenty
five more seats they would have sought
terms from Mr. Parnell As it is,with
out strength enough tomiake a working
majority even with his aid., they seek to
raise an anti-Irish cry and draw succor
meanest of English race passions.
the Liberals are ready for the question
Just now the two wings of the party
Radical and Whig, make a show of
preferring to keep Lord Sallisbury in
power. But this is merely tactical
moonshine. Each faction does this to
prevent the other from forming a Tory
alliance on specially favorable terms.
When Mr. Gladstone has arranged in
his mind just what he can afford to of
fer Ireland, his party will foil him.
These are the lines of settlement he will
probably encounter: The Irish states
men think a great deal about} Canada as
a government model. Let there be a
viceroy as in the Dominion,presumably
of crown appointment. He would be
surrounded with such state and pomp
as were deempd important to his posi
tion would be the formal medium of
official communication between Dublin
and London would preside in a judicial
spirit over the developemeut and work
ings of the new institutions, summon
ministers, sanction acts, etc., as Lord
Lansdowne does at Ottawa. Perhaps
he would better be an Irishman. If
Lord Dufferin, for example, could be
induced to as ume the task, men who
are devoted to Ireland and the Irish
see that the career aud a fame
would be open to bim wh^ch
the fates offer to few.^. But,
who ever is selected, it must be borne
in mind that much, perhaps all, of the
success of the experimentdepends upon
his tact aud intelligence and earnest
ness. It is to the interest of all that
the best man—from the Irish point of
view—should De viceroy. Most of Eng
land's past mistakes here have been in
gi^ng with one hand and taking back
with the other. If you are to give at
all, consider first carefully what you
can give and then suffer no nagging
spirit to whittle down the concession.
Let this be devised and constituted by
the Irish themselves. It would prob
ably be done by a convention, made as
representative of all sections and
ideas as possible. The queation of min
ority representation comes up ou the
threshold Of this subject. The Irish
would object to no reasonable plan for
securing this, especially if the Parlia
ment at Westminster was willing to
admit the same principle for England
and Scotland. There are no less than
a million Protestants in Ireland, and
they have 24 members otlP of 103.
There are 2 000,009 Catholics in Great
Britian in the last Parliament theyhad
jastl representative oat of 649 in the
new Parliament they will have 4 oat of
567. Englishmen may be surprised to
learn that thefts W^WrMtoJft Xffti
when they le*r£ W
will be a min&rty'^ ?tiz? lefjtl^
rJiey wili not stand out about this.
There will be no lrish representative in
the British ministry', ho Irish members
in the Pariiamem at Westminster.
IjsliHMi wantsneither prfrile®** nor t*
sponsibilitieti in imperial
herself to health ah,& ^op^ri.t^.'ii
There1 will be no house* of
this'Parliament on the Greett. 'Tl»ey :\,c£
are played oat Even .in EnfelanS,
with alL the, vast social, clerical mid
moneyed interests behind them, they 'fjmi
are a timid ineffectiye-body. In Ireland
a similar little body of men, absolutely
without popular support or respect.
It would be worse than useless in leglsla-
th|L—
ose mewjey advanced'
security ojTtltS land, will have as keen,
an interest in seeing that his .'security'
18' solid as the Irish tenant purchaser
will in keeping prices down. The coma
mon concern in justice ou^ht to be safft
ground upon which to build a settle
ment. It ought to secure a valuation of,
the land on strictly commercial liues-ff|v |.
the absence of which in the past has
been an unspeakable curse to Ireland^..
It is no secret surely that tens of thou- \,"
sands of Irish tenants think themselves
fortunate if they e^p get a bare living
out of their holdings, and do not dream
of paying the rent from the proceeds as
well. That must come from harvest
ing in England or irom relatives in
America The new valuation must
include both living and rent, or its
equivalent in installments and interest
ontl.eloan. The fact that anv othe^r,|
system was ruinous and criminal haa
not mattered much in the past, because
only the Irish suffered by it. But when
the British taxpayer finds his £10
loaned on the security of land which
cannot decently feed its occupiers, let
alone yield 10 shillings for interest and
a moiety of the debt, it will matter a
great deal. The only, danger lies in,^
false valuation through favoritism!
The only guard lies in malting England
and Scotland responsible pocket fo*n
such a result. This subject suggests so'
much that there must be no attempt
whatever at discussion here, else your
pages would be swamped. One thing^il^.
however should be said.- A perfectly4.':
fair valuation, based upon the prodac-"
tive worth of the land, would force the.,
usurpers who have been bleeding Ire*/,
land worse than Egypt was ever bl«l^|
to terms of composition. Perhaps these"1'
could be arranged by private treaty, so
that the landlords whom the money^
lenders hold in their taloas might m*'f%
cave utter ruin. Perhaps the aaount
owed is too great—for this accursed
system permeates all Irish finance,
from the London bank which loaus the
cabinet minister mey at 20 per cent|
to build his castle down to the gomfM
been man who loans to the tenant ,at
260 per'coat,for the purchase of seed.
If the ease is too bad for ordinary
remedies, then no idea:) about the righ ts
of property ought to stand in the way
of a" heroic and extraordinary remedy
any more than they availed to prevent
our freeing the slaves twenty-Shree
years ago. All this ina^ Iwsthe 'ftwti
practical step toward a federsMWon of'
die British Empire. Ireland, worn, ex,-*r
hwfited, sick at heart over her own. ,t
has now no exterual Ambir
d&k EngHshmen think of a semi-in^
dfMp^cK: £/plnd asplotting rebellion
troubles. The: on0
etiisbtifng idea of the men whom Ire^
laad trnsts—the Parnate,
n«^lv^ Sexten&^aad O^Briens
hetUW*)*
•rf
1
The veto which' the thirty-odd mil
lions'must have on the five, .could be
vested in the viceroy, or privy council,
or in the address by both houses of the
:K
Parliament at Westminster. ^Chere,«re
five reasons why the last naioed is the
best. First, it is contrary to the
genius
of English constitutions tlftat' final
power should rest in other hands than,
those of the ministers and Parliament
—which disposes of the viceroy. Sec
ond, the privy council would mean,
practically, the existing English minisr
trybut without ininisteri
al^resporisiblli
to Parliament—which is
inadmissible.1'
Third, an address by Parliament would
preserve in form and fact alike the.m.
supremacy of that body pv^r Ireland.
Fourth, it would secure the'. Irish
Mr
VT|
against unconsidered and harassing'
negatives on trivial or unsubstantial
grounds. Fifth, it'woiiid be a utiliza
tion of machinery now in use in the
case of a judge!, who- holds offic^'('|y&
quamdiu se bene gesserit, and it is
removed by the address of both boas^'v4
against him. The exercise of this jvotW I
would be limited, of course, by the act
of settlement, within certain defined
boundaries. There would be no dispo
sition to in any way abridge religious
liberty, and no disinclination to give
all reasonable guarantees pn this point..-'
The presence of Protestant Mr Parnell
at the head of the movement, and of
five Protestants among his new parlia
mentary followers, ought in itself to
make this clear. No doubt there is a
great deal of intoleranc inJrelnnd,but
has the. Orangeman any title to com-?
plain of superior bigotry the Catbot
lie? Could not Archbishop Wilsh tell
a story about Protestant persecution^
which, via the heel-marks of Sir^orge ,,
Errington, would reach into Downing
street itself?. Fortunately M^hdi^ilor
Walsh is a broad-minded, generous, tOK
erant statesman, witWno idea of.rip^)^^J
ing in kind his own grievances^
will be some friction uutil the
learns that the old days, when it had a'
big brother to back it in throwing^
bricks attbe majority, have passed awiiy|^:
Then there will be peaee. Here is the
rob. Ireland wants the loan of enough
to'^uy the landlordo out. Grants
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