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Oil the evening of January 8, a lee
ture was delivered at the Rotunda
Dublin, by Mr. Charles D&wson from
which we clip the followingypfissages:
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E A I
Does the land of Ireland produce all
it can? or is it a fact that ^hilst many
in this country perished in? days gone
by, whilst millions left it, aud not a few
still suffer for want of fo6d| and whilst
there is a perpetual moan gibing up for
capital and wealth, that the|e is capital
and wealth, and food, and clothing, and
shelter for millions more iqan our pre
sent population, lying undeveloped in
the land? If so, then it isf not only
disgrace to a Government, ttit it i& an
outrage upon God, tha,t any barriers
should be placed by man jto these re
sources and where He has! given con
ditions of comfort and independence, to
create a state of things where a people
die in thousands, fly in Bullions, arid
such as remain at home a|s rendered
mendicants for the world's liharity. In
his book on the "Industrial Resources
of Ireland," written fort| years ago
Sir Robert Kane quotes an Eminent au
tharity (Air. Blacker), who? thus wrote
at that period: "It appears that the
county of Armagh contains 212,755
acres, and a population
at
220,653 souls,
and the entire country 17,li90,726 acres
and 7,839,469 souls. Now, in the county
Armagh, by a recent survey, the peas
ants are better clothed, lodged, and fed,
than'theyiare in most other counties in
Ireland—if, then, 212,755 acres giye 220,
653 souls, 17,190,726 acres {the entire
contents ot the country) ought to give
population of 17,828,880 instead of
7,839,469, the population at present
and he continued, "though ArmagTi
was indifferently cultivated, yet if all
the parts of the country were as well
cultivated it would support iwo and a
half times its present inhabitants, and
be able to export provisions largely."
Sir Robert Kane did not a| the Indus
try Commission discredit this authority,
and the informtiqii' 'yste^^i2i4jaDt
show that the resource® of|? me country
have decljiied, althbjB^^^te^d pf .in
creasing by twa and a haft its popula
tion has decreased from nearly eight
millions to five. The first step towards
the increased development of the land
is a thorough system of drainage. This
work, if thoroughly carried out, means
the improvement of all the land now
under cultivation it means, according
to Professor Tyndall, an increase in
our temperature by four degrees, and it
means the reclamation of waste lands.
In his evidence on this point before tbe
Industry Commission, Dr. Sullivan
says: "Within the last few days my
attention has been drawn to the first act
connected with inland navigation in
Ireland—that of 1715—in which atten
tion was called to the condition of the
central plain of Ireland, and the neces
sity of carrying canals through it,
which have the double purpose of drain
age and reclamation and the conclu
sion I have come to is, that from that
day to this the subject has beea before
the minds of. the people, but nothing
has been done about it. Although tbe
two great canals have been made
through it, they have been -carried
above tbe level of the bogs, they have
not served for drainage, and the land is
still undrained." According to the
evidence of Mr. Kinahan, before the
same commission, there are 6,000,000
acres, half of which could be reclaimed
and cultivated with profit. Let us put
that down at even 10s an acre per an
num, and we have £1,500,000 of wealth
added to Ireland, or, what k' more im
portant, £1,500,000 Worth of food raised
for her people. Add to this tbe im
provement by sufficient drainage of the
land under cultivation and many more
millions are added to the wealth of the
country. Mr. Kinahan relates in his
book on this subject how the Dutch
Government reclaimed Haarlem-Meer
at a cost of £859,000, and then sold it
for cost price to occupiers. It now pays
a most nbo
ndant profit. And, speaking
of these works of the Dutch Govern
ment, J. S. Mill says: "Tbe labour
and capital which have been sunk in
rendering Holland habitable would
have produced a much greater return if
transported to Ireland," and yet this
great possible, profitable, and necessary
work remains undone
THLE FISHJKBIES.
The next great and undeveloped
source of wealth is to i)e found in tbe
fisheries of our seias and rivers. Absurd
and worn-out charters and private
rights lock up our rivers, making it
penal except for some privileged indi
vidual to cast a rod or net in God's
rivers, and possible for other in
dividuals or companies to obstruct the
increase of fish, and thus rob the Na
tion of one of its natural resources.
But it is in the coast and deep-sea fish
eries we find, according to a hundred
testimonies, mines of wealth which
should be ours either altogether wasted
or swept into the xets of tbe stranger
for want of attention and deveiopma&t
by any governmental aasiataawe* Ja
his evidence on this point Dr. Sullivan
says: "The fisheries in Ireland were
almost dead in 1819, and a commission
was appointed, and in consequence of
their action bounties were given which
brought up the fisheries in a most
amazing way in a few years, the effect
of that commission was something
quite marvellous.' In the meantime
Parliament determined to do away with
all bounties, the Scotch having fully
succeeded in realising all the benefits
that eould be got out of the system
and the effect was to arrest the whole
growth of the fisheries, and leave them
in a paralysed state in 1830." Speaking
of the harbours that were constructed
Dr. Sullivan continues: "I think that
investigation would show that many of
those harbors were not in right places
Some of the places were unconnected
with high roads, so that there were no
means of getting the fish off. There
has been no big scheme of providing
harbors, once for all, upon a proper
scale, and under circumstances that
would secure that they were -properly
placed and properly directed." Dr
Sullivan adds: "On the west coast of
Ireland there are whole districts, from
the mouth of the Shannon to Gal way
Bay, entirely without harbors, I be
lieve, with the exception of Liseannor:
that is the only place where a fishing
boat of 100 tons might, perhaps, be able
to get into I doubt certainly whether a
carrying steamer could get in there."
But Dr. Sullivan does not stand alone
in this opinion, Mr. Sexton says in his
examination of this witness that "the
very last report of the Inspectors of
Irish fisheries, which has reference to
almost eveiy coast county in Ireland,
points out that the development of the
fish supply is hindered because of the
want in every county of suitable har
bor accommodation." In addition to
these wants it was given in evidence
'that there is not, at this moment, a
single chart upon* which the fishery
banks are laid down." "Then again,"
says Dr. Sullivan, "fevery year you will
see a sort of appeal made by the fishery
for the use of a vessel on their coast."
Now, in Scotland they have a sailing
cruiser permanently for the purpose.
'M-WF*.XPP THE MINERALS.
According to Professor Hull, the
Leinster coal basin contains 118,000,000
tons, and only outputtiug 83,000 tons
per annum. In the nortb, especially in
Tyrone, at Coal Island, there are 17,000
acres of coal-bed (30,000,000 tons),
wliich the Professor says are by far the
most valuable in Ireland. In the other
districts in Ireland there are over 70,
OOO'OOO tons. Sir R. Kane supports the
suggestion that borings should be made
ia-4iu%. district to
ascertain if tii# mineral*weafcli'&tlsteid*
to the extent computed by Professor
Hull and he added "that when the
panic arose in England about the dura
tion of its coal supply, coal was looked
for there outside the limits-of the
recognised coal fields, and following
them down under the chalk in Kent
and other places, of which Ireland was
not one.V In addition to the coal fields,
Professor Hull contends that he and
Mr. Symes, of the Geological Survey,
came to the conclusion that there is an
area of 167 square miles of the best ore
available, to the extent of 185,500,000
tons, containing 40 per cent of iron
from this district, from 140 to 200,000
tons are exported, unsmelted, per an
num and very naturally Professor
Hull remarks, in answer to the chair
man, that, instead of being exported in
that state "the proximity of the Tyrone
coal field to the Antrim iron field and
to Lough Allan ought to enable the two
minerals to 'be brought readily togeth
er." Whatever differences prevail as
to the value or accessibility of our coal
andiron resources there is scarcely a
second opini as to the ample supply
of marble,s stones, sands, and slates.
Dr. Sullivan on this point admits that,
with regard to the red marbles of Cork,
the black marbles of Kilkenny, and the
green marbles of Galway, a large na
tional industry might be pushed
"iif
.artistic skill and training were brought
to bear upon it." Limestone abounds
in the central plains of Ireland, and
slates &e good and plentiful at Valen
tia and Killaloc. There is granite in
Wicklovr
and freestone in Donegal.
There is sand for pottery and glass, and
clay in abundance for bricks and
porphyry at Lambay. The quarries of
paving setts are, we know, now to be
found in Wicklow, tbe Nortb, and
many other parts of Ireland.
BLIGHTING LEGISLATION.-
Like most of our industries, blight
ing legislation dealt heavily with our
fisheries. Oliver Cromwell waa be
sieged with petitions from Yarmouth,
etc., for their destruction. And truly
he did annihilate them. "Fishermen,"
says Prendergast, "and gillers of the
herring were to a great extent exter
minated by tbe transplanting law/
Ordinances are also said to bavejbeen,
issued forbidding "any Irish to Appear
oat of harbor or fish while English fish
ermen were so engaged." But Mr. T.
Blake, late M. P. for Waterford,
gives ajstill more striking instance of
the comparatively recent legislation of
the British Parliament to ruin this in
dustry. "A Mr. Fraser started a com
pany called the1 Waterford Nymph
Bank Company. After the Union, in
1803, at a meeting oftbe Marine Society
of London, resolutions woe passed to
found a company to fish off Waterfbid,
with a capital of £50,060. Of this
£20,000 was subscribed in the tooQL A'
bill was brought in for the incorpora
tion of the cojnpany,and also to enable
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A Brilliant Speecfi By Sir T. Eamonde at
the Prosperous Meeting in
Dublin.
The People lioroughly United—Consent
ing to Nothing but what
IB
Due.
A.tthe Prosperous meeting, on Sun
day. January 10, Sir T. Esmonde deliv
ered the following speech: It affords
me extreme pleasure to stand on his
toric ground, rich in the recollections
of a memorable past, and to speak to
men worthy descendants of those who
eighty-eight years ago laid down their
lives in defense of Ireland's rights,
rejoice to see that the chivilrous senti
ment which inspired your sires in the
days of
yore
to court death rather than
to submit to National dishonor is cher
ished and active amongst you now.
Very different, indeed, is the present
state of Ireland compared to her con
dition in the sad year 6f'98. She- is no
longer a distracted island, oppressing
the majority of her people by penal
laws and grinding them by a system so
iniquitous that it well nigh surpasses
human understanding to concieve how
the malignity of man could demise it:
It is no longer feasible for an English
Minister to goad Tier defenseless peas
antry into abortive rebellion by atroci
ties repugnant to 4the nature of man
kind, to obtain a pretext for destroying
her liberties by subverting a constitu
tion he. was pledged to preserve(cheers).
Our lot is cast in happier times. We
find ourselves to-day a united people
say advisedly a united people—
for all true Irishmen are now unani
mous in defence of those interests com
mon to all. The old hates the old
prejudices, are gradually passing
away. And the day is near at baud
when a common sense of Nationality
will animate our pountrymen, irrespec
tive of class or of creed (cheers).
The time is no more in which a treach
erous Government couldprovoke us to
actions our better judgment would
repel. We have gained Wisdom from
defeat,, and strength from experience,
and our course is directed by an en
lightened policy that will regain the
independence Of which our ancestors
were deprived (cheers), (We are assem
bled to-day to assert by legal methods
the
undeniable/
rights oi
s£'ir. native
land to protest 'al
viol^,
on and peacably^ut^firmly express
our determination never to cease from
striving till our objects shall be gained
(cheers). England owes us a debt of
reparation for the treatment our indus
tries have received at her hands, and
we should be wanting in our duty to
the Irish industrial classes did we per*
mit their just claims to remain in abey
ance. In fine, we stipulate for a legis
lature worthy our nation (cheers) with
absolute dominion over all within our
four seas with unfettered capabilities
for dealing with every matter affecting
the well-being of our internal life
(cheers). No social question must be
beyond the control of its action no ad
ministrative problem must be outside
the sphere of its influence. Let Brit
ain restore us all she has deprived us
of, or else she must attempt to rule us
as she rules the Hindoos(eheers). Thus
we do voice our nlaim to the rights of
Ireland. We require their concessions,
and will accept nothing short of it
Why should we consent to take less
than our due? Our cause is triumphant
(cheers) our people are flushed* with
victory, and it is becoming to conquer
ors to dictate their own terms (cheers).
Those who uphold the Legislative
Union were wiser to temper their zeal
with discretion. Their action aroused
feelings in our hearts it were more ju
dicious to let slumber undisturbed. We
can fully sympathize with those who
went before us, when, witnessing the
destruction of what they so dearly
prized—the ruin of their fondest hopes
and the annihilation of their most
cherished aspirations—they appealed
desperation to the God of battles
and offered themselves victims upon
the desecrated altar of the liberties
ot
their native land (cheers). It was not
hope of averting the impending
ruin, nor in expectation of withstand
ing the disaster that ensued—it: was to
bequeath a legacy to posterity sancti
fied by their sacrifice and hallowed by
their tall. They have not died in vain
(cheers). We receive their trust in
reverence., The duty we inherit we
vow to fulfil. We pledge ourselves to
be as true to Ireland in her hour of
prosperity as they were faithful to her
in ber hour of wee {cheera). To those
whoinault onr sense of dignity with
fulsome praise of our subject condir
tion we reply that by nature we are
equal to England, and refuse to be held
her inferior by law (cheers). We assert
that the Union isa sacriligeous insult
for which we require reparation, and to
which we will no longer submit(cheers)«
We protest that it is an injustice wede-.
cline to labor under, and an illegal act
which must be repeated (loud and pro-:
longed cheers). Thus do we answer
them and we furthermore declare that
our bearta do not belie the courage of
words. Tbe objects we seek we count
pa Obtaining, aodQarstrepgth i^ll not
fidl
uniil they sb^ begaiiied. Why
sh(wldwenotjbehopeful«lien look
ato^r present pco^^cta? If
tfelook
we preeeive? At home we? have, a ?, 4?'' .1
unanimous people, a National repfggfe
entation, and a leader who inspires
with confidence and respect (c beers) WwL
Abroad our exiled brethem with true' ^iff I'Sw!
Irish patriotism and generosity, asejst-if
us with sympathy and furnish the1 sin-v^f
ews of war (cheers). In the camp of,
the enemy we find divided connselsJ'Aj
dissension, distmion and the'dread 'of
impending defeat. Our cause is prps- fj,
pering even beyond our expectation^!
Our most vindictive opponents are x&0J\
signing themselves to the inevitable
and if we but strive in unity our'tri|f|
umph is ensured (cheers). We^ the^,'
members of the National Patty (cheers)^ •'.
have received the mandate of Ireland*
accord us the assistance- we need
(cheers). I thank you for your cour
teous attention. When ne!xt I- have1
the honor to address you I tnist it may
be as a member of an Irish ^Parliament
sitting in College Green (loud and pro
longed cheering).
EUGIAIfD'S NEMESIS
How Har Injustice to Ireland is TracMng
and Punishing Her.
Talk about Greek tragedy! Where
will you find a more tragic situation,
say^.the Pall Mall Gazette^ than: that
which confronts us in Ireland? The
slow-footed deitj that dogs the .steps
of the evil doer has almost overtaken
us, and •. the repentant criminal finds
his very penitence contribute to his I
doom. We use the woird criminal, and
we use the word advisedly. We have
been guilty of many crimes in Ireland
which are now bearing like fruitage in
other crimes, and there are many who 5
regard' the erop that has sprung from
our own sowing as sufficient reason for
continuing- to scatter the same evil
seed. When we speak of crimes we do
hot mean century-old brutalities. The
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to wrest from the hostile British Senates
the recognition of her rights^We ac-?
cept the trust in reverence, we'are pr
pared to execute it without fear, andb^
we look to our fellow-countrymen to?
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massacres of Drogheda and Wexford
weigh lightly on our soiul. Even to the
atrocities that marked the struggle of
'98 we are comparatively indifferent.
Tbe crimes of which we have been
guilty, and for which we are suffering
Wrong, are less sensational, but more I
subtile. They did not scatter the brains
of an individual—they weakened the
brains of the race.. They did not sack
4 city—they merely rack-rented an
estate. Broadly speaking^ the Irish
difficulty has two phases. One is that of
the incurable ^xlishonesty
theH- Irishy^ peas«int on -.' tlie'
the "hopeless impracticability" of the
Irisji peio»ple in dealing with problems
of government. In both, cases the dis
ease is of our own making. There is
not an adult in Ireland to-day but was
born in days when the state, tbe law,
the judge and the constable instilled
into every Irish heart the great doctrine
that the commandment "Thou shalt
not steal'' did not apply to land. On
Ji
the contrary, English law enforced with
all the machinery of the state the right
ol the landlord to steal his tenant's
property. The right of the landlord to
evict and confiscate the improvements
of his tenant was outside Ulster as un
limited as his right to levy exorbitant
rents upon the capital which the tenant
had invested in his holding. Our Par
liament knew that, this was the case
ever since 1845, when the report of tie
Devon Commission reepmmended the
simple remedy of honest dealing its the
true solution of the land question. But
we would not hearken. Lords and
Commons, ministers and people, turned
a deaf ear to the cries of the plundered
tenant. -Not until last Parliament
vfdn
any real protection given to the savings
of the peasant. Hence there has been
bred in the peasant mind an absolute
negation of the moral law in relation to
landed property. Out law has been tbe
schoolmaster who has brought him to
Mr. Parnell. As the landlord plundered
while be was strong, so shall be be
plundered now that he is weak. As
for honesty, tbe ten commandments,
the moral law and all the rest of it^"
where were they when the presentment''
eration went to school in our I aw cmztU*
to learn that the measure of a landlord's
right to the savings of his tenant was
limited only by the extent of these sav
ings? Hence the agrarian difficulty,
with its almost insoluble problem.
Every addition to the power of the
Irish people, it is said, is an addition to
the force in fiavor of robbing tbe land-
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lord. It is true, and the reason is that
we have taught tbe Irish people for
generations thaf theft is no robbery
when the property stolen is connected
with land.
There died in"'England a lew w^ks
ago, aged eighty-nine, a wealthy old
harridan in high life, in the |»erson o,f
Lady Bolle, who, in effironter and im
periousness, out-Kewed Lady Kew.
Although sheexercised most autocratic
sway as a hostess, she was on one occa-.^L^
9iou, at least, completely outwitted. i*'i
Among her guests was the daughter of.
an Irish Earl, a very frisky damsel.
The men in tbe house were,not to her
taste partners, yet she fel£ttt$ dime
ing- She whispered to dop*
other iady guests, and foundthem quke
of her mind. Presently tbe Sound of
waltz jdrew XAdy Bolle to the room,
when, to her rage and amisfement, We
beheld Lady H. whirling
tettaaeeof a stal
poured, fbptiaan,
lolloir^lherin^
in the