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HONEST TRIBUTE.
Faithful Estimate of the Great
Leader by ,a Friend of Ireland ,::
and an Englishman.
Hc Eolates a Visit to Kilmainham
Jail in 1881—flow He was Impressed
with the Pale, Claim Man.
I wished Mr. Parnell to read a letter
I had from. an. eminent-politician, but!
it had first to be submitted to the gov
ernor and initiated by him. Mr. Par
nell was attired in bright-colored dres
sing gown and smoking cap he looked
pale, but calm as Daniel in the lion's
den he complained of rheumatism,
caused by the cold and damp of the
prison, but said everybody was person
ally kind to him, and he had no griev
ance—except, he added, "the fact of be
ing here." His cell was of the common
kind, about fourteen feet long, eight
feet wide and twelve feet high, dimly
lighted by a semi-circular heavy iron
window at the top there was no fire
place, but it was warmed by iron pipes,
which caused a sickly and oppressive
atmosphere.
The suspects who could afford it were
graciouly allowed to feed themselves,
but the drinking permitted was infini
tesimal—not exceeding one pint of beer,
or half a pint of wine per pay. They
were con lined to their cells for eighteen
hours daily, and, as the gas was turned
off at 9 p. m., eleven of these were
passed in darkness. The cells, during
daylight, were too gloomy to read iu,
except on a very bright day, and the
eyesight of some of the suspects became
seriously affected. A touching regard for
their mental audsocial improvementwas
displayed by the government in the se
lection of literature. Books and news
papers "not, in the opinion of the gov
ernor, of an objectionable kind" were
allowed to be read, and letters inspect
ed and approved by him were permitted
to be written and received. I was not
aware, at the time, that all couuty
newspapers were regarded by the gov
ernment as "objectionable," and Lon
don newspapers only as "loyal," so I
confidingly sent to my imprisoned
friends verbus numbers of the Birming
ham Daily Post and Walsall Observer
which I thought would interest them,
but they were all confiscated.
Underneath Mr. Parnell's window
which looked upon the fosse surround
ing that side of the jail, was a rude sen
try box, iu which one man was stationed
by day and two men by night, and in
the effort to keep themselves warm, I
was subsquently told, particularly dis
tasteful to Mr. Parnell. As my order
requested the governor to show me
every part of the prison, I went all over
it, and was conducted by the governor
in person. He was a courteous gentle
man whether oppressed by the respon
sibilities and.
cares of office I knew not,
but he had a worried and worn express
ion. The jail was full of suspects, in
cluding Mr. Sexton, M. P., Mr. O'Kelly.
M. P., and several other gentlemen who
are now in parliament. I do not suppose
for a moment there was any design on
the part of the officials, bat it did ap
pear to me that the oldest, darkest and
dampest of the gloomy Kilmainham
cells had beep assigned to my friends.
I do not Relieve that any man could
pass a winter in the place without in
jury to his health, and yet scores of
men are shut up for no offense—nay,
efen without charge of offense, bat
simply because they dared to op
pose the policy of the government.
I) left the jail profoundly impressed
with the gravity of the scene* andb»-
MINNEAPOLIS AND
Oh! Mr. Gladstone, you
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The following interesting estimate of
Air. Parnell is taken from a paper con
tributed to the Wall3all Observer,, by
Mr. W. H. Duignan, an Englishman
who has on many occasions proved
himself to be a warm t'riend of Ireland:
Mr. Parnell is staying here (Morri
son's Hotel), but I see little of him, and
that little one at night, when he come3
in late and walks upstairs to bed, with
so jaded and contemplative an air that
I say nothing to him. In November,
1881,1 visited him in Kilmainham jail,
by leave of Capt. Barlow, the head of
the Irish prison board. Kilmainham is
an old-fashioned gloomy pile of gloomy
walls about two miles from Dublin
sentinels were posted all round it. On
presentation of the order I was con
ducted to a small waiting room, well
furnished with stout constables and
weapons of war. The "suspect" could
only see one frieud per day, the visit
was limited to fifteen minutes, must be
made in the company of two warders,
and politics were prohibited. I was
taken to a dark vaulted room, fairly
furnished, with a strongly barred win
dow looking upon a small damp court
yard, buried in lofty walls.
This was the "recreation" ground as
signed to Mr. Parnell and his friends,
and where they were allowed to disport
themselves for six hours out of the
weary twenty-four. I asked one of the
warders if tiie sunshine ever reached to
the bottom of that well, meaning the
courtyard. He said yes, he thought he
had seen it there once or twice. I sug
gested that might be in June or July,
and he thought it was. Mr. John Dil
lon, M. P., was then brought to me,
afterwards Dr. Kenny, now M. P. for
South Cork, and then Mr. Parnell, 9acli
separately. Our conversation was limit
ed to personal nutters, the slightest
reference to public affairs being
promptly, but very politely, resented by
the warders.
Since my dear soul was mistress of my choice,
And could no men distinguish, her election
Hath sealed thee for herself for thou hast been
As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing
A man, that fortune's buffets and rewards
Has ta'en with equal thanks and blest are
those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commin
gled,
That they are not a pipe for Fortnnes's finger
To sound what stop she please. Give me the
man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core—ay, in my heart hearts—
As I do thee. #'iof
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fore its gates sat down and committed
it to paper I added", at the time, 'Now
has Gladstone delivered Ireland into
the hands of P?rnell."
No stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,,
Nor airless dungeon, nor links of iron, fiV(|
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit
v,proud-
man
dressed in a little brief authority," you
can shut up Mr. Parnell, but you canhot
bind his spirit? .No 'at-this moment
ten thousand strong, and, through ybu,
ten times stronger, it walks abroad, an
apostle of freedom. Great man as you
are, you appear to know absolutely
nothing of the brave, high spirited, poe
tic race over,whom you presume to play
the tyrant. Will you pass into history
a defeated despot, or can you discard
the prejudices whicli blind you, and
burst the social and political shackles
that bind you and stand before the
world the champion of liberty, and the
deliverer of the oppressed?
As Mr. Parnell is evidently designed
to occupy a long and stirriug chapter in
the history of England, a short account
of him may be useful and interesting.5
He is 39 years of age, unmarried, well
shaped,tall, and handsome his features
are regular, and finely cut his bearing
altogether that of a well bred man he
is a Protestant, and though born in
Ireland, is of English blood, and
closely connected with Parnell, Lord
Congleton, of Cheshire. The family
is of ancient and aristocratic origin, Mr.:
Parnell being the twentieth in lineal
descent from King Edward I. His
great grandfather,Sir John Parnell,was.
a member of the last Irish Parliament,
and spoke and voted steadily against
the Union, refusing all temptation.:
Sir John Barrington, in his "Historic
Memoirs of Ireland," gives a list of
the Irish members who voted on that
question, and an account of' the. bribes
given to. them by the English govern-!
meufc. Opposite the name of Sir John
Parnell he writes:''Chancelor of the Ex-!
cbecquer, dismissed by Lord Castle
reagh Incorruptible." Mr. Parnell
is of quiet, reserved manners, and by
no means genial. Like Brutus,,
He is a great observer, and he looks 5-- jKjl
Quite through the deeds of man
Seldom he smiles and smiles in such a sort
As if mocked himself, and scorned his spirit
That could bo moved to smile at anything.
Though a fair debater, he is a cold,hard
speaker, and a an orator is surpassed
by many of his followers. His power
is probably to De attributed to his ex
treme caution, his tenacity and single
ness of purpose, h^^tural .sagacity,
his power of
gation of self, his dauntless courage,
and his unfaltering fidelity. Some
years ago I asked him why he, did not
get married, and his reply was, "I am
married—to my country—and can best
serve her as I am." Ireland may say
to him, as Ham'et said to Horatio:
1 suppose Mr. Gladstone sometimes
looks back. What must he now think
of his speech at L'eads in October,1881,
when he denounced Mr. Parnell and
"his myrimidyns," "his handful of
men," would "not call him leader of
the people of Ireland," and threatened
him with "the resources of civilization?
Aud what does he think of his speech
at Guildhall a few days after when,
telegram in hand, with exultant tones,
he announced to the turtle-loving,
champagne-bibing audience before him
the arrest of the great patriot then
bowed his gray hairs to the wild and
frenzied cheers of fat and greasy citi
zens? And now where, oh! where is
that well meaning but vulgar, low-bred
conceited Yorkshire boor, the Right
Honorable William Edward Fo rater?
where is the Red Earl? where is the
philosophical but, spiteful G. O. Trevel
yan? where is that Scotch luminary,
Campbell Bannerman? where is Mr.
Gladstone himself? where is the Coer
cion Cabinet? where is the British
House of Commons? All rolled in
the dust before the "handful of men."
And who knows what next?
A redingoteof Baltic blue plush has
foil sleeves. It is bordered with a
broad band of marabout. On either
side the front, about the throat and
sleeves are narrower bands of mara
bout.
Box vobes of embroidered French
nainsook, with sateen stripes, have ten
yards of plain material and four of em
broidery forty inches wide. They may
be made with the stripes running hori
zontally or vertically. Bodice and
drapery are of the plain striped ma
terial, and the skirt is of the embroid
ery.
Courtship in Zululand has several ad
vantages over the same sort of agree
able pastime in this country. When a
Zulu girl takes a fancy to a y«ung war
rior, she leaves her father's house, and*
at dusk, stations herself before the but
of the favored one, bat remaining per
fectly silent. If her attentions are fa
vored she Will be asked in|o the hut to
How the News of it
irpT,
PAUL, SATTjMtflT, FEBRUARY 20,
For Ireland—Poverty and Pm
the Achill Islands—an
Racpived
Borne and in Dublin—StarVr
ing Fishermen.
tae
Bernard O'Reilly writes from
to the New York Sun, as follows::
The Sun lias just come again tp en
lighten the minds, gladden tlie hearts,
and revive tlife enthusiasm of inan^V ih
Rome who s^ill believe in the juptice
and success of tlie cause of Ireland. I
know wliat, joy and hope it wilFalso
briug to the young men and the ^jtisi^
ne3s men of Dublin, who so •anxictely
await its coming by every mail eteainer
and scan its columns in the pttblic
ing rooms. It will also dispel the jftedr
judice of the people in:.-high pj&ees
here, who even now are c6nfirinw"by
the tidings from Englaiid, in'thef T»Iief
that Conservatives and Lib^rals^'li^ the
three Kingdoms have already-combined
to resist and reject every plan to jfcfve
Ireland legislative independence.
Ah, well! it is no longer the Greater
Ireland beyond the seas which rises up
like one man to say to Mr. Parnell, ^We
are with you!" It is the Americaifciia
tion which now, through all clashes
races and creeds,is moved by theinhate
sense of American love for jasticefand
liberty and fair play, to come forward
and proffer, not the mere sympathy of
words, but tne, effective aid of nlhgey
to the noble Irish leader. I think I* see
Parnell's pale, thoughtful, care'
face, as I saw it while he listen
Archbishop Groke's heartfelt eulo
that memorable banquet in Kilda:
the evening Of Oct. 11, last
There is a beautiful light on the
lectual features, and a moisture in|
dark eyes, as he reads your heart stir
ring editorials, and learns what that
generous band of Iricth-Americans' are
doing in New York, and what theirex
ample stirs others to do in every part
of the Union.
There is in rlotue one great Irish,
heart in which old age has not called
the warm currents of its love for gfieen
Erin, or dimmed the long cheriijjjbed
hope" of seeing Ireland restored tocher
lawful, rightful station among .the^pgr:
rector of the wisWCollege. To-mor
row, in secret consistory, the Holy
Father will raise him to the rank of
titular Archbishop of Ephesus, thas:
assigning to him the Church of St.
John the Evangelist. But Dr. Kirby
is to remain in Rome, the recognized
organ of the Irish church and nation
near the Holy See. So the occupation
of your Erringtons tutti quanti is
gone.
To those that are stirring themselves
in America, not only to aid Mr. Parnel 1
in the long and fierce struggle now be
ginning, but to save from starvation
the poor fisherman folk of Galway,
Mayo, and Donegal, I hope, in a few
days, to send an official word of bless
ing and encouragement from the Holy
Father. His heart feels keenly the dis
tress of these populations, whose heroic
endurance is above all praise, as it is
above all conception.
Oh, if America c&iii'only' keep the
Bishop of Galway and the Archbishop
ofTuam, and that other greathearted
Bishop of Killala to help those long
tried fisherman—the sparse remnants
of a once numerous and thriftv people
to revive their industry, to possess
proper fishing craft with their gear, it
will deserve the eternal gratitude of
Ireland and the blessing of Him who
commands brother to help brother in
his direst need.
Teis subject is to much for me. I
have abstained, while in Ireland, froth
harrowiug the readers of the Sun with
the pictures of the fearful poverty and
privations endured by the inhabitants
«f Clare and Achill islands—by the popu
lation, in feet, of the entire western
coast. I only wish to concentrate all
the zeal of Irish-Americans, all the in
terest of American public opinion, on
the one purpose of helping Parnell to
obtain self-government. Then would
have come a revival of the fisheries, to*
gether with that of all other home
industries.
But to all those who can also give aid
at once to the starving, I say from the
bottom of my soul, gite without a ma**
ments's delay. Never was money or
what money can buy tor the famishing
and the naked better bestowed.
Is ia not a tie*
.charity, a new effiores-
remain a week ormore. This obviates cenceoffree^tnbrbtherlyl&ye,whioh,
the necessity of the young man walle*
inga couple of miles, p«rehanee
a dark -and lonely road six or sflvetf
nights a week, aftsraMdaigfct, and the'
Kid's father don't find**——*
word* tlie 8d% tnpaw*dn«dl
of
J866i*
ians, to whom the Irish Parliamentary
party have -been studiously misrepre
sented fis a sort of Feuiajiijsm .trans
formed, a secret society with pledges,
oathjs, and passwords,* aiming to dis
member the British empire and to se(t
up in Ireland a ,.half-theocratic half
communistic government.
We shall teach .them ai}d teach the
world that just as our American revol
ution m,eans only a successful struggle
to preserve the most essential constitu
rional rights, so that going on for Irish
nationality aims only at regaining, pre
serving, and perfecting the sacred lib
erties lost in the past, and which Irish
men mean to cherish under a home gov
ernment which shall cherish the rights
of God and consecrate those of all citi
zens without distinction.
It is worthy of American^ freemen to
make this cause, their struggle, theif
-j
lean only tell them that they have
with them in this the grateful sympaK
of all that is best and highest-inVRomej.
BEHNAKD O REII/LY.
i"
The Irish. Banks Unbroken.
It waft a premature complacency with
"Which the open enimies and sham
friends of Ireland^ State rights count
ed on the by-election ordered for (Sal
way to bring about the disruption in the
Nationalist camp. The preference
evinced by some Galway electors for a
local candidate over an imported nomi
nee was natural, .and under some cir
cumstances might be praiseworthy.
But now, amid the shock of battle and
with triumph within sight, disunion
would be treason, and they who relied
on Messrs. Healey and Biggar to lead a
muting did not know the men whom
they traduced.
The importance of the Galway Inci
dents
Jb
grossly exaggerated by $ie
London To ry press and its cuckoq cho
rus in this country. There was, Do
doubt, some tracient disagreement be
tween the friends of rival candidates
for the place left vacant by Mr. T. Pi
O'Connor, who, having' becpi returned
t* Parliament both for county Galway
and for Liverpool, choose to sit as rep:
resentative of the latter constituency
which is less easily controlled by the
National*party. Some of the Galway
voters thought they had a faithful and
efficient substitute in a local leader, Mr
Lynch, and Messrs. Healey, and Big-:
gar being, it seems, unacquainted with
Mr. Parnell's intentions, approved of
the selection. But at this juncture Mr*
ifoynell considers it a master of aafovftfr!
moment to *w»nt'*8$$S!
on CaptO'SheajWhos^ ifi tfcfe over
throw pf the Forster' regime will not
be soon forgotten, credited, as he gener
ally is, with the negotiation of the
alleged Kilmainham treaty. Mr. Par
nell's reasons for preferring this candi
date, once stated, were accepted ais con*
elusive by a large majority of his NaJ
tionalist colleagues and thereupon, in
accordance with the pledge of concord
and subordination agreed to at the Dub
lin Conference, and deliberately rati
fied by the people of Irelaud at the
general election, the minority, who had
been friendly to the'local candilate,
were in duty bound to yield. When:
these reasons were made known at Gal
way to Messrs. Healey aud Biggar, they
cheerfully gave Way, and Mr. Lynch
loyally announced his withdrawal from!
the contest.-
Irish-Affleridaft* will easiliy detect
the malign motives that have lately,
promoted the more artful opponents, of
home rule to provoke disunion in the.
National ranks by vaunting the ability
of Mr. Healey to head an independant
faction. They tardily acknowledge
that Mr. Healey is one of Mr* Parnell's
most valuable lieutenants, a bold and
helpful leaderof the partythat represents
the hope, the courage, and the intellect
of Ireland in the British House of
Commons. He is trusted and respected
now for his unwavering endeavors to
promote the common aim, and he has
a bright future before him. They in
sult Mr. Healey who imagine that lie
could be wrought upon to play the part
that Orangemen suggest to him. He is
one of the last men in Ireland to abuse
the opportunities held in trust for hon
orable service, to turn against his fel
low patriots the weapons sacred to his
country and to desert his companions
in the hour of desperate contention that
ought to herald victory.
Irishmen on this aide of the ocean
hare gone through a mighty civil war,
and they known the soldiera lose
Ing by submitting to authority and fore
going the license of individual decision
which is out of place in a campaign.
The forces arrayed under the Home
Bule banner can have at present only
«itfc 'am object, the repeal of the Act of
It is to me, as I read with diamond national Parliament
eyes very often in the columns of the.
Sun how such Irish-Americans as Eu-!
gene Ke!l and Joseph J. O'Donoghue
and Judge Browne employ their wealth
and their labor in forwarding these*
blest cause of the present century, un
speakably consoling. I believe that
the soil of the 'great United
States is one in which every
Christian virtue can grow and flourish,
as prosper the gigaiitic trees of the Cal
ifornian forests. I believe there is no
noble sentiment of the human soul
which cannot blossom into a more
splendid promise and bear more magni
cent fruit in our free atmosphere than
ia any dime in the ftdtid.
once more convened at Dablin there
will be parties, and there ought to be.
But till then there must be but one
party,and butone General at its heady
andbewhOis hot for Mr. Parnell in
this supreme erisgfegge care not who
hi in in 111 illi11mnT and:
York Son, -fyy
The greafme^ical authority Uhe Lon
don Lancet, says that children who are
allowed to go barefooted enjoy almost
perfect immunity from the danger of
"cold?* by
and are al together- health cr and hap
pier than those who wear shoea and
NO LONGER OBSCURE
Financial Bslations Between Great
Britain andlwlaa| Ably (Jon-
The Mischief of Several Decades Growing
Worse Under British Mis-
role.
It is announced in the London press,
with some symptoms of authority, says
the Dublin Freeman's Journal, that no
measure of home rule is to he tendered
io the people Of Ireland—except some
species of arrangement, designed with
a view to constitute a new set of local
taxation authorities to supersede this
present grand jury svstem of Ireland,
and it may be to supersede also some oif
the municipal institutions whicli now
have taxing powers. This might be
characterized fairly enough, in connec
tion with the demand for home rule, all
asking for bread and receiving a ston&
In the present condition of Ireland thfe
promised institutions would be of no
earthly value. It ls 4hite possible,
,thajt
the bare proposal at this time hiajr do
more harm than good, for it will be re
garded in the sense of a crttel diver
sion
Of course, we-feel that local goVent*
ment, grand jury, and poor-laW matters
are susceptible of amendment and' rer"
form but any reform which does nb't
place at the disposal of the Irish author1,
ities that portion of the reventke' of
which Ireland is defrauded under' thfc
present Imperial fiscal system will bej,
if not worthless wholly, quite uiriapjfirer
ciable
Notwithstaunding that it has beeii
proved most conclusively over and over
again that this country has been, and is
being, defrauded in the matter of iini
perial taxatioh. we shall not be sur
prised to find the bare suggestion |that
such is the cise now treated ais a sub4
ject of astonishment by the English
press. But the world is hot quite so
ignorant as the English press sometime
affects to be. The financial relation^
between Great Britain and Ireland ard
no longer obscure. It has been quite
satisfactorily shown by ah ahalyaia of
the income tax returns, at^ the, sched-j
tiles of income present^ to parliament
find on the authority of ^cujments 'is
sued by the treasury, that, the incomes
fppn sceduies
ttww^M^ith those of
Great Britain but fractlo
an eighteenth of the gross of the in
come scedules for the United King
dom.
If for purposes of exact adjustment
an estimate should have to be made
hereafter, to include the incomes of
those below the income tax level in both
islands respectively, the disparity will
be shown as still greater than as sev-*
enteeu to one.
We are not, however, concerned at
present with the task of showing th®
greater disparity, The ratio of one to
seventeen is amply sufficient for demon
stration of the grievous injustice in
volved in the extraction from Ireland
for imperial purposes of any amount of
the seventeenth of the amount leyied
from dtreat Britain.
Thie proportion of imperial taxation
raised from Ireland, closely examined,
could be clearly shown to be equal to an
eighth of that raised from Great Brit
ain but, even from the the evidence of
those parliamentary roturns which
have been sought for ana framed witti
the object of minimizing the pppor-|
tion of revenue raised by taxation in
Ireland, as compared to the reven1
raised in Great Britain, is proved to bo
equal to a tenth. Injustice of this na-j
ture is, however, cumulative. Every
million of which a country linked in
political union with another is defraud
ed is equivalent—so at a moderate es
timate of the value of money, and the
natural increases of capital —to a de
privation of £36,000 a year, progressing
arithmetically in an iu verse ratio to the
increment and accumulation which
constitutes the basis of wealth in rery
state or community, as well as it does
in every well managed assurance coxa*
panyi /. ?•-.
The extent of loss of wealth oflrer
land in this way for the iastthirtyyeaw
—not to go further back—involves ab
struse calculation, bat the mischief
done is none the less in our mind, be~
cause wo dismiss those for the present
tin
order to, point out in general terms
Ithe mischief wbkh has been at jrork
for several decades, and is now going
[on worse than ever, because* the coun
try is yearly growing less able, to bear
the burden.
There are several modes of proving
that Ireland in the matter of imperial
taxation is grievously defrauded.
We impute tio actiial intention
fraud to any particular statesman, but
as a man may be poisoned by ihadver
tence or a ship wrecked owing to erro^
eous reckonlng. so a country riot prtk
«edfed by the vigilance of a doMtfe
legislature may
W
done to death by
had to becoiisidered p«r,se? $/.•:?
unit* nf +HA i' dFmriirA ahnnM 'nWt nftnhn--. '&.H
unit of tne empire, shouldnot conto
bute to if in like proportion as England.
or Scotland, and this 'prin^TSa^w^ ad
mit equally applies, whether lieland
had or had not a parlimentof hor own,
the only condition l^ing that the pro
ceeds of that tax should be applied to
wards expenditure in which Ireland
presumably^ and actuafly 'haff'to inter
est relatt^ely ^qual to tj$.t' 6f Itrtgiatid
andScofc^thd." '•'v,'*'
Now, when we have grasped that pro-
1
position, we have got one Btage^ifideed
half way—towards the demonstration
of the financial problem of,|mp^ial
taxation.
Having admitted the income tax to
be a jast impost when levied for pur
poses of an imperial nature, Whidh
Ireland has a co-ordinate interest as a
member of the empire^ our postulate
That if the income tax represents a
fair distribution of the relative bur-,
d6ns of the respective countries' of
which the so-calied United Kingdon
(Which we prefer to' callthe empire) is
com^oied, the sum of''the gross iinpSr
ial taxation, of Great Britain ttnd that
of Ireland should bear the like propor
tion each to the other which tlie inebme
tax 'of thb one beari" t^^ifche
other so that so far as each
country was concferned (but not necds
sarally as between class and class, in
each country( no injustice, we submit,
would be done if all other taxes were
dispensed wit^ and t^e chancellor of
the exchequ'et—abandoning all others
should confine his budget of revenue
to an income tax. A bold measure, one
would say, and if the income tax
could be made to reach every plaits, by
no means unfair. On this o6basion,
however, we have offered this view of
the dase'for the puifpdseof sho%ing the
overwhelming injustice of the present
imperial taxation, for we are prepared
to sliow'that if the gross revenue now
raised for the United' Kingdom .by cus
toms, excise, stamps, income
£ax„ Ucensesj(vetc., were to., be
raised by an equal income tax spread
over the United Kingdom, Ireland
would have to pay three millions a year
les^ imperial taxation, and Great Brit
ain Vhr«& millions a year more than
of iate or at present*H
As we should extend this article be
yond our present available space if we
werft to enter upon details, we shall now
content ourselves' by stating that Mr
McLaren1sparliaBQQiitiury ^return- o£thet
taafatibn 'of l^gland, an4 3BoV
31,1880, shows tn»t Ireland
at least a tenth to the revenue raised
by taxation in the United Kingdom,
whilst the proportion of that dfetfived
from income tax in Ireland under iden
tical schedules is shown by a treasury
return of the 24th of April, 18S2, only
fractionally to exceed one-eighteenth—,
each penny tax io Great Britain having
produced £1,744*000, whilst the. penny
in Ireland produced only £06,000. To
put this matter shortly an income tax
slightly exceeding half a crown in the
pound woul.d discharge the entire im
perial taxatibn in Great Britain, whilst
It would' take a tax of over five Shill
ings in the pound to make a like
commutation for Ireland.
Public Men and Labor.
Mr Piatt, United States senator ^roth
'Connecticut, made a remark in respoud
ihg to questions addressed to' hits by
the principal representatives of: or
ganized labor in his State which de-v
serves a few wordB of comment. In his
feply to their interrogatives he added
very pertinently: "Do n6t too hastily
conclude that all public men a& yb^r
enemies. You make it hard to serVe
you when you place us all Under sus
picion." The honest wage earrierejirp
thfe men from whom our seldiers it*
time of war, and our constables tn tiihfe
of' peace, are largely drawn. Thejr t»ay
more than their proportion of taxes,.
F^w things they uSe and conftiimfes
Cape the operations of tariff or intertaal
revenue laws. Tbey cannot^evadife taxa
tion, for they are not able, like the rich,
to put their'cash into ex^ptedhon^,
and so avoid the fiscal burden .^4%,
It is quite the .fashion to sneet at the
working poor who own ho dwetlftigs as
the' "tax~eaWrs^of ourmiinifcipaUtlesi
when a little examination Will establish
as a1 fact beyond coil trovers/ tl»t
poorer
people
ib
ie1
ai&'
ignorant ora vk^ews s^stenof acemmto
and the sequent fnaitto»|
fielahd hubeniaiM'
death inthfii
sertioa-it WOuld WbcSiy
lajtsusoetflUiki
jnenu
arO those Who to ,.
community bear, in re®t, the liTgesI
proportion of th^ civic burdens* li.it
any wonder that as tbey ^row fflbfis
acute they grow mm wetleSe^ find ait
therefore more often stttpicious a^d tihr
Jnat? \r
Mr. Piatt himself Of
i'frise
than his confines tc&ni the itoidi
|eatlon suggested b^lrfa ow'tytoptiL,
tiktogitop ti»e 'g«newtt
ieeniie, there iS in it* Something
iiv-
wl
Uit.iiit-.
haf been t*
nmns iidK^liis
ite enemies, bd^ hdt to i»ward itii
it oaf 'be^li^ thit ttitumi
speak forlabor a« tkio often
crude