The Irish Land Question

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 154, 8 June 1886, Page 2

The Irish Land Question

United Ireland, - referring to ' the land question, thinks it highly probable that Mr Gladstone will challenge the opinion of Parliament and tho country on Home Rule, and leave i: ' landlords to stow in their own gravy'; and recommends this aa the best and simplest oourse. The landlords have shown that nothing will make good citizens of them. Sinoe the purchase^ system dees not conciliate them, __wl as it probably alarms English ti_j;- ' payers, the sensible course- is to drbjp - it into the background until the landlords and their friends are humbly suing to have it reinstated. This will leave a clear and naked isstio * whether the Irish people to are he conciliated or dragooned. Answering the question, " Suppose Mr Gladstone fails," the same journal says j-r-Ono portion of their programme the Irish people could realise at onoo before -. another winter was over; landlerda would be paupers) the rests would oome in the vicissitudes that are ever lower- .... ing over a great flabby Empire with an overgrown population, decaying trade and millions of deadly enemies in its bosom. The most stupendous Parliamentary scandal ever -witnessed '- would be followed by the most hor- . rrible suppressed civil war ever beheld . in a country where every peasant has v learned to laugh at the terrors of thir gaol and the plank bed, and to treat his rulers to all the inconveniences of armed insurrection without handling a gun, and all the while Liberal 'progress in England would be at a standstill, and the Liberal party split into fractions. ■