ORATORY VERSUS COMPULSORY INSURANCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1372, 23 October 1883, Page 3

ORATORY VERSUS COMPULSORY INSURANCE.

I? your readers wish to digest most scholarly, brill.antly ouL ivated, and pe.-feclly delivered gifts oi oratory, I would cooimend them to the perusal of the Wellington joUruftle containing Mr J. E. Redmond’s M.P. magnili cent ’poeches ; and take them to heart; not alone for their great worth and value of subject matter, but more especially fur the powerful and easily und rstuod language bo oirtinguishediy and ably s«t forth. If our colonists would but only send one out of fifty of such Oe nature to Parliament to represent “ diem ’ And their reqUireulun's casting out the garrulous, r.-ot headed, uiettiymuuthed, “ wind-bags ” ; what a blessings it. would be for our own struggling musses! llie-e would then no longer be chicaner), individual and party -chemtng, griidnig deeds of grasping monopolists ; but the well being and well doing of the Colony would be the mote pertinaciously tinended to. Ked, and mark well, what the talented, and eloquent Mr Keiuldtid iayd:— “in the Winter of 18/0 one of the tluw regularly recurrent famines fell upon Ireland, and Mr Parnell sped across the Allan'ic to beg bread for the people, and before he went ne advised thum to keep a firm grip of their holdings ; to teed and educate their children before paying their rent, t at Wucu their rent was excessive they Btiould demand redudtiun, and that all the power of England was not sulH cient to carry out a policy of universal eviction, and that the only thing necessary to ensure sucess was * union. ’ His words rang throughout the land. It was the preaching of a new Gospel—a Gospel of hie and hope—and the people harkeued to it, and combined as never in their long and chequered history Had they combined before. Before three mouths the landlords had practically yielded and substantial reductions of rent were everywhere the order of the day. The Government between two tires, hesitated, and the Government that hesitated was lo«i. They yielded to the landlords on the one side, and they introduced a galling but useless “ Coercion Act; they yielded to the Land League on the othbr hand; and they introduced a weak and halting Land Aot.” Continuing he said, •• Gladstone's Land Act was regarded by the Laud League as a stage on the ruad upoti which they were travelling. It cuntamtd principles tor which generations oi Iruanieu nad contended in vain. But it based on wrong lines, and it was umnistakeably an attempt to bolster up a rotten system. First it afforded prote'etiou to some at any rate of the tenant fanners, and consequently the Land League did not reject it; uu the other hand the League would have been false to its principles, if it hud accepted the Lund Act an uu ultimate settlement of the question. It determined to test the Act by test cases tuken from the diffeient localities in Ireland. No one knew how the recently constituted Laud Court would construe the provisions of the Act, but everybody knew this if four or five thousand tenant farmers applied to the Courts a hopeless block would be the result. If the Act were a valuable une, the most that cuuld be hoped was that wnere a few cases in a district hud been tested, the landlords would then agree with the then tenants upon the eurne basis out of Court, and tbun save endless legal expenses.” t a And unless we closely watch it* v/w tn this colouy will have the state befall ca id the future as now oppresses lieland, for have we not a few monopolists holding on to vust ureas of the “ people’s heritage for which the Premier on one of his “red uerrmg ” trails said should be “fairly compensated for.” “if holders were compelled to sell.” What would be the effect, had Mr DeLautour’s Empowering Bill become law ? Why Ireland’s dipressed state ! Aud what will be the outcome “ Annexation ?” Why, “More Taxation !”