Judicial records show that between
1844 and 1880 no less than a million
human beings were subjected, under
English law in Ireland, to what Mr,
Gladstone has pronounced ** nearly
equivalent to a sentence of death,” —
eviction; and, iu spite of ineffectual
land reform, in five years evictions
have doubled. British statistics ex
hibit the frightful and almost incom
prehensible fact that 50 per cent, of the
people of Ireland are living in mud
cabin*>, half of them bowls of a single
room. To point out that compulsory
deportation to this republic Is not an
equitable or humane method for im
proving the condition of these so-called
subjects of England is surely withiu
the rights, if it be not one of the
duties, of the government of the Uni
ted States.
