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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 30, 23 November 1883, Page 9

"For any good purpose," says Lord Monteagle, "the landlord and tenant system is dead. 1 ' How long have Parnell, and Dillon, and Davitt kept riDging the same truth into the ears of the kingdom 7 how long also will it be needful for them to keep warning the Government, as they have warned the Government, even as Lord Monteagle now does, that "if it is artificially kept alive it will be not only useless but mischievous " ? It is idle in the tendency of public thought for even so powerful a statesman as Mr. Gladstone to talk of finality having been reached in the Irish Land Question. " There are signs abroad," say the Spectator, "that in spite of the deadly bitterness existing between Irish Conservatives and Irish Liberals, between modern Home Rulers and avowed extremists, all Ireland may yet be united in demanding a final solution of the Land Question in extinguishing landlordism altogether." In view of the turn taken by intelligent opinion in high places, one can afford to smile at the bounce and bathos of the Orangemen of Bally kilbeg. — Beri^y Journal. A recent writer in the New York Observer brings out the fact. wh ; ch he rightly says will astonish many, that the large mass of almshouse paupers in this country are native-born Americana. This is true of all separate parts of the country except the States of New York, California and Wisconsin. But the census for the whole country puts the paupers at 44,000 natives against 23,000 foreignboro. Of course a considerable proportion of the native-born are really foreigners once removed. -Bat the writer quoted, after giving good reasons for bis opinion, says : " A correct report of what may not unfitly be called our Protestant poor would probably show an excess in this conntry of legitimately native-born American paupers." He goes on to show that pauperism is not to be decided on lines of nativity and parentage, and he adds the remark, in which we cordially agree, " If, in the midst of a great European migration, poverty in America continues at the low minimum that it is, we may not fear to take all the world offers, except the contents of its hospitals and prisons." Bnt we ought to work vigoroasly those excellent organisations which we have among us, of which the Children's Aid Society is an example, whose operation is to make useful citizens out of paupers and to diminish future pauperism.-— lllustrated Christian Weekly Sept Ist