The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

RENTS, RATES, AND PI

835.

from the Mreenien's Jorrast.)
Between the landlords' pressure foe rents, the tem-
gatherer's pressure for rata, ea* the pauper's premiere for
food, leery green Oleg is Ireland, and every liaise ;king
that walked' the fold e seem likely to be devoured before
the semis' eyeing. The lewd innate, the metropolitam
press, especially the organ et landierdese, the gentry, the
farmere, the rangy, the eadem,the people. all, tee and
sassy Wendy feel, the essabg dlUedties, aad saziousii in-
terchange the question, when er la what is this to end
The inipsisy, however, fa mode In vale, for though the
member of each alas. prepermad remedies la orator-
min with their owe special views and iaterests.
'is bat too 'ideally elided that • series of 'genies
um at week is Isabel which must inevitably
end at no dissent wed, didoeste the very frameweeks of
misty, while • sudles stoppage of the operatics of say use
et them wadi et semen peedue still greater and more
imellediaMo disrerbeases. The tenant termer justly de-
mi& • .wine ise of eon law rents, sad almost feels dis-
posed le singnest that present and future probable prism
reader ynd poises so uaremaneraties, as compared with
put dome, thet the he simple of land is now less valuable
thaw emospacy seder high rents had been before the foreign
competition &wed the vales of agricultural productions.
However true this opinion may be in fact, it is plan that
tome amen of rent must continue to be an element
in Irish specaltaral tabulation for • long period to'
come, though the present mount must be mimed
some fifty per cent en order even to break the fall
for which the tenant farmers of Ireland have to prepare.
But nu mesh a reduce= of rests u would in some degree
maipeneste the tenet for the midwife& in siren would not
be eillkient to maintain the farming CAM is even their pre-
test status. dad this seems to be tally understood by the
landlords and their elite, who sow almost laceasantly call
out for thereon production as a substitute for high prices,
and for " high farming" as the alternative to low renting.
But while they talk of ' high fanning" they do everything
in their power to prevent its bring even tried as en experi-
ment. They will neither Waco rests—erect the necessery
buildings—waitron the requiets draine—give tenure—se-
cure the twain compound= fee improvements made
by himself, or do say of the other things which landlords
should do, sad mast do, before high farming can be adopted
in this country.
The landlord doss, however, to do them juice, do not
trouble themselves much abut "high firming WS only
when • tenant hints at low reads` . Their remedy is the
'halides of the poor rats, which in the southern and western
district has now become, and will probably long remain, a
lies on the land, equal to neatly half, in many cases to more
than three-Lu.-ths, sad in some to the entire of even the war
rents. But though, like rents, poor rates any be Wooed,
they cannot be dispensed with while a pauper remain in
Ireland to crave food. Paupers, or pauperism, mast be she-
tithed in Ireland before the poor rate can be dispensed with.
Can this be dons ? Cm the paupers be gotten rid of ? Can pau-
perism be abolished, or so materially diminished as to re-
duce poor rates to their farmer nominal amount ? The
former question we stoned shudder to put, were it net a
unbeaten feet that many of the landlords of Ireland, in-
stead of waging war with pauperism and its eaten, have
engaged to a war of extermination against the paupers.
That they have largely succeeded, the census returns of the
poor relief committee demonstrate ; that they will still more
busty succeed is not to be questioned, if the legislature
dues net promptly interfere, and stay the savage slaughter of
the exterminators now carried on under the sanction and by
proems of law. Bat peer rates cannot be reduced by these
extersalaatioes; the pampers ma be driven from one plan to
another—they may be den is the process, battle direst
tendency sed inevitable consequence (making all due
allowance fur the number slain) of these wholesale °wisdoms
is thu inane° of the pounces in the aggregate, though the
hunting the peasantry horn one district to another may have
the erect at temporarily benefiting the savage hunter by
"clearing" his lands, and forcing ethers to bear the joint
Leiden of the support of the surviving from among the
evicted. Evictions, then, may, and do, end in the mast
"legal" aad moat "lawful" murder of thousands of peepers;
bat they, severtheleas, increase instead of diimini.h poor
rates. Landlords, therefore, if they would be as cunning
as they are heartless, must look to some other
means of lessening rates than by the abolirion of
the paupers—they must try to &Hellish pauperism—
either by an united effort u a stem, or by abolishing it, each
man for himself, is his owe district, and on his own estate,
by elevating the condition of the working classes. Tetis is
the remedy, the only legitimate, the only safe, the only ow-
tan runny for the Welt rates which now absorb the land-
lard's rent, the soil's Produce, and the tenant's labour and
capital, and, what Is still more, crush the energy and enter-
prise of all.
We perceive that in the north u well as in the midland
and southern districts the tenant farmers are calling out for
a reduction of rents, while al classes, landlords and tenants,
are calling for a reduction of taxation. Some landlords,
wise in that: generation, are reducing rents, while others,
with a teatimes' to be equalled only by its barbarity, are
pouncing on the present harvest, not only fur the recta due
tor the careen year, bat for the arrears that accumulated
during the pest year of famine. To this hearths, practice
of the landlords is traceable the counter-movement of the
tenantry, which manifests Nell in the cutting down and
secreting of the crops, that they may not die as did their fel-
lows during the past years.
This ellen to save a partiom of the harvest for the wee of
him when tell and capital crested it is stigmatised by the
organ of landlordism es ' plunder," end the poor tenant who
seeks to protect from the Lusdlord'r grips his little crop—that
for to sow sad cultivate, and tend which he parted with tar-
latan, bedding, clothes, health, everything but life itself, and
pinged eves teat—is denounced as a robber! Had these
tenants who are now denounced as worn than laighosrmen
' abandoned themeless to the relief lists last spring,Smad stir-
' renderud their lands, what portion of the arrears—what
' potion of this year's rest—would the landlords be able to
extract from the uncultivated lands ? Not one farthing.
The lands would have remained unproductive—the relief lists
' would have been swollen beyond even their late overgrown
proportions—the rates would have been increased,and the
g• nerd umbel= of the country would have been largely
diminished. Ought not the landlords of such lands weeder
all then circumstances and be content to share the

prosperity to which they is no wise contributed, and not
seek, by the abuse of laws made by themselves, but which
are alike revolting to humanity mid to Heaven, to grasp
all, and leave the laborious and sacrificing producer without
one morsel of food ? A just man—a prudent man, ever did
he lack justice—would cheerfully accept a portion of the
crop, leaving to the tenant enough whereon to sustain life—
that life to save which the tenant made such struggles sad
such sacrifices last spring. By adopting the opposite course,
the landlord is destroying the tenant, and dooming his
family to the workhouse or the grave, while is point of fact
be is not himself a gainer. The Timm Herald, speaking of
the systematic seizures that are being carried on in the west,
esys:—
The expense attending the seizure of crops in this neigh-
bourhood is in many instances enormous. The corn grown
by the poor tenant, who deprived himself of even the neces-
saries of life, who in many cases pawned his clothes and
furniture to crop his garden, is thus eaten up by a horde of
harpies in the shape of keep The properties in the
hands of the Courts of Chancery are suffering most of any
from those rigid exactions. We have been told of eases
where the whole crop under seizure will not cover the ex.
penes attending this system. What can the ratepayers
expect to result from this griping c nduct but an accumula•
don of pauperism and a corresconeing increase of tavation
upon the few surviving solvent ratepayers. At this rate of
acing, this policy coupled with the potato rot, will annihi-
late this year the whole of the small landholders in this
looality."
Such is the state of things se described by a popular jour-
nalist in the west of Ireland. The tenant is beggared—the
landlord is not eurioned—the bailiffs and their myrmidon
absorb all. In the south similar circumstances arrest the
attention of the forecasting. We subjoin the picture drawn
by the Cork Constitution, one of the most inveterate organs
of the landlord clam The deffaeations of the twojourniliats
agree—their explanations, as their policies, differ. From
both, however, we learn the same fact—the tenant farmer
cannot Eya=at rents and rates and live. The one organ
—the peaks of landlord seizures as sufficient to
absorb the produce, leaving nothing to the producer.
The ;other speaks of the rate collectors' seizures, as mai-
dent to absorb hi, leaving the landlord minus his
rent, and the tenant no resource but the poorhouse. Whoa
we learn that both seizures are in operatics, either of which
is described as sufficient to leave the tenant hem, we will
find no difficulty in arriving at the conclusion that if industry
is to prevail in Ireland—it our people are to be permitted to
live according to the divine ordinance, " by the sweat of
their brow "—lieu fertile lands are not to be escorted into
a howling wilderness—rants must be reduced from the pro-
tection standard to the free trade standard, and pauperism
meat be diminished by giving to each man whereon to work,
that he may also eat.
The following is the picture drawn by the Mork Cesditti-
Sion :
" The following paragraph is from Wednesday's Limerick
Chrowick:
" ' Ali the men cope la the electoral division of Hanisty-
mon would sot pay the rate recently struck, and about to be
Eametymon is not singular. Them's many an
' electoral dimities • of which a similar tale might with truth
be told. Ice such a predicament what is to be done ? When
all the earn is taken lee the rate, what is to become of the
hand that raised it ? We my nothing about the landlord.
Is Colds abated= landlords amerce no sympathy sad ae-
cani=sae. Beat is, of course, eat of the suedes. Be-
n, sot reduction, is the rub. Bat MUM is the pea-
sant Mara for a mesi ? From theartiond been% obtain it,
he it lea% there. The meant crop winos mind and swept by the
selleilees, sad he will be treated to a pemenal auporlimoce the
beeollimmee of a law with whom • lommaity,' if ho he a
diligent dissiple of outdo lama expeeitors of leghletbre
madly, be asset fen to have anaked a ble theme-
deal osquolnemen 'ft. weekhease, *ea, istolera his reesnme ;
bat bre laths widow is le eopperted
How then two m eshuna"__ sea be get rid of—how mate
anhe reamed end aim taldwislm are topics that ma-
esra ell. To them am new &voted the aunties of
the themOilfel cl nil drown whk a claw to aid in lemsaing
the promo whisk new @Miele all mime of the community
isdheriminetely.

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