New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-10
Ireland: Whence Agrarian Outrage ?


DUBLIN. Friday, July %, 1916.
To The Editor of The Tribune:
Nearly all the outrage that has branded Ireland
az lawless land Of crime, for the last half century,
has been connected with the land. Eviction has
produced misery, and revenge has prompted TO
murder. Apart from the Righteousness OF giving
the farmer the benefit of bis own Improvements,
and the economy of giving to the laborer employ
ment thereby, policy should prompt it for the peace
Of the country and humanity urge it for the safety
ofhuman life.
Mr.. Lamb worthy Belfast Quaker, who-while
travelling in his gig, "for the cole, vulgar object,
az he says "to make money "-obSeryes, con-
verses with all classes, and gathers information-
gives tpo statements, which, placed in juxsp posi-.
lion. NAV illustrate the connection between arbi-
tr.ry. irresponsible landlor6sm and Agrarian out
rage better than anything could say on the i'm.
portance Of right and speedy settlement OF this
tenant right, the question of questions In Ireland
| OfMr Mauleverer, the agent for the Crossmsglen
| estates, lin the Fews Mountains, County Armagh
whose murder, the most recent and one Of barbs.
rous atrocity, though it awakened horror widely
elsewhere, produced no sympathy among the peas.
aptry of the district where it was perpetrated-he
ssyt: al was In the locality, although not at the
/ ,pot where Robert Mauleverer was lately muir
| cered and passed by his late dwelling. house in
| the County OF Derry. Regarding his character as
| a pubLc man and land agent, thought it my duty
TO inquire particularly where be was best known
! from Episcopalians, PresbyterlsDs, and Roman
| Catholics. They all agreed that he was most up.
right magistrate the BENCH strictly impartial IN
| his decisIoDs between man aud man. As land
| lord aud land sgent be was stern, hard aud over
! beAring-a man who would spare no trouble to get
! bis pound OF heih. he had no sympathy for the
strugeling tenant and would resort - the hashest
! hgoI means TO recover his rent once 1t was due
| He was the dread OF tenants under his care
! The estates of the Marquis of Bath adi)n those
! for which Mr.. Mauleverer was sSent-where mis-
cry in its most appalling form was heightened by
| evictlons without number, and where he met his
awful and untimey end-over them Mr.. Tristran
| Kennedy is agent and when the farms were too
small or the population too dense, the small farm
! ers were removed 20 America at the expense OF the
troperfy. The farms are enlarged, the fields
SQUARED and thorough drained; and Mr. Kennedy
goes among the farmers, accompanied by his agr-
| culturisL advising iDstrucslng, and encouraging
them Although he has been the means OF
| moving great number from the estate yet every
| one, p0or and rich" says MIR l. amb, speaks well
Of him the tenants adore HIM, because In his deal
/ ings between them and bis employers ne gives
| poor Paddy honest 1NSttce and cIrH treatment
There is 10 danger OF his receiving insult or injury
though be resides within two or three miles OF the
! place where the barbarOus murder OF land agent
! mir Maulverer) took place so lately. If all che
landlords and their agents would act IN the same
spirit OF justce, believe none oi them would ever
be murdered in our country
when passing over this estate / observed q
nice new national schoolhouss by the roadside ;
It looked so temptngly neat that popped in, and
found very nice, orderly school OF ntelgent.looA.
ing children. There were upwards of fifty ia at
tendance the sexes about equal. Nearly all had
a s.lo J no.,
who are at all able, pay a penny week TO the
master; who seemed 20 be man well suited %
his situation. Ii is an Industrial 5cQol GA the
! girls side there was clever, intelligent yOuog
woman, who taught the girls sGndry kinds Of
plain and ornamental neede~ork, lacemakiDg, and
+ Knitting. cav some nice sewed work or a. yer
| ing, on Nottingham lace net, that reflected great
crecit on the chIdren and their inStrucuess TIM.
school, the MASTER assured me, was one OF ten OF
twelve, all similar, that have been built within twc
! three years on different parts OF this property
Z BY this ageDt; all the others are established or M
OF being brought into operation. There are
( about 500 girls, OF various ages, and employed IL
e different sorts OF fancy sowing embroidery auC
. lscemskmg-some At those industrial schools the
elder ones in their parents houseI; bat all undel
4 the care Of this excellent agent, aud the yOune
women he has employed to instruct them nave
o Let the pleasure CT knowing this gentleman; ba
= l must Acknowledge that he - laying the grouad
vork OF great mors and social renovation in In.
state OF society, o. the property under his care
Tie good he Is doing viii not be confined to .acI
o narrow bounds but viii spread in all directions
around him"
: WHAT HAVE TIE GOVERNMENT AND PARLIA
3 aENr DoNEi
7. Now that Government have brought forward a
: their messures,--only 10 abandon most of them
and Parliament is on the eve Of closing its labor,
It is natural to ask what has been done to raise th
country from the ruins Of four successive, disa.
! trnn. seaIal The Encunbered Estates Sales az