The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-06-21
IRISH LANDLORDISM.
Tho System az Defended and Indicted
Thomas Cariyie's Opinion.

Thomas Carfyie's Opinion.
Thomas J. Norris, of Newark N. j., defends the
operation Of the present land system IN ireland py
the following allegations set forth in his recent leu
ter to the HERALD. He says:-'That ejectments are
rare In Ireland can be seen from this fact MY iale
father and were extensive land agents In, perhaps
the poorest county In Observation-Disclosures 1897,
when he obtained hs FIRST agency, to 1s43, when
gave up my last. and during that time only one ten
ant was dispossessed by us." Mr.. Norris must have
been very Fortunate as was his father in his agency
experiences. The words ''by us'' sound slightly
Pharisaical. but perhaps in using them the gentle
man really makes valid claim to reward hereafter.
Bishop Furlong OF the Catholic Diocese Of Wexford,
in which is situated the Marchoness OF Ely estates
writing from Rome on the land tenure supJect states
that the Irish tenants need
FraThe bishops that the bill should recognize and
Tor Ireland general. nd sos a X occ"ps
ton thereof unless just cause be shown IN Land Court
Secoarhat tenant. in of attempt 70 raise bis
rent should have the right Of appeal to the Land Court Tor
farms or hoidnss Whether voluntarily chsrSse should
nsys the sss e. ss ssis e. lie sr
the sanction Of the Land Court AS well as TO the privilege
ali clauses against filling any portion Of grass
TThat tenants have the RICH. to susdvide
In favor OF their relatives within such reasonable limits a
the Land Court may approve.
If the Irish tenants need all this in the year 1870
they certainly did not enjoy much OF in 1897. That
they do need Land Reform bill we are assured by
the receipt of copy Of lecture delivered by the
Hon. Charles Gavan Duffy, M. p, In the Polytechnic
Hail, Melbourne, Australia, in the present year. and
specially forwarded to the HERALD by tho author.
Mr.. Duffy says
NJ de Beaumont the French statesman, when he visited
ciared that, having seen the indian the
negro chains thought he had witnessed the depth OF
the savage Of the and that was the condion q
economist al same time affirmed tia. there was more
misery crowded into one provinces IN Ireland NAN Eoua 10
sna 5 s
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no: ~ saacs
ss Ss
Ss hs s len on co s.
aton Of than three millions and oneourth OF tn;
ons one room" Such fact carries with suggestive
picture Of the food clothing and culture of population SC
Again Mr.. Duffy says:-
was the and universal practice in three pro
good enough to tempt the cupdty Of som:
ss pans
Il alone. without
he bad uass on tn
John sns % wo sr aa irish
and who deals with politics as ass. science says :,
alone among mansind stood in this position,
an prudent .v BE- said put thai MS coar
% protect Els property No a0a,; the,
landlord described he law under which iSst's 4.
seonss s an %
DEDICATED limbs rhe whole code relating Z
ra%sa tas aaaoTas s,srs.
Mr. Duffy sums up the consequences OF the opera
| ton of the land system in Ireland thus
The famine ragged in Ireland for three and killed
srSysyards became watts corruption repuse sight
The hospital OSrs were literally crowded ySa IKE cattle n,
many lied for safety were converted by NTH and povert,
disease II was SAID exhaed the putrd Of rsl
dead killed ten times more men IN one small island thar
the sulotne Il killed more than The entire population
ation class steadily and coolv pursued their int
the social chaos and through the ranks OF death
cleared small tenants OH their estates by thousands and
ana Norris
Ss: psy hsrs ref refers 0s Mr. cas aaa
found s ysy rn. Utmost I Wilderness RI 1 from Ks
Coron The desoate shores Of Lonsh corrb would hay
showed that but bad been the aesoatoI
we estimated that every second dwelling pulled
and not cabins alone but stone houses nj for the
OF substantial yeomanry. In one barony OF my natv
county, in prosperous User upwards of eighteen hundre
Shirley the tenants OF whose estate IN century and hai
the rental from few hundreds year to 2o00u
The number OF houses which human industry has created
world Of ours in fifty years Ia fewer than the land
lords Ireland pulled down IN three or four The tow
population sank along with the peasantry; the bread the
dear the goods they offered for sale faded on the
savings eaten by rates. levied TO
elected tenants in the workhouse. But the most dsms
change in the people themselves
| Mr.. Norris OF Newark, N. j., after reading tn
above carefully will come to know little about tn
manner III which Irish landlordism "w0fKs" L
Ireland.