New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-01

eeiye Won, NV answer is that this operation by
which can bring about bre the aotbaT
ton which landlords have In many instances peen pr
noting EmigrsSS s A%Irhy has ordained for cover
ing and cuvating the waste places OF the earth Hear,
If is TO CO. When the other hand, he IL one whose
wish it is to stay who Is uny, sHon We're
more nassonaely atached-to the soil on which tney
were born then to say: we cannot insure 10 YOU u
possessson of your holding We cannot even give you
phe proSability that You Will be able to exercise
vomr Industry with confidence; but there ls the way
sCIos "o omen TO receive you" let MS conceal
from ourselves that under such d hot
the country whose laws inGct that ana eu,e
that Punishment cannot expect ana does not ucScr'o'
the ofYection OF the people. lCheefs.I
One thing undoubtedly you have done for the people
OF Ireland, and 1t Ia an enormous boon to te oane
have educated them But when you educate . pvo 49,
and give them cmancpated mlnd with free pres,
do not at the same time remove 3tnet cause ~ Nv
plant and grievance. ask you whether 80 a o
ing motive content you do not take the very eouse
that is sure 10 end in the augmentation brewery nncy
Won have compounded committed the tthes ana aOQi
ished Church cess. You have bult the Workhps1es ~
which the inpotent the ablebOdied, and the helpless
NAV he received. But you have done another lhs ~
Gently Kcpt IN view by the British Parliament. Yon
have altered the whole law with respect to the defense
have brought in new statutes for evctions Hear.
Passing, then the proposals he twas abont to nitro,
* no special contract tenure shall be understood to be
from year TO year We do not propose to reverse this
aiion Of Ireland not to leave it to sres without
position to make the contracts whichtey may DC WILING
10 make and this IL is which at first sight may appear
10 be harsh No persons value more highly than we the
freedom OF contracts it lies a the root Of every healthy
conditions OF society which We recognize as healthy
ii is not, possible !? allow perfect freedom TON
Of such interferences indeed, Parliament has shown
a very decided tendency OF late TO multiply these inter
ferences You will not allow tho man who has factory
to contract with persons whom he employs on terms s
which may suit them. but which you have iorDdaen anu
you will not allow the shipmaster TO carry tue emgaht
across the seas on terms which both willing to accede
to. These that Justify Interference put mucn
stronger is the for Ireland, because III substance
these contracts though nominally free. have not
been really So Even where the law has left the
him Of freedom, and it has thus became s5ls
our duty and necessity to inleIpose, wl,nl1 ~
renressing that evil In an agricultural country; in
country where the population has been sen as 70 d
where the excess OF the demand has recently been met
by tho tendency carry land IN largo quantities OUT OF
aoe po pasture and thereby 10 diminish agricultural
holdings and employment, and again to consolidate farms
and thereby moro TO narrow ue means n
OF meeting the So demand almost nor Exclusively agrcu
cultural and does not offer TO the adult IrlshmS tnat
EASILY 6nd in land where mining and manufacture;
ing industry prevails History has but TOO wen supp9red
e nroposon that the freedom OF contract winch the
Irish peasant possesses is but nominal freedom III Is
necessary therefore to C o ,es aw 1o ot
then having proved to be great evil what's the nature
of that evil The Devon Commission has pointed II out
II ia Insecurity OF tenuFe Hear. hear IL IS that In.
security OF tenure which not only abrdges the comforts
of the cultivator or the soil, but which limits and
naralyzes industry and at the same me vtates his
reIatons i'm vast number OF with the landlord
and in still greater number with the la" under which
and the society in which he lives.
Mr. Gladstone then proceeded to assign the reasons
why he did not intend to propose "hxity" OF tenure
Inasmuch as perpetuity OF tho part OF tho
occuper is virtually appropriation OF the landlord and
mere rcadusment OF land according to inc price OF
future may produce in his favor, compensation would
have to be paid to the landlord for the rights OF which no
rivnd Iiv hnm AT a
paidf must either be paid by our old familiar friend
the Consolidated Fund llangheII-to which it appears
certainly have a word TO say-Or else II must DC paid
by immediate increase OF tho rents now payable in
Ireland order 90 compensate by augmentation at the
moment the landlords OF Ireland for the loss OF their
chances in the future And consequently do not know
how measure to be framed upon one basis on the
other But suppose for moment that put the financial
difficulty out of view what would be the effect OF this
perpetuity of tenuref As understand it, the thing itself
amounts to thsthat every occuper as long a. he pays
rent that he is now paying or rent to be ixed by
uubc tribunal OF valuation to he assured for himself
and his heirs occupation OF the land that he holds
without limit Of time subject only to this condition. that
nature OF the Communication OF 1.-THE Actthe rent may
RODS The effect Of that that landlord would be-
ponsioncr and renteharG"r npon his own estate
Opposition cheers The Legislature has perfect right
to reduce him 10 that condition. giving him proper com
pensation for any loss lie may sustain In money the
State perfect right to deal with his social status
and 10 reduce him TO that condition. II it thinks ft But
then bound not to think fit unless 1t can be shown
that this is for the public good Now for the public
good that the landlords of Ireland In body should be
Act OF Parliament the eOnditisn pract
cay OF fndholders. entitled to apply certain day
from year to for certain sum OF money but entitled
their interest in theIand- you prepared TO absolve
them from their duties with regard TO the landf Cheers
for confess that am not hear hear nor Is that
the sentiment OF my coeaguesathough' as have said
nothing would induce me voluntarily to acGuesce In the
continuance OF such state OF things as has prevailed,
and still TO great extent prevails in Irelandit would
own. be the most melancholy conclusion were we TO
IN the land OF that country without undertaking
social revolution. social revolution in which the main
property from the performance Of duty, and
addition to that lounging class unfortunately too
and of nothing else cheers and much laughter and who
seem object but to teach us how to multiply
even when yet solved the problem got TO
the Of the OF how TO relieve the restitution
of tenure must think considered from this point of
view If the land is to be bought should be bought by
should DO distributed among or applied to the benefit
Of the whole nation But tho occupiers OF land In Ire
land though they Of themselves constitute some
thing like molety Of the people OF the country,
I To SSo the v whole sv And Su h pe Be
sons being occupiers the whole essence OF proprietary
it to that which, though infinitely larger. is still
class. and l. not the whole people of the country Con-
slider how this is to work. Let suppose myself an
Irish occupier invested by an act of Parliament with
perpetuity of tenure. II | want TO let the property
which have thus acquired am to be allowed TO let 1t
TO tenan-s mere tenant-or am not to DO allowed to
let IL to anybody but perpetuy man like myself III
only to Jet it to perpetuity man. can only let 1t
to men who prepared both TO cultivate
the soil and to pay me the price Of the permanent
estate. The strange position in which should then
fnd ourselves would be that all that active and
energetic class which does not require permanent estate
in land, but exists by the intelligent and profitable
application Of capital 10 farming purposes, would be
absolutely prescribed; you would not let man In any
where to put spade pillow into tho ground unless he
able TO purchase the estate. But the other hand
deal the land let GG from yssT TO
year. to create yearly or other form OF tenances
which you think proper"-then 1 say the Act OF
Parliament would contain within 1t the seeds OF
It's destruction cheersl; and not the germs
only, but the body and substance OF provisions
which would generate the very mschies which you
proposed 10 extinguish Hear, hear The wealth Of
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