New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-07

but from a citizens point OF vev-a citizen OF n
State which has of ali religions under its hammer
and which has right TO innct upon men OF one re-
ligon disability and give to men Of another religion
preference which should hold the sword of Justice
evenly between them all. What did that disability
meant II you tell me that that disability has gone
than forty years. say IL is not true II lives
sti longer while Protestant landlords eyicted Catholic
tenants, and gave preference to those VINO
were not and shut others out from their vote in drec
ton after direction. II you tell this is an eIaggera-
statement say unfortunately it not can quote
from one member OF the English Parliament to another
am not talking the language OF Irish patriots; am
trying the question Engishman by the admission
OF Engshmen speaking against Ireland more than Tor
ItEand out OF their mouths l will take II, and
by their evidence will ask you to give your verdict
tonight, Applause.l YOumay tell me Mr.. Froude has
done all this. There some men who paint, and
some men who caricature; there are some men who
intend paint truly but whose minds are 80 warped
that the pencil. when it touches the canvas makes
wry line despite themselves While l admit
Mr.. Froude's genius, while admit his scholar
ship, his culture, 1 do not admit the straigtness
OF his look when he is looking at the lrsh
question The looks warped and around the corner from
an English point Of view. Laughter and applause
Take this land matter and take it fairly What have you
here Landlords who have no interest whatever IN
tenants who regard the tenants 20 many sponges,
ont of whom gold and life blood might be squeezed;
agents who were not content TO get rent which was
out of all proportion which only the misery and certainty
of death if they did not give 1t induced any to give u
at ALL and who actually tell man where his chid snail
go to school, whom his daughter shall marry, whom MS
son shall marry, whom he shall have to live in the same
house with him
CRUELTY TO IRISH TENANTS.
DO Won think these are exaggeratonsi Why, Mr..
Morris VINO was The London Times COmmissiOner-and
The Times is not fond Of encouraging Irish grievances
now MI Morris who The Times Commissioner, tells
story Of widow who was evicted from her holding
less than years because her daughter Dad e
her to get married and had gone TO inhablt Inherent
part of the country The husband whom the daughter
had married had died and the agent of the cottage occu
pied by the widowed mother, refused TO allow the
woman to receive widowed daughter back TO live with
her. The only place that was open 10 her was the
London wOrkhOuse Somebody says, g ImpOsslDle'D
Will Tell Won something more "impOssIble" that should
make your blood boil with shame If you do nj know H.
This a little thing; VIII tell you some bigger thngs
which happened the estate OF the Marquis
Lansdowne and dealt with by the brilliant pen OF
my friend Linton, ana Is mater OF uhlNeIsdi hHoW
edge in England except among those VINO are SO VIII
fully blind upon all Irish questions that they
tell YOU yet another which happened within
my own personal experience The one when linton on
tells Of is story OF boy who had no lathet anu no
mother living. His father and mother had occupied
boy q bad boy' His CHIEF crllnlnallty was MS
poverty; that is vice in the country came from;
But he had worse vice than that nc nelther starved
went properly to the Board OF Guardians 10 get
into the wOrkhOuSe, as any welfOhducleu Duy
ought to have done. He ran about the fields. His
grandfather and grandmother were lVIhg anu nc useI
sometimes 70 go TO sleep at their house at night ana
sometimes with an uncle and sometimes win cousin.
all living on the estate One day this wicked boy
for ne had carried his wickedness sometimes 10 the
extent Of sleeping 10 the elds at night which Is crime
in country, that Is II you arc poor, put hO yo
are rch-I tell some one who shakes ms mead
at it referring TO some one In the audience
if you poor you are brought before ths
magistrate, VINO Will send You to lah Tor y
DAYS rogue or c,,sd r S@Saan too put
Is the law Of England and there hundred people in
JAIL least for It at the present moment inc gentle
man who shakes his head has nothing IN the head OF IN
the denial when be puts IT, Laughter ana nppiauseJ
overstate my CASE 1t too strong to need over
i'm the statement have 10 make 10 you to want to color
it, Tins boy sometimes slept In the fields at night; !
the agent had forbidden his relatives 10 re
ceive him, for he had given proof OF
wiekedness which was beyond all question; he one
dav had being very hungry killed hare aud sold It for
a shilling. Now, boy who Will Kill hare IL beyond All
hope OF redemption. Pheasants figure higher than peas
ants for in the country come from, hares and rabbits
are far important than human beings; they
have made criminals OF many a score ana even
i'm England saying nothing OF Irelandi our county
calendars are filled with more ohenses relat-
tIe gentleman who thinks it is not so, when
sit down. 10 rise here, and will quote to him from
Bue Book after Blue Book, evidence before the House
OF Commons, until his utter ignorance shall rise IN tes
timony against him. lApplausel This boy used To
sleep in the field, sometimes AT last Winter came, ana
frost came and came-and winters frOsts ana
snow hard upon poor boys, especially Wheh lher
bellies are emptY-ths boy therefore. begged his rea-
lions 10 give him shelter; they were not uniformly
inhuman they did, and the agent then served one
with a notice to Quit, aud threatened another,
and they were Obliged to shut the boy out. AT
last night there was bitter, Dter frost Tue boy
came and being refused Abundance he cambered IA at
hack window and was turned for they afraid
10 lose their holdings, II ali they had to live by he
tried TO come in again and was driven away with a
pitchfork and them to prevent him from climbing up.
his hands tied and he was turned away again:
The nov went 10 sleep IN the fields II was bitter cold
that night and he slept sleep which has never ended
vet 1 say the agent OF the Marquis OF LansdOWne
was the murderer OF that boy
10 those who say What does such a statement as
that mean what value has III" will read from the
eyidenee-not OF rough speaker like myself not OF one
used to exaggeraton as l may be-but the words OF
member OF the House Of Commons. Tie says, speaking
of a village IN Mayo and two neighbOring villages, IN
mdwiner fifty houses leyeed to the ground, and
than 40 families turned out to 90 whittier they
would. Did you ever sec an eviction I have.
EvICuoSs DESCRIBED.
In my cheekered life have been private soldier and
between lsi9 and 1850 In the County Cork. sta
toned at Ballanchoy. Those OF you who Irshmen
will want description OF that beautiful valley of the
Lee which winds between the hills from Cork. and in
Summer seems like very Paradise, green grass grow
ing the waters side and FURNISHED with gold III ne
morning, and ruddy TO very crimson In the evening
sunset. went Inere on NoSenoeI 1ay; wac o a,th
the from Dublin TO make an eviction few miles
was d miserable day-rain freezing into sieet
IL fell-and the men beat down Wreleheu
dwelling after wretched dwelng-some 80 or 40 per
haps They did not take much beating down; there
was no flooring 10 take up; the walls were more muu
than aught ese,and there was but niue trouble III te
leyeling them TO the ground. We had got our WORK
about three parts done, when out Of one OF them a
woman and flung herself on the ground wet a. ~
was before the captain Of the troop aud she asked that
her house might he sparednOt Tor long, but Tor ite
while She said her husband had been born IL, he was
M OF the fever but could not live long, and she asked
that he might be permitted TO die In II in peace our
captain had no power the law agent from Dublln
wanted 10 get back 10 Dubn-hs time was Of import
ance, and he would not wait, and that man was
carried out while we were therein front OF u.s.
while the sleet coming down-carrled
out wretched thng-you could not call It bed-snd
he died there while we're there and three nights
afterward, while sentry the front gate at Bar
lanchoy barracks, heard cry, and when the guard
was turned out found this poor woman there raw
ing maniac with one dead babe in one arm, and an
other in the other ongng 10 the cold nipple of her life
woman, OF such woman, fathers OF
such woman would not rebellion have seemed
the hoHest gospel you could hear preachedi Two
hundred and nifty thousand eyictions took placed in
the nreceding 1916 l6nM0nl Can null