The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-10-08

under tillsge, 81 per cent over fou T. fifth
were under three crops, viz oats, potatoes ant
hay; 80 acres in every 100 were under cereals
| 25 under potatoes, turnps, aud other gree,
crops; under fax Sc under meadow ant
clover, and 0 under vercLes and rape Let n,
| see now the grass lands in the several conn
ties: Meath. Limerick, Westmeath and Clare
had above 60 acres in every 100 of their entire
area under grass KILKENNY, Fermsnsgh, Ross.
| common, Ilppersry North Ridiupl Leitrim
Cork (West hiding), Tipperary (Sonth RidinR)
Kerry and Cork Cast Ridipg), had above IS
ana and under 6O acres in every Il as grazing land
hiidare, Antrim, Wicklow, Waterford Galway,
| Cavan, Carlow. Sligo, Queens and Wexford
| mao from 5O to So per ceuJ of their entire area
enuer grass. LongfOrd, Kings, Dublin, Lon
d a aud Monaghan had above 40 and un-
Down and Donegal had from 33 to SO acres a
every 100 under grazing land.
but we come now to paragraph in the re-
TURN which, for devilish ingenuity in compla
NOD, has not been followed by anything that
mas Tor many years emsn ated from the press of
tne british government. The Registrar sup.
pies taoieI to show, as it were. the number
OF agricultural holdings in the country, and
notwlthst standing that last year there were over
2Co0 eJectments against tenants, he endeavors
.. 20 screen his mendacity by the following
y summary sentence" as the result OF his
table - According to the return of 1875 the
number OF separate holdings was 5S5 4S3, being
So4 less than in the previous year" This
naturally strike him es a not u nre asopable Dro
portion of changes; bat the statistician would
search after " details" and in an obscure form
stamping willfnl deception and falsebood on
the u report prepared by the Registrar for his
brltlsh pay master Let your readers compare
the following :" statement" with the one now
qaoted thst there were only 204 less holdings
IN 1875 than in 1874 Here is the truth The
holdings which decreased in 1875 were: CHOSE
aboVe and not exceeding Eve acres" by 927
above and not exceeding Is acres n by 49i
ABOVE 10 and eXcaediuU NV,
2S7 ) and "above 200 and not exceeding 500
acres,' by 2S-snd few there are of tenant
farmers here who hold 200 to 500 acres
Hear this lying ct1i;at again for himself or
rather for his masters. He says: "The hold
lngs land mark the world which increased
we're those not exceeding l acre by 1872;
are those above aud not exceeding 80 7 will
tell your readers they are to be found aa con.
stituents of the 1 1872 TO the number of 927 as
given above by me in the "dec-easen TIE
land was taken FROM them, and thew were re-
duced to mere permissi occupants of tue
knowing we'll that they would not
long remain 20. having cut off from them the
means OF 50 pportlng tn eir families. WheIe they,
poor creatures, have gone to, Gud only knows:
II not scattered in our cities and towns, or mo g
fortunate with their countrymen 10 America,
perhaps the majority of them-the old and tx
tremely youpg-have gone to a better world.
As an illustration of the way in which Ire
land has been progressing for the past thirty
one years, will trouble you to give space to
the folio wing, which take from the official
return of the British Registrar-and let it serve
as an answer to those who, unaware of the
facts, are entinualiy asking, why is Ireland
SO backward I" The number of holdings Gin
each province in 1875, as compared with IS4D
above l acre and not exceedipg5 5:
Above one to five acres: Leinster in 1S41, |
le75, 1857. Ulster, 102,215; in 1875, % O69. |
connaught, in 1871, 1OO,254; in 1875, Is 476 |
Mark the appalling decrease in this last pro-
gjnce).
Aboye i've to fftaan ocres :, +ba fo,r No., |
'lnces the proportions were; In 1541, 252 7Y9 !; |
n 1870, 1865 or decrease of So $40"
10 measure the immensely of the loss in this |
unnatural decrease in the great mass of the
portion of the agricultural popula-
alton of this country, the reader may f4iriy
compute each holding as on An average repre-
entlng hVe persons, to which must be added
he natural incIcase from this number whlch
would have taken place during the period of
hlrty-one years. To this calculation there is
urther to be added the quantities of Produce
hu Consumption Which that number wouid
epresent, and an approximate estimate may he
bt&ined Of the gross loss Inflicted by law" on
his bapjess country. Ii the stranger our poor
ountry and her trials would pursue his IrquI-
les still further and ask himself at it is " e
night have become ii subject 10 natural and
uuane laws sue az self-goverument alone can
onjer en- people, | would ask INN TO apply
& a td"tor 10 the statistics give above 'Ene
Dhuehco Of peasant properties had we, Ike
rance, belgium, oc Urber countries, been al. ,
owed to obtain them. "I5 Is the magic O, pro-
Itt!,' Faid Arthur Young, Inch turns sani
lto gold" And II cur rulers not intent ,
Il keeping us-tnroG.h their landlord aGd ,
"aer aGenciea-in an Impoverished and de- {
'eaetrE cpnditron, tGey would elevate and
'eter ouT agricultural population they would I
III he land of the Infamous evictor. What is ,
'anted for the Irish agrjcnlturst (oot I
10 graz or the land monCpolist, bat 2
10 TAcn If fcom above one To 30 o
ares) ~, permanent possession on fixed \
rms " give Il man The secure possession of
bleak rock, aud he wilItprn it il to 81 garden,
I'VE him nine years lease OF garden and he
III turn IL Iuto ID desert" True and prophetic
ords of Young! Yes, let the rent DO fixed (
1arge, no5 liable to he raised against the pos q
'ssor by his orn Improvements or by the avari- a
GUS Will of the landlord. This would solve | f
10 Irish land difficulty, and would terminate '
70 Irish land war.