The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-28

meroiless agent or landlord. Instead, he pe,
] pa pnsned In the leading papers full statement
VI ms cRsej and the punishment of public OF
D probrinm on the wrong doer is found to worj
! | more snectnaliy than the blunderbuss. A Yea
] ago, an Englishman named Gradwell, owner O
an estate In county Meath, tried to eject, TO
personal spite, q farmer named E'cock Th
neigh boring farmers took mp the case; public
meetings were held, and resolutions condemn
ing the injustice passed; subscriptions wer,
taken sp. headed by parish priests, to defenc
the attacked farmer in the courts; the Ioca
papers took mp the cry, and soon the great
Do Din dailies followed; and the end of it was
maj y iadweli was glad to drop the sjeotment
and Mr. Elcock retains the property fIis family
has made valuable.
A somew hat similar case is now in agitation
IN county Louth, from which We expect a simi-
lar result. a MRS Brennan, just before Christ
mas. served notice of ejectment on a Mr.
| iaaHeynnder circumstances of peculiar isius-
| tlce. Mr. Tastfe and his friends have given the
| case TO the public, and all over Ireland the
woman's conduct has been condemned by
priests and laymen, by landlords and tenants
-ln fact, by persons in every rank of society
and OF every religious and political creed
In the West of Ireland, a lar d!ord pamed
Austin Duggan recently evicted q tenant
named Michael Kenny from his farm near Clon.
Lert. Inc last mail brings us a report of o
monster public meeting held in Eyrecourt
called by the Ballinasloe Tenants Association,
at which the following resolution was passed
Z" Resoired. That the ruthless eviction of
haichae! Kenny by his landlord, Austin Duggan,
of Dublin, calls forth the warm sympathies of
the people of this locality-we, therefore, ten
DER to Mr.. Kenny our heartfelt sympathy in
our condemnation of the law which allows the
tenant farmers of Ireland to be harshly and
capricionsly evicted from their farms and the
homes of their forefsthers."
powerful address was delivered at this
meeting by Mr.. Kilmartin, of Balm asloe
Abiding to the eviction of Kenny, he said:
The lntercession of the priests the tears of
The delicate wife, the entreaties of the tenant
were unavsiling to stay the ruthless hand OF
the tyrant; and the poor wife who was flung
out on the street In the torrents of rain ia now
IN dying state, as we are just now informed.
What freshman can travel, az we did, from
Balhnasloe to Eyrecourt and see these miles
upon miles of the fairest and most fertile land
under the sun. which was once teemiDg with |
INDUSTRIOUS, prosperous and happy tenantry |
and now all turned into sheep walks or bull |
look parks, and not shed salt Tears at the deso-
iatlon which everywhere meets his gazef The |
fate OF poor Kenny may be the fate of any one |
of US the moment we may happen to disnIease
our landlords. What protection have we under
the law when any one of us may be sent adrift
on the waves of the world like Michael Kenny
by landlords such as Austin Dugganf A ten
ants Defence Association is necessary here in
Eyrecourt and in every part of Ireland, for
there ls no class of people 80 defenoeless as the
tenants. II you do not wish to see the country
total y depopulated organize yourselves even
now into associations for your mutual proteo-
ton and benefit" (Cries Of I'VE Willy
In Waterford, on the 265h of December a
meeting was held to take action relative to |
The Parliamentary vacancy in that county. Sew
oral candidates were out with addresses all
striving to catch the various interests of the
voters, and among them an Englishman from
London. 1t was tbs voice of the meeting that
their candidate should be an Irshman and a
Home Ruler; and it wa unanimously resolved
IN motion of the Very Rev. DR.. Byrne, that
they pledged themselves to accept no man.
Who was not a Home Ruler, Tenant RICHTER
md o Denomin atiopal Educationist; who was
lot for Sunday Closing and the Pe1missiye
H., an i6h
The Government which rules Ireland"t
ays the great Irish Arch bishop John of Tuam
does not know the wants of the people
worse still, does not cafe about the people
these brave words were spoken in one of his
aGest addresses, by q man VITO was nearer to
Conneil than any man living, who has been
hrongh along life one of the purest Irishneu
n Ireland. The words are worth noting:
9 are these from the Dablin Freemams Journal
the 30Gh ult
"There is not in the world parallel to the /
ass OF Ireland 40 the philosophic student
rows It. Here We have q people of singular
llcknesS moderate desires, urrIvalled versa
lity soil Of abundant riches, rivers of no. 8
power, natural harb ors eQual to any in the
inverse; aud for results infinite struggle
18th poverty, a deprivation of every soften
e lnbuence, complete absence Of wealth in s
I, In science, in commercial enterprise, life
ade anxious By the constant worry of pei
y and the folly of abortive revolution.
here have been three distinct aud bloody re. /
'lts ID ireland since the legislative ipdepep-
nee OF the country was stolen away and
't no mau can say of surety that the fTlrts
the rulir 6 Pc ~er have made future attempts u
lpossble the sore OF Ireland is not healed
I he cicatrices are covered up, but the poison
beneath. English statesmen are constantly
cla'ipg this 10 be the fact, and ct they bit u
rly oppose tie only measure which would ~
ing healing in it's wings"
- Home Rule alone" says Archbishop Nc
ale, can bring about better state of =,
ings I'VE should ALL. theu-priests and H.
op!e and bishops-be Home Rulers if wa are
earnest In helping the poor. No other
nd of help will do"
raken they come, we think these are IL
althy signs in Irish life. They prove that
3 old nationality is vigorously alive and is
coming Principle and Practice. Whether
the sword or The vote the improvement is T(
come, we have the fullest faith in it's COM -
Z, so long the hearts and brains of the
1pleot Ireland are true to themselves aud
.lr country. D1