The New York herald., 1879-10-08

popular. pressing wants as 10 more equltaDle
conditions of tenure satisfied the conse-
quenccs of the refusal or neglect likely to
be socially demoraizing. if not politically
At present. despite many provoking restrictions.
the greatest possible disposition good order and
lawfuness obtaips but it would be rash to forecast
the results Iif the curb of restraint had to be-
fore the fierce grasp of not distant famine. A
starving people do not usually pay much respect to
considerations of prudence and safety. In every
quarter discomfort now prevails. Landlords are
grumbling because they do not nor
likely TO receive their rents from an i'm
pover3ed tenantry. Tenants. on their part. are
disatfected because their crops being ruined by
bad weather. and many are beginning to think that
it is highly probematical if even the reduced rent.
in some instances wisely allowed. can be paid,
Graziers uneasy at the absence OF a demand for
stock, and fair after fair market after market all
tell the samo dismal. despairing tale Banks are
chary OF their carefully distributed credit. and
this of restraint presses most severely
upon the farming community, who, failing to
sell their cattle and sheep. and not having yet
harvested their deficient, isavcd crops. have often
no ready money to meet current demands. Labor
ers--a large proportion of tho population-may
happen now to obtain some precarious employ
ment, but the uncertainties heighten with the
advancing depression and hold out compul-
sorry idleness and tho poorhousc as the
inevitable prospect. In such general gloom. in
tho midst of this tale of Distress is there would
naturally ask. scheme proposed by practical poll
tcians to remedy this sad statc of affairs? Tho most
Intelligent OF the nationalist politicians recommend
tho reclamation OF the waste lands of this country
lands that are so increasingly plentiful in every
Province-and form 4G5 ,527 acres of the whole
of the island. This beneficial work. it is asked to bo
carried out on the broad basis of peasant propre-
torshp. 1t is advised that these now idle. useless
tracts of barren moor. bog and mountain be
parcellcd ont in twenty acre holdings, and
handed over to the pcasantry, who will under.
take to reclaim them. small supplemental aid. in
the shape Of money grant, for the buying of i'm
plements. seed and the building of dwelling would
be also necessary. These lands can, average be
rented at five shillings an acre per annum; that
at twenty years purchase Of their marketable value
the amount. with interest. would not be much to
the occupier. Thirty annual sixty half yearly
payments of about f15 or, where not practicable.
sixty annual and one hundred aud twenty half yearly
payments Of about 90 lin rough numbers would en-
ablo him to clear off tho original loan and acquire
freehold. Many landlords who find it difficult to OBJ
tain diminished rents for fertile lowlands need
hardly object to q handsome compensation for waste
and Improbable acres This modest reform would
do an incalculable amount of good, and
calm seething mass OF almost chronic agrarian
agitation in this country. Such a judicious
should. by its reasonableness and
feasibility, recommend itself to intelligent
politicians and enlightened journalists in England
and command their sympathes and support. By
carrying out the scheme great and enduring good
would be effected and problem of very difficult
nature avertcd which, il things continue their
downward course. may present itself for solution
he DrOblcm
either in India in reland-the fearful task how
to deal with the discomfort and despair OF starving
nation.
TIPPERARY TENANTS OPENING THE CAMPAIGN
MEMORIES OF o'coNNELLs s ANrI-rITHE MOVE
MEN.
Three hundred Tipperary tenants have struck the
first blow in the threatened campaign against tho
landlords by deliberately refusing to pay their rent
They met Lord Normanby's agent at the local
hotel and received from him tho news that he
was authorized to make a handsome abate-
ment. Thirty per cent reduction was offered to
the smaller tenants. twenty per cent to class
above them, and Ave per cent to those whose rem
tails ESQ year. and who in Ireland
considered farmers in comparatively comfortabl
circumstances. The tenants, says the Daily Teic-
graph. rejected these concessions and declined to
sessment made in the last generation: it
even then far below the letting value of the lands
and its adoption would on many estates probably
represent fifty per cent reduction Since that time
owing to railways and the general increase of
national prosperity, the prices obtained by farmers
for their produce have greatly advanced; the reduc
ton of rent to the old standard would, therefore,
leave every landlord in Ireland poorer by perhaps
half his income. the difference going into the
pockets of the tenants. The conference between
tho agent and the tenants attended by
tho parish priest. but tho presence of his
orence had not any conciliatory effect. The
farmers left the hotel ''muttering threats" "and
it is feared" says local report. "that bad work will
como Of it." These the first fruits of Mr.. Par
ncll's advice to the tenantry to pay no rent at all
il the reductions demanded refused. Out of
an agitation in some degree analogous there
in Ireland nearly half century ago an amount of
general disturbance and crime almost unprece-
dented in modern history. In the year 1881 an
.anti-tit movement was begun by O'Connell. then
flushed with his recent victory Wellington and
Peel At that period the parsons collected
their tthcs directly from the farmers. and
thus occasions Of collision presented in
every parish. Tho general watchword was
PAY no tithos." ana tenants actually
saulted on tine suspicion of having complied with
the clergy mans demand. Some more resolute par
sons levied their thcs ut the point of the bayonct.
and in one instance. at q place called Rathcormac.
whore q widow refused tithes and the soldiers
called out to enforce the claim. mob resisted and
men wero killed. The excitement caused by these
scenes demoralizcd the whole people. and all law
was generally dehed. The Prime Minister gave
to the House of Lords appalling statistics
to the extent Of Irish crime. within tho twelve
months of 1882 the homicidos amounted to 242. tho
robbcries exceeded 1.0o0 tho burglarcs 400.
burnngs 56S and other deeds Of violence against life
or property brought up tho total to 1900 committed
in one year. Some of tho most unsettled districts
of Afghanistan at it's worst period could not exceed
in disorder tho state of Ireland not fifty years ago.
This was the direct fruit OF agitation against the
payment OF tithes promoted by OConncll with
light a heart Mr.. Parnoli now initiates move