New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-02

or taught as he has been taught, should proDaoH
have been O Rbbonman myself"
And | doubt not, if Mr.. Trench had lived In
America long enough TO have become q believer III
equal rights and exact Justice, he would nave
looked upon his present self and his class and his
EMPLOYERS and their philosophy with the ahhor-
renee that they excite in the heart of every Ameri-
can student of the existing system.
81 have never felt any vindictiyc feelings" pur-
sues Mr.. Trench, against those who nave D1eh
for so many years cOnspiring against me-
Cool language from a man who drove thousands
from their ancestral homes!
al am almost ashamed to say how much nave
syn,pathizcd with them have often felt that
what | was doing in the prevention OF subletting
and the prevention of subdivision and IN forbid
ding two families to occupy one small house-ih
eecting men from farms which they had been en-
couragcd by my predecessors to reclaim Dut WHICH,
after the failure of the potato, could not produce
any rent or even subsistence except in the lowest
conditions of animal liie-I doing what must
appear to them oppressive"
u was because only the poor tenants who were
encouraged to reclaim land could not pay their rent
that they were cyicted after the famine OF 1871 anu
since. The pcasantry. in the best of times. earn no
more than a Subsistence in the lowest conditions
Of animal life AZ soon as they begin to earn
more Lord Lans,lowne Takes instant measures 10
raise their rent.
IMPROVING THE LAND.
Now. AS to land agents and landlords theory of
improvement let me quote from Mr. G0dhn
Land War in Ireland Il passage that will have
greater weight than the most eloquent denuncla-
ton of the WRONGS of the peasanuy.
For nv part - he writes, " cannot understand
In. meaning of improving country By Gisinhrrit-
,,,,I iul \
has been said about the evils o. small farms. But
the most disturbed and impoverished parts of Ire
Land are those in which the farms are largest; ;
while the two most prosperous and best ordered
counties-Aunagh and WcXiord-arc the counties
in which III. all farms most abound Master FitZ-
glbbon informs MS shat there are go estat' OF all
nagnitudcs from Goo TO e2u.OOO q year under the
control and management of the Corr OF Chan cry.
The total rents of these amount 70 ~ lOJj year.
PAYABLE by - ISL tenants. The>e estates are H.
all parts of Ireland not only in all the provinces,
but i'm all the couutic, without exceptions and az
,ording to Master FIzgiDbon they fairly represent
the tenantrv Of the wnolc country. he pressure
of legal remedies for these rents has been very
little used; the number Of cyictions absolutely
triliue. and of between 100 and 500 receivers who
collect these rents not one has ever been asSlled or
intcrfcred with or threatened i'm the discharge of
ms duty. ] believe the other three Masters would
make uhstantally a similar report to this, in
respect to thu estates under their Jurisdiction"
Master FItzgibbOn proceed, to state that on one
estate there are 300 tenants. paying fl3,OOO-
beng an average of c6 q year. This estate has been
Sold and three of the lots fetched over thirty
years purchase Of the yearly profit rents. The
fourth lot is held by small cotters, at rents which
average only e. and this lot fetched twenty-three
years purchase. This estate has been under a re-
ceiycr for three years and there has never been one
complaint from tenant.
1t is the Same verdict that Irish history renders
in every part Of Ireland and at every epoch Of her
history There never a race OF people who
have been so maiciousy maligned as the IRISH
people. Dr. johnson told Boswell an illustration
OF human selishncss that he was after hearing
as the Irish phrase it, butcher cursng an eel that
he was slnning alive because 1t would not lie STILL
That butcher was the type Of nearly all the Eng
lish writer's on Irish history and politics.
JtNE, kiDPATH.