New-York tribune., 1880-10-03
A FORTNIGHT IN KERRY.
rvus OF THE LANDLORD SYSTEM.

I,xDIoRps AND sLAVEIoLDERs-lhE LIME
KILN OPPRESSION.
tvpou THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRiBuNE'J
Drp,Jy. Aug. IL said that Lord Lansdowne's
agent adopted different system of raising rents
.puttinc ON the screws as il is apply called
around Kcnmare from the system he prdctised
oronnd Cahircaveen Around Cahircavecn the
rents have been raised within few years at one
fell swoop % DER cent on all the tenants or so gen
erally that tho exceptions to be speciaiV
noted This is the common method. Around heh-
mare during Archdeacon VSullivans me- lhe
screws were applied not by districts out ihuiN'""
allv-under various prstexts or az the eApni"s "
leases that the "old" or Reform Marquis Rr'p'eu
before french became Pharaohs Chiei Minis'ei' VI
in consequence of a violation OF the kuies vi the
csiater In addition 10 the rent. various nuos "io
,mposed--sometmcs by the agent Directly sometimes
by the magistrates at the instance o the agent ns
is called 1.-THE silent system" AT every chahge vi
,rapov there is an increase of rent. Until within
n omte recent perod, where the son succeeded the
father as q tenant. or whatever might be the
chance of succession in families. the excuse to
increase the rent was promptly and vigorously sezed'
There WAS no tixeI ratio of increase 1t was arDi-
trorv-1ependnC wholly on the gents VIII. ana tle
tenant had no voice IN determining what the
increase would be- or of practically protesting
against It, Within the last two months, two sons
OF Widow Jerry sullivan, OF inchamore' emlgrateu
TO the United states. The widow gave or sofa tHe
good will of her holding" to her son-ln-law. She
WAS poor and needed money 10 pay her debts be-
fore Mr. Trench would acknowledge the s0n-ln-
law as tenaLt. h. insisted on e rise III the rent
Now the rent was already so hlgA that these TWO
b,vs-descrlbed As sober and hard-working young
men-could not get along under 1t. and were
Obliged to emigrate boy the son OF tenant Of
!i,-a. lbs
ago, at the Petty Sessions, Tor hunting hare on
the noble Marquiss estate. Such hnes arc s'''o 10
be quite common.
Ab,nt six years ago Paddy Sullivan of klllah,
cnt down an ash tree. one of number that bis
own father mad planted around his kitchen garden
near the cabin These people had been tenants lOr
generations Tie man was IN great distress. Inc
season had been wet; the turf had not dried and
IN ,,s extremity he cut down the tree for firing
decree Of ejcctncnt was Immediately obtained, ana
Trench only agreed TO compromise the case-that Is
agreed not to rum the man AID his whole family
by taking away from him the best part of his
farm! During the same year, Dan Conner Ol
DroumanassIg was fined e1 or 92 raise IN rent for
the same oiance-donc under the same dire need 0l
fuel \ process of eiecCment irst obtained.
Not long since a tenant. whose lttls holding is in
Bouan PARISH had the misfortune TO break his leg.
lie was brought to kcnmare to be CONVENIENT to
t.edoctorp 4 storm arose and destroyed a part of
tie tbatch Of his humble cabin. HIS boy went ont
in the storm aud cut few sparS of nnderwood-oI
10 value-tO mend the thatch of the ruined ro0i
They were cut his own holding. Now, these
matches OF wood are OF no use to the tenant grass
will NO, grow uuGa them, tAey are not needed for
the shelter for the hardy stock, but the space they
cover IS included the holding for which the small
farmer pays rent. Lord Lansdowne's wood-ranger
saw the boy. His mother was summoned to court
She went to LansdOwnes office aud told why the
boy had cut the sp IrS-tO save his mothers cabn
from the pcltug rain. Se grutfy told that
1.-THE law must take it's course" and she fined
Il suilnugS. Now. in Kerry. mans labor can be
had at 2 shilliugs day. and this Is called good
nav So the fine amounted TO Il weeks hard work
Thus by law or without law-by the petty de-
wees of petty tyrannythe tenant is constantly re-
minded that he is only serf OF the SOFIA serf
under hard taskmasters, from whose cruel and arbi
tfary penalties there is no appeal.
Whenever they get an excuse" said Kerry
man. with quaint pathos, they fine tenant-just
to keep the fear of God in hm!"
TENANTS AND SLAVES COMPARED.
Ii took us IN America Il long time to disabuSe our
minds of the notion that the tra1ickers In black
men could be 4" "chivalry." Audersonville was
needed TO open our eyes to thc truth that tyrants
crime to accomplish their purposes or perpetuate
their power. Americans have still belief III the
chivalry of English noblcmen In Ireland they are
guly of such petty and paltTy acts OF oppression
that have been astonished at the recital OF them
Take Lord Lansdowne. the pink of English chiv-
alrv-the ideal Irish landlord. | told you how~
whereas he borrowed IN oney from the Government
at per cent, the prin opal and interest of which
WAS 10 be repaid by small insallments IN thirty
TO- fha
loans thus made to him by Government to relieve
the distress of his tenants, tax on them OF per
cent forever, and that lie had the bushless au-
dacity to reiroach them for their want OF enter
prise IN refusing to walk INTO this financial SPIDER
parlori On this account. and for bushelful Of
other RESPONSIVENESS naming the real reason, bis
heartless avarce-LInsdOWne refused to abate by
one penny the eXtOrtI0nate rents OF his tenants VINO
had lived for months on foreign charity! Before
the tenants whom dire distress finally forced TO
accent his Offer could get the work begun they hal
to agree in writing TO this Shylock advance, and
not a shilling was paid to them until the drains had
been made aud apprOved-lis tenants in the mean
time being fed by foreign charity. The Govern
ment scheme, IN short, was used TO advance tine
purpose hat the Lansdownes have remorselcssy
three generations of them-to drive their
noorcr tenants to America that they might lease
thelr farms to higher bidders.
besides that" said Kerry man. the Marquis
;s working his lime kiln with the Government
money"
TIRE LIME KILN RULE.
Let me now relate how a noble Marquis became
fine kiln man and tell what kind of lime Kiln
man he is. Kerry has a soil as cold as Charles
Francis Adams and as thin as Southern Senator's
plea for an honest count OF the negro vote. Ii IS
very cold and thin and sterile 1t needs frequent
applications of lime to assert and restore Its pro-
ductivcucss. Kerry is a limestone region. In the
DAYS OF the Reform Bill Marquis-the English re-
former but Irish autOcrat-almost every teLant bad
a little lime kiln Oh hts own holding. 1t cost moth
ing her in time material or money, to make lime,