New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-23


liberalty in contributing to the relief fund. was
denounced for its libels against the farmer Grass
The leaders Of the Land Leaguers have not yet nxeu
on policy, but they are creating pubic onlhioh.
and leave for the present out of the discussion tne
precise methods by which tenant rights or peasa.nU
prophet orship can be secured Ii is significant as ~
dicatng how widely spread and profound the sentl-
ment against the present feudal system Of lana Ten
ure in Ireland that OF the large number or Roman
Catholic priests TO whom | wrote Tor lntormstIoii
about the famine the majority of them mentioned
the land laws as one of the chief causes OF IT,
AN ARMED FORCE AT HAND
There was one feature Of this indignation meeting
that aroused my Indignation more even than tne
eviction of Malachi Kelly. As soon as we entered
the haunting car at the railroad station to drive
across to Barbrophy, country magistrate
jumped into another car and followed us.
HE will have his sodery tbeIe!" said Mr.. Da-
witt, with a fierce expression. They think they
can overawe me- bnt IL only exasperates me-"
Now Mr. Davitt bad served years at hard
labor IN an English ia-for some of those years at
the infamous DartmOOr prson-and although IL was
proven that lie had been convicted by perjury TIC
was not houorably discharged, but discharged on
ticket ofleave which canbe revoked at any hour; ana
# II had been revoked be would have seven years
more 20 serve. And yet have nowhere met more
earnest, or sclf-sacrfcing or a sincerer man. IL
does seem as if England might have other uses
for such men! At the meeting, close on me ont
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stabulary but IN Ireland the constnnuiary are
armed men. under military discipline. mere was
no Dretence thar they were needed there 10 preserve
oTdcr, for everybody there was or one NINA. these
troops were there SIMPLY to OveTawe' Tue people
The hest proof that the Irish have gwen that they,
are great race to be- found, not IN Inc Hhnds "l
Their barbarous Kings and yawpuR bards, nor even
IN thor more modern ami really llnstTiouS authors
and orators, but in The fact that after centuries %
such insults and the most hde0ns wrongs iileS sun
oddly ass IT the iueXtlnguIshahlo spirit OF uneir
uatlonaltv aud are making rapid progress III toler-
ance and in diligence.
A TENANT EYICTcD.
Before ! left Dublin to attend the indignation
meeting at Ballybrophy. / read letter from Roman
Catholic priest in ne ghborn0 county, Cayan. 1t
was dated February 10 However sad may be The
stories may have to tell of famine in the West
cannot believe that there will be any greater Illus
tration 10 depict of mans cruelty TO man.
I'm the midst of cries of distress around me-"
writes the Rev Joseph ood the parish priest, lin the
| Cavan portion Of my parish, while Professionals and
Catholics here as elsewhere struggling 10 keep
together the body and soul of the victims of
this years visitation, l was hurried OF to
the Meade portion, no less distressed, 10
witness \ scone-the first in my life-a
hea rtiess eviction Of five whole families thirty souls
in all. of ages varying from eighty to two years
AT y o'clock to-day, in the midst OF Grlzzing
rain. when every mans lips are busy discussing how
relief can be carried on to this home and that, IN
imposing spectacle presented itself through a quiet
part of the parish Of Kings Court. carriage con-
! tanning Nh Huseey, jr. of the ageut Of the
! esra+e Of Lord Gormanston. Behind and before the
| carriage came about dozen of outside cars, with
resident magistrate, an inspector of police, about
! forty of Ter Majrsty's force, the sheriff anu some
dozen OF as rapacious looking drivers and grippers
as ever I laid my eyes upon.
There is dead silence at the halt before the first
| doomed door That silence was brohcn by myself
addressing the agent craving 10 1t the poor people
in again after the vndication Of the law, when to
my disgust but not TO ny dIsmay one of the crowd
| ia observed by me taking notes.
THE sheriff formally asks: Have you TIE
rentp Cd, ho,r oon,d
have the whole rent-and such tent, Oh such a
| soil, in such gear rs Tins 80
| 'Got! out 2 is The word, and right heartily the
or-pperS set to work. On the dung-hll is dung the
| scauty furniture, bed and bedding; search Is
made for pig or goal. and for hwih thew share The
fate of the evIcted master the door IS nailed, and
tine imposing army marches on To the next hol9lng,
iii every house has been visited and every soul set
forth. A.. a,..-.,,...,r. - r,.,. o..
that miserable furniture. that poor bed aud bed
| aing; and old man, whose generations nave
passed their simple lives III that house n sitting on
a stove outslde with hIs head buried IN MS hands,
| thinking Of the eighiy-three years gone Nv. Ana
are those tenants u blame No! 1t ~ on tne
records OF this parish that hey were abont the
most smpie-ininded. hard-wcrklug honest ana
vrtuous. Their only guilt Is tins, that al aRree-
! nrut' with nv Lord GOrmaustOn, some I'VE years
ago. DISTINGUISHING them Of any claim under
the Land Act. and involving an intolerab.e rise OF
rent, together with the common mi-lonunes oI ihe
ron,'try 6ese few years past and this particular
has left them unable TO pay the entire rcut of thus
year Yes the entire rent-the half. the nne-tenths
OF the rent would not be accepted. Priests joined
the poor tenantry petitioning again aud agaln
No answer was gwen but Have YOU the whole
remit Have you the law expenses ii not GU
you co."
Hundreds of such cases occur in Ireland. They
explain the apparently yIndictlve feeling OF the
peasantry and their leaders, like MIR. Parnell fol
example. and Mr. Davitt, to the landlords a. class
The TWO classes hostile at every point, and The
existing famine has intensified their mutual an
tagonism. JAMES HEDfAih'