Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-11-30
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renters and disaffectsd psssantry gen.
orally to bring the landlords to terms or
drive them away. But little need bs
said concerning the morality OF "Bey-
cottipg." 1t is simply bulldosins In q
very quiet but very effsctual manner;
forcing measures without appeal to-
direct defiance Of, or collision with the
law. As to that matter. such measures
are net at all inimical to the Irish peas
santry, who as a people are inclined 10
r..pest no law which does not directly
Apply to their relief and benefit. With
them. agitation IL life, and their only
hone for relief from present or future
oppression. Insurrsction amounting to
almos. actual revolution today prevails
throughout the Green Isls, and even
native Americans cannot help feeling .
sympathetic interest In behalf Of the
Irish people and their cause.
II il but q few months since the starv.
ing psasantry OF Ireland were calling
upon the world for assistance. Since
then Nature has seemingly endsavored
to make amends by granting bountiiul
crops throughout the country. Yet the
present asrsrian movement involves the
prevention Of harvesting those much.
needed crops. as in the case OF Boycott,
and condemns the crops Of hundreds Of
other landowners or agents to rot In or
upon the ground sooner than the ends
sought should not DO accomplished.
The Land League is well organized
throughout Ireland and urging things to
. crisis. The object, however. seems to
bs to avoid armed collision. violence and
bloodsh.d 10 far - possible. yet at the
same time put the landlords or their
agents in constant dread Of being
molested. and make them utterly help
less to collect rents, svict tenants. and
manage estates. The assassination
already Of Q landlord or 80, shows how
far lawlsss violence can be quietly car.
risd. and Boycottins il simply . dslibsr.
stsly-dsvissd way Of hunting the land
lords out Of the country II necessary and
forcing the government to . most sIas-
perating contest, or TO make terms upon
. basis favorable and acceptable to the
Irish people. "Boycotting." the most
distinctive phase Of this ingenious and
effective system Of intimidation. derives
its name from its first victim, and is
fully explained BY the New York Tribune
Of November Goth. as follows:
Captain Boycott. the son Of an English
clergyman, retired from the army twenty
seven years ago TO take . farm In County
Mayo. For seven years he has been the
agent Of Lord Erne. besides farming on
his own account. and he has expended
s25, 900 in improving the estate. Matters
went smoothly with the tenants until about
two months ago, when he attempted to serve
ejectment writs on tenants whose rents
were in arrears. On the following day
everyone who worked for him left his EN-.
ploy. Farm laborsrs. herdsmsn. garden.
srs and stablsmen, cook. chambermaid and
laundress deserted him In . body; the
butcher refused to send him meat and the
baker to give him bread; nobody would
work for him or help him gather the crops
that we're rotting In the fields; and when
he went 70 the village he was surrounded
BY an iniuriated crowd that booted and
yslled.at him until they we're h0arse. This
state Of siege continued for several weeks.
Az many a. ten eonstables occupied his
premises. and when the psasantry were
fairly afams with excitement over . rumor
that . band Of 0rangemen had been seen
marching toward his house. troops were
dispatched from Dublin to Ballinrobe and
Tough Mask to rescue the garrison and to
protect . number Of volunteer laborers In
harvesting what remained Of the crops.
When this Is done and the column Of
thousand soldiers 10 recalled. IL 10 evident
that Captain Boycott will ind IL only pru'
dent to give up his lease and 80 back to
England.
Blu, Tough Mask is not the only scene
Of active operations. Thirteen landlords
or agents besides Captain Boycott. in the
same county. are said to have been cut Cd
from all Communication with the peas
antry and left to harvest their own crops
and feed their families a. best they may
and in . dispatch to the Boston Globe Mr..
Psrnell predicts that this new method Of
intimidation will DO adopted BY the people
toward 1000 landlords and agents before
Christmas. and that In order TO save the
crops Of "the enemies Of Ireland" the
British Government will 30 forced 10 put
. million soldiers In the field. This 10, Of
course. idle rant; but the fact cannot be
disguised that "Bsycotting" on . large
scale will prove very expensive to the Gov
eminent.
Latest kilograms give the sequel.
Boycott's crops have been harvested a,
an enormous expense. and renewed tc
market. under armed protection. The
orangsmen harvsstsrs have also left,
under . strong sscoit. while . small
regiment Of Hussars remain to protect
Boycott himself. who will leave on Sat
urday, to make his future home In Q
safer and less troublous country, more
c~opgsnial to his aspirations and style Of
ability. Other landlords and agents
similarly troubled and Influenced are
also leaving the country. and 1t looks az
though the Land Lsagusrs would soOn
have things pretty much their own way.
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