New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-16
LANDLORD AND TENANT.
POVERTY AND OPPRESSION IN KERRY


STRONG DRINK AS The scOTCH-HARsH TREAT
MFNr OF ONE OF ARCHDEACON BLANDs len
ANTS.
fFRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRInuNE'l
DUBLIN Aug 23-"Two thirds of the rents IN
County Kerry are paid in America Lord Man
more and Browne" in the House OF Lords two day
ago ended some stupid comments on speech that
made in Connemara last week by saying u here-
fore he Thought the American gentleman would do
better 10 mind his own affairs than to NEEDLE IN TIE
troubled waters of Ireland" Nv noble lord doesn't
seem To know thar che himself" has been taxing
this American gentleman; that his own wrctched
tenantry were kept alive last winter by American
charity; and that Americans believe that taxation
without representation is tyrannyp But if the
"noble lord objects to Americans giving advice to
| the people whom they kept alive there is very
easy method to make them mind their own AFFAIRS
let the Irish landlords feed their tenants when
they ere starving and not rrse the rent 50 hlgh
that their children in America forced to send
over money 10 pay It.
have described the conditions of life the cs
tates of three landlords in County Kerry-Lans-
downe, Trinity" and - the White Knight Zone
representing the descendants of Puritan Conquest
one representing modern Irish cultures one repre-
senting ancient Irish lineage each OF them held up
as models of benefcent landlord rule in Ireland.
where extortIon; everywhere feudal power en-
forced nowhere fcudll duties recngnz, d. Thcrnle
of TN, FItzgerads-JO0 years long; the rule OF
trinity Coilege-30O years long; the rule of the
Pettvs-2OO years long each. ALL eqnally end III
serf popu ation: a sem-deveOped country; people
who hate the Government and III pnbiic crlnge be-
fore the landlord. whom in secret they curse. Ii is
a most tragIca failure!
Mahouy, of Dromore. advocated cmlgrlt on III IN
american journal a remedy for IRISH distress.
All tire landlords advocate emigration. q kcd an
able and accomplished citizen of Kerry why they
did so. He ans Nered in the sentence that opens
this letter. ana added " The rem, OF the landlords
III all this part-aud in part of -rry-arc paid
b the labor of the sons i'm America. md that Is me
great reason why The landlords are 50 anxious TO
have them g." Mr. Mahonv IS a better landlord
than his ncghbor,. He does no. mast was told,
con the rent being paid the very day IT Is due
1t is the better class of irish landlords that, as
rul . are put forward 20 champion the landlord
cause outside OF Ireland. Yet MIh"ny mas cvIctcd
or tired to evict several Of his tcrants DUNG this
year of famine
PURCHASING Az ESTATE FOR 4 s0SG.
Lord Bautry has a reputation even worse than
Lausdownc. H. owns an immense tract # country
lying along the coast and ncudin the charming
resort If GleugauH familiar t. American tourists.
The growth OF these summer resorts, a.on2 thc
IRISH coast is completely bghted by the cupdty f
the landlords. they won't sell binding lots-thcy
wan; their rents forever; anI they refuse TO sur
render the r.g1t Of couf,catiuc the improvements
of their tenants after lapse Of years. Lord Ban
try's ancestor according 10 o local raditiou) was
.'Gshjllter An itInerant fish ?stler; and one
day IN the winter while going To Cork he met ONE
Of CromUcrs soldiers, weary AMI hungry. and
travelling slowly westward On horseback. Now,
the County Kerry ~ a beautiful lend t.
travel i'm during summer, hnt IN winter II Is
land If dissolution. els a.lthe country Ike thsp
asked the solitary Eors"mdn with that sweet fl
deity to fact that ut that time, DISTINGUISHED
pedIers the lr shman described TINS dfeary spot
the garden OF the I'll, .rct -" the land was much
worse westward" When the pedier found that the
soldier had a grant from Cromwell for all the dis
trct be dIiatcd upon the wretchodnc Of the conn
try The interview ended IN the soldier Offering the
pedler all his ngh,s II he would pay bin enough to
get INN back to London. The pcdler paid the price,
and his Descendants own tn land 10 che dIy.
Id.l't youch for the historical accuracy Of tits
story. What is ndisputlbe i5, that the Lord Ban
try Of to-day Owls enormous trlc., Of LAID, ari
that he has gwen nothing 10 relieve the terrible
distress that would have SEM hundreds ot his rem
ant, in hunger-Iu. graves Turing the LAST -puugand
summer If it had not been for tIe Intervention OF
,oro,,, benovoleoce VIVA. "a i,d.,,ut.ble il
,hotb. ma. nor ob ,teI his cxforli.uat. rent.
II. s,oyys tine u,,nlst dsr.J,rl o. -ie rl,.,t. o.
M, ton,ntrv. Wl.n he ken, deer ae VIII not go
to the exn.n,c of coufnlug them w hin his o.yn
demesne. and therefore ~ the c,op5 rir,a the
,,,, to,,fs nav. to ..D AN. one in.Yl,.off l.eir
family II, all nip,, to pr,t.et trsn from
rim. ",onls coueY He il; ui,r,r!iv in all
h,s evte,jitir,, and na is 80 careful 10 eyade ia
lays tb,r recorniz. tenant rigul, that ne LET'S
nostpr,o b, fine no1th 10 avoid legal liability for
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