New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-16

santry. When the peasantry do not use tho rght q
range for cows. they have goats OF sheop-S'N e0"'
or four sheep counting rs one COW.
rHr QUESTION OF HAPD DrlNK.
When Lord Lansdowne was asked to reduce ms
rents one year SINCE he not only refused 10 40 3d.
bnt justified his increase OF % per cent made only
few years ago; and following the argument Of "''
agent IN a private letter written during the pre-
ccdng month, he attributed tho chief canse Oh inc
agricultural distress to intoxicating drink. H'
wrote that he had been told that on far and mar
ket DAYS the roads, 0cading to CallrcaYo hl nave
been fuII of persons who have drank more tNAh was
good for ;heu." THIS IS n common slander that ms
been widely spread by the noyelists OF the
last generation-at n timc when, IN Eng
land. Scotland and Ireland drink was
a common trait of every class of society
and brought no opprobrium with IT. ! have read
thar IN proportion 30 tue population tberc ~ W.
~ mach drinking per capita among lhe M ~ -
scotch people a. among the IRISH. ana that oiHL'al
statistics establish this statement However Ula,
may be- yet although liquor rs S0d e'rrN"H'io III
fha larger towns Of lreland.--nOt ut hqlor s,'oonS
alone bit u most of the grocery stortS-aud lJn"uIH
there il nowhere and among no class oil society az!
such spirit of rrprObatOI against the use or Ini"A
eating drinks there exist IN cw-hngIahd lol cN
ample 1t i not true that the lrish Ps''"hiIN arc
drunken class, have seen about a GoH laiI5 III
Counties Mayo West Meath, and Kerry, ANA nave
seen only five drunken mrn-althouRh
~ hundreds
drInk In public. Drinking louiside OF Dubnnl IN an
tho towns of Ireland | have visited Is neither so
common nor SD gross rs /, in England or Scotland
There IS too much of 10 in the British Islands; bnt
there is less Of IT, even IN Dublin, than III Ne"
York. The peasautry are peculiarly SOBER c'nss
IT Is only on far DAYS, rule. that tney drnH at
all. Drinking has had no more to 40 with lhcI
distress than "poteen" had to DO with bringing Oh
the potato blight.
Among tne bad landlords" of whom heard IN
Kerry were Bernard. the BlmneThaSsetLs me LII
gucs Lord Neltrv and Ar,hIelcon Bland. Bui rs
wish g. end my notes OF Kerry with this letter
reoervng one ieuer only Tor a record Oh
uy wits 90 The Convent OF hehmaIC-
| must pass most of them by aud
speak only Of Archdeacou Bland.
ArchdcacOn Band turned out forty persons III
Cork without observing the legal forms, ana ne
earned % lcbuke from Che Government for his ac-
ION.
HARDsHIps or AZ EyCrED FAMILY.
When / arrived % Taee Mr.. Harrington IN
formed ne that tho Archdoacon had property IN
that rcigl borho.l, and tha; bee had eyIcted fam
ly there A. this family lived only five or Six
mics from lra'co. drove one az once to see them
Tacy were lrviucIn a ow-house,-ceyen children
zone 2 babel and M John NacMahon and ms wife.
They belong 10 the class Of weli-tc- % farmers
moi to the ord nary pcas1utry. lie and his father
and granIfatrer bad lived on This farm hf r'men-
Der rgutlyl III years. They had reclaimed the
land and built n very comfortable and quite large
cottage and outhouses a. their Own expense. For
moro than thee generations they hat cultivated
TINS ground aud pad their rnt promptly twice
year. Two bad solsons followed by the great
,,-. ..,.. ,.,.,-..l. l,,oj -I.,p and for
bieh' oil '''' summer, ''' '''.' ..'''
ho first time IN huidIed years. lhe rent WIS "o'
paid when du'.
,r.,5o,c,o Hl,ol b..onr, to o school of theology
,.I..i,,, t,..,lr.s of r,.I,rJ
lA'' a. '..i ai tt... ..-.,...,.,
10 the errors OF home ""d a' II.e ".i'u''"i'
ralamIties 20 "acts Of proUdan '' The Arch
.l,, mad, +,l ... c,.,-a-i lii4 p.o- y .pis- ucl,-
''".o "''' ...,....... t.....lo.... - D.,
3ht IRON l'e oIi'i Oh '"' "''' Va ''''' ~
turnng hun out OF the cottage that h- grandfather
,,d father had hnil+ and thar hc bad improved and
-, ~, r,i,. o., .-,..,, ,,.b., line family
a'oi"e'' LUCID WIS d. ''''. 49, ''~ '1'
was cyic I'D, and The man OF me mousse was away II'
home. Ills wife and family took refuge n tho cow
tou., aud MAYED tp tbe.r furuitur,.-p-u mell-to
"'''' ..ti'.., p...l
saw II no ' que I'tI' ''" "l-'-o..''- 4'''-'''
heard OF tbs conduct DE sent brace Of officers q"
the evic.el family to turn them out Of tho cow
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