New-York tribune., 1880-10-03

who did not care TO pay 2s. Cd q barrel,
Id. q cents q barrel. to be piln III IN me 10TH
of a permanent increase of reut! Talk ABOUT
mcan YanktesD or swindling Jews or JUICE
tron-ccnt squeezing Scotchmen Why: not one Oh
tbe most noted Tcprrsenass raps on opes1 with an
Eneish-lrish nobleman III transeendcnt anu Gin
son-lac king faced audacousness oi petty laIcenv
within the pale of the law IL takes about siNiV
barrels of lime to III Kerry. ana tls appiI-
cation should be renewed every three or ve years.
This scheme then is Il crafty device To raise the
rent of Lord Lanslowne's acres . shIlings year
an acre. although he has never spent Shining VI
recalming these acres. and although his present
rents keep the most industrious neasantry on ths
earth in condition of perpetual penury-liVing
like pigs aud dressed like beggars.
LORD LANsDowNt's METHODS.
By these and OF her mean tricks Lord Lansdowne
has made his tenants the veriest sers of the soll-In
spite of old Archdeacon O'Sullvan-silently, cease
lessy ptilessy. from year to year. from genera
ton TO generation. and without any sudden and
general increase of remit Around Cahirciveen.
since tic Trenches became agents. the rents were
increased openly and on every one-tweltY-Seven
years ago from 2j TO 80 per cent more recently
from to per cent and only few years since 20 per
ccnt-SO per cent and i'll some cases 100 per cent,
within one generation. This IS the statement "
good old Canon BrOsnan. of Cahrclvecn, where,
although it is fifty miles away, Lansdownc owns
large estate.
Ihave said that the potatoes that Lord LansdOwne
was widely euloGzed FOR supplying to his tenants
he was praised for it even III Anerca-werc not
presented but sold to them at los. q sack. the
market price at that timc-in February last. There
was 10 benevolence in thus act. As Kerry an
SAID, 1T was shrewd thing to do.t0 secure ms
rent next wear" But he supplied 40 tons only
hardly enough TO give ridge apecc l0 each tenant
Inc Poor Law Union supplied the resI-at the eA'
pense OF the tenants: Lalisdowne ana n0' Waili 10
save all his ttnants-fol lie has persisenly sought
to thin them out. nis agent got GlOO rom the
Duchess OF MaTlbOrOughs Committee o send tenalts
TO America. Trcncn SAID publicly nat it was cheaper
Z ti,ptr A
the pO0r-houSe But-lct the citizens OF New oIk
mark this ac.-these people thus driven from tieir
ancestral homes, are furnished with money enough
only IN land peuuiieSs al Castle GardcIl-not 10
take them out West, or where Their labor
would not compete with the "velorowded lnarhet
of unskllcd laborcrs IN our metropolis.
HEAR1LvssNESs OF LANDLpRnlsM.
The system OF Irish landlOrdisn. in all ITS phases,
is a system OF hcartlessness and sclfshness. In
1917. If was not unusual was told in Kenmarc 10
see SIX or seven dead persons in the streets of
morning. Most OF them were tenants of Lord
Lansdowno. Half OF the money spent TO send them,
sick diving. to the LamSdOwne Ward III New-l Ork.
woufd have kept them in health at home. But,where
men flourish landlords decay; and the old nobility
must he saved whoever perlshes saw numbers of
Lord Lansdownes tenants at CahiTc!vecn in riding
out with Canon Brosnan. Even the men were pare,
footed and they were all dressed as if they had
picked their clothes ont of ash haTI S. II u useless
to try to describe their wretcheinr,s There Is no
wretchedness III America with when TO compare
then condition. Canon BrJ.nan sad that when
Trench las; raised the rem he thought 70 50 mon
strous that he determined 10 appeal to Lord Laus-
,iovue Nv Lord received the old priest cuurteously
and listened with attention To ms pleas for an
abatement of rent, least for the obstruction
of roads that were necessary TO enaD'e ms
poorer tenants worl tGalI farTy nr Hah0 ams an"
The Canon explained how the failure of the crops
and the Ill III the pr ce OF farm prOjGce had mace
If impossible for these poor people TO pay their Old
m
tenants should he given work. such as roads tn Al
would enhance the value of his ordslips estates,
TO enable them to meet their augmented liabilities
HIS lord>hp promised thar. II the potato crop failed
this was before the last crop was rpe-he would
do something for his Impoverished tenants. Nnat
did he do7 lie offered TO advance money lhal ne
borrowed at per cent and charge his tenauts per
cent forever on the amounts thus advanced! Now.
Lausdownc has from ninety to one hundred tenants
in the parishes of CahlrcIVeen and FllemOTe and
as many more between Cahlrciveen and DTomore.
He contributed nothing for tn lhelr Tr relief 90 All
in the whole country. They ar. utterly Impovcr-
lshed and Mt least % per cent of them have been
supported and still are kept III food and clothing,
by the charity of foreign peoples" " He
has not reduced their rents. He has exacted them
right along He mas built 10 cottages for them in
this part OF he country, ana he1e9H % ndhgs 'ale.
formed. denounced the Government III the House OF
Lords for its neglect of the interests OF the lrIsh
people or Irish tcnanry. noble Iord iepned that
he had spent month or two III Kerry ana that inc
most wretched bowels he had ever seen were those
on tine noble luds" estates! This Ieply TO use the
language OF our free ana boundless pralrlesl was
regl ar sockdooger," and excessively annoyed the
MARQUIS The Da loon of his noble indignation sud
dealv collapsed Bat it had still better effect.
Lansdowne Instantly ordered his agent e. buid re-
spectacle cottages tor the tenaniry. And doubt
less much of the reputation tndt Lord l.anSdowne
has most undeservedly enjoyed as "a good lanG-
lord has been spread, if not created. by tourists
who have seen cottages as they travelled
f,om the Lakes of Killarney TO ths beautiful
watering. place Of Glepgarih There are several of
them between Keumare and the Bay But 1t is not
as the bird fi.es bat the tourist travels. that
these neat cottages are seen. Away from the man
roads the Oid EOvels remain, and for these model
houses good rent Is charged.
The ks at Kenmarc say that whenever Lord
Lansdowne annOuacss his intention OF returning
or at the opening of the season for touTsts-Mr.
Trench gives a free supply of lime TO those tenants
whose cottages are built along the roadside III
order that they may whitewash them, or rather
ONLY that they may whtewash the front or
end. as the case may ne that juts on the road:
These cottages are sarcastcally called the whlted
sepulchres' Isn't tins nickname an Illustration
of Irish mgratItudef There were none ol these
model cottages built On Lord Lansdownes estates
around Calirciveen. Cahirclveen l. out OF tie reg
nlar line of tourists travel. JAMES REDPATH.