, 1880-11-27

Sunday last at Castletown Berehaven Mr..
Healy said a great deal might be said a.
bOut fair rents, but he considered a fair
rent in Dreenamaclac would be no e at
all [cheersl and if the people of Dreena-
maclac were present Cries of They are"l,
he would tell them first to support them.
selves and their families and pay their
shopkeepers, and afterwards let them con.
slider what they could give the landlord.
Cheers, and cries of Nothing at all"l
Then, if they could give him nothing, give
him nothing. ICheers. They were told
to pay their just debts, but the first duty
of the farmer was to himself and his fami.
ly. He had been told by the parish priest
of Adrigole that last winter out of 1000
people in his parish every man, woman,
and child, except 20, and afterwards some
of those 20 had to come in, were on the re-
lief list. A voice, "Perfectly true."1
Should the people of Adrigole pay rent
l"No, no." If there was "a farmer in Adri-
COLE paying rent, getting money from A
merica to pay it, and living through the
winter months upon the charity OF foreign
nations. such a farmer was q criminal.
[CheerS. They should strike firmly a.
gainst rent, and perform their first duties
to themselves and let the landlord take
ninth or tenth place. They had to form
themselves constitutionally into one sollG
organization resolved to pay nothing but
d fair rent and nothing above the Govern
ment valuation. "A voice." It's high
~enough.p) If any one was evicted no one
should take his farm, and every one In the
locality should lift up his hands and pro
mise before Heaven and the meeting not
to take his neighbours farm II he was O.
victed for nonpayment of an unjust rent.
Here all lifted up their hands amid
cheers.I If every farmer kept fast to this
resolution and kept his back straight
against the landlord !; not taking OFT
the hat to "his honOur,n the landlord
would be more civil to tho farmers than
ever they had been civil to him. They
were all aware that som time ago a man
named Mr.. Hutchins was fired at. and, as
they all regretted, his poor driver was
killed. They all regretted that outrage
very much. Several Voices" Very much
indeed.n Now, he (Mr. Healy) was inquir-
ing into some cases of landlcrdiSm i'll that
district, and Mr.. Hutchins had stated in
the public Press that he had no quarrel at
all with his tenants, III fact that he was
quite a father to them. Was there any
reason in the world why, if he were so good
and kind, he should be fred atF de said
he never had an eviction on his property
[cries of "That's not true"b but he would
like to ask Mr.. Hutchins, who had taken
refuge in Dublin, what became OF Patrick
Finn. of Ardnagashill. His rent was E27,
and Mr.. Hutchins made his rent 49O.
Misses Patrick Finn sank under a load
of debt in consequence of his hlgn rent.
He was evicted. Patrick Finn had a son,
who to try and keep his father alive AFTER
he was evicted had to go to New York.
He died and he INF. Healy asserted that
the death of that man, if 1T were caused
by the unjust eviction of his father, was as
great a crime in the sight of God as the
murder of the man Downey. Loud APP
Dlause.l They were in the habit OF near
ing that all the crimes n a~ssasSinauOnS
in the country were cOmmltted ny inc
tenants. In those past years OF misery just
four persons were shot, anu ne woul1
tell them how many people were murdered
bv the landlords. Mr.. Forster stated that
in the first half of this year there were
2.47O eyictions. Mr.. Gladstone, the fr1me
Minister of England, had described an
eviction as a sentence of death. LOUD
cries of "He's right. Now, there were
2.47O sentences of death pronounced I'll
landlords and only four sentences OF death
pronounced by the tenants. lCheers.l me
tenants of Ireland, starved, famine crush
ed, and dispirited, committed four muir
ders; and the landlords, pampered, wen.
fed. having everything that could dehgnt
them. had issued 2,47O sentences OF death.
Cries of "Shame.'1 When they came W
him and asked him to reprobate outrage,
to put down shooting, and condemn assas-
sination he would certainly do SO, put ne
would beoin with the Landlords [cheersl,