New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-29


iicc TO quit" winch withdraw on the payment o'
three gales OF rent.
That is she was compelled to pay an amount
equivalent to eighteen months rent Tor violating
this infamous rule. Here IL another Illustration OF
Lanslowne's tyranny:
tenant Timothy Sullivan OF DeFrynabracK, ocea-
sjonaIiy cave shelter TO his sstorn-law whist her
husband seeking for work He was AFRAID 70 iouge
and approached her confinement Even under snci CIR
his terror was 30 great thai ne remover n
abe gave birth to a child she remained there Tor some
time. When - the office heard OF IT, Jeremiah SUN
van was for and compelled 10 pay gale OF rent ~
nne lax months ronU and 10 throw down me snpu
Thus driven ont and with every tenant on tne es,aot t
about mites up the mountain, aud, SICK as she WAS
he lived for several days But her presence there
was n crime. and muct OF another gale oi rent was
levied off rrcmah sullivan Thus, within three weeks
he compc led pay two gales or 43 Is. ga. each
II declared, also, that the mountain ocins tnc JIM
property (that is, hired property OF Jeremiah, iuot
ana 'Tbadv Sullivan Timothy Sullivan was "a parucl
pator In the crime and should 10 hheu s"io Vi i0'
The third 1t appeared, escaped
These Rules of the Estate were copied by other
landlords in Kerry. Mr. Godkn shows now theSe
rules are sometimes suspended:
An eectment was lately obtained at the Quarter ses
sions in "A southern county against willow VINO nau
married without leave or married Inherent person
from the one the agent selected But Is supposed tat
the threat OF assassination prevented recourse 10 eA
tremtes this and oner cases. For the people seen
with one TO have made desperate stand against
his cruel tyranny. landlord said 20 me: " NO one III
now from fear OF assassination Ihat Is inc TENANTS
security"
THE TENANTS TRIPLE Defence.
The landlords are evicting tenants whenever they
have not this fear before their eyes The absenecs
Of course are not thus influenced and they only
held in check by the Land Leagues. where these or
CARNATIONS are strong and many. These leagues
have three methods of opposing landlord cruelty
and despotism. They urge that one shall take
60 xUbi been pVlCfeu
non payment Of rent, if the tenant was unable
to pay owing to the failure OF the
crops In every instance of eyictI on thus far the
evicted tenants have been supported all winter by
the charity of foreign peoples and In most cases the
seed that they have sown has been supplied by
the Dublin committees or by the Government. 1t
should be remembered also, that the landlords who
have enforced the power given them by the laws
they enacted for both the House Of Lords and the
House of Com mons $50 called are controlled by the
LANDED INTEREST," contributed nothing to relieve
the distress Of their enantry and that IN the West
of Ireland when tenant with long family" is
evicted he Is absolutely ruined, thrown on the
poor house. his family separated, and that he cam
not secure another farm in this county. Out OF
the large number of farms from which tenants have
been flung since last November, only one thus far
has been taken and held Several farms were
taken. but they were surrendered. In three four
instances threats nocturnal visits Of disguised
men, and once violence was used to compel these sur
renders by the people IN the neghborhOod. But the
surrenders for the most part have been made under
the more terrible power of social ostracsm The
tenant who has attempted to take a farm thus va
Gated has been stunned like eper, and he found
that no one would speak to him, or to his wife
or children, and that shOpkeepers who were
willing to trade with him shared his fate. The
second influence used has been to prevent men, by
social ostracism, from even working for the landlord
himself The potatoes remain undug-exceptng
where they disappear by highland the hay re-
mains uncut excepting again when it cuts itself and
vanishes between two days. The land remains idle
and the crops go to waste The third method is
general refusal buy stock that has been disralned
for rent. One result of this triple line of defences is
that even when evctons have taken place the ten
ants have been restored by the landlords as care
takers" II was Toasted IN the debates on the Dis
turbauce bill that this fact proof OF the eni-
ency of the landlords. Gladstone exploded this
theory by showing that care-taker could be
evicted at any time by the simplest agency OF law.
He did not tell the whole truth. he landlords
know that the Land League has bafiied them In
preventing the reletng of these farms, and IN order
to save tho crops they cannot conilscate yet, the
care-takers put back TO save them I'm the hope
that they can throw them out ana seize the harvest
as soon as il is ripe. The Land League, in fact Is
trying to organize all the tenants of Ireland INTO
monster trades union under the belief that II Will
be impossible 10 eyict a whole people, and that
thereby they will compel u radical change in the
present fcudal system of land tenure In Ireland.
do not refer TO these " rules" to make Lans-
downe odious. He Is only type of a class that
crush Ireland and tax America Americans often
wonder why the Irish so constantly crowl about
English rule. while the English people uncOm-
plainingly submits IL is generally believed IN the
United states that the same laws govern both coun-
tries. But England has no " Rules of the Estate"
no minor and irresponsible legislators VINO pass
and enforce laws without responsibility or hln-
drance. And within one week Archdeacon Bland. OF
Cork who threw forty persons out into the road
side. warned other tenants who offered to shelter
them that they would be evcted II they did so.
JAMES REDPAIH.