Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-29
WaEEIING w. VA MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 80 1881.

Because they were getting on COM
fortably, and enjoying the necss.
saries OF life, he thought he was
entitled to more really than he
had been receiving and large increase
in the rent. To the tenant the case as.
sumed a widely different aspect. His
grandfather, his father and his mother
had successively occupied the farm for
fifty years. Two generations had been
bred, II not born, on the holding. They
had been decent people. They had paid
their rent, and il they had lived in COM
fort it was no more than their due. Was
he, after his people had held the land
for fifty years, to have it "raised on
him" to nearly double the valuation
laid upon it by the government for tax
able purposes? Was it just to increase
the rent because his father. and mother
were deadP The landlord thought that
the value OF farm produce had risen
since the original rent was levied, and
the farmer had prospered well OF late
years, 80 the holding was worth more
rent than had been paid. On the other
hand, the tenant held that the farm had
done we'll by the people, because they
had done well by it, and that to "raise
the rent on him" because his family
had bebaved:honestly and industriously
was monstrous exercise Of arbitrary
power. The upshot Of the whole mat
ter was refusal on the part OF the whole
tenantry to pay the last gale" Of six
months rent. All of the rents had from
time to time been raised, and are at
present far in excess OF what would be
known as "fair rent" There are
other accusations than that OF raising
the rents brought against Mr.. Jones.
The police barracks near Oy was once a
grog shop, rented by the landlord to
dairymaid who had long been in his
service. No sooner had she groggery
Ito her fortune" than her hand was
sought by legend Of admirers. 1t is
not, fancy, generally known in Eng
land that in this romantic country the
warm hearted, impulsive peasants al.
most invariably contract marriages de
conrendnce 1t is said that a young
man in the neighborhood of Kerry was
sorely mixed in his mind as to his mat
rimonial choice. The matchmaker"
who arranges such matters, had ptopos.
ed two girls to him, one OF whom had
one COW and tie other two cows ito her
fortune" Now, the boy" liked the
girl with one COW better than her rival
who had two COWS, but :the magnitude
of the sacritice he wished to make
sat heavily on his soul He
consulted a patriarch renowned for
his wisdom and laid great
stress upon his love for the Girl with
one COW. The oracle spoke as follows:
Take the gyurl wild the two cows.
There isn't the difference OF COW, be-
gorra, betune any two women in the
wor rid By similar reasoning su.
peranua,ed dairy maid with grog shop
is very different person to the pretty
girl milking her rcow"-sovereigu lady OF
her presence but of no groggery beside.
Consequently the woman got married
and died, and her husband, refusing 10
pay an increased rent, was evicted from
the grogshop.
This was another grievance against
Mr.. Jones, and further encourages the
tenants in their general strike
against him. The above instances are
quoted out OF many to show that the
art OF "Boy ycotting" ia advancing from
the proportions OF mere local strike to
those OF an almost national combina.
tion against any landlord who has in
Cured in the resentment Of the popular
party. This strictly constitutional
weapon" has proved a most effective
agency in reducing rents in oil portiong,
OF Ireland to something like fair basiA.
1t has done much in elevating tenants
from their previous servItude to con.
dition of manhood, and making the
landlords feel that they have some rights
which he is bound 10 respect.
J. F. B.