The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20
A Specimen Case of "Boycotting.

American contributors tothe funds OF the
irish Land League. who fancy that that
organization is destined somehow to ad-
vance the liberties of the Irish people,
may be interested. SAYS The Boston Jour
nal, in knowing some Of the particulars
Of one u the enterprises OF the League.
which is Est now most prominently be
fore the publc-the .R0yc0tting" OF Mr..
W. Bence Jones. Mr.. Jones owns about
a thousand acres Of land in the county of
Cork. and has resided upon his estate for
forty years During this time he has eX-
pended about 100000 in permanent i'm
prov ements All the income which be
has received from his estates in Ireland
has been expended in the country; he
has spent II, 500 year in wages and as
much more in other farm expenses and
the laborers whom he employs have re-
ceved from eight to eleven shillmgs
week, with cottage and garden, and as
much land tor potatoes as they can cult
yate, free The relations between his
tenants and himself have been such as
WouId naturally accompany considerable
and generous treatment on the part of a
landlord. With Two or three exceptions.
1Ur thirty Years the rents due him have
been punctually paid in the first weeks of
July and December. There was not
shilling o. arrears in the rents due six
months ago. The harvest and potato
crop had been the best for years. and the
tcnnats were both able and willing to pay
he rent due this month. But the Land
League had conceived a grudge against
MI. Jones, based largely upon his arti-
cle~ in the London Times and Macmillan's
Magazine upon the Irish agitation. Ac-
Cordingly. word went forth that Nh
Jones's tenants were not to be allowed to
pay him mere than "Gritfith's valuation"
the valuation being less than a third of
what the land, with the Improvements
which he had put upon if, was worth
In letter to the London Times MI
Jones describes what followed Five
days before the rent fell due his tenants
received threatening letters 10y mail,
warning them of the vengeance Of the
League if they offered more rent than
"GriItith's valuation" The next day
similar threatening notice was posted on
Mr.. Jones door, and grave was dug in
the grass betoreit which, the notice said.
was ion him and his son. The same dav
a speech was made by a young parish
priest, grossly abusive and menacing.
The day before the rent was due fair
was held, at which his tenants We're We
hemently threatened, and the next day
the tenants coming to his house were met
and threatened. When the tenants pre-
scented themselves they said they were
sorely afraid and dared not offer more
than The valuation, but hoped that he
would not think any the worse Of them.
As Mr.. Jones declined to receive the
rents offered, the Land League proceed
ed to enforce the decree of advocating"
against him. The thirty lahorers and
servants about the place were warned to
leave on peril of their lives, and a few
who fingered longest were distinctly
threatened with murder if they remained.
The same threats were made against anv
one who should sell anything to Mr.
Jones, or buy anything Of him, or render
any service whatever to him. His sola-
ton is complete. He and his family, I'M
der the protection Of constables, are at
tending, as best they can, to the work of
the farm. Oats which he sent to market
We're followed by bowling mob, and
10 one dared to buy them. With great
difficulty he succeeded in getting thirty
head of cattle and forty head Of sheep to
Cork. They We're To be shipped to Bris-
tol, bat as soon as it was known that
they were Mr.. jones, several large cat
lie shippers waited on the directors of
the company and said that if these cattle
were received they would remove their
OWN from the steamer and would have
no further dealings with the company
The company yielded, and another ship
ping company also refused to take them.
The drOVerS abandoned them to the
streets, and no one dared supply them
with fodder, 50 that, as the Dublin paper
which reports the case remarks, ''the poor
animals presented a very emaciated ap-
pedrance."
RMS is the sort Of work in which the
Land League is engaged. and in which il
asks for the sympathy and the assistance
OF America. Starving and cruelty killing
helpless cattle, because they belong to
an obnoxious landlord shooting at wo-
men as well as men, if they decline to re-
cclye the rents which they order utter
ing threats of murder, and executing
them, now and then, when they get a
chance; making midnight visits to lone
ly cottages, and perpetrating all sorts of
atrocities upon tenants who dare to pay
their honest debts domineering over all
trade and social relations by virtue of
threats and violence, and driving out of
the country landlords who are spending
their lives and their substance in improv-
ing their estates and eleyating the CON
dition Of their tenantry. A pretty lot Of
patriots are these cattle manners, barn
burners, midnight raiders, terrorzers and
assassins. Fine work is this to challenge
the sympathy OF the world, and to ask to
be regarded as in the interests of liberty
and patriotism, The cowardly rutfians
who are engaged in this sort of work de-
| serve no sympathy. They are doing
grievous wrong to Ireland, and are re-
tarding the prosperity Of the very people
whom they profess to defend There will
be no call for tears when some of them
pay the penalty of their crimes, as it is
pretty sure they will do, when the Gov
eminent gets ready to assert itself with
vigor
Sehoolmaster desiring to explain tie word
connected which had occurred in the course of
the reading lessen Now, boys, suppose that |
was always boasting of my learning-that knew
good deal 0 Latin, for instance or that nv per.