New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-03
HINTS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
NOT A SIMPLE PROBLEM.
Edftor OF The Tribune.

IN fhe Editor OF Ihc ST'0""c'
SIR The only remedy that will ever give
reace 70 Ireland is wholly to eradicate the present au
s,an. The question may be asked. How is that TO be
sono nv the Government taking possession OF all the
go having the owners fair compensation therefor
II hsn ceiling Il for fair price to those who cultivate
- rhe, will ouet ali troubles in Ireland and nothing
,hrrt Of viii The Government of any country does not
hssa.o 10 take possession of private property when
"a needed for the benefit OF the public The prin
ein,e OF eminent domain Is very broad nov" py IAN
, nossason of the property Of about 10000 landlords
a. OF Great Britain win advance the inter
sts NJ over 100000 peoples and by refusinGto do 80
abe ,uust nav for standing army to keep the 50OVOOo
In subjecOn much as would be required toPn! 'ne
landlords fair compensation for their land IL may %
said that petty rebeons have broken OUT IN iteahu oe
,asonay for centuries but they have led to nothing very
disastrous yet While that may be true, Great brta
.honld reno uber that the condition OF the Woriu Is
changing The products OF the Irish soil must hence
forth compete in the markets with the products OF our
Western praries and when they do, those VINO cuV"o
hcm cannot pay $25 acre "a ANIMAL rent ana unless
there is radical change in the affairs OF Ireland the uS
As not far distant when there viii be but very Small
proats for either landlord tenant. without general
svoluen we cannot expect to those evils rcmedled
within the life Of the present geLelauon put l IN.
meantime the friends of the Irish should consider that
he hs AID they can render their friends will BE to send
chem means TO this country and settle on me
Irish that Ireland made for the Irsh and they are not
voinc IL TO English Scotch landlOrus huI
II FAR better to abandon the island 10 English or scotch
landlords than to remain and be the slaves OF those same
landlords -. u L. CViSolii'
Grand Rapfds Mich, April 25, 1881.
lIfit were practicable for the Government to take
possession of the island BY enforced purchase and
subsequently, TO sell the land t. the present tenants
"at fair price," the mass of the new peasant pro-
prietors would not be abo for generation at least
10 repay the advances which would be required
Their annual payments and interest would be nearly
as m aeh of a drag upon them as the rents under
the present system, and being without capital they
would not be able TO compete effectively with Amer
can farm products. The radical change which the
correspondent recommends would finally force the
peasant proprietors to accept his alternative Of emil
grafton 10 America Ireland does not need heroic so
much - varied treatment. Emigration should be
promoted the relations of landlord and tenant should
be readusted with respect to xty of tenure, rents
and free SALE the number of small propretors should
be multiplied, the under cultivation should be
increased, and State aid should be rendered with
generous hand. 1t is the chief merit of the Land bill
now before the Commons that it is comprehensive in
scope and minute in detail. The land problem can
not be reduced to 3 simple equation. The factors
are complex, and each must be allowed its true
Salue.--Ed.l