Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-31
THE IRISH AGITATION.
SOME OTHER FACTS BEARING UPON
THE RECENT RIOTS.
Why the Tenants Took the Stand They Did
More Proof Of the Unjustness
Of the Landlords and Their
Agents-The Most Dis
,urbed Portion.
FROM A TRAVELLING REGISTER MAN.
'respondence OF the Register.

Correspondence Of the Register.
LIMERICK, IRELAND, August 13.
After several days of incessant travel.
ing in the southwest OF Ireland, on the
top OF the most wretched vehicle ever
dignified by the name of a mail car, /
arrived in this western town which is in
point of commerce one of the most i'm.
portant in the Emerald Is,e. Anpmber
of causes combined had made the long
and dreary ride from the south one OF
the most distasteful which in one year
Of roaming had ever made; but the
sight that the country presented so de-
pressed me that the impression there
received will never be effaced. There
was
Not q RedeeminR Feature About the
Dreary Landscape.
l could have forgiven any man who,
compelled to reside there. had become
an implicable misanthrope, and had
even behaved badly to his mother.in-
law, he would have had ample excuse
in the unrelieved dullness and hopeless
ness OF the scenery by which he was
surrounded. Little plats OF very poor
land environed by broken-down walls OF
unmorta-ed stones; wretched pig.styes
OF cottages in which men, women, chill
dren, fowls, donkeys and goats, all
huddled together; treeless landscape
and the dullest Of leaden skies; such
were the
Melancholy Objects Which Met My
Views.
| regret to say that my vocal expression OF
all this led TO remarkably daring state.
ment from companion. He declared
that should find the same thing where
every went. There was nothing to
him. His assertion, indeed,
was confirmed by every foot OF the
wreched distance we covered until We
reached Limerick. That impression has
been somewhat destroyed and l have
after much rambling about
the country, that
The Belt of Greatest Poverty.
chiefly biuds the sea, and that there are
q few counties at least in this unhappy
island where the farmers lie might,
were he careful and his landlord reason
able, be'a "happy one" Waterford and
it's neighborhood is rich; 80 too, is Kill
kenny, Queens County, and a part of
there is soil here that an
English tenant farmer would delight to
obtain. In this neighborhood the soil
is badly farmed. No English landlord
would tolerate such farming as obtains
here for day. On the other hand, the
tenure OF land is nucertain--A
purchasing manure, improves it very
A new agent comes on to
The estate to which the farm belongs and
raises the rent, very naturally the
Tenant Does Not 60 on With the I'm
provements,
and his neignbors, seeing what kind OF
success he has met with, hesitate to
follow his example. A farmer told me
the other day that six years ago he had
rented some lands, and during that time
had expended on them, in the way OF
over three thousand
yet he had recently been evicted
rom the farm on his refusal to comply
with the demands .of his landlord, it
being an excessive rent, and for the
amount he had expended on the land
he
Did Not Receive Farthipg in Return.
A land law that allows such confscation
of property as this certainly needs
mending. / know of small district
along the sea coast where the fishermen
are fairly we'll of. Their neighbors in
land could soon be so, for there is lot
of manure on the sea shore which might
be EMPLOYED on the land, and it could
be had cheap; but they are in no hurry
to put that manure on the ground.
They Would Have to Pay More Rent
il they did 80. They let the thing 60 on
as it does, and are consequently very
miserable and always ready 10 riot. Peo.
ole saw, if we do this We shall put money
into the landlords pocket. So they con-
tent themselves by putting their potatoes
into what they themselves call Lazy.
beds" aud which any English farmer
would pronounce very lazy beds indeed.
They have, as Lord Beaconsfeld once
noticed, no amusements. They have
No Incentive to Generous Toll.
40 tbey lounge and loaf about, take more
t1an the requisite quantity OF fusil oil, I,
and become IN the end seditious instead
OF peaceful and thriving rustics. l was
anxious to find out how far the present
Land Bill, in Parl amert wou' d meet he r
present unsatisfactory condition.. should
thew asitste for something else were the
ministerial remedy applied to their fret,
fulness? Would they on the other hand
settle down and
Be Secure at Last in Their Holdinssp
l talked with many OF them, one after
the other, and all as farmers declared
that they would; but was not satisfied
TILL had actually spoken to. promi-
inent Land Lesguer, central secretary,
who has succeeded only lately TO place
vacated by one OF the arrested "sus-
cts " and himself most energetic
mau. called at his residence; he en-.
tered his front room, it Is true, to see
who the stranger was, and till he saw
that no warrant serving officer was pres
ent,