, 1881-01-14
1RELAND's DEPoPULAT1ON.
Evils Wrought by tlo Landlord System
-Grent Districts Cleared OF Peasants
to Make Room for Eshll0clks.

Evils Wrought By tlao Landlord System
-Great Districts Cleared OF Peasants
to Make Room for Esulioclss.
Irlsh f,orf.sponlItnee Nttv Ynrk Herald,
Taking KtlconnelL rs u central point yo1t
may drive for four or five miles my wny you
please md you will not seo MI acre of ci,tti.
vntptl Rfnund. Grass everywhere, but scarce
lyn lio,lsc. You piss field after Held. grown
rank with rusllus, producing grass Of II mt
very nutritious quality, supporting SO luany
head OF cat.1c to tho acre. Thirty yenrs ngo
and all this district, misunderstanding now as
n Hungarian pllsstn, was studded with tho
sulnll tn,nes Of the Irish trllnmt i.rmer, who
cultivated lis lind in gra!n and root crops,
enabled o support himself nnd lIis fn.llily III
comparative comfort. Then the prleu Of grniu
fell n,ui TINT 1f cattle went up. The lntMt-
lnrtls OF tho district tflcn determined to rnnp
M asctea Pets te % o IL es SM s 5 p 1T e te u % e
grass farmers. Lord Clanenrty might have
.loMe the sanle thlng as his neiglDors, hut le
followed 'norn hulManc course. O'GUnnell
H Mt safs'sfs s xsc fe catac sarps 5
tho slnall tena,!t w''s thereafter o. no earthly
use Iii pr0lnntlng tho political wclfnrv 0f flis
lord A 80 It ,crIe se - vii at xs .s aI sal %
.iistrict, wis evlctctl irom tic iantts nlit(
driven 10 tho p00rHr districts Oh the western
rnasi, wlIHrG ever Slllco li1 ltsS lived Mlscr-
nble existence, ct'!,;pelei to wTvst seahty
hoKs untitled fur llt,nam llRhitatlois. .Wisru,
thirty yeAls ago, OIL ,GOo ncTes tel families
(ur stiIe tlfay peoplS) g.lnetl !lyelltlDod
s'nr %a @ .snr tsc Fsnt ii tG s ss s 'G t ta Gw
cAre Ut tho cattle nf tt.e Erass farmer. True,
grass farlns pny, anu ala.Enrtts nlust live, hut
tlle fact rclllHlns tint nIlnetse districts Ut the
best parts OF Ireland have been clcarcd nt
nht4 Ia ffkr atf4r fft
mike room fur bullocks and u few herds
Tiio sad truth dawns upon you rs you drive
along tl,eso levels ot grnss lallls ttnt Erent,
prosperous people. They wero driven from
their Iu,lMes without COMPENSATION, with
nntlIing but the Glotlles u, tt,e!r bnck, driven
from tlle rich lands ot tic district wit!lnnt
III the ui!lcl;est f,sl,i0n. WHY dill not Lord
Clanrarty n.opt the, sane; method of pro-
ceduro9, Perhaps, first, becausu l,o WINS
rent roll., Bnt, whatever tho reason, It Is
and. gaye Ills people the, opportunity, by
urging them to pat nart 9t their farms
fure, Tho san'e thing might hnye leen DOM
by ether landlords, nilu tho district would
BtI,Y, iuslcnu nf oily atf0rttng grnzlng fNl
bniioc!ks, hnvs suppt!rtaA thiek Eop''atl,nl! ,
grass iatds uru gradually running to Wilder.
iless anti fltxe md llsscA are fh matly cases
lighting with the grasses fur supremacy. It
luis BEEN estlulntcd tint &C, 00o acres Ut lnItl
BECOME wilxtn Dvery year. crying out. nA II
wore, for tltlagn and cultivation, whllu tha
mel who ones' li!led II are starving OH wpst'
crn hills nllt bugs. No Wonder, II seems IL
inr. tllat tic peUplu laye .l.bhr, tt,esn land.
lords 0t grnss fnr.ls "axtern!lnatnrs," for
they llayu succeeded III tlrsolatEng thu coll,l.
Try afal driving tho p0opla to misery nlsu
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