Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-29
THE POOR IRISH.
Four ThOusand Tenants Evfcfed From
the Estates OF a Reereant Son Of
the Soil, Lord DiIloB-
No Help for abe Uaf0rtuBa tes bus I'm
Emigratfon-The Curse OF Land
l0rdism I'm England.

AlEE8AlOn-Ene curse OIL Lana-
lordism I'm England.
NEW YORK, September 26.-The cable an
nounces that Lord Dillon has cstised thou
sand ejectment DEGREES to be posted at the
Swineiord courthouse, County Mayo. Among
all the cases which have been put on record
to illustrate the hsrdships which were posi-
bic under the land laws of Ireland, none has
been considered stronger than that OF Lord
billions tenants. They number some 1000,
and are settled upon an estate IN the north
ern part of the county, surrounding the small
town OF Ballaghaderrin. Four years sgo
the aggregate rental was close on $50, 900 a
year. 1t had been gradually raised TO this
hgure from $4,000, although il was admit
ted that no marked improvement had taken
place in the condition OF the land, which
was at no time sufficiently good to afford
the occupiers coarse food, provided they
20 OF he 'h is crops .uef
was their attachment to the homes OF
their forefathers that they made annual har-
vesting trips to England and sent home their
s.viuss. So long as The English farmers re-
quired their services they were prompt in
rent-payipg. The agricultural depression at
the other side of the channel took away from
them their main prop, and in one year there
England OF over $4,000. The late Lord
Dillon had never seen his Irish estate, and it
is said that the present lord has also abb
stained from making it a visit A worthy
gentleman named Strickland was the agent,
having succeeded to the position at the death
OF his father. But for the liberality with
which the tenants were helped from The re-
lief funds raised in America and Australia
hundreds of them would have died of star
NJ 2frfr
of this fact; and declined 10 carry
out the harsh measures which Lord
Dillon dictated from England. The result
was his resignation and the appointment of
one Of a class of men which has come into
existence through the determination of GER
tain landlords TO have their rents regardless
of consequences. The new agent was as
sisted by Lord billions son, and a district
which for many years had been free from
crime had to be given over TO the charge of
soldiers and police. 1t would be a great
blessing to Lord Dillon's 1000 tenants if
they were 10 leave Ireland in body. The
inteHtion of the emigration clause OF the
Arrears act was TO provide for the settlement
of tenants of this kind on the public lands
of Canada or elsewhere, and il ia to be hoped
they may be induced 10 take advantage of il.
HOW THE wRETcHED PEAsANrRY SUFFER
FOR ENGLISH LANDLORDS.
The New York Saa, examining some fig
ures relative 10 five counties bordering
on the Atlantic, VIZ: Donegal, Mayo, Gal
way, Clare and Kerry, shows that their ex-
IRENE poverty will become painfully sppz-
rent. These five counties have population
of over a million souls living upon $4,000
holdings; yet the total acreage under cult
walton in 1881 was only 100000. That is to
say, the average size oil farm by whose
proceeds whole family must be supported
did not exceed elk acres, or fell short BY City
per cent. of the minimum which the best
authority on Irish economical questions de-
clare indispensable to the maintenance of
life We should add that out of the whole
number of holdings only $4,000, or about
one-ffth, are rated at over $50 a year,
while more than 1900, or about one-haH,
are raised at $50 and under. Here, then, Is
a great body of more than 100000 souls liv-
ing in the depths of wretchedness, and who
could hardly manage to subsist, even though
the land they titled should be made over to
them as a free gift. Ii follows that, however
dist asteful is the idea of repatriation, IL is
simply impossible for a considerable
minority of the Irish tenantry to remain in
Ireland. The western districts must remain
fountains of emigration until their present
population has been depleted to a fraction
of its present volume. The rapidity of the
Uurfivw uiii be, of course, PruPurrtouate 10
the alacrity with which the requisite means
are furnished, either by the national treas
ury or BY friends and sympathizers in the
more prosperous paris of Ireland or in
the United STATES. The great mas of
the population in the five Atlantic coun-
ties mentioned are actually too poor
10 obtain BY sale of ali their small be-
longipgs the trivialsum needed to defray the
cost of passage across the ocean. That il
is only the expense incident 10 the voyage
v hich keeps these people at home could be
EASILY demonstrated by any Irish-American
who would dispatch ship TO
galway or Westport Bay, offering free pass
iges 10 all families who might wish TO leave. |
There is another source which will continue |
o contribute TO the outpoor from ireland. |
We refer to the agricultural laborers, who |
ire computed to number 100000 against
100 900 tenant farmers. Here we have more
han a third of the population of ireland,
or which absolutely nothing has heretofore
een done, and whose lot is comparatively
bject and precocious. 1t is diff
uIt, indeed, to see what can be
one for this most needy section of
he people; for, although the lead
rsEof the Land League have espoused their
ause, and have suggested that the farmers
their employers--should guarantee to each
aborer the possession OF cottage aud
lot of ground; the proposition is viewed
18th considerable disfavor by the tenants,
ho complain, with too much reason, that
heir holdings are small enough already. 1t
ould seem, then, that for the agricultural
lborers, as distinguished from the peasant
occupants, the one practicable solution of
he Irish problem is emigration.
HEN THE LAND QUESTION COMES UP IN EN-
GLAND.
Dublin correspondent OF the New York
World, writing on the all-absorbing land
uestioD, says that when in England il be-
'mes the question OF the hour, one of the
'eatest political fights the world ever saw
i'll have been inaugurated. As / have al
ady said, tine land in Epgland supports
ree classef, two of which are producing
I'd one non producing. II must be remem-
sred that the landlords in England have al
avs held themselves active partners of
e farmers. They have made the improve |
ents; they have furnished money to keep ]
e farmers afoat in bad times; they have
ted in a thousand and one ways SIS men |
wing an equal interest in the land with {
ose who actually titled it, and they have
ways shown that they felt and realized the
ct that their welfare was bound up in that {
the farmers. For this they have their re- !
ard in the fact tn at the farmers are read and
ling to support them in all thingp. But !
ien the time comes tn at it is no longer pos /
Die for the land to support more than those
40 till it, what will be the result? The !
adical societies have for years been propa- !
ting their ideas. They have been espe-
lily careful to diffuse their knowledge of '
" the great landowners OF the country got .
cir land. They have told the story Of how c
is ones ancestors got it by grant from the b
OWN and that ones esrped it by service to b
and the other ones by perhaps .
IRE questionable service to the prime min o
er of the day. When the time comes that a
; land will not support q non-producing Y
lag II will be found that all of this work 3
) borne fruit. Men, urged thereto BY pri- II
lie necessity, will begin to ask BY what .
hit the crown or the Parliament or the II
me minister gave the land. They will "
, where the title transferred came from; z
y will deny that the Del gratia extends or '
II could extend to a bestowal OF the fee o.
lple of the soil. The English are in many ls
poets peculiar people. While it takes Il
lerations In point of time and sharp and p
ID pressure TO introduce any new idea into b
ir neads, once that idea il there it is a
tally difficult to disledge it. Should CT
nd League arise in England and secure e.
thing like the support which the similar d.
IiiuIion did 10 Ireland. great changes
aid be made, and that right quickly. The Al
ylish are 90 accustomed to success when h'
e the support of public opinion has been
lred, and they are 50 accustomed to go
ad when once they see the end, that
hing would turn them aside. Ii
possible for the government of En-