New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-08
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CLUB.

THE IRISH LAND QUESTION DISCUSSED BY HENRY
GEORGE AND OTHERS.
The Irish land question was discussed last
night at meeting OF Nineteenth Cen ury ClnD IN
The house OF COurtandt Palmer No. IL East twenty
nrsi--t There was IA laree attendance of tue members
aud guests the drawing OOms OF the house being com
petey filled. Among other persons present were the
REV. Dr. j. II. Try ance, Mrs. joan Sherwood. BayArd
Tuoaermal, If. h. Tremain, Edgar Fagcet, the Rev
Grorgs Ma lory Mr.. aud Mas. John l. Hayden, Ere T.
rex A. COukling, q. W. B.llou, Richard Grant White.
Mr. and RS H. NJ. Day Mr. and Mrs. II. NJ Hunt.
Dwight II. Olms.ead, Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert f..
Jones. the Rev. NJ r. schermerhorn Miss
Kate "a born, Professor AID Mrs. ii. H.
Boyesen Dr. william A. Hammond. Miss Emma
Lazarus Charles Moran. SIR. Thomas +. Mcagher Pro-
fe,,or Isaac icc. ex,Iudge Arnoux AMI SIR. and Mrs
Jordan l. Mott Tho initiative in tIo discussion was
,sseu by Henry George. who talked easily and dcscrlp
uyely II Irtl and he II ON his recent visit Mr
Palmer IN presenting Mr. George to the club said that
he n landlord mad only objection to him, when
Vas tnat he had written book on political economy
which he lMr. Palmer, could not answer. lie sug-
gested that II after he debate II appeared that no an
swer ,oud made. the club git make an auto da fe
OF IL and ne would feel Inclined 6 entertain motion
iOr tue irrmnntiOn Of the author.
Sir George s.ld tina. Ireland was good country nat
ura 'lv mn on, a. "A rush WON'T have been made Tor
n n had lain OF wostwnr1bound civilization
The Irlsb people were moral aud ylrtuUus; ordinary
crime WAS aluos UNKNOWN, and the only wonder VAS
nat there lite OF agrrdn crime He ridlcnled
tue idea that ne ohet occupation OF Irisnmcn L. going
cunning for Landlords. Tney were the most reliq Us
people in tue lie DENIED that Irc'and was an
OYcrpOpulated country or th!t there ever had bech
real scarcity Of food there. lts poverty ana DIS ress
came from the egn ownership OF tie soil md tue OPP
ptc.son 81 tnr iaud IId-, produced nothing ana
were Ike herd OF Ia,asng elephants. The oppression
II tue easau caused them to 0rcomc obrequous, and
pfrysn.ed them from making tue smallest show OF
aorumcnt their cabins, e, the matA OF prosperity
% noticed aud tne reut raised lie had he"rd OF IN,
stances where iamilles having meat at meal
stationed cud IL the roadway 20 give warning OF tne
rnroch o. the AZ NJ the discovery OF the fact
MI M lead To an Increase he rent. nodruOuuced the
prcsrut lrsn EUScramcnt-tuo worst hht lie
INV npii IN tho civilized wor lie said tuat the
lenders OF politics were NEE pOlluodns, WuO hhd
ue, APPRECIATED power when IA hdd i the Land
e g,ir movement Mr.. D,yu alone realized what tnefe
the nON chcn ana WAS Sat up0h Dy MI IArheu
aud colleagues lrs ia" NOV nchl S'oua go iutheI
tun they wished. The Remedial le-l'hJlOn hdopcd, ne
saiu, was mcr,y temporary maAcanit; the settlement
could Ony be made Oh the pa anime VI INC lauu LOT
Cnnrts Moran combated the theory Of Mr. George.
The l,adIng error made by gentlemen OF hls way OF
tr,,eI the evolution Of land tenure. Land
wa, eli IN common among 81 age, WHO lived on
utrr. loss. ne prUgrg uu,nanty hau lam III tue
deS eop tent nItatry ana the son OF iaOOr.
IRVINE O"ner'np accrued 80 natural rB, " eu e
eOpug man -urren cred MS rSnt 10 largo part OF
the common property 90 Ao small part IN 'eo sunpo,
10y n7 la OF Improve H.
,.rusun Ailay Wlth Mr.. George Ia his prcSen-
taOu great question, The WITH ono IN tue c"nFO
ycrsy To whom tho ear h belong ~ IL me wan
der nIly oOIduIu ndGe pro ross for tLe
"a, If 10 s. ar, as n,y for Last
e-at, tucy might then own tao Title deeds 10 al the
earn, a.d wat would the res. OF
ius,ined tho uprising OF too people against tho
gnstucrao, IN The ricH,n Revelation aId In oau Domm
20 m 1872. B or a up Railway rius, 90. IL
uOn a. a resen, carried On, as syst,m o. taxation
Louis +. Post OF tnLt al iuOLOP0ue' OuS Il 90 De
put undc 7ube,uOn' which cohl oni' De done 10y max
/. puSuc ,r"pefty. MI Geo go asIeed WIN MIN;
iuULOpJllts buUuu DtIO 10 tno GA u