Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-15
IsELAND's WOE.
,,alords Who Have Ruined Their
tenants, Body and Soul.
,,ersTISE LORDS BLACK CAREER
o,.,y,.e Pictures Of Suffering Humanity
Caused by English LandIOrdism-
AWOman Who Lives on Thirty
Sin Cents a Week.

u, s.tste. His LordShlp, who IS now quite
,,,i man. does not find the atmosphere
S..sshouts wholesome. He thinks there
;. .r,,i in the air. He is living down at
y;rgs,oxn, near Dublin,
IL, little seaside resort. and also the
s.rsr,.rs station for boats to HOlyhead.
r.rs the disreputable and immortal old
r,,d IS doing holy penance for his sins.
"a did more clearing Of his lands than any
IAN in Ireland for the size of his estates.
uis rents sre said 70 be over Sl0O, 900 a
year Besides the desire to put his land
under grass, he had the second motive Of
,,{ting rid Of many Of his tenents. It wss
70 get iunumerable girls whom he had
mined of TO America He used to pay the
s1renses of whole families who emigratsa
70 America.
Half Lord, Half Peasant.
The ismi'y name is DAILY. All the chill.
9-,r lat he acknowledges as his were born
M If WtdlOCk. Willie DAILY, his eldest
ON lives on the demesue and acts as his
su-s. istaer's agent. He has several sis
,s-s. They stay on the place with him.
Though he spranC from the peasantry he is
|,n unpupu'sr with them that his own con.
enc. 'r..S him to go armed and guarded.
Ig old lord married the mother of these
rsl#r,n after all Of them were nearly
yova. though fear of outraged public
,.U.uD.
lie raved that for a long time; but a
ya.y serious talk OF tarring and feathering
r Increasing popular indignation, and
zr.r Nf tha INaNkA1,, ,1a
uir ed the reprObate 10 do what little
r ,,slt by way of reparation on this
|srl Tie woman is now dead. Had the
q Hl-f hem compelled TO marry all the
y..r-- o. all his children, his pligh:
boz lave been intolerable. He would
SIS. Do G 10 emigrate and become saint
q Z Al.
In the Landlords Power.
H a,ver bad Dunsandle is and has been
l. ,., t-rrll,C conduct towards his peasant
?. raan'. ne may console himself on
h.r .- uu.y 3 greater regret to the world,
s. : not alone. | tind that on other
"a - U I-ielsnd landlords did not scru-
% ave Cumely peasant women their al
rI.r.r II crime or eviction, which meant
o .sath. Oyerworked and poorly fed,
.0r wretChed women who yielded. They
sr' s.arCsly able 10 combat. Many re-
,,,t at tist, and stood out grandIy for
,i- hastily, and not q few, alas, fell
f-.v IN the fray. lt was an unequal
s',h. The Establishments of hell an 4 OF
.l,hrd devils of men, aided by the psngs
iu' ger and the necessary degradation Of
aT,auOn, were too strong.
Threats of Eviction.
Fully one.half Of these larger landhold-
+ IN Ireland worked the evils Of their ter
bic Vaccinations by the threat Of eviction
H. by the reward Of either a marriage
,rt'On or free farm to a husband on
arTying. l. it any wonder that many Of
I'm so armed and guarded by police,
hils others fear to be seen at all? Before
9 peasant was a Serf, slave. Now he is
freeman. He is no longer afraid of the
CdloFd. Centuries of this slavery had
)tttn these benighted persons TO submit
| almost anything FROM landlord, on
ssme principle as that the king can do
wrong. II is not so to-day; and | be-
We that much latter-day absentee land.
rti>m is due TO a fear of retriOutiOn.
ord Leitrin paid the penalty Of his foul
rOugS. There are more TO follow.
TbIrIy-sIN Cents - Week.
A. HyOkeen. which is One-half mile from
e entrance, by one road, to the demesne
/ Lord punsandle, lives an old woman
snpd Mary Frederick. She has no means
| sCppp-t, and she is too old to work. She
- JaLliC yaUper. The outdoor relief
3Crr allows her thirty.siN cents aweek.
a. Is al that the humane officer, who is
son OF Lord Dunsandle's bailiu allows
- Gr fuel, clothes and food. When |
site! Mary BrOderick found her in great
overly. She was, however, thrifty, and
cabin looked neater and cleaner than
any others l have seen. Another old
n.uu. about her age, is in the cabin with
r. ~he, too, is on outdoor reiief, and
rs 'p ~ grateful for the magnificent sum
dirty TX cents.
Ca ,uu live on that asked her.
"|,'. Yes, sir, | DO, and on less, for
ny ,p-rd thirty.tOur cents on myself.
u.- uiten want more to eat than
"Nl.r 'o you 90 with the other penny
W. y,u see, SIR, l keep that, and
yer ~a.vTlay | buy a little wax candle
| rli g. ~.4 burn il in honor of the blessed
~
Lord DauSandIe's SIster-in-LRW.
CoI scott at such sweet, simple, abid
Hs IN 10 Had even a more doubling man
Aau ] lrsrd and seen that pure, good old
- " mug III AEl AuAOSNANNf Va NNAy A+arN
Al candle to burn on Saturdays in respect
% Tie mother OF Jesus Christ, he would
ave at least, reyerenced the faith.
~ LETT the cabin the gentleman who
81 sCCUu panied me said: well, what do
on think OF Mary BroderiCk' ''
'nh, she IS a neat, respectable old wo-
asr
"Ncu kno. who she is?'
y have heard. IL does not seem 10 be
ny secret in Galway"
We'll il is true, She is Lord Dunssndles ;
>'CJ In-law. She is the sister of the dead
~ ~ who was mother of all the DAILY
tl..ren up At the manor. She is blood
mt G.. Willy DAILY, who is, by some hook
? crock in the bastard law, heir OF the
I,lt 81 d estates Of his father, yet he lets
~ sts-ye there within half mile OF his
~ home. Sometimes the Misses Daily
| 'OF 90 see the old woman and give her 3
tzI eUJe or shilling"
without Food or shelter.
y vas not surprised then to find the
wort possible specimens of misery among
tenants who were no kin, when the aunt
10 TIE tu.d's children was left 8 public
arIrr almost by her own brother.in-law's $
-a'e Everywhere you so, some one
CIi~ "ut great fields under grass, where
he Teueu hsrs used To live hundreds Of
peasant farmers, who have within forty
ears from time 10 time been hunted away
1o~ the land like rats from q house. Lord
bunsaCt.e turned out 500 souls on the
ios,.,ide from Eiltulla one day without
Lo'r "r She!'er. Many died on the road
ara ~ tie wurkhouse
Hr iumhlsd down house on an oldm
h'n cd Higgins.
The Wife Dragged Him Out
snd Lad him put under ClOrreen Bridge,
ara ty. The lord ordered the tensnt on
whose !snd Was the part Of the bridge
NAe;e i. ggins found shelter, to drive him
eNSy lie tenant refused, ard the lord,
Nlth teip, drew the sluice and turned the
water IN on tho sick man. Some boys no
-"tG Martin o HsllOran-whO tod me the
j nc. -' q and ne bad the man moved un-
Ttf 81 her bridge on a Mr. Joyce's land.
Ur>SncIe wrote joyce, asking him to
rnu -i.. NE man away from under the bridge,
..;I ..I we after was more humane, and de.
.ILe1 ." take any action at all. Higgins
,ttu under the bridge for two years
v" "' sna SumRer-when he died.
Homes of Abject Poverty.
TO- ia ne bog swamps Of Cahernakelly !
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