The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-10-04
IRELAND,s WOE.


Of Lord Dunsandle to-day. This place
belongs to the estate. His lordship. who
is now quite an old man, does not find
the atmosphere hereabouts wholesome.
He is living down at Kingstown, near
Dublin.
It is little seaside resort. and also
the departing station for boats to Holv-
head. There the disreputable and i'm.
moral old lord is doing holy penapce
for his sins. He did more clearing of
his lands than any man in Ireland for
the size of his estates. His rents are
said to be over 500 600 year. Besides
the desire to put his land under grass,
he had the second motive of getting rid
OF many OF his tenants. It was to get
innumerable girls whom he had ruined
on to America. He used to pay the ex-
pepses OF whole families Who emigrated
TO America.
HALE LORD, HALF PEASANT.
The family name is Daily. All the
children that he acknowledges as his
were born out of wedlock. Willie DAILY,
his eldest son, lives on the demesne, and
acts as his natural fathers agent. He
has several sisters. They stay on the
place with him. Though he sprang from
the peasantry, he Is 20 unpopular with
them that his own conscience tells him to
go armed and guarded. The old lord
married the mother of these children
after all of them were nearly grown,
through fear Of outraged public opinion.
He braved that for long time, but a
very serious talk of tarring and feather
ing him, increasing popular indignation,
and aggressive influence of the Catholic
clergy compelled the reprobate to do
what little he could by way of PREPARATION
on this earth. The woman is now dead.
Had the old lord been compelled to
marry all the mothers of all his chill
dren, his plight would have been intoler-
able. He would have had to emigrate
and become q saint at Utah.
IN THE LANDLORDS POWER.
However bad Dunsandle is and has
been in his terrible conduct toward his
peasant girl tenants, he may consol him
self on what is only greater regret to
the world, that he is not alone. I find
that on other estates in Ireland land
lords did not scruple to give comedy
peasant women their alternative of crime
or eviction. which meant sin or death.
Overworked and half-fed, poor, wretched
women who yielded. They were scarcely
able to combat. Many resisted at first
and stood ont grandly for their chastity,
and not few. alas! fell early in the
fray. It was an unequal match. The
Establishments of hell, and of polished
devils OF men, aided by the pangs of
hunger and the necessary degradation of
starvation, were too strong.
THREATS OF EVICTION.
Fully one-half Of these larger land
holders in Ireland worked the evils of
their terrible machinations by the threat
OF eviction and by tho reward of either
. marriage portion Of o free farm to .
husband on marrying. Is it any wonder
that many of them 60 armed and guarded
by the police, while others fear to be
seen 1t all? Before the peasant was q
serf, Q slave. Now he il freeman. He
- no longer afraid Of the landlord. Gen.
turies OF this slavery had gotten these
benighted persons to submit to almost
anything from landlord, on the same
principle 40 that the king can do no
wrong. It 10 not so to-day; and I be-
lieve that much latter-dsy sbsentse land.
lordism is due to fear Of retribution.
Lord Leitrim paid the penalty of his foul
wrongs. There are more to follow.
LIVING ON THIRTY-sIx CENTS WEEK.
At Bookeen, which il one. half mile
from the entrance, by ono road, to the
demesne Of Lord Dunsandle, lives an
old woman named Mary Broderick. She
has no means Of support, and she is too
old to work. She Is public pauper.
The outdoor relief officer allows her So
cents . week. That is all that the hu-
name officer, who is Q son of Lord Duns.
andes bailif, allows her for fuel, clothes
and food. When I visited Mary Brod
erick found her in great poverty. She
vas, however, thrifty, and the cabin
looked neater and cleaner than MANY
others Ihsve seen. Another old woman,
about her age, il in the cabin with her.
She, too, 10 on outdoor relief, and has to
be greatful for the magnificent sum Of
So cents.
Can you live on that" asked her.
well, yes, sir, do, and on less, for
! only spend 81 cents on myself, though
] often want more to eat than have"
What do you do with the other pc my
1.-TWO cents)?"
well, you zee. sir, I ksep that. and
every Saturday buy lit4ls wax candle
With il and burn il in honor of the
blessed Virgin."
LORD DuusANDL1's sTsxn-IH Law,
"Could I soo6 ct such svssA simple.
abiding faith? Had even Q more doubt
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