Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-19
SUFFERING IRELAND.
Michael DaVltt Shows the Darker
Side,
BUT STILL HOPEFUL OF SUCCESS.
Those Who Have Been Turned From Their
Homes in the Past Few Months
The Sad Case of West
Clare Widow.

LONDON, September 1S.-Michael Davitt
has prepared an article on the present
state of affairs in Ireland for publication by
the American press. After speaking OF vari-
Gus matters and showing themanycauses for
encouragement, he says: EVictions are
still being carried out in consequence OF
non payment OF rack rent. A paper, ust
issued, shows the number OF people that
have been dispossessed Of their holdings
throughout Ireland during the quarter
ending on the 30th Of June. The province
of Munster heads the list with record OF
234 families or 2,327 persons. VI these Z4
families were re-admitted as care takers.
Connaught comes next, with $50 families,
comprising ZOOS individuals, OF whom Is
families were readmitted as tenants and
l4l as care.takers. In Leinster there were
l62 families evicted, comprising II per
sons. Some families were allowed oack as
tenants and So as care.takers. In ulster
27l families, or l,l03 persons, were
thrown out, IS families being put back as
tenants and Is as care-takers. 1t is seen
that in Connaught, where there were twice
as many families eyicted as IN lister, only
ne.fourth the number were permitted 10
re enter their homes. The numbers
eyicted per county are as follows: An
trim, Is families Armagh, IS CaVan, %;
Donegal, 90; Down, Is; Fermanagh, .;
Londonderry, 90 Monaghan, Il; Tyrone,
S5; Carlow, II; Dublin, Il; Kildare, hil'
county, %; Longforlh, l6; Louth, q
Wicklew, 6; Galway, los; Leitrim, Al;
Roscom mon, 10; Sligo, Al; Clare, a; Cork,
SO; Limerick, &C; TiPperary, ., and water
ford, 10.
friends in America
How Much Tyranny
can yet be exercised by Irish landlordlsm,
and the existence of the power to thus de.
prive our people of their homes points out
how much work still remains to be done
before that tyranny IS stamped out. In
nearly all Of these eviCtions arrears OF rack
rent constituted the crime for which
lhese Sentences of death, as Mr.. Glad
stone once termed Irish eyiCtions, were
inflicted.
Rent for lard which the land does not
produce is an exaction that is unwarfanted
in reason or Justice, aRd an eviction for the
non payment Of such a rent is an sct of in
human injustice fragrant outrage upon
natural right the perpetrators Of which
would be punished BY law il law were at
all administered in Ireland in accordance
with the dictates of justice or humanity.
On the % OF last month, while passing
through West Clare on tour OF inspee.
ton for the Ma tional League, / heard OF
an eviction which had been carried out
few DAYS previously near the pretty water
ing place Of Kiikee. ! drove over to the
scene and
The Following Facts
were given me BY the Widow Collins and
her son, the evicted parties: The holding
consisted of eleven acres Of cut.away bog
(bog partly reclaimedl, upon which they
had fiyed and toiled for 30 years. The
landlords name is Col. Mcdonnell, OF
Ennis. The government valuation OF the
farm is f3, and the rent exacted during the
whole period of occupation was Ell, or
close upon 400 per cent. above the declared
vslRe Of the land. Two months ago the
Widow Collins took the landlord into the
Land Court, whereupOn the holding was
revalusd and the judicial rent fixed at IS,
being a reduction on the old rsck-rent OF
Is or over GOp per cent. Taking Jhis Judicial
rent which is so per cent above the valua.
alton, as a sample Of fair rent to pay,
The Landlord Had TSAen
from the Widow Collins the sum OF $50
over and above what he was entitled to re-
view; or, in other figures what would have
purchased the fee simple OF the holding
and left this industrious widow 80 with
which to reStock her little farm. Was any
of this money refunded some OF your
readers may inquire. No, on the contrary,
for having avaled herself OF the provisions
of the land and for etfctiug such reduct-
ion in her rent she was eVicted by Colonel
Mcdonnell Tor the sum oil 1l9 arrears due
ha C,'A land.
lord can no longer extract A6 year OF this
tenants earnings more than the law will
permit HIM 10 take be turns her out OF
her holding and all her improvements for
thirty years are taken from her, without
comp- n alton hy the law which evicts her.
as thC slSu were by the landlord.
Ia a Word.
one lew declares that Colonel Mcdonnell
rChOed Widow Collins of $50 in thirty
wears. while another law deprives her OF
ler holding and casts her ont upon the
highway bsCsuSe the landlord had not sue
cerded in adding tl9 more to the sum he
hs9 ulreadv contiscatei out Of the earnings
II herself and son. These facts speak for
thems, Ives, but will add. In conc usion,
ne cp Mons which an able English land
refOrufsr has Just given expression to on
this identical subject. In this months
Na,millsn's Magazine DR.. Alfred Russell
Wallace, the able advocate OF land nation
alizstion in England, writing OF the evic-
tions that were carried out in Ireland after
the great famine, says: Consider these
horrible results produced in four years 10
a million OF people; consider, further, that
the same kind of eviction, with its
Consequent Misery and Vice.
has been going on in Ireland in varying
degrees down to this very year, and that
all this untold wretchedneSs, this cruel,
heart,rendiug wrong, this vice and crime
and psuperism. this disease and death,
have been caused-not in a great war De-
tween nations struggling for supremacy,
not to maintain any great principle OF re-
ligious or civil liberty, but in order that
landlords may get their rents more secure
" and easily" And now, in this year
1888, when the people of Ireland, crowded
into towns land on the poorest lands OF the
west coast, are again starving, the only
remedy our landlord legislators can pro-
pose is to ship them of by thousands to
other countries and thus Increase aud in
tensify that widespread hatred OF English
rule which is the natural and just punish
ment we are receiving fer persistent in
justice
How long that
"Persistent IBiustiee-
will be persevered in towards Ireland de-
pepds, in q measure, upon ourselves, just
as the number Of evictions which register
acts Of landlord tyranny will be proper
tionste TO our determination to curb the
power and the insnlence OF the class that
perpetrate them. The fight with landlord
| ism is no, yet half over.
MICHAEL DAyITr.
The Garfield Monument.
CLEVELAND, September S-The sur
ravnrs have finished laYinR ont the