Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-12-01
I'd EDITION.
--latest kilograms to The Star.

HOW THE CHURCH REGARDS 1T.
Archbishop Walsh's Mastery Defense
of the ssPian Of Campaign in the
Present Struggle i'm Ireland.
Special Cable Dispatch to THE EVENING STAR
LONDON, Dec. las soon as the news OF govern
ment proceedings against Dillon reached England
Mr. Stead, of the Pau Mall Gazette, left for Ire
land. He telegraphs this morning long interview
with the archbishop of Dublin describing 1t az, In
his opinion, the most important interview which
has been published since the one he also wrote IN
which Gen. Gordon expressed his willingness to
rescue the garriSOnS OF the SOudan. The import
ance of the interview lies in the following ques-
lions and answers, giving Archbishop Walshs de-
tense of the so-called ''plan OF campaign:"
questionable not such ScandalouS outrage on
The principles of common honesty, as it Is styled,
every day scandalize your grace the official chief
OF the Christian church in Ireland?
AnSwer-Weli, confess, at first / was not only
startled but grieved. had neveryet had cause to
express my dissent from any portion OF the pro-
prehending that the plan OF campaign might at
any moment be brought into reqllisition In this
perhaps prove inconsistent with my duty as bishop
to abstain from condemnation OF it. But when l
looked into the matter carefully, as 1t was OF
course my duty to do, my anxiety was relieved. On
closer inspection the difficulties that had at first
embarrassed me practically disappeared.
be So 70 wa the II
and how they were surmOunted, especially the OBJ
vious difficulty of allowing tenants to pay their
own rents?
THE GREAT DIFFICULTY.
AnsWer-Of course the great difficulty-indeed
may say almost only One-was the plan OF cam
paign. 1t leaves it practically to the judg-
ment OF the tenants that is to say to
n on one the parties TO e
doubt in the abstract, seems formidable dim
question. II the tenant is to be viewed merely as
one OF Two parties to the rent contract, in what
other light are we to view the landlord? He, too,
is only one OF the contracting parties. He has had
lne nxlng or the terms OF the contract long enough
Is 1t quite clear the tenants are to be blamed If
they claim to have their turn now?
QueStiOn-But does that argument not ignore
the TACT that tenants are setting aside contracts
already in existence?
templating there are practically no old contracts
Even those that have taken the form of statutory
tenancies under the land act OF 81 with judicial
rents are not at present Gin possession" to use a
technical phrase.
Question-Do you maintain that there are prac-
Ideally no contracts Of tenancy now valid and
binding In Ireland?
AMAsTERLY SUMMARY OF THE SITUATION.
Answer-This is how would state my view of
the case. 1t is admitted on all hands, practically
all over Ireland, that reductions, and large reduc-
lions, are to be made in rents, even in judicial
rents. The question is as to the amount Of those
reductions Whatever Inconvenience there may
De In having this grave question decided by the
tenants must maintain there is just the same in
greater inconvenience-inh having it decided by the
landlords. The landlord, like the tenant 1smerely
one OF Two contracting parties, neither more nor
proposals have been made by friend OF our Irish
tenants the adoption OF either Of which by parlia-
ment would have saved US, or rather, should
from the responsibility of the present deplorable
state OF affairs, viz: GladstOne's land purchase bill
no
pOSal for the relief OF tenants. II either OF these
had been accepted the fixing Of fair reductions
and fair rents would not now be in the hands Of
the tenants; it would be in the hands OF the con-
stttuted courts Of the realm. II
ROUGH-AND-READY WAY
has had to be substituted for formal judicial pro-
cedure, the blame surely does not lie at the
doors Of the Irish tenants or their parliamentary
representatives and the political leaders, who did
ter referred for settlement to the courts. Until
1870 the law of this country recognized but one
0wne tn IN the SOIL That as matter Of course
state OF things continued the tenant, in thus
holding out for reduction OF rent, undoubtedly
should have been regarded as keeping possession
OF that which was legally the property OF another;
but whatever grounds there would have been in
the former state of things for requiring him to
TO comply with the conditions under which he
held 1t, the case now stands
IN A WHOLLY DIFFERENT LIGHT
as result OF the land laws OF 70 and 81, for
beyond all question the system of land-tenure is
system OF dual ownershipSAIt is no longer sys-
tenn OF landlord-ownership exclusively. The
tenant as we'll as the landlord is now recognized
by law as having his ownership. The present
government have, in fact, proclaimed it as their
SO that they recognize its existence AS to abolish
Ing 1t, that can have but one meaning, viz: the
adoption OF Michael Davttts program Of abolition
OF landlordism In Ireland, for We have only two
classes OF legal owners in the soil-landlords
and tenants. we may safely assume that it is not
part OF the ministerial policy to get rid OF the
tenants, or, at least, OF all the tenants. While
there are tenants there Is no way but one Of put
ting an end to the dual ownerships Of land, that
Is by putting an end to landlOrdSm.
send this at such length because 1t is authOrt-
tative, uttered by one in the highest quarters as
what Will prove the crur OF the coming struggle.
Went Ashore i'm q Binding Storm.
BLIZZARD ON THE LAKES.
DETROIT, MICH, Dec: IAN Erening Journal
and binding snow storm the steam barge Maggie
Marshall and cOnsort Arundel went ashore three
miles south OF Manistee harbOr at o'clock this
morning. Both crews are safe. The vessels be-
long to Louis Sands. The Marshall was insured
for $4,000; no insurance On the Arundel. The
latter has 5000 bushels OF oats aboard and lies
high and dry.
has been a sailor for many years, but never ex-
perienced such gale as that of last night.
ter blizzard and a northwest gale are prevailing,
and the air is full of snow. Several vessels viii
lay up to-day.
Names Latest Bank Robbery.
PORTLAND, ME-, Dec. 1.-The directors of the
Canal National Bank state that they cannot yet
tell what methods were pursued by Blackstone in
his embeZZlement. They are still examining the
books and will make statement when the exam
tnation is finished. Blackstones bond is s., 900.
No Bituminous Coal Pool Formed.
THE STORY GENERALLY DENIED.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-ChaS. L. Abbott, the Chicago
agent OF the Columbus and Hooking Valley coal and
iron company, said to reporter last night that
the statement in a New York dispatch OF yester-
day that n combination had been formed between
the four great coal carrying railroads and the
Hooking operators to restrict the output and ad-
vance the price Of soft coal had not yestige OF
truth IN 1t. The coal owners OF Ohio had certainly
formed pool, but it did not In any way take in
the railway companies. The price OF Hooking coal
ut the mine would be advanced 20 cents December
i, which would make $500 a ton, or just double
the cost OF mining. The object OF the operators
In making the advance was simply to get little
more than cost for their coal. A special dispatch
from Pittsburg on the same subject says: "The
statement to the effect that there is to be an i'm
mediate advance from % to 80 per cent In bitumi-
nous coal Is denied by all the prominent operators
In Western Pennsylvania and Ohio"
The Empire Garden Burned Out.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The old Empire garden. sos
Sixth avenue, once one OF the low dives of the
city, burned out early this morning, and for some
time 1t was thought that Tom GOuldS the White
Elephant and the BijOu theater which ad1Oined
1t, would also be burned, but owing to the efforts