The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-14
How the Rights of Tenants Are Protected Un.
der the Eviction Laws-An Attack on the
Management of Land-League Funds.
Obnoxious Bailiff Dragged from Church
and Beaten by Furious Women.
Relations of France and Germany-The Gar
Offers Advice to the Bulgarians-A
Clergymans Response to Churchill.
RENTS. IN IRELAND.
The Owners of the Lands Make a. Statement

| The owners Of the Lands Make a. statement
of Their Side of the Case.
| LONDON, Sept. 13--The Irish Loyal and Pa
triotic Union has issued pamphlet for the use
| of the press and members of the House Of Com
mons, and which they are circulating widely
throughout the kingdom, showing the status OF
the Irish tenant from the landlords point OF
view. The following portion of the pamphlet is
furnished By the union for circulation in Amer
lea, and the cost of its transmission by cable is
betrayed by that organization:
''The status of the Irish tenant farmer, within
| the past sixteen years, has undergone marked
| amelioration, owing to the enactment OF vari-
Gus remedial statutes. There has certainly been
| fall in prices, but everything considered there
| is nothing exceptionally bad in the condition of
| agriculture in Ireland. The Irish tenant farm
! ers have greater advantages in respect to tenure
| than farmers elsewhere, and with improved
| methods there is reason to look to the future
with confidence, the figures showing that full
| advantage has been taken of the right to sell
interests in holdings Laying aside all rhetorical
| bosh. it is necessary to state the actual facts
concerning evictions. BY the land act of 1881
| a tenant cannot possibly be eyicted unless he
| fails to pay his rent refuses to
comply with certain statutory conditions not
| forming imaginary grievances. Ejectment for
| non-pavment of rent cannot be brought for less
than q years rent actually due, and should eject
ment be brought the tenant may redeem it at
| any time within six months after its execution,
and may, within the same peraod, sell his ten
| ancy for the execution of the ejectment to any
| body who wishes to purchase, and who has the
| privilege of redeeming. Besides this, the ten
| ant has many other advantages, and, therefore,
| evictiops are both dangerous and costly to the
| landlord, and only practiced in extreme
, cases. Should years rent fall due in Septem-
| her, October or November the landlord cannot
| get decree until the January sessions, and six
months more must elapse before he can obtain
possession of the land. Tho landlord is then liza
BILE to the tenant for the crops thereon, and
nearly two years must elapse before he can fully
recover the tenancy.
"In 1884, Irish holdings numbered 565 254
| evictions during the first six months of 1886
numbered only 2007. vast majority being for
! more than one years arrears. Carefully pre-
pared returns show that there were only $50
| cases of absolute removal, many having been re-
| admitted indeed, many of the $50 were reinstat-
| ed as care takers. An additional important fact
is that by the county court rules. in all cases of
| ejectment the Judge Is able to grant such stay
of execution as, under the circumstances he con-
| siders reasonable a similar course being fire.
quent in the Superior Courts.
'Regarding the money subscribed for the agi
| tation, il s needless to remind the public that
| NatonaHsts boast that even the poorest and
neediest people have shown their sympathy with
| the agitation by the extent and continuance of
| their contributions. 1t is needless here to in
quire into the truth Of the matter, or to inquire
| the money. All that is required is that hard.
! stern fact should be noted carefully. The Land
| League was started in 1879, its avowe6 object be-
ing to assist the Irish tenantry The first
practical move was to commence drawing sub
| scriptons. The following figures are taken
| from Parnete prints: From October, 1879,
until the government suppressed the league, in
| October, 1881, the Land League received from
| Great Britain and Ireland Ell, 8O4 During the
| same period. there was subscribed to the fair
| trial fund 81 024 and for the relief of distress
| E942. The last-named fund received from all
sources ESQ, ,672. of which Gl0, ,000 were diverted
to the Parnellite political fund, and balance Of
93,65S is, entirely unaccounted for.
417,96l, the total received being EGO 461, and
| there is balance of f8,46 unaccounted for.
| There were subscribed to the Kenny and Father
| Sheehy testimonials G2 900 and to sundry funds
for suspects e. 800 The Land League was sue
ceeded by the Ladies League, of which the pris
| oners sustentation committee received from Ire
land and Great Britain a total of f39, 176. This
| committee gave place to another, which
met at the Dublin Mansion House, ap-
pealing for relief for evicted tenants. and
which received E8, 500. Then came the Parnell
testimonial. to which the Irish at home sub
scribed G33, 808 of the f40,0 600 The National
! League commenced in 1883, and has up to the
| present received E23 GAO from Irish branches.
| Concurrently with exactons levied by the league,
subscribers in ireland supplied the G5C0 fine
| imposed on Mr. Gray for contempt of court;
| G8,200 to defray the law expenses of
Mr.. O'Brien, in connection with the public scan
| dal; in 1884 f7.200 was given to Messrs. Laor,
| O'Connor, OKelly, Sexton, Harrington, Healy
| and others in acknowledgment of their services
| in Parliament, and G5, 336 as a special testimo-
NAL to Mr. Sexton for his invaluable labors for
collected, of which there is no record
available. for the defense of prisoners
and expenses of public meetings. Mr.. Egan,
| however. estimates the amount at a large figure.
| H. Ioo fofa Oar
paper three years ago. that such items for the
| three years ending in October, 1882, did not fall
! short of G80 000 We may estimate similar ex-
Denses for the succeeding four years at not less
than that amount. Mr.. Ecan also includes in
the subscriptions for patriotic purposes E25, 600
for the Dublin exhibition. Finally, the amount
| subscribed up to the present moment TO the
| Irish party funds is G6592 To sum up,
| Irelands tribute of hard cash to the
| Parrellite excheuuer (of which the Irish in
Great Britain subscribed something though in
| appreciablel. since the founding of the Land
| League in October. 1879. TO the present time,
amounts to 9360 ia or f52, 900 per annum
''It is difficult in the face of the savings bank
returns, to contend that the Irish people are
now in imminent financial danger. As matter
of fact, there is now larger reserve of money
standing to the credit of Irish tenants than in
any preceding year. The growth in this respect
banks deposits amounted to Gl,200, 900,
and in 1885 to f4,300,0 900. These are
the popular banks with the poorer classes
as depostors Alongside the repeated assertions
of the povertystricken condition of the Irish and
their inability to pay rent. it is interesting 10 no.
tice that while the expenditures in intox.cants
has fallen much in Great Britain OF recent years
it has appreciably increased in Ireland Taking
into account the diminished population in 1886,
the consumption OF beer and spirits showed an
aggregate increase of f34l 1884, while il 1884 be
compared with 1881, the increase bulks out
to the enormous total of f750, ,000
A coincidence worth noting is that the reduc
tion in rents under the land act of 1891 was more
than equaled by the increased consumption oi
beer and spirits in the same period Finally or