The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-14

cost; II process of ejectment is served
Is a plaster on the farmers purse
ms Is put upon the unfortunate hus.
oandman without any warming; and
constitutes an additional burden upon
ms last diminishing resources. When
Inc tenants want a reduction the agent
says he viii see the owner, and if they
INSIST on seeing their landlord and
tfeating with him personally, they are
informed his 'ludship" is in London.
FROM the palatial residences on the
ihames have already come several de-
crees 10 the effect that no reduction can
De aiioWed, while some have graciously
oHered ten per cent. The farmers ue-
care the landlords should go with the
elmes; that If his money were invested
IN any other business direction it would
De SUBJECT 10 commercial fluctuations.
that he should feel the prosperity and
auverslty OF his tenants. They know
their cause is just and they have al
| ready joined the common cause. de-
cilring that in this matter they can
know neither politics nor religion. In
one case these good Protestant farmers
(whose tawny pates have been patted
again and again by ministers fatter
than any priest and by blatherskite
politicians and who have been allied
the goody-goody mainstay of the rare
Province OF Ulster) have come down on
heir fgurative Eat feet aud declared
In tones as emphatic as were ever used
by the most Nationalist of Nationalist.
that any man who would take a farm
from which one of their number had
been elected was a vile traitor to a lust
cause. Things, as the boy saws, arr
getting no better fast. 1t would not
surprise me to see speedy Inaugural
ton OF South Ireland anti-landlord
tactics in this province, which j. now
honey combed with mongrel nrnist nal
politicians. The landlords will no. give
in. Many OF them cannot. Like other
people, like poor people, they live up t.
their means; and like them also, they
cannot possibly conceive how they
could exist on a diminished income.
So little do they comprehend the con
dttlons OF their tenants, they might a.
well be inhabitants of another world
and so little do many of them seem to
care for the welfare of those whose toll
supports them. that one is often led to
wish to God they were in another
world. Estates are mortgaged, the in
terest on which, together with their
own expenses, keeDs them grinding on
the farmers and demanding the pound
OF flesh, the only difference between
them and the Shakespe ian Shylock
being that the modern gentleman does
not give a continental and, what part
of The carcass the pound of flesh comes
on, so long as he gets it. In the
meantime the sympathy with the anti
landlord movement grows. and dear a.
the parson says the religion of the Pro
testant is to the heart of his congrega-
ton, land the Lord knows it is dear"
at any price) unless there occurs COM
mercial interposition in behalf of good
times there is strong likelihood of the
"urgodly" alliance with Catholics
(Which they have so much dreaded and
spouted againsD becoming stubborn
fact. Some people have unbounded
faith in follies. All the time the clergy
keep praying to the Crea or to ward off
certain conditions, while every thing
goes to show that the Lord is letting the
conditions, so much dreaded, come right
along; and one might even be led to
believe He sometimes had a hand in
forwarding them. The end is not yet.
WANDERER.