New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-18
A PICTURE OF LANDLORDlSM.
,crrr STAGE OF AGRARIAN TROUBLES
IN IRELAND.
..,prp vAuY AND HIS FIFrY-sIX FELLo"-r"'
oNERs IN THE GALWAY JAiL-A N'e''
ro wOoDYORD.
fpr CABLE TO THE rRlBuSs,l
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Cosvrton,, 1886. North Amsrsca" Ca'se - tour
o,,,v Oct III have been making ~
., ;rouirv among districts IN Ireland ~n''. ox
ian difficulty Is most acute. Iho "o'' ~ vo,ber
,sr;epce TO begin with is my interV'e" WV"
Per'en00 s.tr a., fellow prisoners in the Galway
Ia snd nv vsit TO Woodtord have alluded 10 inc
a. ., Father Fab, and Woo lford In previous oiS
oa,oba. This much-respected priest wa' arres'eu
o,o s;x weeks aco on a charge Of threatening u s0'
one Lewis "A landlord. murdered NOBODY oei'eEoe ''o
charee which rests solely on the assertion oi &c"
but bench of landlord magistrates ordereu 'a'no-
Faty 10 give bail for good behavior or go 10 y"'
.ix months Giving bail for good behaVior "o'.
an admission of guilt Father Fahy has gone " y""
Father Fahy in durance vile Is certainly al ""o
6gure an amiable, pious young clergy u"i' ""O
-enood 20 meet me with brevary in ono hand prs
oner whom the governor respects as IL ho "''' NV
cu.s, and whom waIdens and fellow-prisoners reVer
s,oo In the course of interview. conduc'eu Ill
che Governors office in the presence OF Wardeh 'ne
prisoner sad among other things:
Tho authorities and the landlords are gong InIr
way about goading the people oil Noouio toSers
perate and other priests anu ~ 2son,e and
have been doing our best TO RESTRAIN the peoPe ho h
oh,ain a peaceiul and equitable settlement Win .ne
landlords 40 as to avoid winter OF horror eu, o;.
efforts arc frustrated at every step nere uio Sbt
Is their offence They reslsted 10 the ut. n.o %
wiihin the absolute limit OF legay the -, 49,
81.
mem from their holdings on Loru O'api ~
estate They bad previously onered lea5ono'S; T.; DO
portion of rent they did not resort 10 on the
tending their homes. yet they were hanuVuu' G ?I -,
suot and marched TO prison and await tDeil ol' ,,1
morroy Moreover. several puD1cahs ~ " ,e eoi
arc 10 be DEPRIVED OF their licenses LOT refusing W 80
rov;sions - the nolice 1t is hard Tor the pe0e "
keen patient under such proceedings eut tue te;Od d
ford people are high spirited. unlted aho oistn,
and trust and pray they may carry out succcssInS
their strurple against svstem that olehts o" Oo i
trv without being driven 10 break the pohos VI % Ell
and legality The landlords are demanIins ot tlc
rents because they think the higher they Keep
bipber will be the purchase figure they look 10 opain @
under the Tory purchase scheme next year ~, g.;
those who give reductions refuse TO gi'e feeolptT III
tull and enter tie amount of reduction as arrears 81
that the rent receipts would not I've eoncsSoh n'''
their own hand OF the reduced value ol ther ianu'
After leaving Father Fahy went direct 10 "oou-
ford and found the state things even worse than he
had represented The day | arrived the magistrates
had deprived two OF the leading publcaa' OF their
bccnse monstrousl Illegal proceeding Tor the pup
bc.ns had not r, fused to sell drink to tue pohce Dut
nrov;son. for which they had no license ana WHICH
they were perfectly entitled to reinse. Ims chcuin-
stance will make the feeling more bitter 'hah c'o''
Throughout the whole nelghborhood every po"ceiao'
landlord and landlords man is rgidy ooycot'eu' Inc
most striking thing about it. however, IL 'hal d." '"o
mderlines, rent warmers, prCcess-servers auu game
keepers have resigned. For all these capac'''cS
Orange emergency men have 70 be imported al" c"cu
emergency man IS guarded oy TWO cons'"oiO' "
with rides. On every farm from which the tenant mas
been evcted at rast three emergency cn ou
half dozen consables The landlord has 10 pay 1"Ch
of these IRON So TO $40 week. And the peope WI" re-
fuse as was done Limerick tC pay the ponce YAK ~
has cost the Government S5O,oOO TO carry ous T''a %
evctious in WoOdiOTd Tor Lord tlauricaide VINO nas
reooyered no rent but who has himself to pay every
veek IT orc than the amount OF rent due 10 re9 pos
session ,f the rarms. As emergency men iahdiorus
and poice can obtain no provisions o. olher neccS
saries nearer than Dublin they are erecting gener
,ho btord arr
20 aIe base of supplies TOR the boycotted person" OF
he district Woodford is the most advanced
sneemen of the form which landlordi7m Is hKe'y 10
tale during the winter. - u r,, Np