Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-12-20

Many villages were cleared when the
great deer forest OF Harris was extended
not SO many years ago. The people
we're turned from bones where they had
al ways lived, the OLD with the young, and
women ahout TO become mothers. High
lauders love their land. Many went
back again and again, even after their
cottages we're bat bleek piles of ruin.
Because he evicts tenants who will not
pay their rent, the irish landlord is call
ed cruel. The evicted in the Hebrides
are those who interfere with the landlords
convenience or emusements. The rent
has nothing to do with 1t. And yet or
Scotch evictions CON paratiyely little has
been heard. Journalists skilled in their
trade have published abroad, from one
end of the land to the other, the tale of
Irish wronds. But Who knows the il
Justice that has been done in Scotl and in
order to lay waste BROAD tracts of good
groundY ~ will tell you how Rodt was
cleared" said John McDiarmio, OF Scalpa,
TO the commissioners. "There we're L50
aearths in Rodl. Forty of these paid
rent. When young Macleod (the eodlord)
came home with mis- newly married wife
to IL udIl, he went away TO show his wife
the place, and 90 of the women OF R8dil
came and met then, and danced reel
before them, so glad were they to see
them. By the time the year was out--12
months from that day-these 20 women
were weeping and weiiag, their houses
being unroofed and thsir hres Guenohed
by the orders OF the estate. / could not
say whD was TO blame, but before the
year was out 100 Gres 'ssre quenched."
As in Rodil, SO 1t was were now stretch
es the deer forests OF Rarris-wherever
indeed, deer are hunted ia the Highlands.
Whoever wants TO learn the nature of
some of the blessings whIeh come TO the
many from the proprietary power and
right OF the few-a right and power 10
which the duke OF Argyll refers all ad-
vance in the highlands--let him read the
"Hlstory of The Highlands Clearences,'
as told by Alexander Mackenzie, the
Gloomy Memories of the HIghiands,"
by Donald Macleod, himself one of the
evicted. Their story Is too cruel for me
to tel again. Their country was
desolate; their cities were burned
with FIRE; their land, strangers de-
voured it in their presence, and it WAS
desolate. Never did negro slaves in
the South fare as did the highland men
and women cleared from the glens and
valleys of Sutherland. Slaves at least
represented so much money; but the
erofter was and is less valuable to the
laird than his sheep and his deer. Slaves
could be sold. This was the Que thing
which the ianlord, dispute all his rights,
could not do without crofters. DE could
starve them and their families, turn them
adrift, burn their cottages, chase them
over seas, there, perhaps, to meet q new
starvation, disease aud death. From
every part of the highlands and islands,
from Ross aud Argyllshire, as from
Sutherland, hundreds and thousands were
forced TO fig, whether they would or no.
And With those who stayed al home,
hoa Jared it' The evioted sguatted, We
would say, on the crofts OF friends and
relations ia other parts of the estate.
There vas no place else for them to go.
When there they sought TO solve the bit
terest problem Of life-how to make that
which - but enough for one, serve for
two add therein were unsuccessful. The
landlord washed his hands of them and
their poverty. They had brought IL up.
on themselves. he reasoned: II crofts
we're oY-rcro sded the fault was theirs,
You might as veil forse man into the
Jungle or swamp geeking with malaria,
and then when h. Is stricken, upraid
him for living Ia such hot bed OF fever.
Mrs. Folsom, Mira. President Clevesud's