New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-17
IRELAND AT PEACE.
NO WARRANT FOR COERCION.
cnowN OFFICIALS RECORD 40 A LANDLORD
NOTES OK THE rRREPREssIBLE CONFLICT.

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A cnowN OFFICIALS RECORD A. LANDLORD.
NOTES OK THE fRREPREssrBLE CONFLICT.
frRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT On rHr TArBuSK
4 DUBLIN March f1.-Tory Governments ere frequently
unfortunate their selections for public ONCE Thcy
rarely abandon they have taken up. matter
what may havo been his politics 10 long, OF cousse.
their politics become his poliuca The general
| belief hers well In London IL that Mr Cham
berlsin was offered form Of Acknowledgement either
decoration or ite for having served England well dur
Ing the Fishery negotiations at Washington. Hot 70
crafty politician the member from Birmingham IL ns>
be caught easily and he has preferred 10 80 without
reward. He that te has made serious mistake IN
turning against Mr. Gsdscns and that Whatever chance
is left him Of being restored to power IN the Liberal party
would b weakened and not strengthened he should 10
known henceforth by any other name than
that Of plain sJoc,1 he should
appear IN London society with any other decors.
ton than on eycelass and orchid These little things
are Of themselves harmless though Radicals dd have
warm regard for o single eyeess& Some say that no
will compromise By substituting primrose for HIS own
favorc the coming anniversary Of Lord Bcscon
feds death, and everybody is waiting to see
The great wssc-paper Unionis.' as Lord Mayor sex
ton called him. f. as Americans know, rich man. 1t IL
hard to tell what he might have done II h. had been pooF
Look, for example,. at Colonel T. r. King Harman, our
present Parliamentary Under Secretary who represents the
Isle Of Thanet division Of Kent Tory stronghold Tie
represented Comfy Sligo Home Hulcr because, Ike
would never come TO pass His annual rentroii Of
$50 900 nominal Wy MORTGAGES a.
ached to the big slice OF Ireland which he claims
Roscomn,on County. II as the lot Of the Colonel
he is generally styled 10 many questions
In the House Of Commons which used to irrftase Mr.
Forster snd which have increased the political mortality
irish Chief secretares He won't pcse rood
laudlori" until ne found out When found and
this FAR back 1890 he known Of the
hearess types Of hesrtiess class People nstnr
bad what It with those who were known 10 b bad.
had the modesty To make any definite estimate Of
their generosity Colonel King Hartman had done
and over agafn In order confirm these statements let
me summon important witness not OF the conditions
his estate in 1880 but 1852 Let the Government IL
self stcp in and mako oath this question. It Is vital
question for tenants this landlord Of The
chosen rulers Of Irlan1. and neyt to Mr. Bafour
nearly responsible the present babarous Coercion pol
icy than any other offcial.
Some Of Colonel Kin Hsrmans tenants asked the Lana
Commissioners to nx judicial their several hold
ings In cases th kind the history OF the is
gone into detail for hundred years Amost invariably
II Is shown the tenant his predecessors have
cla'r,cd holding from being q swamp II 10 q
swamp be fertile. nearly fertile Q reclaimed
swamp coui be- The practice is general that In the
great majority of there attempt the
the landlord prove that he did anything but draw
the rent There In all fortytwo petitioners and
their rents amounted to about 1890. When the Land
Commissioners appointed the Englsh Government
bounced their decision was found that e1325 all
that the justice could be called UPON psy-a
reduction Of COOS Ever since tho Land League
ganized the conf scaon" has been in the air Rob
berry" too. You cannot take up Tory newspaper with
out seeing these words dine at landlords resort
without hearing them But what IS this which Colonel
King Harman has been doing with HIS tenants until the
hv-Engish law. too-intervenedf Was ever Of
robbery more plainly proved Most Of the Land Com
missioners Themselves petty landlords or mdnemen
or even worse, lawyers They were not Land LeaRuers
To-day tenants to fail for attending Land League
meetings and passing resolutions demanding reductions
Land Commissioners are paid s. 500 for
declaring those reductions just There Is slight incon
sstency somewhere to say the least Edmund Burke
says: "ws balance Inconvenience suppose we DO.
Perhaps this s what Mr. Balfour Is doing in these cases.
though IT is not easy to see how the arrest OF an irish
peasant Donegal Offset for the reduction Of smother
PEASANTS in Roscomnon to please tho landlord
who lives in Kent AFFECT the man who dwels in Dub
ln Tho Chief Secretary probably never h.ard what tho
landlord said whose agent had received threatening let
ter $50 back" said he, "and tell them that their
threats have for mo-" This completes the
hunor Of the situation.
Tho battle between the Government and newspapers
presents many lu1icrous Chief Secretary
iescfibcs United Ireland" engine OF tyranny Sin.
yuar It may appear the victims are silent They do
act utter one word Of protest On the contrary they
engaged in selling the paper buying and circuIsng It
mong thoss who cannot afford become subscribers
must be terrible people Nobody, however lays hand on
HON. The presses roll thousands copies each week
While the detectives stand the pathway ths opposite
ide Of the street In word. tho Is wstchods
nd If you knew all that this you would understand
Why the police heartily hated by the popuace
here attempt seze paper yet the Door people
rho sell It, the vicms"not indeed Of Mr.. OBrten bus
Mt. Bslfour-arc bundled OF to JAIL The proceedings
branches Of the National League published. yet
here scarcely any prosecutions now. There were,
~ AZ
ent to jail But this occasoned little sny fright All
them declared themselves ready 20 10 IAN 30 Mr..
afour had 10 stop. Ono result Is that what Castle
GEMS ot blaspbemy In Wexford for example, r.
eholerc word in Rosccmron what it Furnishes DIS
ya In Cork constitutional loyal and Just in westmeath
nd Dublin You will see that we I've IN atmosphere
anomalies, OF Irish bulls" It or better still
English bulls" In Ireland This years crop Of humcr
being seduously fostered by a foreigner concerning
HON popular belief that he couldn't understand
he. Who knows but that It Is the beginning Of his bo
ming the ancient inhabitants Of the Pale became
Irish thsn the Irish themselves" and that y-and
he will pre- sent for adoption little Home Rule bill Of
IS own. Eon't laugh Stranger things have happened
this country
You would imagine that the Judges Of Ass1s who are
w going circuit engaged in reading the
,rribe details Of unusual exhibit of criminal statistics
account in at all events for IN. Of
rsecuton and prosecution that has set in No. indeed
ord Chief Baron Pses told the Grand Jury OF County
outh Tho bills TO before you viii be In respect Of
ur offences which represent the crime committed In the
unity since the last asszes' The last assres six
onths ago. The population Of Louth Is about 10000.
idge Johnson, before the County Kildare Grand Jury,
i'd: With the exception OF Of alleged infant.
de and OF rape the offences OF that kind b
pected In country near city luo Dublin" At
ro2heda the Judge presented with lair Of white
owes as he last year. because there criminal
lsiness At Monaghan he said You have good reason
be satisfied with the condition Of your county" 1T
gratifying to find that there only four 20
fore you" said Judge Andrews to the Grand Jury Of
'unty Fermanagh. Lord Chief Justice Morris in
eakng Of the great county OF Sligo said; There
ly two bills to be sent before you" 1t is the
cry county. Bear in mind that the calendar from
hich these figures are quoted Is prepared by the County
pector OF Police and the combined ingenuity
policemen bailiHs Government pensfoners-thcre are
cd many Governments pensoners-spies and nforers Of
degree. Remember. too that the alleged crimes COM
,nted had not heen by tho Grand