Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-04-06
CAPTAIN BOYCOTT.
fne Man Who Immortalixed His Name h
= Very Peculiar Way.

fNe Man Who ImmOrtalixed His Name IN
Very Peculiar Way.
Though men far more deserving OF
the worlds remembrance have been a.
utterly forgotten as il they never ex-
listed. Captain Boycott will be remem-
bcred in name at least. long after his
bones have turned to dust According
to his years he should still be in the
prime Of life, but for a decade the
/ Captain has not lain upon bed Of
roses, and he has aged prematurely his
hair and beard--the latter long and
iuxuriant being almost snow white.
Though. in a measure. driven from
ireland on account OF his opinion that
eviction was the most business-like II
not the only course to pursue toward a
tenant who was behindhand with his
rent. but refused to surrender his lease
until he was paid for all the i'm rove
ments he had made Captain Boycott
has not changed his views on the land
question any more than he has lost his
love for the old sod. He still persists
considering himself an Irishman and
the right sort OF an Irishman. and
though there are, doubtless, a number
of persons in tho Old Dart who would
consider 1t Il privilege toput n bullet in
his most vulnerable spot, he pays an
D annual visit to Ireland and for the rest
: Of the year looks forward to his next
: visit to the land OF his BIRTH
: Captain Boycott is now living in as
1 quiet spot as can be found in Eng
g land. He is the agent of Sir Hugh
/ Adair, and has his headquarters in the
Q sleepy village OF Flixton, in the heart
!, Of Suffolk, miles away from a railway
= station or n post-oflice or n telegraph
h office. To the villagers he is known as
y "the Captain" He does not believe
v that the Irish troubles are bit nearer
Is solution than when he left Ireland.
" The Irish tenement farmer has difficult
50 ties, he admits, but it is because. in his
he opinion, the farmer attempts impossi-
le ,ilities The farmer tries to eke out
n an existence on piece OF land which
u in point OF area alone is incapable OF
v giving him support. Why does he do
~ thisp The world is wide enough. Why
u not move on? If he works hard one
year and fails to make ends meet
there is not mach chance that the next
year will bring him better luck. The
nm English farmer is every bit as badly
situated as the Irish farmer, but he
en- uses different tactics.
ly SO Captain Boycots expressed him
IN self n few days ago. He said, too that
us he considered bad in principle the no.
I'D ton of accommodating tenants accord.
IA ing to the success or failure OF their
e crops. TO be entirely fair the proposal
n should at any rate be reciprocal. and tc
o. yllat the tenants he knew would object
he 10 be successful the farmer, Irish ol
is English, must rely upon his own re-
ID, sources. He had the option OF leaving
in his farm, and landlords had no keer
q, relish for unsuccessful holdings The
,st idea that every tenant should be hi
u own landlerl.~fas absurd. The Lane
er League tried it. The league purcha et
it an estate near Tuam. cut it into squares
,s- and invited the tillers of the soil L
NJ come down from the mountains and be
1t, come ideal landlords. But the tenant.
IT. who were already on the lands wouldn'
ry have the 'poor devils, and they wey'
i'd obliged to return to their mountain
W homes The proprietorships would b
ID, too extensive to be beneficial to tn
he soil.
ed The Captain does not believe i
he home rule. Ireland is an integral por
he ton OF the British Empire and shonl
ed remain SO. Such an institution as
i'd homr-rule parliament would be n
IN, more Influenced in its labors by the act
on ua laboring classes than is the Hous
er- Of Commons. The Irish people wante
on education before home rule. II the la
re- ter were to be provided those who ha
Ter the power should make certain that tn
to ''so-caled misgoverned, down-trodden
is people were going to share in 1t. A
nd present it would not be so.
NJ Balfour's policy, in Captain Boycott
"a opinion. was certainly bold and thor
ough one. While law remains let
be carried out unstntingly. But in
prisonment OF Irish members OF Parlia
'an ment was only making martyrs OF them
and in putting them in Jail Ba.four wa
-. eo only, in sense. beating his own back
~ Yet Captain Boycott could not see ho'
'n- Balfour could do otherwise.
10 - For John Dillon Captain Boycott 9,
'na- pressed great respect. Dillon he con
Is siders sincere For the .'moonlighter
Captain Boycott expressed heart
% contempt and destestation. The Iris
~ people could, and one day would, b
- he thought, extinguish the ''brute."
ne In writing 20 friend recently th
no originator of the persuasive term boy
ne colt said: Il go for my ANIMAL holida
In to dear old Ireland; it is my one treat {
OF Che year"-N. Y. Times.
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