The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-01
CAPTAIN BOYCOTT.
The Man who ImmOrtaIIzed HIS Name I
a Very Peculiar way.

Very Peculiar Way
Though men far more deserving Of
the worlds remembrance have been as
utterly forgotten as If they never ex-
isted, Captain Boycott will be remem-
bered, 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 a bed OF
roses, and he has aged prematurely, his
hair and beard-the latter long and
luxuriant-being almost snow white.
Though, in a measure. driven from
Ireland on account of his opinion that
eviction was the most business-lilze if
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 improve
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 the Old Dart who would
consider it a privilege to put a bullet in
his most vulnerable spot, he pays an
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
quiet a spot as can be found in Eng
land. He is the agent Of Sir Hugh
Adair, and has his headquarters in the
sleepy village of Flixton, in the heart
of Suffolk, miles away from railway
station or a post-office or a telegraph
Office. To the villagers he is known as
1.-THE Captain" He does not believe
that the Irish troubles are a bit nearer
solution than when he left Ireland.
The Irish tenement farmer has difficult
ties, he admits, but it is because, in. his
opinion, the farmer attempts impossi-
bilities. The farmer tries to exc out
an existence on a piece Of land which
in point Of area alone is incapable of
giving him support. Why does he do
thisP The world is wide enough. Why
not move onP II he works hard one
year and fails to make ends meet
there is not much chance that the next
year will bring him better luck. The
A4LE AA6AA letLAAAGL - every bAn cAS betNA y
situated as the Irish farmer, but he
uses different tactics.
So Captain Boycott expressed him
self few days ago. He said, too, that
he considered bad in principle the no.
ton of accommodating tenants accord
ing to the success or failure of theil
crops. To be entirely fair the proposal
should at any rate DO reciprocal, and tc
that the tenants he knew would object.
To be successful the farmer, Irish OF
English. must rely upon his own re
sources. He had the option Of leaving
his farm, and landlords had no keen
relish for unsuccessful holdings. The
idea that every tenant should be his
own landlord was absurd. The Lane
League tried it. The league purchased
an estate near Tuam. cut it into squares
and invited the tillers OF the soil t.
come down from the mountains and be-
come ideal landlords. But the tenants
who were already on the lands wouldn
have the poor DEVILS" and they wer,
obliged to return TO their mountain
homes. The proprietOrships would b,
too extensive to be beneficial to tn
soil
The Captain does not believe il
home rule. ireland is an integral por
ton of the British Empire and shOul,
remain so. Such an institution as
home-rule parliament would be n
more influenced in its labors by tho act
ual laboring classes than is the Hous
Of Commons, The Irish people wante
education before home rule. III the lnt
ter were to be provided those who ha
the power should make certain that tn
SPECIALIZED misgoverned, down-trOdden
people were going to share in 1t "A
present il would not be so.
Balfour's policy, in Captain Boycott
opinion, was certainly bold and thor
ough one. While law remains let
be carried out unstintingly. But in
prisonment Of Irish members Of Parlia
ment was only making martyrs of them
and in putting them in Jail BalfOur wa
only, in a sense. beating his own back
Yet Captain Boycott could not see no
Balfour could do otherwise.
For John Dillon Captain Boycott e.
pressed great respect Dillon no con
siders sincere. For the 'moonlighter'
Captain Boycott expressed n heart
contempt and destestation. The Iris
people could, and one day would, h
thought, distinguish the ''brute."
In writing to a friend recently til
originator of tho persuasive term DO.
colt said: II go for my annual holidu
to dear old ireland; it is my one treat
the year. IN. Y. Times.
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