Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-01
ERIN, ISLE OF SORROWS.
A Son OF Ireland Quotes Typical
Case of Landlord Dcspotjsm.

A "Son OF Erin" writing the editor
OF the Boston Globe, says:
The ruthless tyrant still pursues his
hideous work in Ireland. Here is q
sample of the latest act of barbarism in
that misgoverned country:
A correspondent of tho Kilkenny
Moderator writes: 81 have just re-
turned from the smouldering ruins of a
farmers dwelling about mile and
quarter from where l write, on the main
road to Kilkenny City. / must say the
barbarous occurrence can nave no other
eifect than to intensity the unfriendly
feelings which for some time past eX-
listed between Major Hely OF Foulks-
court and his tenants, who are numer-
GUS in this locality. The facts of the
case, which has thrown the town and
country all around into the widest ex-
oitement and indignation, are, as far as
| could ascertain them, as fol-
lows: james Kavanagh, of Seven Sis
ters, the evicted tenant, is over seventy
years of age, and since his eviction
about seven weeks ago has been living
with delicate wife, with u man named
Phelan, of Donoughmore. In March,
1883, Kavanagh was served with an
ejectment for e55, lis, Sd one year.
rent and arrears, ending 18th Of Seps
tember, 1887. He farmed about six
teen or seventeen acres, the yearly
rent having been raised from el6 to G2O.
Kavanagh endeavored to make up n
years rent, which he offered to Major
Haly and his agent, Mr.. Hanly, OF
Thurles. 1t was refused, and Kavanagh
having been evicted an emergency man
of Hays took possession of the place.
On Tuesday about ~ o'clock, a. m, two
men arrived on "a side-car from Thurles,
provided with crowbars, and at once set
to work on the front wall of the house
which soon gave way, showing
within kitchen in the centre, with
parlor and bedroom at either end.
When the front had been battered
down to the level of the windows-sills
the roof gave way. and the thatch was
then set on fire, aud all the timbers,
doors and windows shared the general
contlagration. When | reached the
the place about $50 D. m. the black
walls and gables were still enveloped in
smoke and | noticed a window, with
frame, shutters and Innings placed over
a strong little fire which the emergency
mon had purposely lit for their con-
sumption before leaving. have never
seen man so self-possessed as Kava-
naugh was at the pitiful sight
of his burned home fronting the Seven
Sister HILLS, which rise behind
bOWdTuS tue SStSb. IlSTe He Hdu SptHb
his years from his childhood, and here
it was that his grandfathers had strug
gled out an honest livelihood for upwards
of two hundred years. Even if such
conduct as has been practised on Kava-
naugh should have the effect of squeez-
ing impossible rents out of the unfortu
nate tenants in miserable tillage land,
a burned house should have sorrowful
reminiscence for Major Hely, for it was
within the present charred walls of
Violet Hill mansion close by that no.
table member of his family once per-
ished.
Well, the poor man who has witnessed
the burning of the. old homestead where
his forefathers dwelt some two hundred
years must have felt the iron of oppres-
sion enter his soul. But when will this
cruel war be over? Not until home rule
is granted. Then despotism must cease.