The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-07-12

with his numerous and impoverished
tenantry in Cork county. Rev. Canon
Keller conducted the negotiations in
the name of the tenants, representing
clearly and forcibly their cause. After
some time the reverend gentleman sue
ceeded In gaining promise OF conces-
sion, aided by the government COM
missioners, who maintained that their
demands were moderate and reasonable.
The bargain was about to be closed
when Smith. Barry, in the interests Of
the
''EyICTION SYNDICATE" .
stepped in and declared tnat MIR. Pom
sonby should give no quarter, but ex-
exterminate and Danish the already
famishing victims from their own
homes. Tipperary, as I have said.
stands .onTground belonging to Smith
Barry, and It's citizens at once recog-
nized the fact that by paying rent to
such monster they were only assisting
in exterminatlng their poorer and less
fortunate brethren on the P0nsonby es-
tate. The towns people appointed a
deputation to wait on Smith-Barry IN
London and show him their views on
the matter, requesting him to withdraw
from the "Eyiction Syndicate'' and al
low the Ponsonby tenants to benefit by
the good Will of their landlord.
The result of this interview can be
easily understood by quoting Smith
Barry's own words to the deputation:
II would see them all hanged first" !"
These words, uttered by the essence Of
British aristocracy, supported in the
background by one of the five great
military powers of Europe, must be met
face to face and combatted by an un-
armed and helpless community. Ger
tainly Smith Barry had forgotten the
words Of General Cough, lord Of India.
who, after years. experience Of the in
d;vidual valor displayed by tine sons of
Tipperary during the East Indian
mut1ny. declared, "Glvs me 10000 Tip
perary volunteers and will have spirit
enough to conquer the world" But
now these same people were called on
BY the savage words of either their own
lord; words which sounded in their
ears as once rang the historic sentence.
"Eat grass, for my horse eats 1t. y
Immediately the citizens Of Tipp erary
came to resolve,
THE EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION.
of abandoning their own Sown, IN
which they had sunk six millions Of
dollars. where everything save the
earth was theirs. Cordons of police
and battilions Of soldiers we're at once
poured into the town by the humane
government to aid Smith Barry in
evicting from homes which, they
spurned to hold, as they saw that by
paying ground rent they supplied a
fund for the destruction of poor and
helpless neighbor, The legal farce of
eviction had scarcely begun, the first
citizen had only turned to kiss the
threshold over which forty generations
of his uame had passed, when Ireland
awoke to the situation. Every city and
town took immediate action. and
guided by the patriotic and self -sacrific'
ing William O'Brien, M. F., the nation
determined to build new Tipperary
and present it to the homeless inhabit-
ants of old TipperarY. Under the inn
mediate supervision of Mr.. O'Brien, IN
few months rose new and beautiful
town about two miles from the old on
site the people own. During it's erec.
tion the work was carried on night and
day. PROFESSIONS of teams and men
streamed in from all parts Of the
country, proud to offer their services
gratultously. The Courier de Bruxelles,
paper widely read in France,
Germany and Italy. SAYS: ''The hero~
ism and spirit of self-sacrifice which
caused the desertion of old Tipperary
and created the new are without
example,"
No instance in the agrarian struggle
has made such an impression on
English public sentiment. which point.
once gained, means the righting OF all
Irish wrongs.
4 gentleman observing to DR.. john
son that tnere were fewer vagrant poor
in Scotland than in England, and as a
proof of it said there was no instance of
a beggar wing in the streets there. L
believe you are very right sir says
johnson, but that does not arise from
want of yagrants, but the impossibility
Of starving a Scotsman
A contemporary tells us that sailors
ono ,ae,sza,r ao much af aa2 az Nflan they