Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-16
God or America VIII rrovide.
pALFoUR'5 SCHEMES.
One Is to Build Railroads Tho O.hcr
Emigration to America.

One Ss to Build R,liropis-Tho O.hcr
Emigration to America.
Ba7four'5 main remedy this year will
be to build three or possibly more mar.
row-Gauye railways which he has leon
promising to build for three years, but
unless he carries III remedy to an OK
trcma and Luilds iai ways in remote
regions where there is no pai tlculnr use
for them, n very small lrCDortion IF the
distressed people will benefit by them
Unless II good dead OF red tape is pus he'd
aside, the railroads cannot be gin to
build before March or April. when it
will be too late. Another of Balfour's
remedies is emigration.
His E.timatcS.
He estimates thai at least go, 900 re).
pie can be shipped from west Irela d to
our shores. lie kGows well that these
are not the sort Ct people we want. The
misfOrtunes of years have drained the
west coat of Ireland of its young men
and women. leaving the mud huts
there 20 be filed with the aged and in
firm, but by shipping these people to
Canada and letting them get across the
Canadian border as best they can. Bal
four hopes to evade our emigration
laws. Arrangements are already in
progress to this effect. Balfour has i'm
mediate command of fund of ~ ,000.-
600 voted him by parliament for this
purpose
A VISIT TO THE WEST COAST
The Distressing situation Therc ns seen
by an Eye Witness.
1t was with II view of the immense
importance cf the impending Irish desti-
tuition to the American people that
have visited the blighted potato fields
along the west coast to ascertain the
facts of the situation. and have only
time and space to give an outline.
| visited the Olpherts' estates in Done.
gal, where 800 or more evicted tenants
are huddled in sheds bnlt for tn 9m un.
der the plan of cammign. Within
three weeks 800 more cottiers will be
evictcd, leaving mile after mile of hill
side covered with empty huts. His rents
when he gees them amounts TO $4,000
yearly, bat he has not been paid for
some years. soan association of landlords
allow him $40, 600 year. 1t pays him
to have empty honse5.
Cropa ID, stroycd.
| saw his emergency men protected
by the police cutting down green grain
in fields and tranrling down crops
which had been planted by tenants be-
fore their eviction. The crops thus de
stroyed were useless 20 Olphert or any
body else. but he said if he allowed the
crops to ripen in the fields the tenants
would come cut at Light and harvest
them All along tie, western seaboard
from Falcarragh tJ Cork, the potato
fields are black wiSl blightcd stalks
pulled mp dozen sfalk5, t. find only n
few sound tubers. and these not much
larger than walnuts. The majority of
them were ITALY unfit for food
Every shoveliul of bog earth revealed
prttrescent potatoes. which were rapidly
destroying the sound ones about them.
senbOHrd Cnunirs.
Along the scabcartl counties, Donegal
MAYO aud Galway. the potato crop is IL
total loss. and us the people depend on
them. it means chat ihey are already
hard up for 10 d. Bitter experience has
taught them no ! etter. They liant
nothing but potatoes. parity because it
gives them less trouble, and partly be-
cause their ht ldincs are 80 small that a
potato crop. whcl 1t prospers, is the
most profitable for them. Further in
land. where the * II was more fertile.
tie potato crop WIS fairly fruitf, |.
Taking Ireland as whole. it Is prot
able that oaly one third Of the crop will
be total loss.
Western lands can expect NJ help
from the poor laws because the lard
lords themselves are at the head Of
boards Of relief, and where holdings
are under e4 rent yearly the landlords
must pay all the poor rates. Olphert,
for instance, Is chairman of the poor re-
lief for his estates. Before Oct. at
least 80. 1000 young men and women viii
return to Ireland from labors in the
English and Scotch harvest fields. In
good seasons these lab1reys bring an av-
erage Of $40 each into Ireland, which
goes to pay for rent and provisions Oh
fained on credit during the previous
winter. This year, owing t. had haT-
vests, the average will not he $50. This