Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-20
LANDLORD AND TENANT.
An Interesting Talk on The old Countr
 By T. J. P. McEuery.

An Interesting Talk on The old Country
 By T. J. P. McEuery.
 A fair-sized audience attended the lec- ture of T. J. P. McEnery in the City hall last night. On the platform were Mayor Kilduff and E. R. Kelley, Patrick Barry, John J. Sullivan, Daniel Foley and Jere- miah Slattery of the O'Connell Literary and Social club. Mayor Kilduff presided and said that it was but short time ago since he had the pleasure of introducing to the people of Waterbury man whose heroic deeds had endeared him to his fel- low countrymen On this occasion he had the honor of introducing one who was well and favorably known to a large number of the people of this town. and thoroughly eonversant with his subject, having been an actor in the scenes which yhe proposed to describe. ,,g.
 i'This is the first time that have had the privilege of addressing an audience from platform in a free country" said the speaker in opening. "I know this is a free country and. therefore, feel that I can without fear of the vigilant policeman and willy detective give free expression to the opinions which entertain in relation to the subject of landlord and tenant in Ireland. What is an Irish landlord? Who is he and whence does he come?"
 The speaker then gave graphic account of the history of the advent of the land lord into Ireland and the sad consequences that followed his coming. Famine, deso- walked in his train. Barren lands that had been made arable by the sweat and toll of generations of an industrious, self sacrificing peasantry were taxed above the marked value of their productions seized and confscated; brave men and virtuous women, who by honest thrift and untiring energy succeeded in eking out an exist ence for themselves and their families in these little homes, were ruthlessly torn from them, thrown on the roadside to die of hunger and exposure, driven into in- voluntary exile. belied, misrepresented and falsifed, even iii their exile, by a bigoted, interruptions press. Little won der that the bold, uncompromising spirit, which ever has been characteristic of the Irish people burst forth in open, though unsuccessful revolt, against the cruel sys- tenn that had made them abject slaves in the place of their birth, and an object of attack among the people of the countries whither they had fled to escape the awful fate that awaited them at home.
 The speaker then told of the heroic efforts of Grattan and the volunteers of 17S2 in behalf of Ireland and described the short respite from landlords oppression which the people enjoyed during the few short years of the home parliament; the shameful treachery of Pitt and Castle reagh, which culminated in the dissolu- tion of the Irish parliament in 1900. The efforts of a few brave men to stand be- tween the people and their prosecutors from that time had been productive of little avail until 1878, when the brilliant young patriot, Charles Stewart Parnell. appeared on the scene. MT McEnery paid a glowing tribute to the patriotism of MT Parnell and said that had he been spared a few years longer. Ireland would have en- joyed the benifcent results of home rule long before this tune.
 "When Ireland is united," said the speaker, ''the English government is will ing 10 listen to the recital of her woes and some concession can be reluctantly gained for the peasantry of Ireland. When she is divided, as I regret to say she is at this time, and has been since the only leader she has had in years, that could present a solid phalanx of united patriots in the house of commons, passed away, deaf ear is turned to every appeal, and the present champions of the Irish cause should either return their trust back to their constituents or give over their petty jealousies and emulate the tactics of hlm whose efforts have been instrumental in bringing about so many useful measures during his brief but eventful career"
 MT McEnery said the landlord was not with his persecution of the ten antry of Ireland while living; he claimed the right to unearth and cremate his bones, and told of an effort of landlord who de- clared that he would rage the abbey of Ardfert to the e'earth and make a. pleasure ground of the graveyard, which had been the last resting place of thousands of the fathers and mothers of the people of that ancient town. A day had been set for the work of demolition, but word had been sent to the country people for miles around and formidable army of men and women met the minions of the landlord at the entrance to the abbey and informed them that while the landlord might drive them from their homes he would never dis turb the bones of their fathers until the last man in the town had been slaughtered ln an effort to prevent the dissertation. The work was abandoned.
 MT McEnery was applauded at different passages during his lecture and concluded by saying that he hopes to live to see his country as the poet Moore would have her:
 Great. glorious and free;
 First flower of the earth;
 First gem of the Sea.