The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-11-12


boosted enough per acre to cover what
Mr.. Scully should then pay into the
county and state treasury. The law
was argued for long time before it was
finally passed. During the debate P. w.
Dunno, of Peoria county, proposed
special and extraordinary tax upon the
land of tScully because he was an alien
and an absentee. This bill did not
pass. Mr.. Scully's agents made out
leases under the new tax law, but only
for one year, the tenants claiming it was
hoped within that time to annul the
law. The law stood.
SEEKS GREENER FIELDS ELSE
WHERE.
There followed better willingness on
the part Of the great landholder to part
with some of his property. One of the
first sales was to former Gov. .Oglesby,
near Springfield, and the agents who
had been appearing at all sales and bid
ding up the prices of every farm offered
by farmers who owned their own
ground dropped out of sight,, The new
law, taking part of the burden which
had been excessive from the tenants
shoulders, led to series of operations
in states where no act had been passed
against Tipperary lease. Nebraska was
searched and section after section TAX
en- under the Scully title. Kansas also
CIR cd BOLD nd IN ho 80
time Mr.. Scully had place among the
leaders of the foreigners who have pos
session of about 10000, 900 acres, in
America.
IMMENSELY WEALTHY OLD MAN.
William Scully, who is now estimated
as worth s35,0O0,0O0, is Is years old.
He is tall, thin and spare. He cares
nothing for society or politics. The
trip to his American possessions is such
a hard journey that it is likely he will
never put his foot on his estates in IL
when he spent most Of the winter at
Lincoln, ILL.,, with his wife. The family
has many friends in Lincoln, and in that
city they tell how Mr.. Scully is kind
to his tenants, having at one time grant,
ed $4,000 in rebates to the unfortunate
farmers in Nebraska who lost their crop
by unreasonable weather. The family is
all out of bed at o'clock each morning,
and at 8 o'clock breakfast is served.
The luncheon comes at 1 o'clock and
dinner in the evening, followed by the
old world habit Of having bite just
before going to bed. Mrs. Scully is
about % years younger than her
husband. Lincoln will never forget the
day when she arrived in town with sew
enteen big trunks-all for Mrs. Scully
but one.
AN ODIOUS NAME IN IRELAND.
The Scully estate in Tipperary is his
toric, it being claimed that the eviction
tragedies which were enacted on it were
directly the cause of the passage of the
Irish land law of 1870. William Scully
came into possession of the land, some
of which lay about two miles west of
the Limerick junction station on the
Great Southern and Western railroad, in
the middle '6O's. 1t was tract with a
long record, having been lost to the
family and repurchased by William
Scully after many years. 1t was known
in the neighborhood that the new
wealthy proprietor would certainly col
lect all the rents allowed by the leases.
Everybody knew his ideas were strict
and his methods of enforcing them
stricter. His leases provided that a half
years rent should be paid in advance,
the rent was to be paid quarterly and
the farm to be surrendered on twenty
days notice at the end of any quarter;
to forgo any claim to crops that might
be in the soil; to pay all rates and
taxes whatsoever.
PARLIAMENT FIRES AN ACT AT
HIM.
Tipperary men did not like this, and
trouble quickly started. Mr.. Scully CALL
ed upon the police to assist his agents
in collecting his charges. A man or
two were shot down by the officers, but
it was proved to the coroner's jury that
all the action had been under the law.
The London papers took up the story
of the hardships and hard knocks Of the
tenants, and the battles of Ballycohey
and the result was that the lease laws
were modified. The Gladstone act of
1870 followed, allowing compensation to
agricultural tenants for improvements
made in and on the soil. Mr.. Scully had
opposed both measures, and after they
were passed threat was made that all
the tenants who had been mixed in the
previous quarrels should leave at once.
BOUGHT OUT TO BE RID OF HIM.
Charles Moore, of Mooresfort, is look
ed upon as a benefactor of Tipperary in
that he succeeded Mr.. Scully as land
lord. He got from Mr.. Scully an offer
on all the property he held in the coun-
ty and paid him cash for it, at Scully's
figures. The burghers of Clonmel there
upon selected young Arthur Moore, OF
Mooresfort, as their representative in
parliament, much because he was
home ruler and very largely because he
was son Of his father. Scully then
retired to his residence at Ballenaclogh,
although he has lived good deal in
latter years in London. He for time