The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-02
HOTEL GOSSIP.

of the Clifton street Presbyterian
church in Belfast, Ireland, arrived in
town late Saturday, and put up at the
Kenyon. Mr.. Thompson is ths delegate
| from the north of ireland t. the Pan
Presbyterian council to be held in
Washington, D. c., this week AID part
I of next. He is visiting the wsst with
his brother who resiCes in LOUISVILLE,
and expresses unbounded admiration
for the magnificent scenery to be fund
in the intermountain region. The trip
across the continent in a Pullman was
q revelation to the div ne H. had no
idea that the United States covered so
much territory, and the travelling by
night in a blaze of electric lignt, and
in the day time in a cloud of dust re-
minded him of a Bib. cal aiIegory. He
gave a statement of The cause Of the
turbulent times in Ire and SGme YEARS
ago, and also the rem dy that has been
applied to eradicate them. He said:
1.-The original condition OF affairs was
that q Landlord was responsible 10
nothing except his own coascieaea, and
as very few of them We're burdened
with much of that nightmare, they car
ried on matters in a verv high-handed
manner. The tenant was compelled to
pay rent for the use of house that he
had erected with his own money on the
property leased to him by the land
holder. That deplorable state of al
fairs was, in part, remedied by the
Gladstone bill, passed in $50, which
provided for and gave the tenant what
is known as the three F's, viz: Fair
rent, which explains itself Fr-e SAFE;
an Irishman owning property could dis
pose of it to the highest biQder, and
not have to sell it at fixed price set
by the landlords. Fixity o. tsnure;
gave the tenant an interest IN his ho.d-
ings, and prevented the landlord from
dispossessing the tenant by dtsposlng
of the property While the tenant Was on
it out of mere caprice.
This has been further strengthened
by recent measures passed by the con-
servatives in parliament unoer the
leadership of Arthur ]. Balfour, former
chief secretary for IRELAND. The gov
eminent now advances money so as to
buy up the landlords interests in the
holdings, so that now, ins cad of paying
rent to the landlord, the t. nants pay a
smaller sum per annum to the govern
ment, which terminates il ether thirty
five or forty years, ac cording to ~oadi-
tions; after which the tenant will hold
free of all rent. This improved legs
lation is largely due to the agitation
produced some years ago by ParneH.
Formerly the grand Jury, composed
of the landed gentry, consis ing OF Eng
the south, levied the rates, appointed
their favorites to office regardless of
eternal fitness, and controlled the dis
bursements. The rates applied to the
support of the aims houses, medical re-
lief for the poor, construction or bridges
and renair of roadS-the latter a large
item, owing to the fact teat ali the
roads in Ireland are mas a aulized. Now
the grand jury is abolished, and its
place is taken by an elective board,
chosen by the rate-payers, and resp IN
sible to them. The grand jury was re-
sponsible to no one, aud was very aue-
ocratic The last measure went into
operation the past spring ana a very
happy and contented state of feeling
now prevails.
"The measure of Balf0ur's is much
more radical than the enc originally
proposed by Gladstone. There Is now
project on foot to endaw ami cyect a
large Roman Catholic university il the
south of Ireland, but. it will an0t be I'M
dertaken for some time as Ealfeur's
conservative and Church of England
friends are bitterly opposed to it"
A gentleman of title. who is connect
ed with court circles in Holland, was
guest at the Knutsford yesterday. He
said: Most people have. a. very erro-
neous impression of the nationality of
the Beers in South Africa. That re-
gion was originally settled by the
Dutch. but later ON was 0verrrun by
French Huguenots and Germans. The
Boer of today is a combination of the
three, with a. prepodefance of German
blood in his veins. Our sympathieS are !
with the Beers as against the British.
In the Spanfsh-American war, of
course We We're delighted to see Spain
Inundated. The Dutch have not for /
gotten the inquisition established by \
Philip III and carried on BY the Duke OF
Alva. Den. Juan of Austria and AIexan-
der of PARMA in which thousands of \
the brave and liberty-l0Ying Dutch 4
were ruthlesslyE slaughtered te6
Holland has colonial possessions in 4
the far east, consisting Of Java and 4
Sumatra, from which it obtains i'm /
mense quantities of sugar, coffee, 4
hemp, tobacco and indigos yf \
.sThe project to pump out the Guy 4
her see. is being pushed along, and we
hope to- see the waters driven back in (
ten or twelve years time
"Our2 Queen Wilhelmina was 10 years
of age on the 31st of August, and is not \
betrothed to any one, all rumors to the 4
contrary twithstanding. The queen |;
dowager, her mother, has expressed the 4
wish that her highness wait until her \
10th year. The betrothal will be an
nounced next year, and her husband
will undoubtedly be German prince of
royal blood. Queen Wilhelnlina is
direct descendant of Yam. the elder