The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-31

ana west many arrangements are be-
| ing completed between landlords and
tenants, and sales made, the average
price being still from twenty-three to
tWenty-four years, purchase tWenty-
three to twenty-four times the yearly
rent). Very many of the landlords
VIII sell their residences and demeSnes
and completely clear out of the
country, after they have satisfactorily
disposed of their estates They will
go to England and to France, and to
elsewhere, to spend there both money
and the remainder of their days. Some
OF the landlords will not clear out for
the good reason that they never came
into the country in propria personae.
These are the absentees that for ages
sucked the lfes blood of Ireland. They
are the vampires which we may heart.
lily thank God to be completely rid of.
A fair percentage of the landlord class
VIII, even after they have sold out
their lands. remain in Ireland, throw
IN their lot with the people and work
for the countrys industrial good. We
can hardly expect them to favor it's
political regeneration, for the old con-
sentative anti-Irish eussedness is too
firmly fixed in the marrow of their
bones.
The landlords Will now be getting so
scarce that I think if the Irish people
had foresight they would, while still
it is good time, try to bring them, by
parliamentary statute, under the pro-
visions OF the game act. There should
be close season of at least ten
months in each year when it would be
illegal to shoot them; and anyone, be
he evicted tenant or otherwise, found
poaching upon landlord preserve at
any time within this close season
should be pursued and punished with
all the figor that the law permits
Even during the open season there
should be certain amount of pro-
lection that would prevent thoughtIess
and idle-minded people from shooting
or otherwise killing or destroying
specimens under a certain age limit.
I only suggest this plan; 1t NAV not
be the best; but if something effective,
either on this line Or otherwise, be
not DONE, and that soon, the man who
goes cunning after another generation,
will to his grief find one grand old
sport extinct; and he may we'll have
as high hopes of bringing down a dodo
as of bagging a landlord. The matter
needs urgent attention.
OF all the implements of destruction
invented and patented in recent years.
the motor ear and motor cycle take the
lead. One Of the Irish M. P.'s requested
in the house of parliament a return of
motor casualties for the year. 1t was
found that the clerks at the command
of the home Office were unable to CAL
culate all the casualties that had been
effected during twelve months in Great
Britain and Ireland. They made out
as specimen though, and laid on the
table or the house, the number of kill
ed and wounded found in the track Of
the motor III the metropolitan police
district in the period. and the figures
were COL persons injured and seven
teen killed-number OF prisoners not
returned. 1t is strange that, up to the
present, no one seems to have thought
of making use Of the motor car in war.
1t may, OF course, be like dum-dum
bullets and such. that the utter de-
structfyeness and wanton cruelty of
the thing are IN contraventton OF the