The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-08
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A alert In calling the attention of the

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lE7SHD IA Irish arliame ntarys PC rtys 3i ls
ls alert In calling the q tention OF the
! s5s government 10 the M despr des:-
titution8 In the west Of Ireland special
meeting Of tho party mas been held ID at
i the Mansion House, ana In 81 he chair was
John Redmond, q tho Irish lead Ell. u Sc
1.-The statement dealing with the Sques-l
ltlon. which /; was unanimously g dopted,.
set out tha he failure of the potatoo. crop,
to which tho present distress is mainly
ldue, is a calamity which has occurred l
regularly and peri since S45 and nd
which ought TO have been oked out for
land to- have been provided against blythe the
government Yet on \ Il 3 presen oc-
naslon. the Irish Govern entSappeaa'lr .a' to
lbe as helpless ana WI thout resource as Il
IitF was for the first time In the history sE'
| Of Ireland called on to deal with distress
land starvation In gthe west Of Ireland due
lto&the failure Sof the potato crop M
Ia The only effective and radio remedy.
| for the horrible state Of affairs, which
Keeps a large body OF the pc tlon AZ:
the Yves OF Ireland in a $ tate OF chronic
lseyen. or eight years, owing to I he failure
| OF a II ccarous crop; Inns been conf inually
pressed on llcEattenLlon BY the irish
Parliamentary party for cry many " years,
|lItaiconsists intthe forma ton Q : q Is trong
commission with compuls ory 20 Wer. and
the necessary funds, to 8pu vi tp he grass
ranches IN the districts where I'd the: popul-
parts OF ireland, and so - to redlstribute;
| the land and population that the mers
may Ii ave seconomc holdings - and the
population thus be made sci f-sll pport ing,l
I and no more liable to famine than any
other rural population In Europe,
The Government Responsib BILE, 4,
IN 1884 the Congested Districts Board
Iadopted this view and unanimously q n,
piled for compulsory pow rs, sta ne thai
land lin plenty was aYalla BILE to place the
Ipopulntlon Of 3Connaught and o hert poor.
districts OF Ireland beyond the reach OF
famine, all that was needed being that
| 1t should be given powers to cqulre III. y
The government for ten years has res
fused. to act on this unanimous equest
Of Its own board, and the government
Ia, therefore, directly respo nsible for he
present situation In the. Yves t,t II ii ..
| Il When theI.nnd &C & Of 1903 was In CONF
Imittee, this View was again forced on the
attention OF the goyernlle nt, and q series
Irish Larty which, had they been adopted,
would have made the land net largely
operative In tho distressed districts, with.
the result that works on a large scale
would now BIO In full opera ton throughout
the western Districts and the present dis
tress would have been dealt with in the
process of applying "a perm neht remedy!
All our. arguments and appeals We're dts
regarded, and waaWsru assured by Mr..
Syyndham that the provisions IN the bill
would prove effective, aud the act would
called the 'rotten condition Of these dis
ltplcts. IN III iss 1i S s.. u 3, q g
The result has proved that the Irish
Eparty was eight and Mr.. NggyadhaH and
I the irish Government wholly wrong. Ss
So far as the congested districts are
concerned. the act has been Q dead falls
,,re and. the unhSppAt nopul lion y once q
more IN the STRIP az isQAfe dist fess, when
I van In many cases deepen ntos famine
unless me surss of Eslies are adopted by
lkheE yoYernHe NJ, s Il