Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22
IRISH INDUSTRY
IS DECLINING
SHOOTING LANDLORDS OUT
OF VOGUE
seumas MacManus Says Sons Of Ire.
land Now Raise Tobacco and
Some Potatoes and Get
Lots Of Justice
Special Cable to The Herald.

oPtSidl SdDlo u Lie J1eTdlQ.
DONEGAL, Ireland, Oct. 21.-One of
the flourishing Irish industries that
have sadly declined of late years Is
that of shooting landlords. The pros
poets of its being revived is remote.
The passing of the land purchase act
finally crushed the hopes of the idealist
who longed and strove for it's revival.
Twenty-Five years ago 1t was a real
live business. 1t was then that some
practical one with a knack of versiflca-
ton reprimanded one of our poets for
the fact that he was only a poet in the
hour when men of action were re-
quired. He scornfully said to him:
Take a business tour through Mum
ster;
'Shoot landlord be of use!"
In those stirring days there was no
room for drones in Ireland.
A hero Of those days died last week
at the respectable age of "a. He was
DR.. Patten S. Bridge of Roscrea in
gallant Tipperary, and he had long ago
the honor of being one of the most
notorious and most deeply detested
land agents in Ireland. He had the adj
ditional honor of being twice condemned
to death by the Moonlighters-he had
the good fortune TO dodge their hullets
both times
In 1875 he was fired at while walking
down the avenue to Galtee castle. The
man who unfortunately missed him had
to make his escape to America. He
was again attacked near Mitchelstown
in 1876, and this time suffered by proxy;
his car driver John Hyland) being shot
RI t.,I,i ict oil o6
Grove, was afterward hung in Cork
Jail.
Carries Many Mementoes
OF these attacks Mr. Bridge carried
to the day of his death several memen-
toes. He did not carry them through
pride or bravado-he only carried them
because he couldn't help it. Several
bullets so craftily concealed themselves
in him that 1t baffied the surgeons to
find them. The surgeons would have
given anything to find them. Mr..
Bridge would have given anything not
to find them.
New times, new men. We have an
other type of landlord now-and he is
quite a different type of a landlord, be-
cause he is not landlord-no longer.
That is, he Is a landlord who was a
landlord just before the land purchase
act came along with it's millions and
made him a free man and millionaire.
Lord Dunraven, Capt Shawe-Taylor
and their fellows of the Irish Reform
association are specimens of the new
type They are indeed a vast improve
ment upon the old.
Each man of them goes about the
country with "Unionist" printed large
upon his back. There are very few
| ciy IN
| They are really striving for home rule
and striving to bring the Unionists of
Ireland over to their way of thinking.
In order to sugar the pill they refrain
from naming it home rule. They are
striving, however, for their own kind
of home rule, because-good, easy souls
they think it will strengthen the
British empire. And because they be-
lieve that by giving a larger measure
of home government.
In but Not of ireland
These men are in Ireland, but not of
it. They see Ireland, but they know 1t
not. And indeed 'twould be a pity to
shatter their FOOLS paradise.
William OBrien, M. P, with a few
other M. P's and a goodly portion of
"Rebel Cork"-Oh! The irony Of that
name nowadays!-clasp hands with
Lord Dunraven and the Irish Reform
association, and believe that by so
doing they are going to save the soul
of Ireland.
There is in Roscommon one Of those
idealists who hungers for the good old
times to come again. So eager is he to
revive the argument of powder and ball
that even the government authorities
are compelled rather pointedly to notify
him that he is firing into his own house
at night, and sending him threatening
letters.
He is of the very superior class known
as Loyalist; and for some months he
was drawing the attention of Ireland
and the British empire to the fact that
If a man in Ireland attempted to think
for himself politically and to give can