The National tribune., 1906-11-01

Lord William Scully is dead. Maybe
you 90 not remember him. His day
was many a long year ago, before the
present generation was born and while
the last one was young. He was born
when the last century was just 10 years
old. He came to the United States to
invest in land in 1910, or little later
but it was early in that decade. He
was then a young man. but was driven
from ireland by his bitter hatred OF
Golden and Bryce, to whose doctrines
and influence he aScribed many of the
woes of Ireland, in which country he
was born, and was already one of Its
landed proprietors when he came tc
the United States. When he landed in
Philadelphia he bought horse and q
spade. and rode over the mountains
horseback 10 Illinois. He tested soils
continually as he went West, and IN
Illinois he found what he sought. its
rich prairie soil attracting him, and
bought $4,000 acres of land. He soon
became landed aristocrat." and was
hated accordingly. He made his lano
into farms of varying sizes and rented
them He drove the hardest of bar
gains and was harder on his tenants
than an English landlord ever dared 10
be. He began to reach out for lands
elsewhere, and became the owner OF
over 1000. 900 acres in Kansas, Ncbras-
'landlordly'' methods to those States,
and they wouldn't stand it. The legis-
lative wheels were soon put in acton.
and "alien land laws were paSscd
which made a practical outcast OF NM
with his land practically forfeit un,
less he became citizen of the united
States. This he at last did.
In Illinois he aroused the hatred of a
IT., TrS
telligence and the keenest wit, as Wen
as man of wealth Mr.. Kennedy
could not talk long or loud enough
against the landlordism of Lord Scuii!'
and he held him up to oppfobrium III
all political campaigns. and all but foi-
lowed him onto his own estates to scoh
him Kennedy became fairly rabid on
the subject, and to get away from the
Scully ideas he moved to southwestern
Kansas 1t was not long afterward
that Lord Scully acquired title to some
$4,000 acres of land in that State. and
again Mr.. Kennedy tackled the Irish
Landlord The old gentleman stumped
the State against alien land ownership,
and very soon Lord Scully found the
laws of Kansas fixed up to oust him
unless he became a citizen of the Unit
ed States Then Mr.. Kennedy tackled
Congress through members that he
knew, and finally Lord Scully. about six
years ago, had to become citizen. TAX
ing out papers here in Washington.
He was a queer old duck as ever
lived, with ideas all awry on almost
every subject. He was a m onomaniac
on the subject of dying poor. He owned
more land than any other man in the
United States at one time. and every
acre of it was bringing him a good
profit, yet he feared that he would in
the end die poor. He was a miser. pure
and simple. He had a family and a
big house here in Washington, but his
family lived like the family of a labor
ing man, and his h ome was not half so
well furnished. He wore a suit If old
clothes always. The suspicion is that
he bought them secondhand, for they
never looked new, and an old sealskin
cap Summer and Winter. that sealskin
cap. He said that he liked American
institutions, but he bitterly resented the
alien land ownership acts of the vari-
Gus States and finally that passed by
Congress. for he knew that they were
mostly aimed at himself. While other
foreigners owned land In the United
States in almost as arge quantity as
Lord Scully. they did not colonize it.
so to speak. Scully not only owned
charged against him that he herded
his farmers to the polls and voted
them like lot of sheep. They were
forced to vote the Democratic ticket.
If they didn't, the screws were put on
them a little tighter In farm leases,
and they lost out every trip.
Lord Scully owned many thousands
Of acres of land in Ireland. and was
no better liked over there than here
Because of a throat trouble he left
Washington and went back to Ireland,
where he died last week. While he
had foresworn all Kings, potentates." >"
and the like, his name had never been
erased from the peerage, and he died
Lord Scully." Just what disposition
he has made Of his immense land hold
ing and wealth is not yet known. II
he died as he lived, he would have
taken his money with him, OF have
buried it where nobody would ever find
1t. The world is never any the better
for men of the Lord ScuIIy stamp.
Everything that he did he did from
purely selfish motives. with expecta-
tons Of personal benefit, and without
regard to any other human being on
earth. Men like that always prosper,
50 Lord Scully died one of the worlds
rich men, and left behind a name syn
onymous with sordid selfishness and
greed of personal gain 1t is to be
ho7ed that the world. as well as his
family. will now get something of his
piled-up millions.
Postmaster-Generai George B. Cor
telyou will retire from the Chairman
ship of the Republican National Com
mittee before he becomes Secretary OF
the Treasury. in succession to Secre-
tary Shaw This statement was made
recently on excellent authority
1t has been generally understood that
Secretary Shaw would retire from the
Treasury on March 4, but an intima-
tion was given that he might sever his
connection with the Department soon
after Jan. ].
Harry s. New. Vice Chairman of the
Republican National Committee, win.
it is expected. assume the duties of the
Chairmanship when Mr.. Cortelyou re
tires.
The controversy as to who was the
youngest soldier of the civil war prob
ably has been settled in favor of Perry
Byan, Of Seattle, Wash
He enlisted as a drummer bow I'm
Co. d. 2fth Iowa. on Aug. %. 1862. at
the age of nine years and 10 months
He was born Oct. %, 1852, in Kane
County, ILL.,. but enlisted from Mount
Vernon. Iowa. After serving nearly a
year he was honorabIy discharged on 3.
Surgeons certificate of disa bility
The Pension Office has investigated
Byan's papers and found that his rep
reservations are correct.
President Roosevelt was exactly As
years of age Saturday, Oct 27. Moth
ing special was done about It. except
that the President put in some good