The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-14
|DuNRAlEN sTIRs UP
TROUBLE IN IRELAND
Titled Landlord Is Exposed Again
as Actuated by Greed,
Not Charity.
BY Timothy J. o'connor.

BY Timothy J. o'connor.
Journal Special Service
Dublin, Jan. 1S.-Lord Dunraven Of
America s cup yacht racing fame, ap-
pears to have succeeded in stirring mat
ters up in more ways than one in Ire
land recently. Before the Irish Reform
association at Limerick few days ago
he attempted to vindicate the part he
took last year in misleading the Irish
peasants on the question of the fair
price Of Irish lands. He appears to
have succeeded in only adding trouble
to trouble. In the first place he sue
ceeded in getting himself 7disliked for
his attacks on the Irish newspapers, in
ferentially and apparently representing
that they had not treated him fairly.
When catechised by the Kilmailock dis
trict council with regard to his state
merits on the subject Of the financial
system of the. new land purchase act,
Lord Dunraven declared: IT always
said that the disadvantages as we'll as
the advantages Of long term ought to
be carefully weighed and considered.'
Dillon Takes Hand.
The result of this discussion before
the Irish Reform association upon the
matter of the various terms and the
various times and the questions, of fair
prices for Irish land, Lord Dunraven is
now confronted with revival of the
story of his efforts to establish mod
crate central party in the center and
south Of Ireland in opposition to the
nationalist party. Mr.. Dillon. has taken
a hand in the matter and it is asserted
that the Irish leader knows more than
Lord Dunraven imagines that he knows.
On the side Of the opponents of Lord
Dunraven it is claimed that the plot
has failed tho the PLAN to mislead the
tenants has been only too successful
and has added about $175, 100000 to
$3.50, 100000 worth Of landlord property.
MacNaghten Rebuked.
Mr.. MacNaghten, the son and heir Of
Lord MacNaghten, is an unsuccessful
sutton for Irish unionist seats. So far
back as 1899 he came forward as a can
didate for North Antrim, but was some
what roughly reminded by William
Moore that his father had made a good
thing out of the representation of An,
trim by getting lordship Of appeal in
ordinary with 10000 year and that
in the next generation some one besides
a MacNaghten ought to be given a
chance. Mr.. Moore was himself given
the chance and now in North Derry
even the loyalists who have been made
the .steppingstone Of Mr.. Atkinson in
his successful judicial place begging
| have refused. to. allow Mr. MacNaghten
to make of that constituency jump
ing-of place for the bench.
! Distress in Derry.
! The acute distress prevailing il
Derry owing to continued want of EN-
ployment for artisans and laborers ha:
taken the form Of public meeting Of
citizens at the Guild hall. At severa
Of these meetings Alderman McCarte
has presided, and the condition Of af
fairs has been discussed and a series O.
denunciatory resolutions passed. 4
strong feeling existes among the unem
ployed because Of the inactivity of tn
public boards.
T. P. O'Connor's Speech.
One Of the best closing speeches o
the campaign was that Of T. P. O'Co1
nor at Holborn town hall, this city, /
which he devoted a considerable POI
) ton Of his address to criticism of tn
, statement that the Irish question wa
not as urgent now as it was in 1885,
He said that the population Of Irelan
r had decreased by three quarters of
? million since that year. Last year nor
than $4,000 people emigrated from tn
shores Of Ireland, nearly 81 per cent c
whom were between the ages of Is an
IS. The marriage rate-the crucial tie:
applied by the economists to the m:
terial conditions Of country-is tt
lowest in Europe, notwithstanding
), low standard of life and comfort. Il
4 added that one would have though
d that even the most doctrinaire of poll
n icians should regard the question of tt
u government of a country whose pop
!, lation is declining at the rate of 1000
:, a year, a country where little increas
a except taxation and lunacy, as mo
: urgent. But under the union syste
the Irish question is'never regarded
urgent by British politicians ,sa'
where there is turmoil approaching
the stage Of civil war, or the state
parties at Westminster makes quie
cence in the decadence Of Ireland an
Y convenience as well as a crime. T.
whole liberal party processes to -reco
nize this. g..
Mr.. O'Connor pointed out that t.
policy Of the liberal party must
, either policy Of 'fsops or doles,"
policy Of poultices or a change Of 81
tenn. The system having been declar
f to be unrepresentative of the people
r could not understand the logic of pro
"a Using measures to improve the conditi
l. !: of the people without changing the s,
- te moi government, He said that
n necessity for Improvement was me,
ure that would remove the declared
1T capacity Of the system itself to effe
ee improvement. > ..-- IS:
Ill WHALEBONE rs WORTH