The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-09-14
The Campaign Carried on Against the Cattle
Graziers is Proving to be Most
Effective One.
1t Means Simply That the People be Allowed
to Settle on Land Heretofore Given
Over to Cattle.

with kindness characteristic Of the
Celtic nature, took the lambs upon
their shoulders and carried them along
to be delivered to the owner,
The form Of protest adopted in or.
der to force the division of tho vast
grazing areas among a population
which is being scattered to the ends
Of the earth because they are not al
lowed to cultivate their native soil.
may seem a crude one to Americans.
but it Is proving most effective for its
purpose. which even the government
| officials and some Of the judges have
been forced to admit is a 1usttfable
one.
In order that your readers may un.
derstand how the county of Roscorna
| mon has been denuded of its populA~
ton by this cruel and rapacious land-
lord system against which the people
| have revolted. few figures may be
quoted from the officia, statistics They
| .0'' t'0h o"H teTIiOle taIe. Inc popu.
lation of the entire county OF Ros.
common in 1871 was 253591 In 1901
1t was 101,791. a decrease of over 150..
| 600 in sc years. This decrease is ac-
| counted for by the fact that the entire
| rich plains of the county were de-
| prived Of their population in the in
I tc,.t I,n%r
ment of the Land League in 1879.
! through the operations of evictins
landlords. In one instance, on the es-
tate of a landlord named Pollock, in
a district between Creggs-where Par
nell made the last speech of his life
and Ballymoe. as many as 1,10o ten.
ants were evicted within one week in
the f1fties, and that stretch Of country
! today affords most g1aring evidence
of the rapacity Of the landlord cam
paign against the tenantry.
| That is why the United Irish League.
which is fighting this system, is today
| militant in Roscommon, and in the
proclaimed by the government as dis
turbed districts" 1t has branches in
every parish, and almost the entire
population are members of the orean-
! ization. Many hundreds Of acres
have already been purchased by the
Estates Commissioners appointed un.
| RI Low, -
Congested Districts Board, and happy
| homesteads will soon dot the district
in which the people can live in peace
and comfort, undisturbed by the land
lord or his agents. Up to the present
loo evicted tenants have been REIN
stated in the homes from which they
were evicted since August 14th, 1878,
or in homes equal in value and size
elsewhere.
And there is at this writing before
Parliament a bill-the fate Of which
will probably be determined before
these lines are read by your readers
providing for the compulsory acqui-
stion Of 10000 acres of land upon
which to provide homes for the evicted
tenants not yet reinstated
| On inquiry a few days since at the
office of the Landed Estates Commits
sioners in Dublin, l learned that after
this land has been distributed among
"the wounded soldiers of Ireland's
land war;" that body will still have
power to deal with any remaining
cases in the distribution of untenant-
ed land in their possession.-(The
House of Lords have so amended the
Bill only two thousand of the six thou
sand cases Of the evicted, will receive
any benefit.-Ed. l. wy
This is part of what the Irish Par j
Iliamentary Party and the National or
ganization have won for the evicted
tenants of Ireland. Most Of the Irish
members have been back here in Ire
land for two or three weeks past, en-.