Evening star., 1907-11-18
IRISH CATTLE DRIVES
NEW METHOD OF TERRoRIzING
BoYCoTTED TENANTS.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
DUBLIN. November 1S.-At the open
ing of the quarter sessions at Longford
His Honor County Court Judge Curran said
that, although the cases for trial were few.
he could not congratulate the grand jury
on the state of the county so long as he was
Informed that there existed over a consid-
erabie part of the county an organization
or conspiracy against private property
known as cattle driving. Those who took
part in that organization and advised IT
must know that thay were violating not
| only the law of the land. but far nigh
er law. He was told that some people
said that cattle driving was not very
serious offense. If any one who held
those opinions went and lived in a coun-
try where cattle driving was rife he would
see that men who had the pluck and
courage to insist on their right TO live as
fr 'e citizens in free country were sub
mitteG to boycOtting of the fiercest kind :
he would see those men EoycOtted their
servants and laborerS fleeing from them,
and the shopkeepSrs warned against
them: he would see them ostraciZed in
their own district. where short time be-
fore they lived in peac. and harmony.
No tenant on the face of the earth was so
we'll treated by law as the Irish tenant.
From the year 1870 to the present scarce
~ year had passed without some reme
dial legislation being enacted in favor of
the irish tenant. AS chairman of quarter
sessions and as one who always took an
interest in the welfare of the struggling
tenants, he implored them to try to pre-
vent the people of County LonSford from
acting in the manH~r hc had described
against the law. which must in the end
get the better of them.
Drive at Roscommon
In connection with the cattle drive which
took place at Clovarhil, County Roscom-
mon, last Friday night. when the cattle
of the Rev. Father Dohney and Mr.. Mala-
chy DoWd were driven off and scattered
in various directions a meeting of nation
alists was held outside Cloverhi.l Chapel
Sunday morning to obtain the views of
the people as to a continuance of the
present struggle" Mr. Joseph Doorley.
who presided. asked for show of hands
ana all. with ona exception. expressed
their approval Mr.. Dowd whose cattle
had been driven off his farm, came for
ward and said that it was not his inten-
tion to surrender the farm. and his state
men; was received with shouts and
Sroans. The chairman declared that the
struggle would go on in spite of Dub
lin Castle. and he added. amid cheers.
that the cattle had "strayed" off Mr..
DoWds farm before and thy would stray
again. The cattle which We're driven off
the ClOverhill lands Friday night have
sine. been brought back by the owners
and the farm is being guarded night and
day by the police.
Starving Out Tenants.
Mr.. Ginnell, NJ p. addressed meet
ing at Killalon. County Westmeath,
on cattle driving, and said that the
branches of the league that Were doing
most for local objects. such as the
scattering of cattle off the ranches,
were the branches that were making
the national movement a living real
lty. If the people asked the govern
ment for money for any purpose they
would find 1t extremely hard to get it.
but If the ranches were stripped and
kept stripped, if the grass was left un-
eaten and uncut, and the long grass left
to rot over hundreds of acres, as it is
rotting in Galway and Rosconrmon, no
crime was committed and the owner,
sick of Improbable long grass, would
apply for and get from the government
the money which the people would
never get.
Several cattle drives took place in the
County Meath last Friday and Satur-
day nights. The largest was carried
out near Dunshaughlin, on lands which
recently came into the possession of
Lord Trimlestown. Sixty-five cattle be-
longing to three large graziers in the
locality were driven off during the
were found Sunday. Two other drives
occurred the same night in the Dun
boyne district and Friday three cattle
were driven off lands belonging to Lord
DunSany, which are let on the eleven
months system. A report has reached
farms on Col Chichester's estate at
Runnamoate were cleared Of stock