Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-04-26
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Want Of Funds to Execute Act
Embarrasses Government.
TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS NEEDED
Landlords and Tenants Make Agree
ments Requiring This Amount.
IT Is NOT FORTHCOMING
Deals Totaling Three Hundred Mil
lions Already Financed.
LAW IS TOO SUCCESSFUL
Task of Findins way Out of Middle
Wni Test the Abilities of
the New Liberal
Cabinet.
Landlords and Tenants Make Agree
ments Requiring This Amount.

been called the grave Of liberal governments
ana unless the new premier succeeds in
finding some way out OF the land purchase
rnuddie there IL every indication that II
VIII materially assist in the death OF the
present government The fact is that the
land purchase act which was passed by the
unionist government IN 1903, has broken
down because II was too successful and so
far the liberals have not risen 10 the oc-
casion by providing the funds needed 20
carry II on.
when the act was passed IL was esti-
mated that the voluntary transfer OF the
land Of Ireland from the ownership Of the
landlords to that OF the occupiers would
progress At the rate Of about s2o,oOo.OO0
year. As a matter Of fact within the four
years which have passed the value Of the
transfers has been roughly about $780, ,o0o,-
ese and agreements representing 1000
1 hare been made between landlords and
tenants for the transfer OF their lands
which have not been carried out because
the government has failed to do Its part
by providing the money to finance the
transfer. This is all the more astonish-
ing because there never was an undertak-
ing OF any kind fraught with so little risk
OF loss 20 the taxpayers. This is shown
by the fact that out Of the annual sum OF
about s1,ST5.OoO TO be collected from the
tenant purchaser only 5000 was in arrears
az the end of last year and that was quite
certain OF collection within a few months.
Probably most of It has been collected be-
fore this, but there are no official fig
ures available There could be no better
evidence OF the honesty and prosperity Of
the tenant purchasers than this.
Tenants and Landlords.
But what OF the tenants and the land
lords who have made agreements and who
are left between the devil and the deep
scar The tenants can neither call them
selves tenants nor owners and the land
lords are in an equally awkward predica-
ment. They cannot sell their lands in the
ordinary way and they do not know when
they win set the purchase price which they
have agreed to take on the strength OF the
government guarantee Another source Of
complaint which the landlords have is that
they shave been put to great expense by
the formalities which the law requires as
preliminary 70 the sale OF their estates.
The most elaborate proof Of title Is re-
quired which II Is estimated often costs as
much as per cent OF the value Of the es-
tase.
Mr.. william o Brien. M. p. has come to
the rescue Of the government with the sug-
gestion that conference Of landlords,
tenants and representatives OF the govern
60 find some way out Of the difficulty.
More money must be found. but an essen
tisi Is that It shall be found without piac-
ing any further burden on the taxpayer.
a loan Is suggested and the form could
best be decided al such a SSnference Mr..
OBricn also suggests that instead OF the
elaborate proof Of title now required ten
Years clear receipts for rent should be ac-
eepted as proof OF the landlords right to
cell.
Nothing that any British government
has ever done for ireland has worked SO
wen as this land purchase act" Mr.
O'Brien said to me few days ago. "The
result OF II has been that a new ireland is
growing up. The old agrarian discomfort
and the class hatred which disgraced Ire
land IN the past has disappeared in the dis
iricts where the act has been put in oper-
alton. The only survival Of this unrest and
hptred arc in Tho districts where the oper-
aIion of the act has been delayed and /
fear NC win have repetition of bad times
n the present situation Is much prolonged -
nooseveIt's Popularity.
rrcSideHt Roosevelt has greatly increased
his popularity in ireland by his prompt re-
sponse 20 the letter OF John Boland. NJ T..
requesting him TO use his influence 60 have
the J-nited states government issue stats
between the United States AID Ireland
separately from those Of the trade with
Great Britain. Mr.. Boland has just re-
ceived letter from the acting secretary
of state announcing that this viii be done
after July next This leaves Germany as
the only country Of any Importance which
refuses 70 recognize Ireland's individuality
in her trade statistics
An amusing instance Of the way in which
English statistics regarding ireland are
complied has just been given by the Irish
Educational Review. II has always been
the fashion in England to point with scoEn
al ireland as a country Of nliterates and
the statistics seemed TO bear this out TO
some extent, That is 70 say they declare
that only 70 per cent Of the Irish people are
able 10 read and write while per cent are
al'le 70 read only and y per cent are totally
unabie % read or write. II has now been
discovered that for the purposes Of COM
pling these statistics every child 5 years
old In Ireland is elsssed as an nliterate II
Il cannot read and write Tho joke Of Il Is
that compulsory attendance al school does
not begin until the child is years old u
May BE- added also that no statistics Of n
ilteracs m England. Scotland or wales are
published.
''Fnfr DAY. whisky.
''F'alr day whisky which has long beei,
famous In Ireland. has received blow ffom
which Ii will have difficulty In recovering.
Il has always been understood that il was
q particularly powerful eencoctions' war
fanted 10 make man fight a regiment
but Mrs Malone Of Lisburn has given ia
reputation away. Mrs Malone conducts
one ol the most popular public houses In
the town and q few days ago one Of the
food ana drugs inspectors entered her house
ana asked to be served from = particular
bottle which he pointed OUT Mrs. Maloas
told him that the whisky was watcrod
bui hc Insisted on having his sample and
after having d analysed he prosecuted hes
Tor scllins whisky thai was 81 per cent un.
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