The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-06

Frenchpark. Since then the farm has been watched by police. but the other morning the tail was cut on bull lock belonging to a man who nVes near Ballaygar.
 Crowd stops Auction.
 A few days ago an attempt was made to sell 100 acres of meadowing and grazing farm at Ballymoo. county Roscommon. For considerable time past. efforts have been made to se- cure the lands for distribution among the neighboring tenants. At the hour fixed for the sale a large crowd, mann ly composed of women. collected ana surrounding the auctioneer, began to blow horns and to boot. The auc- tIoneer endeavored to dispose of the meadowing, but the bidders. If any, could not be heard, and he was obliged to leave.
 A force of police was present. At the quarterly meeting of the Galway County Council the secretary stated that the amount to be paid by the council in respect of decrees awarded by the Recorder under the Malicious Injuries act amounted to $4,425.
 The principal item was the award to the Department of Agriculture in Ireland of sl,S05 for the malicious burning of their premises at Athenry. The chairman said that 1t was the in- tention of the people of Athenry to petition the House of Commons to get the award to the Department struck out and he advised that the matter be allowed to stand until November, when Parliament would be in posi- ton to consider the petition. The council adopted the suggestion.
 A largely attended meeting was held in Cork City hall to protest against the deadlock in land purchase operations consequent on the an- nouncement that it is the intention of the government to disturb the con cordant esta bllshed by the land act of 1903 as between landlord and ten ant. The meeting was representative of both farmers and landlords. as well as of the professional and commer- cial classes.
 MT. Macdonald, chairman of the county council, presided, and he was Healy, Nj. F.: MT. D. Sheehan M. F.; Mir. E. Barry, M F.; Colonel The o'Donoghue, MT. R. k. Longfield, and Mir. w. H. Beamish.
 Mir. O'Brien. NJ. P, in the course of a long speech, complained that the government had repudiated the bar gain of 1905. by which England sol- emnly bound herself to find the money for abolishing Irish landlordism. It
 
 farmers house nor laborer's. cottage in the land which had not been shak- en by the announcement of Lord Dem man. now practically endorsed by the Prime Minister, that England's bargain should be readjusted-that was to say. must be repudiated, and that no more money would be found for land purchase. The success of the act was the only real success England ever had in Ireland. Landlords and ten- ants had in a most amazing way agreed to terms which were far bet ter for the tenants than those secur- ed under the Ashburne act. and 1t was England alone that was the default ing party to the bargain.
 MT. Healy, M P, said half the rep resentatives of Ireland were telling the treasury that the Irish people were bankrupt and would not pay, and the other half were going to the Irish people and telling them the Eng fish were robbing them and the terms were entirely too high. He was there to tell those who bought and who sold their land that, unless they put their shoulders to the wheel, they would be betrayed by those who sh ould assist them on the road to prosperity. He rubbed his eyes when he read the extraordinary statement made on the part of the government. He could understand 1t coming from one of the Forty Thieves. hard pressed for coin. If there was to be a re- adjustment of contracts they In Ire land would want to know the reason why, The government was showing a very bad example to Irish farmers who had the name of being dishonest. J. Mills, justice of the peace at Bel mullet. has refused to sign the "evic- ton -made-easy" notices. and the Board of Guardians has approved his action. The board termed the notices aa dapradfu1