Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27

and Mrs. Lewis, who has large es-
tate In Galway county and has been
one of the most vindictive and OppreS-
sfve of all the landlords.
She is woman of very determined
character. and will not even answer let
tiers addressed to her by the ofacials OF
the government.
Marquis Of Clanricarde's Land.
The Marquis Of Clanricarde is nearly
eighty years old, very eccentric. miser.
dresses very shabbily. lives like a re-
cluse and pays no bills. He has not
visited his Irish estates but once since he
inherited them in 1874. He was in the
diplomatic service as a young man dur
ing the fifties. and at one time was a
member of parliament. His name Is
Hubert George De Burg Canning. Mar
Quis of Clanricarde, Viscount Burke and
Baron Dunkelan. and he has several
other titles, but has no family-a child
less widOwer.
The Clanricarde estes lie directly
west from Dublin in Galway county. and
were obtained by his ancestor William
FitzAndelm De Burg. the founder Of the
Burke family. under grant from Henry Gn;
way. To this day the province Of Con-
naught SIS scattered with the ruined
castles of the De Burg family. monu-
ments of four or five centuries Of I'M
lighting Will tHc " AsSAA."'
the O'Donnells, the OFlahertys. the
O'Connors and other powerful clans IN
the early history Of Ireland. The bat
tie of knocktow. fought In the FOUR
teenth century between an undiscipllned
horde of native clansmen under the Earl
of Clanricarde, was provoked by an IN
suit he offered to his wife. She was the
daughter of the Earl OF Kildare. ana ner
affectionate father. in vengeance, at,
tackled his son-in-law with a disciplined
force. loaned him by his neighbors. the
Lords of the Pale of Dublin. 1t is said
that 5000 dead bodies were left upon
the field. Those were strenuous days.
and the Earls of Clanricarde have been
reckoned among the fiercest lighters
from the time they came over from Eng
land in the fourteenth century. some
times they have been on one size ana
sometimes on the other, but like most
been "agin the government whatever
policy it represented. There have been
several earnest patriots in the line An
old Irish ballad begins with the hne:
GLORY Guards. Clapricarde's grave.
But the present earl is not the one re-
ferred to.
His Father Very Lenient.
His father was very popular with his
tenants and SO liberal and lenient was
he, according to the gossip. that they got
into bad habits, and when the present earl
came into the property in 1874 he pulled
them up very sharply and demanded a
prompt and full payment of all their ooli-
cations. Being unaccustomed to such
stern measures they were resentful and a
quarrel began which has lasted until now,
AMI Clanrlcarde, convinced that he mas
right and Justice on his side, has used the
mailed hand There has been more trou-
BILE and disturbance upon his estates than
upon any other in Ireland. Every one OF
his tenants has been eVicted and some
times a succession of them and their
farms have been let to what are called
"planters'-a term used in Ireland to de-
scribe families imported from distance
and planted upon land which no person IN
the neighborhood will rent because the
previous tenant has been evicted from II.
Every man on the Clanricarde estates Is a
planter
After the passage of the act of 1907 the
estates commissioners requested him 10
sell his entire holdings under the act OF
1903, but he not only rejected the PROPOSE
ton, but has declined even to discuss the
subject, and has maintained that uncom-
promising attitude from the beginning, an
embittered, relentless, vindictive old man.
When the commission undertook to ap-
ply the compulsory clause of the eVicted
tenants act and published the notice In the
Dublin Gazette the earl filed a protest.
Mr.. Justice Wiley of the lower court sus-
tanned the commission, but the court OF
appeals. composed of twelve judges, unan-
imously reversed the decision and decided
that the estates commission has no power
TO forcibly dispossess any bona-fide
planter" from land already under lease.
Applies to Mrs. Lewis Estates.
This decision technically justifies the po-
sition that the earl has taken and applies
to the estates of Mrs. Lewis also. so that
the commissioners cannot go any farther
in their work of restoring the evicted ten
ants upon those two properties. AS soon
as the decision was rendered bill was
introduced in Parliament conf1scating the
entire Clanricarde estates. 1t is not eX-
pected to pass. but was intended to adver-
tise the situation and create public opin-
ion. The government. however. took the
matter promptly in hand and the Earl of
Crewe has introduced a bill authorizing
force. after the usual legal proceedings,
any occupied land they may think neces-
sary and proper for the restoration of
evicted tenants, provided they can obtain
the consent OF the present occupant. This
means that the owner of the property, is to
have nothing to say about the matter, but
a bona-fide tenant who, in quad faiete is
occupying a farm from which his prede-
cesSOr has been evicted. cannot be elected
without his consent. We are familiar Wth
tHC AlCtHo0o vi OiSOaSioAA ei-oc iio Z
been used for years by the United Irish
League and other patriotic organizations.
and it is entirely probable that they will
prove sufficient in all cases that will arise
under this new provision. Therefore as
soon as the proposed act is passed the
tenants upon the Clanricarde estate will
be looking for trouble.
The Earl of Clanricarde cannot expect
to live q great while longer. He is al
ready an infirm old man and his heir.
Lord Sligo Of Westport. a nephew, is al
most as old as he. Lord Sligo is one of
the largest land holders in Ireland. He
owns ia 600 acres in the north, which is
mostly grazing land and his tenants are
miserably poor, living in squalid novels
scattered over the estate. He does moth
ing for them and exacts the last half
penny of his rent. His heir who will
soon come into both the Clanricarde and
Sligo estates, is his son, Lord Henry
Ulick Browne, of whom very little is
known. He is fifty-eight years of age and
lives at Westport Castle, Westport, Ire
land. AS he has had the management of
much of his fathers property for many
years 1t is generally believed that he is
responsible for the harsh policy that has
been followed toward the tenants and
that they can expect no better treatment
when he becomes their lawful lord.
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