The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-21
Hard and Pitiless.

Bad times may come as they came Of
ten during the eighty years of ClanrI-
caTde's existence. But suffering and pri-
walton mattered nothing 10 him. The
heart of sympathy for the famine -strick-
en- people on his estates but CIapri-
carde was never responsive to either
shame or pity.
With him 1t was his rent or eviction.
and the colder the days chosen by him
for the work OF the crowbar brigade, the
better It seemed TO suit his callous pur-
pose.
Looking back over the exciting days
of tho sos when the land league was
at the height OF its power II seems
strange that Clanricardc should have
survived the peoples hatred which he
did so much TO earn.
One night in parliament the secretary
for ireland, stung by tho cold rapacity
that though the law was on the side of
the landlord. he (thc secretary felt bound
to say the name OF the titled oppressor
OF his tenants was synonymous with
murder,
And as the law was with cIanricarde
and behind the law. the armed forces
OF the government. from the sheriff and
his crowbnr brigade up TO regiments Of
dragons, he got his rents for his lands
whilo the people OF the west In famine
for years went hungry-men. women
and children.
Refused to Sell.
When the Irish land act was passed
a few years ago empowering the re-
version through sale of vast estates OF
the landlords to their tenants, Clanri-
cardc refused to sell though the terms
We're most favorable to the landlords
interests.
Most OF the landlords svailed them
selves OF the act and are today living IN
peace and friendship among their former
Not Not { so with Clanricardo. No sale for
him. equitable or not. The land was his.
1t came TO him from his Cromwellian
ancestors az a sacred trust and he would
hold II while he breathed.
But the tlmea have changed The
people and their friends arc now In
power, The day Of djckerinc with Clan
ricardo Is over He has been given no
tiee that the land estate commissioners
will acquire his estate by compulsory
process and for his 1910 acres of land
he viii be paid the neat sum Of s1.14o,-
the government in installments spread
over sixty eight wears Then the ten
ants will own the land forever.
Apportionment Fixed.
To the many thousands Of Connaught
people In the United States and no part
OF Ireland has a larger representation in
the great republic than the western prov
nce, It will be interesting to read just
ricardo by the land commissioners has
been apportioned as 60 the locality, area
OF estate In each locality and the final
offer made for each Thcy arc as fol-
lows:
Ioughrea. 6lS0 acres. sIO6t6; Leltrim
5000 acres. s3S6.250 D,unlillen, 1878
acres. S35.36o; Galway. 3629 acres. $780,
I55; LonSfoTd and Clanmacknowen. Al2S
acres. sj6TiS5: IonGford. 9272 acres,
341. .62S: Leltrim. 1865 acres. s11S.9bo; to-
tai. Sl.140.375.
Reviewing Clanrlcardc's history as the
most relentless rackrentcr in Ireland and
seeing the mountain OF money which he
wrune from the people In the four
score wears he was legally allowed to
bleed them. this appears on the surface
a colossal sum TO pay him for his rent
roll
Rid of Oppressor,
II would seAm that Michael Dsytt
went right to the hilt when he advo-
Gated giving such oppressors as Clauri-
ardo n single ticket TO Iiolyheed as the
price of their getting out of the coun-
try,
But calling rs IT Is for the tenants to
pay this vast sum, it Is worth the price
TO bo rid. even now. OF the worst blight
tho west OF Ireland has over known.
Bv virtue Of his poeraga, Clanricarde
is entitled to ait and vote In the house
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