Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-03-20

Dublin, ireland Poverty and dis |
tress and squalor and hunger IL still /
present In the siums OF some Of the
larger cities of Ireland Tut over the
richer rural parts Of Ireland has come
intelligent organized industry aud en-
thuslastic energy which make II az
rich and prosperous as the richest
portions of the great middle west I'll
America. Rural Ireland Is unqueation'
ably n reRenerate Ireland. The process
OF regeneration liz progressing, eros-
perlty lis crowding out poverty ARD In.
vading even those regions which have
heretofore been considered the natural
stronghoids Of poverty
How Prosperity Came TO IRELAND,
There are several contributing
causes for this changed condition. Tho
land tenure laws have done wonders.
Under old conditions tho slightest In
dication of prosperity upon the part
of the tenant. II 1t we're only a new cap
on the wife a clean apron. meant q
raise In rent II was to the advant.
age OF the tenant farmer TO seem more
miserable than he was. The system
put premium on sqnalor and ragged
ness ard s!ovenly farming No one
could safely whitnwuah his cottage or
plant tree or cultivate flower. Now
all is changed Three hundred thou.
sand farmer tenants are now purchaH.
Ing their holdings under benaiieent
law, which permits the purchase Of the
land without the advance payment of
cent The only obligation upon the
purchaser Ia that he pay annually "a
per cent upon the value Of the little
farm an interest and less than one.hali
per cent as an lhHtallment upon tho
principal Under this law the entire
tenant class are acquiring their homes
by the annual payment Of sums aggre
eating considerably less than the for
mer rent
Plunkett Teaches Cooperation.
There can be no doubt that rurn
Ireland IL making d business success d
farming. but Ii is not doing ita buai
ness In buslness.iike way because q
any spontaneous impulse on the par
of the Irish farmer. It IL rather b
cause bnsineas-like freshmen wen
about organizing the business pro
cedure of rural enterprises In mos
business.llke way The leader Of theal
buslnesa-lika IrIshmen Ii Sir Hornci
Plunkett To him Ireland owes NOR
than Ii will ever realize. From Tia
first his propaganda WAS educational
iIls proposition WAS that the Iris
farmer must be taught the efficacy Q
combination In industries He did no
believe IN subsidies or aabyentionl
Nor did he believe that relief Woni
come through legislation or thrOnK
state aid In any form Az Father Fir
lay. professor OF eeonimics In the Nj
tional University OF Dublin, says ...rh
farmers. beat resources he held 10 b
themselves. and In their own INTEL
gence. relf-rellnnce and mutual frua
and theAe resources It was bis pu
pose to develop"
He Encounters Difficulties.
There seemed 10 be most exeelie.
reasons why he could not succeed. I'll
Irish people we're diapirlted and di
couraged. They we're suspicious M
: afraid Of all new movements. d
Horace piunkett himself belonged
the deapiFed landlord class With Whit
the people had been long In constai
. conflict.
Az Father Flniay Hags; In retiKif
he was q Protestant and his appe
would be to u people predominant
Catholic In a country where religion
antagonfams prevade every sphere
social life In poiIties-so far ~
was a p0lltician-he was q UniDnii
and those whom he proposed 70 inf
ence were Natlonalists by a vast n
iority. keenl1 suspicious Of any poll
which threatened 10 divert the mil
Of tbs nation from the political air
D On which 1t WAS passiOnateiy bent.
II IL not surprising. therefore. that
> was only after more than year
strenuous efforts and after mors tn
:. atty public meetings had been be
{ than In 1889 q body Of Limerick far
era finally consented to establish 4 |
/ operative creamery. II was again on
. d year before , second one follow
. suit by the end Of 1881. howsvi
. seventeen creameries we're 81 sol
i and az the end Of 1893 thirty had be-
organized. Thereafter the cooperate
societies we're organized more rapid
Nov cooperation and good busins
;. method prevail throughout trsial
, There are $50 cooperative
0 cieties upon the island. With m
gregate paid up share capital Of ABB
: million asElaEs their annual tnrnos
i twelve million dollars.
n In 1884 the cooperative moyana'
;, has become no great that there :
!: need OF . central society % carry
il the work which had heretofore b
le done by volunteer propagandisfH
- the /. A. q. 5.
=, There NAH needed an 0TEanlzaa
which should help rural eotamunii
organize their marketing and 1Hslu
processes. be : central federation
A ali existing societies. and becoms
=. supervisor and auditor Of their b
Id meas methods Such a society II
is Irish Agricultural society Al
=. head has been and : saF AoF
>. Plunkatt vho has been ths John