Show IRISH LANDLORDS A good deal has been said written and telegraphed about the agrarian agitation in the green I isle there io ic no doubt that there are evils of a serious character in the social status of ortho the sod the preponderance of accumulated capital has ground down small labor to a deplorable degree gilt edged aristocracy and ragged pauperism furnish a sad and deplorable contrast still there arc are two sides to the picture hitherto the tenant has had bad his share of hy thy his sufferings havo have been depicted in the sombre hues lines and appalling P accents by james ridpath and other journalists on tho the war P path aab the dilapidated irish hut the empty kettle the ragged babe the toiling girl the starving woman he the fatigued la laborer boreri all these have furnished parts for many a drama in n the editorial columns of the philo pressic press tc friends of the irish so far so good suffering among th the irish eIrish tenants there has undoubtedly been suffer there still stil fis is and worse there still will be but on the other liand hand the conflict has hurt the bloated bloate d landlord no less than the honest tenant tho the no milt rp nt movement which is a fraud and a swindle on the face of ef it has entailed as much if not more su suffering frering upon the creditors as the old condition of things did upon the debtors parnell and his unscrupulous clique of agitators who would not hesitate to plunge their country into the sanguinary chasm of a destructive tive civil war have bave given the word of command to the tenants to pay no rent for the lands belonging to legally entitled proprietors in our opinion this step of the land league is of a far more revolutionary and ana subversive character than anything the nihilists nihilisms lists ever devised wo we shall comeback come bark anthe on the sub eject today to day we will on only ay furnish an illustration of the effects of th the e bulldozing Cl boycotting they ca call 11 it exercised by the disloyal law defying b celtic crowds the story published below was told to a correspondent of the leeds england mercury by a sea captain the son of an irish landlord when I got home last august I found things in a fearful state my father more than 80 and arid bed bedridden lidden was crying all day long lone saying ho he wag was ru ruined ined and that his children would be killed and my sister who was nursing him was broken down with grief they could not pay the doctors bills they had hardly money enough to fin find d food or medicine for the poor old man and this v here where there had always been nearly two thousand a year coining in not a penny of rent had they touched for eighteen months now I knew knevi that the chief tenant could pay without any difficulty BO so I slip slipped ped prevol a revolver into my pocket and walked down to the public house I found my man zaan there I ordered my glass and eat down none of them knowing me after lawhite a while I sa said idDo do any of you boys know the state of things up a at t the house they stared but said n nothing othi s so then I epand up and told them the afu truth t h faith its captain jackl said one who reco recognized nihed me then the very man that I was after yes tim my boy its captain jack and hes come coma for the rent that you owe his big father they looked as though they thought I was clean mad and one of them laughed I wheeled round upon him and said and its bemuse your master and his big daughter are dying of hung hunger er that ye laugh is it but the others all told him that he lie ought to be ashamed of himself only they pay tho the rent well but boys I said what ive ve como come for and im going to have it its my fathers life or your money and you cant suppose that im going to sit git still when I know you can pay and v ought to pay now tim I mean t to babe your check before I leave this room and I pulled my rei ro volyer out of my pocket and laid it on the table there Therewa sift a man moved amov ed I said nothing but I took the revolver up and cocked it tim turned as white as a sheet well said be he I know things were as bad as ye say C captain etain jack or maybo maybe id have paid al belore before yo ye shall have your check chec s but u for r goodness oo 00 n sake put t that at thing in hy all 11 rig right t said I be put by when ive got the c check ec and nd five ve minutes afterward erward I Y went ent home with the three hundred in m pocket and the revolver too ohp ick had never been loaded S SL aa A |