Show BRUTAL BUSINESS gO SINESS ONE would think that mr balfour in charge of the irish department of the tory government of great britain would let up some time on his treatment of the people across the little sea his actions and utterances from tb thoan f ret have irm beto been of a nature to irritate annoy and antagonize the Mile and when in their rage they turn on one or more of the evictors evic tors whose proceedings ce edings have been unnecessarily harsh balfour steps in with more coercion and more oppression as a remedy the procrustean system established by him for technical of fenders of his cast iron regulations have made him thoroughly despised not only by the victims but by the better classes of people in all parts of the world he seems to fairly revel I 1 in a this kind of thing and enjoys his unpopularity so much that he prefers increasing and extending it to making explanations or putting forth any sort of defense the rhe latest instance in which the unsavory state statesman sinan figured to the oppression and distress of a number of irish tenants was the recent eviction of tenants of the estate there was a differ difference euce between the aggregate ag grega amount demanded and what the tenants were willing 10 0 pay of several thousand pounds the latter offering to pay out of and both sides had agreed to a compromise as to the other everything t ig promised to move on smoothly to a settlement when balfour dawned on the scene and advised the landlords landlord agent to drop the matter and resort to eviction of course the advice was followed and the driving out of the people from their homes took place it was so flagrant a breach of confidence fi so arbitrary an appeal to what had bad hitherto been considered a measure to be used only when all 4 else had failed that the populace po PU lace became alarmed and armed violence became so imminent that each house was surrounded with a cordon of soldiers as the hapless people and their furniture furu iture were being turned out of doors doore over fifty families were thus dispossessed at a time too when everything had looked so bright for a settlement it Is said that balfour receives such news without removing the cigar from his lips and with no other sign of emotion than a sardonic smile he is a peculiar personage truly |