Paraguay on Shannon. the Price of a Political Priesthood. Remarks on Policy and Proceedings of a Ribbonman Board and a Royal Arranged Commission (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OFFICIAL JACOBINISM. It is quite notorious in Ireland that all owners of landed property regard with the gravest suspicion both the Estates Commissioners and the Congested Board. Both are believed to work in the interest of an agrarian Jacobinism, conducted by lay and clerical agitators. Mr. St. George Robinson, member of one of the oldest firms of land agents, openly declared to the Congestion Commission :? In no instance should the fixing of the price of estates be left in the hands either of the Estates Commissioners or the Congested Districts Board. Mr. Robinson added that the rumours of confiscation or compulsory sale which accompanied the creation of the Congestion Commission itself had revived violent agitation throughout the country. The tenants told me in plain English they were going to get the land by compulsion, and going to force our hands. ... It was one of the quietest districts in the country up to the appointment of the Commission, but now it is very much disturbed. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSION ? Lord Dudley, the Chairman of the Commission, seems desirous of championing projects in Ireland which he might dislike to see realised on the Dudley estates in England. I quote from the Freeman's Journal's account of the Connemara visit of the Commission:? Mrs. Blake, of Renvyle, was examined, and presented a number of figures to show that the officially-supplied list of non-resident graziers was incorrect. Lord Dudley (chairman)?What is all this to prove ? Witness?That the information given in by the clerk of the union is not accurate as to the acreage held by the graziers whom it is proposed to deprive of their holdings. Lord Dudley?You have a good deal of untenanted land in your possession ? Witness?I have a certain amount. Lord Dud...