At The Same Time This Gentleman Confirmed
The Athleague Gentleman's Statement That Rents Were Raised Past The
Possibility Of The Tenant's Paying, That Eviction Was Cruel And
Persistent, The Belief Being That Large Grass Farms Were The Only Paying
Form Of Letting Land.
In fact, he said, he himself had evicted the
tenants on his property on pain of being evicted himself.
He held land,
but at such a rent that if living by farming alone he would not be able
to pay it.
He gave some instances of boycotting. One was that travelling in the
neighboring county of Longford he had occasion to get a smith to look at
his horse's shoes, and was asked for his Land League ticket. On saying
he had none, the smith refused to attend to the horse's shoes. Roscommon
had boycotted a Longford man who had taken willow rods to sell because
he had not a Land League ticket, and a Longford smith in reprisal would
not set the shoe on the horse of a Roscommon man unless he had a Land
League ticket. When the gentleman explained that he had bought five
hundred of those same rods from that same man the smith attended to the
horse, and the boycotting was over.
I heard of other cases of boycotting. It is not by any means a new
device, although it has come so prominently before the public lately.
From Roscommon I crossed country past Clara and Tullamore, across King's
county into Portarlington on the borders of Queen's county.
Portarlington is the centre of a beautiful country full of cultivated
farms as well as shut-up and walled-in gentlemen's seats.
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