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| EVICTION SCENE.-The accompanying sketch shows the landlord's emergency men, who have been using battering rams against the barricaded door of an Irish peasant's cabin, in full possession of the place, aided and abetted by the, in Ireland at least, omnipresent Royal Irish Constabulary, and a body of English hussars. Were it not for these potent auxiliaries, oppressive landowners in Ireland would find it impossible to collect their exorbitant rents from the unfortunate people. The English government in Ireland, especially under Tory rule, is a landlords' government. Even the English Liberals, unless under pressure from able Irish leaders, like the late Mr. Parnell, are not friendly to the Irish tenants. In looking at the ransacked cabin, depicted above, the average American citizen will be tempted to think that people ought to demand compensation for being compelled to "live" in such a "shack" rather than pay rent for it. It is, indeed, a miserable hovel, from the American, or any other standpoint. But the greedy Irish landlord, whose forefathers obtained the soil by brute force, most probably, from the ancestors of the evicted tenant, is determined to have his money, no matter at what cost of human misery. Fat cattle, in his estimation, are preferable to human beings. |
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