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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 4

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rgDl IGHTS OS TEE CAMPAIGN g£V AGAINST THEM. j miens,' 7 writing in the Standard, 1 Mtt— It u about fifty yearn ago since 1 rant lecame acquainted with the West 11 Ireland and iU graziers. Large paitofc (arms then abounded. IX these BTM* had ever been occupied by small Ipiata It *»» not bo long ago that |lia but seemed to be forgotten. The gpruaeii were not regarded as interloper?, and were not in any respect unpoMkr. These graziers have lately been described by a Liberal party aa "middleMen" and absentee*." They are neither one feor the other. A man who holds Several grazing farms cannot, of course, reside on all of them, but he resides and spendx his income in the neighborhood, •ml cteh farm is under his supervision, and Die .cattle and sheep on it are usually Inflight aA sold by himself. The herd who resides on the land is in no retpect an ander-tenant, nor is it for his •ate t&atfit is now sought to clear the fend. In the present case, the object k not to ejeet a grabber and restore the evicted tenant—it is to evict the ten* ant in arder to replace <"■" b; a number Of grabbers.

A good deal is said of the eleven toO»tbs" system, which is of apparently recent origin, but the attack extends to all grazing farms. lam not certain that even those which are residential are eluded. But why should not a qian who lives in the neighborhood be ■ allowi l to rent a grazing farm on which there may be no suitable residence! However, I believe the eleven months' aysteui is, generally speaking, a mere lawytr's triek for depriving the tenant Of lh«' benefit of the Land Acts adopted fa U>i interests of the landlord, not of -the tenant. . The latter may remain in posse akuK throughout the entire year, mad {ay the whole of the rates, but for one ciooth he has not the legal status of a tenant When the letting is really as eleven "months' letting, the tenant's only right is to remain undisturbed till file e.id of the eleven months for which ie h » taken the land. But this the •gifa ore will not permit. He is bound by I s contract to pay' his rent if he .* baa ic means of paying it. That he t- low it impossible to graze the land

Powia to cause* is no defence to an action or the rent; and it may be added £ <ihat ;ren if the cattle were sometimes r. left' a -the land, repeated driving them f at * aid prevent them from improving, .. and .'OBsequently prevent the grazier *. from soiling them for a higher price JP thai he paid. The movement is thus @i- direc id, not against the landlord, as i hi the to, but against the .grazier. It is jjjgMfc* i,raider whom it is sought to ruin -T i ehrtt) -n tf oppression. eviction, etc., •eia previously urged against the |! bad. ids are here out of place. The ■v gnut r« are neither oppressors nor evictors, _ai as a rule they were popular ' sen until the present agitation broke 2Ti out. Tluii- i» no r«i=«n lot assailing 11 - fftuc except that they occvjiy the land, SL ftiii . aep it in pasture—a state in which 5s moat of It has been from time imrial The land is, in fact, more Jk-r-joitaMe lot pasturage than tillage, fty-. TO i landlords would, of course, ultisuffer by success of the present gnuing farm, and the landlord's jfe «w eattk and. aheep were driven off |- tho and, and their sale boycotted in feeiae Ins tried to manage It himself, he fr~ be compelled to let it in smaller tef'Svis ,ns to tenants who were permitted Klto beak It np and till it. ■ But these ££<WMLI-fce tenaata belong to combinations, pa They would stand toother and dictate rents, with the alternative of leaving !"--;th» loads unlet—the competition of the Sfcgnui«ani having been effectually exehidK ed. Instead of letting on the landlord's ty- term* or not at all—the landlord having sfe. to deal with a combination whose mem!jf IM acted in unison, and excluded all *5 oompetiticm. Compulsory sale is the retpj'"'mit Wggested by a contemporary. If gipKp movement succeeds the landlord will he too anxious to sell. The diffiMMtty will be that of inducing the tenant *'• Id buy at anything Bice a bur price. Wfcßat the nafounat* grazier will have noKpitag to afU, aad will not be permitted b<iy even if he bad money for the i -'pnrpuae. "Coinaught or hell" is said t"-> to'have been the choice offered by Cront.well to the Irish. The choice of ti-. .graxier is to be farther restricted W ■f dosing Connaught against him.