PARNELL AS A LANDLORD.
to Tna EDITOR.
Sir,—la your issue of Friday last I noticed an extract from a Home paper in which Mr Pareell is reported to have been denounced as a* i»p*ttor by aMr Dennis. For tho {•formation of your readers I may state that the ohargee brought on the occasion against the Land Seagae leader received a fUt contradiction from Mr Paraell's tenant*, and that a document signed by these lattar, denying tke allegation* o£ Mr D«mis, wa« published m the leading Irish papers. As there are always two tidaa to avery queeWon, I ask you, m a matter of justice, to publish the foilowiag elippicg from another Home jourml :
A oorraapoudent of a Landon OonswTatiYQ paper W j S: _" i Tl»it«d ten«ate at eight different point* of the Paroell estate. O* these I fatind that two owed orer three yaart* rent and two orer one year. One poOMßed a laaae tor «tci, two held loaaw for 200 years each, wai tareo leaae* /or thfrty-oae j«n oaco. in one or two Inataaces the rant* were abo»e the CrtT«mntnt talaaaien, bai the* ware mostly below it. Irary teaaat, In addition, hat beau receiving a reduction of JO per mut. of the not tor tomo timo a**, and the tonant« iafwnw*" ma that #neo tke death of Mr Parnell'is fatter, in I**, tho raate bare in wrer»l «MM bean fsmaneiitiy radical. The Avoamore property if it ittMeßßant, »»w lata*. a»n bo jjraated oalf for thirty-aae yean, aad no flno oaa bo taken on toeir ron#wal" Be ae» glwn * Iwrable account ol tha condition of the workpeople employed ui Mr l'arnell"a eawraill. The aaau and youth* at work ware, a few years ago, ofdinary farm laborer* Thoy all famed exoeediagly actire and ajulful; their Industry kiitimnlfd by a rat* at tat* amount eaea year, with pioco-work rates in retry kocy tinea. —I MQ, tie.,
Fair Flay.
Dauadta, March 1.
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Evening Star, Issue 5609, 1 March 1881, Page 4
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319PARNELL AS A LANDLORD. Evening Star, Issue 5609, 1 March 1881, Page 4
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