Ireland -- Description and travel; Ireland -- Social conditions
Thus, practically a half-year’s rent of the estate is put
together to fight the landlord with. This is a fund which,
if properly utilised, will reduce to reason any landlord in
Ireland.
How should the fund be employed? The answer to this question
must to some extent depend upon the course the landlord will
pursue; but in general we should say it must be devoted to the
support of the tenants who are dispossessed either by sale or
ejectment.
It should be distributed by the committee to each evicted
tenant in the proportion of his contribution to the fund. A
half-year’s rent is supposed to maintain a tenant for a half
year, and based upon this calculation, a tenant who funded say
£50 would be entitled when evicted to receive £2 per week.
_But not one penny should go in law costs._ This should be made
an absolute rule. For to pay law costs, such as attorney’s
letters, writs and judgments incurred by the landlord, is to
arm your enemy for the quarrel and furnish him with provisions
to boot. In a determined fight there are no “law costs” on
the side of the tenantry, and they should remain out for ever
rather than pay those which the landlord incurs in fleecing
them.
Ejectment is the most common of the landlord’s remedies. Every
legal and constitutional obstacle which could oppose or delay
eviction should be had recourse to, for every hour by which the
sheriff is delayed in one eviction gives another brother tenant
so much more grace. There are only 310 days in the sheriff’s
year, and he must do all the evictions in a whole county within
the time.
If, after eviction, a tenant is re-admitted as caretaker he
should go in, but _never_ upon the understanding that he would
care any other farm but his own. Should the tenant not be
re-admitted, shelter must be procured for him immediately by
the Managing Committee, and then, if necessary, a day appointed
when all would assemble to build him a hut on some spot
convenient to the farm where the landlord could not disturb
him. Wooden huts, such as those supplied by the League, waste
too much of the funds and become valueless when the tenant is
re-admitted.
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