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I explained that it would possibly come very handy to have her Saratoga trunk along occasionally to help satisfy the landlords of our responsibility. "O, I see you want to sort of pawn us, occasionally for hotel bills, don't you?" "Well, yes," I answered, "it might be convenient to do so should we get cornered." She said she didn't think she cared to be detained for hotel bills.
The Vendeans had grieved over the flight of their landlords, they had sheltered and hidden their priests, and heard their ministrations in secret; but when their young men were to be carried way from them, and made the defenders and instruments of those who were murdering their King, overthrowing their Church, and ruining their country, they could endure it no longer, but in the spring of 1793, soon after the execution of Louis XVI., a rising took place in Anjou, at the village of St.
He had been in all parts of the division, he said; seen everything, inquired into everything. No doubt, on the great properties there had been a good deal done of late years public opinion had effected something, the landlords had been forced to disgorge some of the gains wrested from labour, to pay for the decent housing of the labourer. But did anybody suppose that enough had been done?
"So, then, it's our turn now," the fellows say; "the landlords have had five hundred years of it; it's time we should come in." And this he says over and over with a little laugh, and I wish to my heart Miss Betty had kept it to herself.
Herbert of Muckross's tenants at Killarney addressed by Mr. Sheehan, M.P., who advised them, as the landlords refused 70 per cent, only to offer 50 per cent., and nothing at all in March , as by that time the new Irish Parliament would have allotted the land free to the present holders, without any compensation to the landlords.
When next we go with our modest incomes against these landlords, they suppose that we too want rentals of fifteen thousand, whereas we would easily be satisfied with one of fifteen hundred or a thousand. The poor fellows' fancy is crazed by those prodigals, and we must all suffer for their madness.
Then, says I, 'lave the rest to somebody, for I won't name names. No, your honor, I did'nt bring Hanlon in. By the same token, as a proof of it, there's young Bandy Shaughran, the son, wid a turkey under aich arm, comin'up to the hall door." * These were iniquitous exactions, racked from the poor tenantry by the old landlords or their agents.
If it had not been for the W.P.A., the National Youth Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and other similar organizations, Afro-Americans would have suffered even more during the Depression. Some relief was brought to farmers through the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. However, white landlords usually kept the checks which had been intended for the sharecroppers.
Had they waited till the Irish landlords asked for the Poor-law, there would have been no Poor-law in Ireland now. The Government should disregard the opposition of these parties, and should take their stand above all class interests.
Danvers replied with a slight mincing: 'They may, ma'am; but they chatter chatter so. 'The result proves that it is not a waste of energy. They manage their fowls too. 'They've no such thing as mutton, ma'am. Dacier patriotically laughed. 'She strikes the apology for wealthy and leisurely landlords, Diana said. Danvers remarked that the poor fed meagrely in France.
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