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The insular and contracted life of the colonies, cramped also as they were by debt and absenteeism, has no parallel in the grand currents of thought and activity ever sweeping through the continent on which our problem is to be solved. In the light of these views, the attempt shall be made to report truthfully upon the freedmen at Port Royal. A word, however, as to the name.
But no one familiar with English country life can say that this is the case in the rural districts of England, whilst it is most unquestionably so in Ireland, simply because she has through absenteeism been deprived of those influences which have done so much for her wealthy sister.
His furthest excursions of late years have been to Raphoe, where he has a married daughter. "Absenteeism" clearly has nothing to do with the quarrel between Mr. Olphert and his tenants, or with the "boycotting" of Ballyconnell. The dragoons from Dunfanaghy had just ridden away as we came up.
The curse of absenteeism was little felt in Dublin, where the Parliament secured the presence of most of the aristocracy and of much of the talent of the country, and during the residence of the viceroy there was the influence of the court to contribute to the sparkling character of Dublin society.
'Lord de Courcy is in Ireland, and all the others are away. 'Lord de Courcy is the wisest man of the family, and sets his face against absenteeism, said Philip, 'so he is never visible here. 'But you aren't going to despise it, I hope, Guy, said Amy, earnestly; 'it will be so delightful! And what fun we shall have in teaching you to dance! Guy stretched himself, and gave a quaint grunt.
"'Which I'm aheap obleeged to you, Mister, says Abby to Peets, sizing him up approvin'; 'an' now that I'm convinced thar's no chance of my footure sufferin' from any absenteeism on the part of this pastor, I reckons I better go over, like you-all hints, an' take a look or two in the glass.
By this union, foreign legislation took the place of the guidance of those best qualified to know the national grievances; the Irish members became, in the British senate, merely the tools of the administration. Absenteeism was nearly doubled, and the national importance nearly annihilated in a political point of view.
At any rate, to its pauper population, the employment afforded by companies, where no absenteeism can exist, is a great and timely boon, and may work more social wonders than any scheme of conciliation which the statesman has as yet devised.
Rosetta Odevaine succeeded in remembering, for A, F, and H, Absenteeism, Flight of the Earls, Famine, and Hunger; her elder sister, Eileen, fresh from college, was rather triumphant with O and P, giving us Oppression of the Irish Tenantry, Penal Laws, Protestant Supremacy, Poynings' Law, Potato Rot, and Plantations.
You are no longer the man of the place, and your election could be balked by the cry of what the English call 'absenteeism. This makes your game very hard to play." "I admit that," said Thuillier; "but there are so many things wanted besides money, a name for one thing, a manager, editorial staff, and so forth."
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