Professor Butcher, in a letter to the Times of Tuesday,
gives a very striking calendar of the crimes by which the Plan of Campaign was enforced on the Kenmare estate, from its establishment in November, 1888, till its collapse at the end of July of this year. In the first four months the cattle of one farmer were driven off his land, the outhouse of another was burned, the dwelling of a third fired into, and a threatening notice served on a fourth, with a salvo of shots by way of reminder. In the next month—March—three separate men had their houses entered by armed moonlighters. In one the tenant was severely beaten, and in another a horse was shot, but in the third the outrage did not go beyond the attempt to terrify by the discharge of guns. April seems to have been a quiet month, but in May the out- rages began again. Turf was destroyed, a colt and donkey were cruelly injured—" the eye of the former was shattered "- and two cows were fired at and injured. In June one farmer was moonlighted, another had two cows stabbed, a third three, and a fourth one. In July a dwelling-house was fired into. Thus the Plan of Campaign on a single estate was enforced by some sixteen outrages in nine months, the unlawful acts quoted above being due either to the fact of the victim having omitted to join the Plan of Campaign or to his having paid his rent. And yet the Plan of Campaign is declared by Gladstonian speakers to be exactly comparable to an ordinary English strike !
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