It is a carious comment on Lord Randolph's speech that
the United Ireland recommends all dispossessed tenants to enter the workhouse, and make it "an encampment against landlordism." "In the districts where the majority of the Board of Guardians is Nationalist, evicted tenant inmates might be accorded the privilege of entering or quitting the workhouse at hours that would not restrict their freedom, and might obtain a special scale of dietary at the expense half of the ratepayers, whose battle they are fighting, and half of the evicting rack-renters. If the ratepayers should be burdened beyond their means, the grants now made to the individual evicted tenants might be made on a more extensive scale to committees of ratepayers in the relief of their proportion of the rates. Of course, the Local Government Board might launch its thunders, but its thunders would fall harmlessly into the waste-paper basket of a deter- mined Board." If the Local Board also is to be Parnellite, Ireland might be made uninhabitable for property owners.
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