The New York herald., 1879-11-08
ANTI-RENT CRUSADERS.
ORGANIZING THE IRISH AG1rArIoN-REsIsr-
ANcE TO RACK RENTS AND EvIcTIoSs -Ia1
NATIONAL LAND LEAGUE FORMED

ORGANIZING THE IRISH AGITArIoS-hE'iSi-
ANcE TO RACK RENTS AND EvIcrIoNs THE
NATIONAL LAND LEAGUE FORMED.
DUBLIN oct. 25. 1879.
AT last the antirent agitation. which. by the num-
bers and teryid enthusiasm OF the gatherings which
assembled throughout the country to greet MI.
ParneL had given the idea that it was meant to
elect rapid revolution the system OF landhoio-
ing in Ireland. has assumed definite and organized
form. This was always intepded, but concealed.
and the impression general that. with the COM
ing OF the winter and the cessation of outdoor
demonstrating. the agitation would end. and if il
reappeared in Parliament be quietly squelched
by the derisive cheers and laughter OF the
English and Caledonian representatives. Mr. Par
nell aud his colleagues however, have had o
definite plan from the beginning. and it was very
quietly launched by the formation of the "Irish
National Land League" in this city last week. The
meeting private one There were people
with titles at it--not even j. P.'s--and the only
known public characters present We're Mr. Parnsu
himself T. d. Sullivan. the Irish poetjournalist.
and Br. Michael Davitt. 1t not intended there
should be. The meeting meant business, and was
only attended by those who meant to do business
in the anti-rent crusade. These farmers,
chiefly from the various counties-men who
had taken the bother OF organizing the local
demonstrations Among them there few
old hands--the men who did the actual work OF the
great amnesty agitation which sent O'Donovrn
Rosa and his friends out of English prisons to be.
come free American citizens. The truest and best
associates of another American citizen. John Nolan.
who was the head and front of the whole amnesty
crusade were there to give their experience to Mr..
Parnel; and even a Dublin priost-an extraordinary
thing in Irish politics ever since Cardinal Paul
Cullen took his seat III the archiepiscopa throne OF
the Irish captal--put In an appearance and joined
the movement He will be followed by
Catholic diocese in Ireland hithe, to ofhcaliy out
side the movement, will be made part and
parcel Of it. When the fifty gentlemen who com.
posed the nucleus of the organization met they did
meet for speech-making and there was none. 1t
about of the most practical gatherings
which has yet taken place in Irish politics. There
talk about every county in Ireland, its capabili-
ties for agitation its ability to supply financial sup
port, the character OF its landlords in chances OF
eviction, the of meeting them. the methods OF
organization, &C. Each member of the private con-
vention. fact, gave detailed account Of the
dtion of his county and the information thus
gained the general basis Of the organization was
formed.
It's objects are already stated-resistance to
rack rents to evctions and determination to es-
tablish peasant proprietary throughout the land.
How all this is to be effected does not appear the
surface. but the means are already being prepared
Brit British m mind The founders Of the Irish National
Land League" start with the conviction that their
work must be of patient labor tor years; they
must resist as far as they can. the hitherto unap-
posed course OF English law in Ireland in clearing
the land OF It's occup1erS. They nave 10 enl1ghten
the Irish mind well the English mind the
process by which 1t is proposed to clear the land
lords from the land 1t is not to be easily done
as the baashment Of the snakes by St. Patrick And
they have preserve order throughout the country
meanwhile. For these purposes one central organ.
ization is to be formed, of which Mr.. Parneu has,
already been elected president. Branching from
this are to be formed thlrtytwo county organiza-
tions whose ramifcationsAre to extend even to the
barones and the town lands. They will conduct ths
warfare in the counties and watch the conduct OF
landlords, report upon rack-renting and in case Of
f,ran aA vicfio la
in resisting and harrying tho landlords by every
meetings will be conducted Every attempt at land
lord wrong will be the signal for apubc denonstra-
ton, and thus it will be attempted to keep up the
pressure of public opinion. Another form o. doing
it will be- the election by the tenants of of their
class and anti-landord opinions to the representa-
tive positions in the counties and thus counteract-
ing the public influence Of the landlords Tenants
will be supported in refusing to pay unjust rents
aud If they suffer by their resistance will be CONF
pensated by tho country. The tenants will be In
vited to enroll themselves in the league, pledging
themselves to sustain its action. and in the course
of u twevemonth it is anticipated that by quiet Or
ganization nearly half million of the Irish occu-
| piers will be thus enrolled among the members Of
the Land League Thus beside aformldable organiza.
| ton before the public working and moving public
| of the tenants in each district and the.
| enrolment will no longer be left to the
| chances Of isolated action. In appealing to the
Arnercan-rish for money aid the promoters declare
that not penny is to be spent in eecting any men
Der OF Parliament or for any purpose outside tho
promotion of the peasant war against landortism.
But the Irish National Land League will call upon
the tenants in every of Ireland to elect
man to Parliament who will not pledge himself to
sustain Parnell in Parliament. and whose pledges
can be relied on. The land jobber-that Is the man
in to take the farm OF the evicted tenant
will the future be ostraczed from Irish agricul
tural society. In the whole movement there Is to DO
an absence OF ostentaion, but amount OF organi
zation and determinations new revelation in Irish
political programmes