Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-21
BY THE OCEAN WIRE.
LAND RENT AGITATION IN IRELAND.
Great Excitement Over the Arrest of Dayitt
and Daily Comments Of the Press
Disturbances Among Students at
St, Petersburg University.
IRELAND.
Land Rent Agitation.

LONDON, November 20.-The speeches
for which Michael Davitt and James
Bryce Killen, were arrested in Dublin
and James Daily, ,,editor OF the Connaught
/ Tslegroph in Castle Bar, were made
at u meeting on the 2nd inst, at Gurten,
county Sligo.
The following placards have been
posted in several places, in county
Mayo:
"TO the People OF Mayo
FELLOW CoUNTRYMEN The hour OF
trial has come. Your leaders are ar
rested. Davitt and Daily are in prison.
You know your duty. Will you do it?
Yes, you will. Balla is the place
OF meeting and Saturday is the day.
Come in your thousands and show
the government and the world that
your rights you will maintain. To the
rescue, In the mightiness of your num-
bers! Land and liberty! God save the
people! Balla. Balla! Saturday next"
All the London morning journals ap-
pear to approve of the arrests, except
the Daily Ne,rs, which makes them the
occasion for violent partisan attack on
James b. Kellen, who IS a lawyer and
lecturer on political economy. 1t is be-
lieved that Irish affairs were the subject
of the deliberatiOn of the last Cabinet
Council.
A correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian SAYS: The government are
placed in possession OF much informa-
ton by the landlords in connection with
the rent agitation in Ireland, which, for
obvious reasons, the landlords cannot
make public. These statements show
that many of the tenants who are in
position to pay their rents and are will
ing to pay them, are kept from doing so
for fear OF outrage from others who can
not or will not pay. 1t is understood
that large number Of processes of
ejectment have been and will be applied
for. While it is feared that the execution
of these processes will produce some
difficulty, it is believed that if they are
administered only in cases where there
is no want OF ability to pay, and if time
for payment is given TO others the aglta-
ton will be much reduced.
DUBLIN, November 20-lt is believed
it will be almost impossible 10 sustain
an indictment for sedition against the
persons Just arrested. An indignation
meeting of Irish residents in Manches-
ter to denounce the arrest of Danitt,
Killen and DAILY, will be held, probably,
on Sunday.
LONDON, November 20.-A Dublin
correspondent says: 1t is believed here
that the arrests OF Davitt, Killen and
DAILY are in reality due to notice pub
ished recently calling on the men Of
MAYO to meet on Saturday to protest
against the eviction of a farmer. The
document apparently hinted at resist
ance to the law.
The Dublin Irish Times blames the
government for molesting the meaner
end small agtators, who have nothing
to lose by being made heroes, and says
the governments action may revive
Parnell $ expiring influence.
The Dublin FreemdH's Journal says the
arrests are unconstitutional, an act OF
arbitrary power intended to paralyze
the land agitation by terrorism.
The Dublin Daily E1preSs applauds
the action of the government.
The news of the arrest OF Davitt caused
much agitation among the large Irish
population of Dundee, Scotland, whom
he intended to address on Sunday, but
as yet there has been no disturbance
there.