Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-10-18
The Cause Of Parnsll's Arrest.
From the Sacramento Bee.I

Parnell proclaimed grand
scheme for testing the Land Act.
His primary advice to the tenants
was: "Do not make any contracts
under IL for longer than one year,
until yeu find out what it means.
1t contains two hundred and nine-
teen sections and sub-sections, and
until the Courts officially expound
it no man can tell how it may be
construed. Besides, American
competition In breadstuffs Is be-
coming greater and greater, and II
you enter into contract to pay
certain annual rent for fifteen
years you may contract yourself
and your children out Of house and
home" After talking to them
thus, he said: "The Executive of
the Land League will contest at
their own expense one case on each
estate and when such case or cases
are finally decided, you will know
exactly what to do. This course
will save much litigation, for If we
do not enter the Courts others
will, and we desire to adopt
. policy which will lead
to o minimum amount Of resort
to the Courts by the tenants. 1t
will be the object of the land
claimants to 30 act as to induce you
TO enter the land Courts weak and
isolated with ordinary counsel,
that they may provide at the be-
ginning for the establishment of
large rents, whereas il the League
attend to this business by selecting
. test case upon each estate it will
have the best legal ability that can
be procured, and will save the ten
ants from rushing pell-mell into
the Courts to their own destruction
and to the great delight of the land.
lords" That appears to be reas.
enable, common sense, business.
like proposition. But that is not
all be said to them. "If this course
be pursued" he added, "the Land
Commission will find itself upon
the horns of q dilemma. They will
be anxious to create a favorable
Impression upon the country"
''If they leave the rents in these
cases AZ they are, and make no al
teration, the true nature of the Act
will be at once apparent to the
public mind, and our contention
that It would have but little effect
In reducing the total rental Of Ire
land will be justified. Those
tenants below the standard OF these
so-called moderately-rented estates
will fear rise, while those who
are above this standard will see
that the Act will give them no
greater reduction, If as much, as
they have already obtained by the
action Of the Land League, and
they will be disposed to thank
Eessrs. Gladstone, Forster and
Bright for nothing. IF, however,
the Commission, desperately apx.
ious to please the public and create
. favorable first impression, reduce
these so.called moderate rentals,
all the tenants on the neighboring
properties will regard this as the
standard to be set up in their own
eases, and will expect a proportion
ate reduction-a reduction which If
granted would leave the majority
Of Irish landlords without any
thing to hire, and which il not
granted will raise q storm of exc.
Grafton against the Act, its authors
and Its agents that will leave the
state of the Irish landlords and the
British Government worse than
the FIRST.
That is cunning, well-devised
but emInently proper scheme, and
certainly entirely legitimate. This
10 the pith and substance of all he
eald to the tenant farmers In rela-
tion to the Land Act. This is the
amount Of his opposition to 1t, and
fer this has he been arbitrarily ar
rested and c0nfled in jail. This
policy he submitted to the Dublin
Convention, consisting Of nearly
1850 delegates from the Land
Leagues. They came from every
county In the Kingdom, north as
we'll % south, Protestant, Presby-
terian and Catholic, and that, the
Dost representative and influential
eonvsntion of tho people that ever
assembled, fully Endorsed this plan.
That 10 the avowed and adopted
policy Of the League. That Is the
Dolicy which the landlords object
20. They insist that the League
shall not thus interfere between
them and their tenants to the pro.
teetlon Of the latter, and for thus
Interfering the Brltish Govern
nnonts driven on by the landlords
- do thsir work. uses all its power
10 arrout And imprison the advo-
oates Of sueh legitimate opposition.