The Evening critic., 1881-09-16
IRELAND For THE IRISH.
rbe Land League Convention ir
Dublin.

About thousand delegates attended at
the opening proceedings Of the National
Convention In Dublin yesterday Messrs.
BiRgxr, II. Y. O'Connor, Sexton, Healy and
Sullivan were present. Previous TO the
opening Of the convention conference Of
the delegates from the Labor League was
held, aud Mr.. sexton informed them that
the convention would adjourn the con-
sidention Of questions affecting laborers
until tomorrow, for the purpose ofenabling
the labor delegates TO confer with Mr.. Par.
nell and the executive u the Land League.
Twcniy-one members Of Parliament were
presen. at the convention. Mr.. Psmell.
amid tho greatest enthusiasm, took the
chair. MI. sexton read q number Of tele-
grams. particularly from the American
branch Of the league, cxhorting the dele
gates never TO rcst until lsndlordism Il
abolished, not 10 pay rent, 10 hold back
back their harycsts, &c. Mr.. Parncll. In his
opening speech, referred to the thinning Of
their ranks by coercion" since the last
convention. He said that for every ten I'm.
prisonod hundred would Join the league.
lie recapitulatcd the resolutions aud said
the question Of sclfgoyernment was the
most important. Ho had always considered
that II could never be settled as long ~ tho
questions Ia regard to the ront remain In
dispute. The land act left the rent qucs-
tion ~ a continual source Of discomfort aud
strife between the different classes in Ire
land. lie had no doubt that this was de-.
signcdly so arranged by the British govern
mcnt.
Mr.. Parneil, in his speech, rcassertcd that
fair rent would be the value of land In o
state Of nature, before II was improved by
q tenant or any Of his predecessors. In ro-
gard TO the industrial question he said that
lrislmcn should encourage home manufac.
lures, even II they had to pay dcarer than
for foreign goods. Things not producible Ia
Ireland should be bought In America.
English goods should not be bought in any
event.
Mr.. Sexton then moved collectively the
Land Leagues resolutions, and they were
carried with acclamation. lie warned the
farmers not TO trust 20 the land act. IL was,
he said, designed TO break the league. No
body, should appeal 10 the land courts
until the test cases to be prepared
by the Land League had been
submitted. They should press for
ward to the abolition OF landlordism and
to legislative independence. He advised the
farmers to borrow money under the land
act. so ~ to give work to laborers and
invited the latter to Join the branches OF
the league. He pledged himself to head the
laborcrs' movement IL the~farmers did not
give them fair play. Tho reading Of con.
gratulatory kilograms occupied an hour
The more notable werc threats to stop
American subscriptions in the event Of the
agitation slackening. Mr.. Sexton aud Mr.
Il. L. O'Connor were elected secretaries OF
the convention. There was very large ut.
tendance of priests.
The resolutions adopted are those favoring
national self-government, condemning coer.
ci0n and pledging the people anew to the
principles of the Land League. There was
a long discussion on q resolution authorizing
the executive of the Land League to select
test cases, referred to by Mr.. Parnell in his
speech, but the resolution was ultimately
carried.
The Dublin correspondent of the Tine
writes as follows regarding the National
League Convention which met there yes
terday: iH
Apart from the political Significance
claimed for the convention as an expression
of the national will upon great crisis, II
is especially interesting as the first organ
lied assembly Of the kind since the repea
of the convention acts. It's Importance
however, as regards the particular object
for which the delegates are summoned can
not be Overestimated. 1t is to pronounce
in the name Of the Irish people, not only
their own verdict upon the land act, but
their programme for future action in regard
to the whole question which the League
agitation has raised. 1uIs
" The misgivings of many felt in regard
to the possibility of uniting all parties in
the movement for u revival of Irish manu-
factures or, indeed, for any useful object, arr
fully justified by the result of the meeting
yesterday in connection with the proposed
exhibition. Tho League left no doubt that
their existence is involved in the result
and that if they allowed the thoughts OF
the people to be engrossed with any practi
cal measures for the promotion of homes
labor their own occupation would. be gone
the country would become fearful and re
, fuse to listen to their wild and wretchet
appeals. They accordingly resolved to maj
the object by organized obstruction. Many
of them, headed by Mr.. Sexton, set them
selves to drive the undertaking upon thei
own lines or upset it altogether.
: On Mr.. Lyons member of Parliamen
for Dublin city, rising to second resolu
ton that an exhibition of arts and machin
; cry suited to Irish manufactures be in
cluded, he met fierce opposition from tn,
Land Leaguers.
, A resolution was then passed, as a pa
! ciic altifice, that Mr.. Lyons be no NOR,
, heard. ~
"Mr Sexton then rekindlcd the excite
, ment by moving that the committee ap
pointed to prepare for the proposed exhib
ton in 1888, be instructed not to accept an,
patronage, it being, he said, in the present
state of public feeling offensive and useless
without the League they could do nothing
The confusion was at one time so great tina
it was nearly hand-to-hand fight. Had
the League element not entered the aren,
the meeting would have been highly repre-
sentative"
The following adopted by the Chicag,
Land League was yesterday sent to til,
Dublin Convention
"The Chicago Land Leaguers, in join
meeting assembled, earnestly ask you t
declare the Land bill fraud, to rejec
measures that call for less than the equa
rights of all the means of life The Lane
League advise all to hold the harvest and
pay no rent; make no compromise with rob
bers; declare that private ownership in lant
must be nationalized MS the common prop
erty Of the whole people, gift of TIL,
Creator to all alike, free from private mo
nopolies and rent robbery"
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