The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05
the consequent human misery IN its old sick
MIR. siIAw's MANIFESTO.

assumption OF leadership ana asking, wv he
IN Ireland ever for u moment believed tina. the
handful OF rencgades who followed Mr. shaw
represented tho counlryy" lie adds do the
Shaws, tho Erring,ons, the Blcnnerhassetts
the Bellinghams. the ColthuIsts, the Martins
the llcnrys, the Fays and the rest of the trait
ors who basely deserted the Irish leader In the
face OF tho enemy, think they can drag the
country back into the slums Of corruption and
whIggcry or that It will induce the people tc
adopt 'Bombo Gladstone to idolize Bright
the cOcrcionlst, or to offer Thanksgiving for
what is well described as a mixture of buck
shot ard gOOu intentions, which is being of
tered them by Chief Secretary Forster?" He
says that the cause OF the League is receiving
support from the press of all shades of opin
ION in France.
4 FRIEND OF THE LEAGUE.
i A Dublin correspondent sends the follow.
ing The letter ON the land agitation issued
by the Most Rev DR.. Nulty Roman Catholic
Bishop of Meath, to the clergymen of his do.
Ce-e, is in many respects very remarkable
document. DIR. Nulty is great power in the
ranks of the hierarchy. He has just returned
from Rome, where, 1t Is understood, he placed
the Irish land agitation before His Holiness
the Pope from the point OF view of the tenant
farmers, with whom the most reverend gentle
man has a deep and passionate sympathy.
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has grown in intensity through long life of
active excrion on behalf of the farmers of Ire.
land and has been strengthened by the expert.
ence of many sad disasters Years ago, when
| DR.. Nuty was u parish priest. he, in company
with two others, went down to Donegal to use
his influence in calming the excitement among
the people caused 10y the Derryveagh evictions,
when John George Adare evicted 700 farmers
in two days IN order to clear the land The
Bishops letter is mastery vindcation OF the
Land League and Its mode Of conducting agi
lalion. The principle of voluntary combina
ton, although not q new principle in itself, he
declares to be new in its application by the
tenant farmers of Ireland against their land
lord masters and he gives to Mr.. Parnall the
credit of being the first to discover the new
use" now made of It, His comparison between
the Land League and the trades uniOnlst move
ment ~ very striking:-"As trades unOnists
combine for the purpose of extOrting from re-
luctant capitalists lair remuneration for their
labor, 30 tenant farmers unite their scattered
energies IN q combined effort to protect them
selves from being dcspoiled of their honest
earnings by class of men who were never
known voluntarily to have left them what
would enable them to live as civilized human
beings. Trades unionists, thu ugh the passive
but powerful intervention of Strikes force
their employer to make a fair division of the
enormous profits he often draws from the high
prices of commodities which their labor, as
well as his capital, co.operated to produce. In
like manner tenant farmers now offer united
resistance to the usurpatiOn of landlords who
plumber them substantially of the whole of the
agricultural products which their labor and
capital extracted from the soil, and to the pro
duclon of which the landlords capital or IN.
dustry never contributed anything"
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
DUBLIN, Feb 26.-Lord Anerly's threat to
eviCt all the tenants on his Longford estates
and TO take into his own hands about one
third Of the entire county has directed atten-
ton to the black shadow of eviction which is
looming over u vas number of farmers in Ire.
land. The tenants may at present be divided
into three classes:
First-Thosc who are willing to pay but
afraid TO-
SecOnd-ThOse who can pay, but will not.
Third-Those neither able nor willing TO
pay.
TENANTS SHOWING SIGNS OF GIVING WAY.
The first class are very numerous. They al
ready show signs as MIR. Dillon says, of Civ.
ing way. The second class 1t is presumed,
will follow the example of the first: But in
respect to the third class 1t is feared that the
great difficulty will arise with those who can
not pay. Under the Coercion bill it will bel
impossible to resist eviction. Tactics which
have worked so successfully heretofore will be
utterly useless now, because every person re-
sisting the process server or balif will be La
bic to arrest on the spot and imprisonment tor
eighteen months without trial.
NEW YORK, Feb. 29--A Dublin telegram
says: The average emergency committee are
taking steps to meet the wishes of large mum.
Der of Land Leaguers who are about to evlct
Gefaulting tenants and who desire the commit
tee should supply them with protestant tenants
from Ulster and elsewhere. Lists will be open
Gu for names of those willing to accept farms
from which tenants have been evicted, and
doubtless there will be no lack of applicants,
for the exaggerated description OF the power
which will be placed in the hands OF the au-
thOrltles by the Coercion bill, have already
embOldened all who opposed the tactics of the
Land League Numerous evictlons, many of
a most distressing character are taking place
all over Ireland. The eviction et the Rev. Pat
rick Hurley, parish priest, of Kicoman, Kings
county, has created no little CONSERVATION.
The reverend fathers predecessor took the
house and farm of fully two acres from mid
dleman landlord, and retaining the house and
garden, sublet the land to three tenants. The
rent was S67 and the valuation $42. When
the reverend gentleman was appointed to the
parish he had to take up land and work 1t at
a loss He had also held himself responsible
for the rent of u sub.tenant who fell into ar
rears The Priest then handed the land over
to an energetic young farmer of the neighbor.
hood Michael Leman. The landlord refused
to recognize this tenant and took proceedings
against Rev. Mr. Hurley and subtenants on
smaller portions of the farm. The county
chairman refused 10 grant decree, but the
case was taken to the queens bench. The re-
suit was that Tuesday last the parish priest
was evlcted and his furniture WAS put into the
street and his sub.ienants were similarly treat
ed. In recent eviction at Newton and Hamil-
ton county Armagh, on the property of the
Rev Mr.. McGcogh, woman stoned ballff
and invoked curses on the landlords, while
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