The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-08

JOHN DuLON, mex to Mr.. PaTnelI the
most active and efficient member of the Irish
Land League, delivered a speech few days
ago, III Tipperary county Ireland, in which,
speaking of the results Of Land League agi-
tatioD, he said
II the Irish people wanted one more proof and
one more reason for not trusting to the prom iscs
OF the Whigs that reason is given TO them bv the
action Of the Government, which. for two months,
stated that they We're prevented from doing justice
members. And when the obstruction Of the Irish
members ceased. when the Government had laid
the people, when they had succeeded in disarmtng
the people, while the agents Of the Property De
fence Committee and the Orange Emergency Com
mittee are allowed to travel the country armed to
the teeth, the Irish people lying disarEed and de-
fensecss at their feet then they turn round to say
that they will not introduce any Land bill. The
country is covered with CJcctmeut notices Quarter
Sessions are coming on, and thousands Of farmers
meHt will allow the landlord with coercion in his
right hand, to desolate the homes Of the people
The lesson We have beeu trying TO teach them Tor
three years back that they have nothing to expect
@ from @ tLi5 St2Dsrnlnent nothing t. expect from any
OF the five thousand Irish farmers Hndcy notice of
Cvictiun2 What good viii this Land bil. which
Is TO he passed next July, do them. when they are
cast into the w"rkhouse with their families Over
pass snort hlil stopping eFIctions until the Land
bill passed. IN order give tn poor farmer
VINO hHS low an eltctiuehL notice IN his house the
chance OF getting the benefit Of the Land bill we
are promised So much from.
They refused that, although we proved to them
that if that hill we're not passed and cyictions
were not stopped five thousand families would be
hung out on the roads and denied all bened fits un-
der the forthcoming Land act. They denied US
that, and the farmers we're taught tie lesson they
ought TO have learned hefOTe--that the Land
League was the only place they could look to for
protection. We showed them "A policy bv which
they cuu!i protect themselves. We pointed out
20 them that the power OF the landlord consisted
IN the fact that when one man driven out Of a
iurm another was always ready 10 take II. IC paid
the landlord 90 evc- and to raise rent. Wei. the
FIRST thing we urged on the people vas to organize
tHeus elves. and, boy force 0f opinion, make ft
known In Ireland that whenever 4 nan IL cyicted
from % firm uuIustiy. that farm shall lie idle and
waste until the rightiui owner is put back into it,
What was tie result Of that tcachiug2 Wny.tha
in the first six months Of last year more than 600
families were evicted IN the last six months only
90 were svicted instead of 5000 who would have
been evcted only for our teaching. The next pol
icy we laid before them was that Of united action
one Of the chief blanks of the Land League-the
policy by which the tenant binds him r, ,,.l-o
10 terms singly with his landlord the rojicv hC
Nhlch the tenants on each estate decide on what
ley wIlI do, and 20 in body all together. and
pay together or refuse TO pay together: stand all
together lall all together. that he evct
he must evict all: u be strikes he must strike
all. That policy has put four millions Of money
into the pockets OF the tenants this year. =
The landlords have learned that they have not all
poor. frightened tenants to deal with, but united
Organization whicE counts its members at three OF
four hundred thousand men ID ireland. and num-
hers in America some four hundred hoUsand more.