The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-10-20
lRHLAND,s WOES.
Full Text Of the Land League
Manifesto.
FARMERS URGED TO PAY NO MORE
RENT.

DUBLIN. Oct 19.-Mr. Bggar has started
for England to confer with Mr.. Healy.
The following manifesto was issued by the
League yesterday:
Fellow Countryman-The hour has come to
test whether the great organization built up
during years of patient labor and sacrifice.
and consecrated by the allegiance OF the whole
Irish race the world over is to disappear at the
summons of brutal tyranny. The crisis with
which we are face to face is not our making.
It has been deliberately forced upon the coun-
try. while the land act is yet INFESTED in order
TO strike down the only power which might
have extorted any solid benefits for the tenant
farmers of Ireland from that act, and to leave
them once more belplessly at the mercy sof the
law invented to save landlordism and admins
tered by the landlords minions. The execu-
tive of the Irish National Land League, act
ing in the spirit of the resolutions of the Ma
tionaI Convention, the most freely elected rep
resentative body ever assembled in Ireland,
was advancing steadily in its work OF testing
the Land act At the same time they took
measures to secure Tin the event of the Land
act proving to be mere paltry mitigation OF
the horrors of landlordism in order to fasten u
more securely upon the necks OF the peopiej
til at the tenant farmers should not be denver
ed blindfoded into the hands OF bostlle law
courts, but should be able to fall back upon the
magnificent organization which was crushing
landlordism out of existence, when Mr.. Glad
stone stepped in to its. rescue Blow after
blow has been struck at the Land League IN
mere wantonness of brute force.
In the face of provocatlon which has turned
mems blood to fame, the Executive adhered
calmly steadily, to the course traced out for
them by the National Convention. Test cases
of a varied and searching character were with
great labor put in train for adjudication in the
land courts. Even the arrest of Mr.. Parnell
and the excited state of feeling which it evok-
ed did not induce the Executive to swerve in
the slightest from that course, but the events
which have since ocCurred-the seizure OF al
most all the members, of the Executive and
chief officials of the League, upon preposter-
ous urstences and the violent suppression of
free speech-put it beyond any possibility of
doubt that the English Government, unable to
declare the Laud League an illegal association,
defeated in attempts to break its unity and
afraid to abide the result of the test cases. has
deliberately resolved to destroy the whole ma
chinery of the Central League, with view to
rendering the experimental trial of the act inn
possible, and forcing it upon the Irish tenant
farmer on the Governments own terms.
Only one constitutional weapon now remains
in the hands of the League. 1t is the strong
est, switest and most irresistible or all. We
hesitate to advise our fellow countrymen to
employ it until the savage lawlessness OF the
English government has provoked Crisis IN
which we must either consent to see the Irish
tenant farmers disarmed Of their organization
and laid once more PROSTATE at the feet of the
landlords. and every Irish public opinion sup
pressed with an armed band, or appeal to our
couptrymen to at once resort to the only means
now left in their hands of bringing this false
and brutal government to its senses.
Fellow countrymen, the hour to try your
souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived.
The Executive of the National Land League
forced to abandon its policy OF testing the
Land act, feels bound to advise the tenant
farmers of Ireland from this day forth to pay
no rents under any circumstances to their land
lords until the government relinquishes the
existing system of terrorism and restores the
constitutional rights of the people. Do not let
Yourselves be inundated Dy threats OF MILL
tary violence.
It is as lawful to refuse to pay rents as it is
to receive them. Against the passive resis-
lance of the entire population military power
has no weapon. Funds Will De poured out IN
stintedy for the support OF all who may en-
dure eviction in the course of the struggle. Our
exlled brothers in America may be relied upon
to contribute, If necessary, as many millions
of money as they have contributed thousands
to starve out landlordism and bring English
tyranny to its knees You have only to show
til at you are not unworthy of their boundless
sacrifices One more GROWING struggle for
your land, your homes, your lives-a struggle
in which you have all the memories OF your
race, all the hopes of your kindred and all the
sacrifices of your imprisoned brothers.
Signed-Parnell, Kettle, Davitt, Brennan,
Dillon, Sexton and Egan.
LONDON, Oct, 10. The signatures to the
Land League manifesto were not actually
written by the prisoners, but virtually apeend-
ed by their authority.
During the rioting at Dublin last night a
number of passengers in train of cars were
attacked and woun ed The police captured
Forty policemen are now disabled from inju-
ries in the recent riots in Dublin.
The Post SAYS we consider the issue of the
manifesto by the league as direct incentive
to civil war.
The Standard says, war to the knife is pro-
claimed explicitly. So far there is no finch
ing on either side.
The Daily Telegraph says nothing can be
more explicit than the determination of the
League to maintain fierce conflict with the
Government.
A first class double turretted iron clad, car
rying fnnr 81 ton guns, will probably make her
1sat FIR ~ s ii TIE laval force available in
event of disturbances.
At the League meeting in Dublin yesterday,
it was announced that although weekly meet
ings would be discontinued, the business of the
League would, as far as possible, continue to
be enacted at its rooms in Dublin.
The chairman urgently advised the people to
avoid collision with armed forces.
-Four persons who were injured in the Dub
lin riots, have had legs amputated at the Sis
ter of Mercy's hospital.
Earl Cnwper, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
returned to Dublin yesterday.
The,sensational statement is published that
the war office is arranging for the despatch of
an army corps to Ireland in the event of ne.
cessity. Gen. Sir Thomas Steele, however,
says he thinks that requirements now on
their way to Ireland are sufficient.
LONDON, Oct. ia representative of the
Press Association interviews Egan at Paris
to-day. Egan said he considered Pernells ar
rest due to an outbreak temper on the part of
Gladstone, excited by Parnells reply to Mr..
Gladstone's speech at the Leeds Land League.
Egan said he did not depend on any one man
or set of men. The reserve fund, he said,
amounts to over 600. None of it is kept in
Ireland except what is needed for expenses.
DUBLIN, Oct. 19--Today's sittnigs of the
privy council was very protracted, it is under
stood that the manifesto of the lend league
was discussed. The land league Office is still
be seized. The land commission will meet at
noon tomorrow.
The Irish Land Committee has amalgamated
with the Property defense Association.
LONDON, Oct. 10 The second battalion of
the Grenadiers Guards stationed at Windsor
has been ordered to be in readiness to proceed
to Ireland In an interview with the reporter
at Holyhead, Biggar said that the future ac-
ton of the League must be determined by ex-
perience. He predicted the government
would be beaten in the struggle. Miss Parnell
has telegraphed to her mother not to come to
Ireland as she would be more useful in Amer
lea
DUBLIN, Oct. bat this honr, 9 p. M, the
city is quiet. The League has mailed copies of
its manifesto, and pacards containing only the
words 'No rent" to every Land League
branch. One hundred and ten cases have been
entered for hearing in the land court, which
opens ON Thursday.
CORK, Oct 19-The military have been in
structed to be prepared for every emergency.