The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-10-31
THE IRISH AGITATION.
Parnen Opposes the Forming of
Tenant Defence Associations.
FARMERS TAXING ADVANTAGE OF
THE LAND ACT.
Archbishop McCabe DenOunces the No
Rent Manifesto.

LONDON, Oct. 29.-The farm premises and
several stacks of wheat and hay belonging to
DR. Thompson, which had been recently har-
vested by emergency men, have been burned
at Ballyduff, Waterford county. A large
crowd of people looked on, but made no at
tempt to save the property. Arrests of the in
cendiaries are imminent.
Seven hunered persons attacked the police
while serving summonses at Belmullet County
Mayo. The police fired upon the people, sew
eral of whom were wounded
AT the rent receiving offices in Athlone,
Meath, Mullin' ar, Roscommon and other
towns in the west of Ireland, a large number of
tenants are paying rents in accordance with
the abatnments despite the Landi Leagueladvice
not to do SO.
Since the Land League has been proclaimed
trade in the west of Ireland has commenced to
revive. Many farmers on properties in the
neighborhood of Yonghal, County Cork, have
applied to the Land Commission to have their
rents fixed. There is a growing desire among
tenants of Cork and Waterford counties to APP
ply to the Land Commission. In Waterford
alone thousand applications are lodged.
Land League branches in the Tuani district
of County Galway are fast breaking up.
A telegram from Armagh says cells have
been prepared in the Jail there for Parnell an d
forty others.
Among the new arrests today is that of an
Englishman, Captain Dugmore, late of the 9th
regiment, a former Home Rule candidate for
Port Arlington.
DUBLIN, Oct. 29.-Parnell opposes the plan
of forming tenants defence association to
take the place of the Land League.
New YORK. Oct 30.-A Dublin special gives
the text of the pastoral to be issued by Arch
bishop McCabe today in which he says
Only few days ago over confding men were
startled by the publication of a manifesto
which at once assailed the eternal law of God,
and struck at the foundations on which society
rests. There are hundreds of honest, indus
trious men among us who, trusting to their
faith in public conscience, and calculating on
the security which duly CONSTITUTED govern
ment is expected to give, have invested the
fruits of their years of toll and self-sacrfce in
property from which they hoped they and
theirs might draw means of honorable SubsSt-
ence. But all this must be swept away by the
wrath OF few men, the bulk of whom have
neither stake nor interest in the country. If
this notice to pay no rents be not the teach
ings of communism, communism is yet to be
defined. Let no one suppose, very reverend
fathers, that we have word to say in defence
of the oppressors of the poor. efeel as keen
ly as the most outspoken of our brethren in
spired by the ministration of cruel injuries
worked by bad laws on the defenseess tenants
of Ireland but we must not allow :our abhor-
ence of injustice to betray us into "a reduction
of the claims of Justice. If today the land
lords claim to his just rent be questioned who
will guarantee the tenants right to his outlay
of money and toll tomorrow. Injustice viii
repay injustice and on the day of retribution
the wrong doer will be laughed at when he
seeks for sympathy in his troubles, The issue
is now plainly put to our people which of two
paths they will follow, whether they will fol-
low the men who have marked ont road that
must lead to anger with God and disgrace be-
fore the Christian world, or the bishops of Ire
land who through gloriouseand unbroken sue
cession of fourteen centuries as the heirs of
those who encountered poverty and exile
dared death in its most terrible forms for the
people with whom their lives are irrevocably
bound up.
DUBLIN, Oct. 30-Farmers- are flocking in
to the land court in increasing numbers every
day. The staff of clerks is working night
and day, yet all are completely swamped. 1t
is in contemplation to appoint more Sub-com-
missions. 1t would take two years for the pre-
sent staff to work the cases which will probab-
ly apply during the coming month.
After the publication in the FreeIuan's Jour
nal of Parnell's letter deprecating the forma-
ton of the Tenant Defence Association, the
governor of Kilmainham jail was superseded
by two new governors.
1t is rumored that Sexton is dying.
DUBLIN, Oct. 30-There are already 1900
cases before the Land Court, of which 5000
came in Saturday. There seem to be a reae-
tion setting in. Although there are 400 leaguers
in the prisons occasional events show the spirit
underlying the league movement still sur
to fourteen days privation of visits for having
written the letter published in the Freeman's
Journal. The officers of the prison are in state
of apprehension that sworn inquiry will be
held touching the letter.
Rev. Anthony McHale, Catholic Curate of
the diocese of Killala has been arrested for
holding land league meetings in his Chapel.