Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-06-10
"The Truth About the Land League, -

''The Truth About the Land League"
New YORK, June THE Tele-
gram has the following special from
London: Davitt has written a long
reply to a pamphlet entitled. "The
Truth about the Land League" pub.
llshed anonymously some weeks ago,
and extensively circulated through
out the United Kingdom, and now
reissued under his own name, bv
Arthur Arnol,l Forster, son of ex-
Chief Secretary Forster. The pur-
pose OF the pamphlet is to show that
the Land League and those connec-
ted with it had in view the commits
sion of outrages, mutilation, plumber
and murder. The evidence is sup
piled by extracts from speeches and
new wspaper articles. Davitts reply
is that the evidence has been oar
bled, passages persistently removed
from the text, and mitigating parts
suppressed. The object of the pam
phlet, he says, is to arouse prejudice
and enkinule hate, for which oppor.
tunity has been afforded by the Dub
I'm assasslna,ions, Il purpose which
he designates us wicked and hateful,
ut time when the efforts OF gooi
men on both sides are beng directed
to allay passion. Davitt cut,inyly
remarks that he regrets the author
had not been brou yht up un Ter bet
ter influences than that Of presenting
Il lie which is only half a truth. He
maintains that anything may be
proved in the same fashion against
the reformers who have given Eng
land untaXea bread and an exten-
sion OF the franchise. Had not
Forster, ST., he asks, done mischief
enough without Forster, Jr, coming
forward now? 1t was the Forsters
of centuries, he maintained, that
stung the Irish to madness and
helped to mako the people of the NV ,
countries hate each other so that an
accursed system might be made easier
to rule and ruin. To the charge
made in the pamphlet that in 1870
Davitt was committed as a felon,
having been engaged in plot to
murder, Dayitt replies that what he
did in 1870 is no proof Of what he did
in 1880, and inquiries why the pam
phlet, which pretends to tell the
truth about the Land League. does
not tell the whole truth about his
share therein. I drew up the char
ter Of the Land League says Davitt,
and drew up the instructions to
the organizers. From that time un-
til the orders of Forster recon,igned
me to convict prison l made hun
dreds of speeches. Why does not
Forster make quotations from any
OF these if he would find me guilty OF
melting to murder and outrage:
The answer is-he cannot. | defy
him to name an instance wherein
did otherwise than decry force, and
protest against outrage. If he can
not see this he has not the right to
60 back ten years" Davitt goes
fully into the evidence against him
in 1870, anl says it would not have
hung dog at any other time, and
that Forster's suppression of the
facts in connection Herewith is
more cruel and cowardly than the
act of any miserable Moon.
lighter in Ireland. Other state.
ments quoted against the Land
League, he asserts, were made by
men who had no more right to rep
resent the League than Forster ha,
to represent the Society OF Friends
In extracts quoted from the Irisl
World, he accuses Forster of bring
ing false witness for the purpose o
making political capital out of na
tional hate. He concludes with {;
) high compliment to Herbert Glad
stone, and congratulates the premier
on having got rid OF Forster.
For the Salvation Of the Party.
PuII.DEI pun limo rGan.r,