The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-20
TELEGRAPHIC
MICHAEL DAVITT.
The Great AgItatOr In New
York.
what He is Here TO Do.

morning. The GeTnlG7lic was at her
dock at the foot of West Tenth street By
7.30 on Sunday morning. DaVitt, &C
companied by only one friend, was hur-
rie6ly driven to the Everett House,
Union Square, where suite Of rooms
had been engaged for him. There WAS
no demonstration whatever. Dsvi:t cor
daily invited q number of reporters
who awaited his coming to his
apartments. He was asked feat
as to his plans. These were, he
stated, twelve ~sys lecturlng through the
states. under the auspices of com mittee
of the LAID League. between this city
and Chicago. He had intended to speak
in Boston on Saturday night, buticeberes
and fog prevented his arrival in time. He
should, however, proceed to Boston dur
ing the afternoon and maybe speak there
in the evening. The object Of his visit
was tWofold: first, to contradict the rumor
of split in the Land League move
ment, or the likelihood Of there being 9
difference between Parnell and himself;
and, second, to explain the work done in
ireland by the Ladies Land Lesgue in
the sustaining of evicted people, building
Of houses and maintenance in the law
EUuIks VI bGnaubo llkuLos MlSS \ al uOll
bad entrusted him with 8 report of the
League since its initiation, a copy Of
which would be sent to all branches
and to the public through the press. In
my speech in the Academy of Music,
said he, shall deal with the present sit.
uation in Ireland, and will give the de-
tails of the new departure and new
schemes, and explain away these rumors
Of rupture between Psrnell and myself.
So far as they are concerned, you may
say that we are in perfect accord, and [
consider affairs in Ireland were never in
so hopeful condition. Ny Liverpool
speech, of which only CARRIED fragments
have been published here, and used to
misreeresent me, was not intended to
controvert the old programme, bat was
in reply to a challenge of the tory press.
l defy any one who reads that speech to
say that it is communistic in its nature.
1t is simply an explanation Of the cry,
"The land for the people," and to
show how 1t effects Parnell and myself,
l shall simply quote from it. The quota
ton was: "Ia doing this, shall lay N.Y.
self open TO the suspicion Of differing
from Mr.. Parnell and most of my col
leagues in the Land LeSgue movement,
but the fact is, there is not q particle
more difference Of opinion between the
member for Cork and myself upon this
question, than there was when we first
stood together upon pabiic platform
in West Port, three years ago. Parnell
advocated peasant proprietary; I am in
favor of the land becoming the national
property Of Ireland. If peasant propri-
= naooo6od aiFbor b-
bury when be gets into power, or by
Gladstone, before he gets out, am per-
fectly satisfied that the purchase money
that must be advanced by the state
for carrying out such scheme
will become the title deed of the state to
the land. Believing this to be inevitable
from the growing poverty of the Irish
agriculture l am almost Indifferent as to |
whether Fsrnell's plan or my own be |
but IS I was the first to raise
the cry Of 1.-THE land for the people,"
think that time has now come for giYir 2
a clear definition of what l mean and
propose.
l wish to state distinctly" continued .
DaVitt, "thst no new departure is meant, !
or split against what has been endorsed /
by Psrnell, and the plan will probably
be adopted. It differs, only in this, that
instead of requiring tenant farmers to |
pay the purchase money for the fee sim
pie Of the land, it would call upon farm
ers to pay a land tax that would be
equivalent to about one-hslf the reRt
now paid to landlords, and Lord Sails
bury has almost taken this up. mean
that it should be for the perpetual pos
session Of the land. | worked the plan
put in Portland Prison, and l am
very sorry I ever left there, but if the
landlords are waiting for difference be-
tween Psrnell and myself, they will wait
until the twentieth century. They might
as well charge me with being csnnibsl
As 3 communist, and would be a mad
nan to propose such thing" Speaking
IF the coercion bill, DaVitt said that
since bis imprisonment he had travelled
though most Of Ireland, and thought
hat the people viewed the measure with
Indifference. OF course the petty annoy
snce of the bill would arouse the people
20 outrRges, and these the leaders fear.
ls they tell against them in external
opinion, and can iniuIe no one bat the
Land League. Dsvitt expressed his
Of the cowsr1iy sssassina- 6
ion of friendly Englishmen at Phoenix
Park, the growing horror Of the people ,
It the deed, and said there was a general
that it was the work Of land
ords, to ineite the English people against
osrnelPs conversion Of Gladstone. The
My parties who would profit BY it would
)e those opposed to the League, as they
Knew the odium would fall upon the s
esders. Glsdst0ne's position he con-
iders critical, particularly in the Egyp-
ism question, and the bringing forward
Il the arrears bill and the second attempt
o deal with the land act, and its failure
o justify the opposition Of Parnell. The
.rrears bill Was confession, and the
and act failure.
Ut Minister Lowell the sgitstor said ne
new very little, but Of his own opinion
kinks that the blame lies not SO much on
lowell as it does on the government IN
NJ Washington. He says he will not enter !
Armament again as he can do more
Elective work outside. LaudloEdism, as
system, he claims is broken aud de-
norsllzed, and the question OF self {
government will follow in the wake OF T
he Land League movement; as politi-
ally the landlords are now q myth.
DaVltt will return at the expiration OF :
NO weeks, n order to hold conference :
nth Farnell and other leaders sfter the
sssage Of the coercion bill. Ills seere-
AIRY, Redmond, will remain here 10
omplete mis- political education. The
'rltlsn Government, said he, had consId- +.
red Redmond such terror that they !
sd Locked him up in order to prevent