The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-05-05

This outcome IS undoubtedly in exaC
accordance with Mr.. Parnel's own el
pressed desire. 1t meets TO the letter tn
wish expressed in his dispatch read to tn
convention on the second day. The oil
Land League IN Ireland. of which tn
Land League IN America was copy, hat
been declared reasonable In its objects b,
the British government and was suppress
ed upon which the new National Leagu,
OF Ireland was organized Mt Dublin il
October, 1882, upon the following pla,
form:
| FIySt-National self.government.
Secondhand law reform.
7hird-Local selfgovernment.
F0urdb-Extension OF the Parlamentar,
and municipal franchises.
Fgh-The development and encourage
mcnt of the labor and industrial interest.
Of Ireland.
BY national selCgovcrnment' is mean
such selfgovernmcnt as has been accorded
to Canada and Australia, which have par
liaments Of their own, so that the first anc
fourth planks imply that Ireland is TO con
tinue to be part Of the British Empire
hut with new rights and powers at home
and with an enlarged Parliamentary
representation in London. This pro
urorr,c 10 unFnrutpC1 ia Cna,o IN ,,n,o,,
with no law of parliament, and agitation
IN It's behalf is therefore strictly LEGAL in
ireland, nnd "a ohisotr"u can DC made by
Ireland TO the Society or League III Ire
land receiving pccuniary and from socie
ties resting on the same basis III America
or any other country. This is what Par
nell refers to IN his dispatch when he asks
the convention so to frame its platform las
to enable us to continue 60 accept help
from America"
But is not this after ALL u sorry outcome
a stepping down, as it were--lrom the
lofty and aggressive position heretofore
occupied by our irish patriotic societies IN
America? What becomes of the Land
Leagues demand for the abolition OF land
lordism IN Ireland, and that the tller OF
the soil shall own the soil? Or OF the
stern demand of the Ancient Order OF
Hiberniaus and the Grammatical OF indie.
pendcnce for Ireland, Or of the Fenian
threats of war for Itsh independence
Or Of O'Donovan Rosa and his gang
with their slurmshlng fund and dyna-
mite?
All tins big talk" is now to be Land
aside, and the whole irish agitation IS to
resolve itself into peaccable party or pc.
itcal canvass. VIII anything ever be
gained by such a course, Does anyone
seriously believe that the British Parlia
ment will ever be induced to ConCede what
the Irish and American Leagues ask, I'm.
der the ordinary and peaceful operation OF
political or party agitation aud discus
slony
None but an idiot believes any such
nonsense. Ireland has been trying peace
able agitation, varied by outrages, tor six
hundred years, yet not single concession
has been won from England during all
these centuries by Irish appeals to the
English sense of justice. Whatever con
cesslons have been made have been extort
ed by "outrages," aud so have not had any
effect in allaying IRISH discomfort or mlti.
eating English injustice towards Ireland
or Irish hatred of England.
Considerations like these lead us TO hope
it is true what q writer in Wednesday IS
Tribune says, that the inside history of the
Philadelphia conventions reveals that they
were only the elimination Of plot on the
part of the Clanna Gael, Ancient Order of
HibernIans, the Dynamite fellows, &c, to
get the Irish American Land League out
of the way and place the management of
the whole business of schemlng and agltA
ting and collecting money for Ireland in
America in their own hands In tie view
of this writer the dissolution of the Land
League at Philadelphia was suicide, and
the new league organization mere pre-.
text, which will prove as hfeless as 1t is
puerlle. and the proceeds TO be realized
from which by the Parnellites in Ireland
will pay for the printing of few pamphlets
and the filing of the bags OF few
political tract peddlers.
No-in view of such shilly-shallying