Evening star., 1886-11-27
THE REVIVAL OF COERCION
Exciting Times Looked for in Ireland.
LOND0N's ARIsToCRATIO SCANDAL
Organizing the Labor Party in Chicago
THREE NEGRO INcENolARles HUNG.
COERCION REVIVED IN IRELAND.
The Arrest Of Parnellite Leaders. Per.
haps OF Parnell Himself. Expected
Dillon ana O'Bricn Defiant-Exciting
Times fn Prospect.

Special Cable Dispatch to THE EVENING STAR
LONDON, Nov. 29-Coercion is back again,
and i'm all probability few days will see Par.
nellite members i'm prison. Reduced to Its
simplest form the government procedure, which
is precisely that formerly taken against Messrs.
Healy and Davitt, amounts to offering Dillon a
choice OF holding his tongue or going to prison.
lie VIII, OF course, promptly accept the latter
alternative. Then U Brien, who has left by the
mail train TO join Dillon in Sligo, from whose
ceaseless brain the idea OF the plan of campaign n
was evolved, will denounce the government in
United ireland, which will be suppressed. BY
this time Parnell will be compelled to appear
upon the scene in defense OF his lieutenants
ana 10 take the leadership i'm the struggle. Ii
the government venture 10 arrest him
THERE WILL BE WAR.
Indeed, 1t is difficult TO see how they can avoid
1t. Such is the generally accepted forecast. As
this so-called plan OF campaign" is the kernel
OF the whole dispute, 1 may explain ii once
more. 1t is that rents be paid, less the deduc.
tions claimed by occupiers, TO trustees chosen
by themselves, the landlord to get nothing un.
less he accepts what is originally offeped him.
Yesterday was rent-paying day on Lord Dillon &
estate. Three thousand pounds were paid to
the trustees less twenty-five per cent.
HURLING DEFIANCE AT THE GoyERNMENT.
1t is worth special notice that the charge
against Dillon makes no reference to bis
speeches at Woodward on the Clanricarde es-
tate, although these were much more violent,
which seems to indicate the intention OF the
government to be TO interfere only with this
plan, AS adopted against reasonable and respec-
table landlords. Speaking at a meeting, Mr..
Dillon said yesterday: "Halt an hour ago. a
detective from Dublin handed me a process.
That is the blow. The blow has been struck
but am still here. SO much for the great blow
the government has struck here to-day. There
was great deal OF talk about ii, but IL has done
no one any harm. believe ii is about all they
can do. WIN, In spite of these grand legal doc
uments, we snail continue to go around and
advise the people to take their stand now or
never for fair rents and free homes -
OBrien, who followed him, concluded by say
ing, ~We will live through this as we lived
through former bouts OF coercion. L promise
you when ali is over in this campaign we Will
be the victors. The cowardly, lay pocritical,
snlVell1ng tory government will be hurled from
power and hurled from Ireland by the united
Noiceand strength of the democrats OF England,
Scotland and Wales"
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
Press comments on the action of the govern
ment are all very guarded. The conservative
papers do not venture to support it with their
usual party vigor. The liberal papers do not
attempt to defend the so-called plan of csm-
paign." The most important comment is the
following from Economist. "The government is
not out of the woods yet in Ireland. There
nerve is about (unless We mistake the position)
to be tried as il has not been tried. Aided by
the depression in the price OF agricultural
products by some reports published in England
ON the difficulty OF paying rents, and, we fear,
10y some promises from the English liberals,
they have advised the tenants To obtain "A great
reduction, or, not obtaining it, to strike against
rent according TO a prearranged plan. We cam
not see how the government, even though
anxious to avoid contest until parliament
meets again, is to yield TO this strange form Of
insurrecLlon. 1t is insurrecIion, and nothing
less, though it is passive, not active. Ii the
government submits, the law for twelve months
Is paraliZed in its action. A more open defiance
Was never threatened. The example, il resist
ance is successful, is sure to spread, and i'm a
lew months We may see a general strike against
rent throughout southern Ireland ana conse-
quent annihilation OF the landlords property in
land"
1t is understood that parliament meets on
Thursday, January 13. There is a conservative
rumor 10 the effect tnat Gen. Butler is TO sue
ceeQ Sir Robert Hamilton.