The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-23
UNITED IRELAND FURIOUS.
ERIN'S LITTLE COTTAGES.
Parnell Heart and Soul For Peasant
Proprietary.

Proprietary.
LONDON, Nov. 22-The debate on the
land purchase bill was resumed in the
House of Commons tonight by Mr.. ParnelL
He declared emphatically that he approved
the BILL but he eleved that it was so de-
signed that, under present circumstances,
it would be impossible to put it into effective
operation. He had always held that the
creation of peasant proprietary was the
only means of solving the lard question.
His own bill simply asked that church
tenants be allowed to acquire land by
paying the church commission annually for
forty-nine years rent, equal to per cent.
on the capitalized value of the holdings
That would have created no risk to the i'm
perial excnequer. The conservatives op-
posed that proposition, but the time would
come when they would find it needful to go
further. The Irish party were always ready
and eager to assist in the settlement Of the
land question.
WHY THEY OPPOSED 1T.
1t was calunny to say that any of their
members tried to make political capital out
of the question or opposed the bill because
it would make the government of Ireland
easier. [Cheers On the contrary their
opposition to the ILL was due to Their
knowledge that it would cause loss to the
object. The government had not taken up
the land question with view to helping
the tenants, but at the solicitation of the
landlords, who, seeing that they c.uld no
longer maintain their position, wauted TO
dispose of their property at inflated prices.
[Hear Hearil The bill did not contain
provisions enabling the state, when supply
ing money, to decide what tenancies it
would be desirable to purchase in the public
Interest.
ALL LEFT WITH THE LANDLORDS.
The government left the landlords to de-
eide. Congested and rack-rented estates
would not be touched under the bill. The
only way to make the landlords of con.
gested estates agree to accept the value of
their property, was to empower the COM
mission to purchase at such price as would
really represent the landlords interests.
Arrears ought to be considered along with
rent reductions otherwise land purchase
arrangements were futile He would not
like to predict that tenants might repudiate
bargains made, under the measure, on the
ground that advantage might be taken Of
their necessities, but the bill would not as
sst that large and permanent settlement
that was desirable. Any bargain with the
farmers ought TO have basis that would
put repudiation out Of the question Hear!
Hear!1 The measure showed an entire alb
ment.
TRAMPLED ON NATIONAL FEELING.
The present system Of government
trampled upon national feeling. If the gov
ernment meant to attempt a large scheme
of land purchase it was essential to establish
in Ireland a representative authority to act
as buffer between the tenants and the
state. The tenants would have
their S6, and maybe 101 members
of parliament. [Parnelite cheers.1 The
government would be as much
dependent as now upon the Irish vote No
sane government Of self-respecting char
acter, would tolerate the sending of a tax
collector around to cottages with an army
and crowbar brigade to enforce payments.
II the national sentiment was conciliated
there would be nothing to fear from the in
fuence upon the bot youth Of the country
OF all the Fenian propagators from
New York to San Francisco. 1t
was those who exercised coercion that
fomented disaffection far more than Rosa.
[''Hearl Hearr1 This was not merely an
agrarian question. 1t was knit up with
national aspirations II the government
meant well to the tenants by the bill, he
implored them to insert suitable provisions
dealing with arrears, the tenants greatest
difficulty. That done, he could cordially
appreciate the measure, and the legislature
would reap its reward in the conciliation.
Of the people. ICheers.l
LORD CHURCHILL REPLIES.
Lord Randolph Churchill said that the
assertion that the bill was introduced to en-
able landlords to sell at inflated prices would
not bear examination. The Parnellites
knew that iunation did not exist in Ireland,
hut vef-y much the reverse r . r-eii+t-- ~. .