The Irish standard., 1889-07-27
lRElAND'S new LEAGUE.
The Tenants Combine to Defeat the
Landlords in Their Work of
determination.
BALFOUR MUST SURRENDER.
A Syndicate to ba Formed to Fight For
Home and fatnerland-
It's Orlgin.

It's Orlgin.
Politics are active in spite Of hot
weather, the Shah and rush OF social
functions generally, says Dublin dis
patch of July II. Lord Randolph
Churchill's natura, cussedness has come
out in his preferred intention to run for
the House of Commons in central Bir-
mingham, and Mr.. Turnc0at Chamber
lain. who feels that Birmingham belongs
to him, and who is hated by Churchill,
is in very terrible state Of emotion.
He wants the Tory leaders, who depend
on the votes of himself and other dis
loyal Gladstonians, to coax or force
Churchill to change his mild. But
Churchill has been snubbed all arolnd;
he feels badly, is not loving ANYBODY,
anu Just wants to make himself dis
agreeable, so that it will probably be
hard to influence him. Brother Cham
berlain is not alone in his grief. His
Tory friends are all Ill about as pleasant
a state Of irritation as So many teethlng
babes. for the Irish leaders have dc
veloped new plan to thwart the
schemes of the irish landlords. Last
week Landlord Smith Barry's efforts to
form syndicate Of rent rackers, these
to discourage all proposals for arbtra-
tiou, and hy united action to force the
tenants to such terms as even the law
courts would not impose upon them was
spoken Of. William OBrien, the real
workingman of the Irish party, had
already thought over combination of
tenants to defeat that Of landlords, and
now has his plan in working order.
MIR. Sexton is drafting resolutions con-
cerning the new plan, which will be
discussed aud, beyond all doubt. adopt
ed by Parnell and the leading lrishmen.
The great danger to the Tories lies in
the perfect legality of the proposed
combination even rom an English
standpoint. and III the fact that. unlike
the 'plan Of campaign,'' 1t will be a
national affair, and have the unanimous
support of the Irish party. Following
are extracts Of the statement made by
William O'Brien in Dublin, and which
gives all idea of this most important
development in the policy OF the Irish
leaders: ''Rich landlords and English
aristocrats have clubbed together to
overwhelm by force of money and
coercion the body of tenants upon the
Justice of whose claims they dare not
take the Judgment of any dispassionate
tribunal. Smith-Barry and Colonel
Sanderson nave claimed that every Irish
landlord has the right to combine with
every other landlord for that purpose,
All that the new organization claims
is that the tenantry shall exercise the
same right of combination to prevent
THE DIFFERENTIATION OF TENANTS
whose claims the landlords dare not
submit to arbitration. What is terrify-
ing the landlords and coercionists
most is the absolute legality of the new
movement. Its chief feature will be
the raising of a vast national fund to
prevent the evicted tenant from being
driven to the workhouse. The issues
raised are precisely similar to those of
trades unionlsm here. On the Ponson-
by estate, for instance, the people to
whom the law has given joint pro-
perty in their holdings, who have them
selves built their houses and reclaimed
their fields, have dispute with their
landlords. Just as the contendiDg par
ties were on the point of settlement,
there steps III this pody of
wealthy landlords, most OF whom
are complete strangers to this
country, and deliberately wrecks
that settlement in the hope Of terrifying
the irish tenants from ever combining
again. 1he tenants have always been
willing, and are still willing, to leave
their disputes to arbitration, as they are
on every estate on which the struggle
is proceeding. The landlords, on the
other hand, have shirked arbitration.
In point of fact. for the last eighteen
months it has not been a question of
the Justice of tenants claims, but of
vindictive attempts of the landlords and
government to ruin these tenants, be-
cause they wrung the land act of 1887
from the Tory government, and because
the coercion act has failed to crush
them. In one case in which arbitration
was accepted, Colonel Vandeleur's es-
tate, the landlords have practically lost
both the landlord and Conservative
members of Parliament who agreed to
it. Every overture for settlement from
the tenants side has been gloated. over
as = sign Of weakness. We will never