Telegram-herald., 1889-10-31
MICHAEL DAVITT.
HSs Speech 70 the Parnen Conarnis-
sion Not Yet Ended
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LONDON. Oct. se.-Mr Michael Dav-
it's address which was continued be
fore the Psrnell comm Aaslon Tuesday. IL
awakening renewed public interest IA
the proceedings of that body IL ls quite
evident from intimGuons made by Mr
Davitt from time % time ia the course 81
his address that lie is on the eve ~
making some startling disclosures. and
this assumption i fortified hy "a article
in the Freeman's Journal. which as
serts that the father of the Land League
j. rapidly drawing his adser-
s.ries 70 the verge Of the precipioe
over which they viii inevitably be
hurled. The disclosures are said 10 az
feet the Times 10 . greater degree than
ala even the contest oi the Infamous
Pigott and TO be Of character render
iRg II almost impossible for the com
mission 70 sus-ain single allegation
made by that paper.
Mr. Dayitt held his audience almost
breathless Tuesday while he reclted bis
experiences during the Irish famine IN
As and soistened the eyes q many OF
his hearers when he pictured his prison
life, an episode Of which Was
his being yoked TO cart like
beast of burden, because with
his single arm be was unable 10
perform the tasks imposed upon him as
q man with two arms could have done.
Eeferring 10 the Times articles, he said
their author willfully invented and
garbled quotations from Ameri-
can papers lie instanced as a
baseless lie the statement that
he met the chiefs Ct the Amer
lean assassination party while in the
United States. and concerted with them
70 form the Irish federation. and that
Mr.. Parnell assisted in this scheme.
lie (Davitt) had often repudiated
the policy Of revenge advocated
10y extremists in America lie
Davitt also said that many erroneous
reports were current respecting the
Clan-na-Gael which organization, he
said, was not an assassination society,
nor any more a secret society than was
the order of Freemasons in Great
Britain.
Nh Davitt dwelt at great length upon
the social conditions of Ireland TO show
that the agrarian outrages com
mitted from 1879 20 1882 were due 10 the
social conditions Of the country
and TO economic causes, and not 10 his
teaching or 20 the work OF the Land
League He said that he organized the
league with the object Of abolishing
landlordism. This, he held, was per
fectly legal and constitutional end 10
work for.
LONDON, Oct. 3O.-Mr. Michael Davitt
continued his s. beech before the Par
nell Commission at the morning ses-
sion. He argued that the Govern.
ment is now adopting some Of the lead
ing proposals originally made by
the Land League. For instance, the
league proposed to buy out the land
lords in Ireland on twenty years val
uation of their property. The Conserva-
tives denounced the idea when it was
first mooted, but the Government is
now preparing similar scheme. Mr..
Davitt denied that the state OF crime
IN Ireland justified tho enactment
OF special laws for application in that
country. He produced statistics TO show
the number of crimes and deeds of vio-
lence committed in England exceeded
those committed in Ireland.