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lreligious, economic, or political, Of Uls-
ter? Nothing Of the kind; it was for none

the Tories and the aristocracy of Grea
Britain and Ireland the Empire, th,
Union, religious freedom and the loyalty
lot Ulster are 60 many terms for land
lordism and rent. These are what they
are alarmed about. It is for these they
want Ulster farmers and Ulster laborers
Ito fight, and, il the laborers and farmers
,ot this province are idiots enough to neg
lst their cause and their interest, and
iht against the Nationalists for the
Tories and the aristocracy, they are
worthy Of another generation of social
servitdde and slavery. Lord Salisbury
knows as well as you and do that Home
Rule will mean the triumph Of demo
cracy here in Ireland and across the
water in England, Wales and Scotland,
the abolition of landlordism and the
recognition Of the great principle. Of the
land for the people, and naturally enough
he, as leader of the landlord Tory party
OF these three countries, desires to avert
the victory of the peoples rights over the
land and in the government of many
parts Of the kingdom. Lord Salisbury's
dennnciations of Archbishop Walsh and
pr. Nulty, like Lord Randolph Churcbiil's
denunciations OF Cardinal Logue, and
the general attack upon the bishops and
priests of Ireland, is because they are
with the people in this great Democratic
Reform Movement. That is why Lord
Salisbury never misses an occasion for
attacking DR.. Walsh, and why Lord
Randolph Churchill has gone out Of his
way to make an attack upon the eminent
ecclesiastic who has recently been raised
to the cardinalate by the Holy Father.
It is as land reformers that he and his
class fear and denounce the bishops and
priests Of ireland, and the fact is becom.
ing known to the democracy Of Great
Britain, and, consequently, these On.
slaughts upon the hierarchy are dis
counted and estimated at their proper
value throughout the length and breadth
ofScotland, Wales and England.
Referring TO Lord Saliabury d recent
speech on the plantation Of Ulster and
the part which his ancestor took in that
nefarious piece Of robbery, Mr.. Davitt
said:
What was the purpose of this planta-
ton scheme. apart from it's primary OF
originating object? Was it to create
Ulster landlordism? Nothing Of the
kind. Was it to enable the idle class to
live upon the industry OF those who till
the soil? Nothing of the kind. Land
lordism was not contemplated at all in
the plantation scheme. The secondary
purpose OF the scheme was to encourage
husbandry and to make the land subser
Went to the uses and necessities of those
who worked it. Sir John Davis, the
then Irish Attorney General, writing at
the time-mark the contrast TO Robert
Earl Of Salisbury, this ancestor Of the
present Lord Salisbury's, on the 9th of
November, 1910, laid down this doctrine
about theland Of Ulster-and I will re-.
spectfully call the attention Of the Prot
estant and Unionist tenant-farmers Of
Ireland to what am about to quote.
Sir John Davis writing Of this, said:
"It is our will in our land that the
King is Lord Paramount OF all the land
in the kingdom, SO that all his subjects
hold their possessions Of him, mediate or
in other words, that the land belonged
to the state, and, if the law Of the time
Of Lord Salisbury's ancestor were en-.
forced now, the landlords Of Ulster
would be mere trespassers instead OF
land owners, and would be legally dis
possessed inside OF twenty-four hours,
But that is not the point I wished to
make in this connection. It is one init
mately concerning the present Unionist
tenant farmers in Ulster. Sir John
Davies in the same letter fixed the sum
which the planters Of this county Of Iy-
rome had to pay tor the rent of their
holdings, and says:
''Whereas Tyrone did the last year
yield unto bis majesty $4,000, for four
years to come it will yield nothing, and
afterwards the lee-farp OF the under
takers will not amount to s600 per an
mum.
Now, supposing that the rent for tho
whole Of the land Of Tyrone that was
included in the plantation was cut down
to $500 a year amp no tenant farmer
present would object to that-would the
Unlonist tenant farmers who are fighting
Tor the Lord Salisbury Of the present
would they object to shows
sweeping reduction n their rental obli-
cations! What sum do the tenant far
mers of the present day, the descendants
ef the planters 7of Tyrone, pay now to
the landlords OF this County Tyrone?
The difference between six hundred and
the two or three hundred fhousand
rounds paid today TO the landlords of