The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-03-30

sibIe for IRISH FOOD producers 10 pay the
burden which this bill viii place on their
industry for the next sixty wears. How
ever. as have already said, we must see
the text Of the bin before any final ludg
ment be passed upon it. As whole /
think that our friends i'm the United
states. who have done so much 10 help
us bring this eight for irish land to the
present somewhat hopeful outlook, Will
follow the example Of our leaders ana
reserve their opinion on the merits OF the
measure The fight has been lonS and
harder than many fights in the open
broken aud many lives ruined before even
;he partial victory of today has beeD
won. | cannot see my way to agree to
the bill as it is, but when ] remember
that in 1879 | served my first term of i'm
prisonment for proposing almost exactly
what a conservative Irish secretary pro-
posed today. realize how times change.
This partial triumph is merely fore-
evolution. Far be ii for me 10 stand In
the way of anything that may help even
slightly to bring that about
r. p. OConnOr writes:
II believe that the bill will go into COM
mittee. That is to say, there is sufficient
good in ii to make it difficult II not inn
possible for the natiouaists TO reject it.
one hundred million pounds 81 Engllsh
credit and something like 9loo0o'Vo III
bonus are civ NJ 60 substitute peasant
ownership fcr Iandlordism. IT is true that
ireland will subscribe her share of the
SIS 000.000 bonus; true that q purely lrlsh
fund will have 10 pay portion OF me
bonus: true that the financial grievance
on undue irish taxation remains. put
ireland is not mistress of her revenues.
Her appeals for financial redress have
been in vain, and probably THIS IS the one one
way in which relief Of her huanciai
grievance can be got The main energies
of lrishmen should now be devoted to-
wards amending many OF jne deICc,s IN
the bill. MANY fishmen t4lhH tnal we we
great wealthy landlords, especially me
AuglO-Ifish may not find lnducehtht
enough to sell; also that the terms lor I'll"
tenants i'm many cases may be TOO hieh'
II believe that united inoN .,l.'T..,.
towards such amendment may en0rmoualA
improve the measure, which Is hlS A4"
Doid though in parts a defective attempt
to abolish landiordism.
John Redmond wrote the following LOT
the Associated Press:
"The land bill in many respects IA q
far-reaching and important measure. IL
proposes q loan for the purpose OF ena-
bling the landlords TO be bought out 70
the extent Of a hundred million POUNDS.
in addition to bonus. not to De repaid
In amour, 10 at least twelve milton
mounds The bin does not fiji all the re-
quircmcnts of the case. 1t does nor pro
vide as good terms either for the laild-
lords or tenants as proposed az 'ue -
cent land conference, bat IL H'"iN9 ~
enormous advance on amy measure CT itS
kind hitherto proposed by an lGngllSIl
government. It is the direct result o.
the unity of the national movement III
Ireland. and the national party IN parma
ment for the last three years, Whch ieu
tn the break down Of coercion IN ifelahu
and which induced the landlords 70 come
10 the conclusion that their best int"i
ess lay I'm making friends with the jIish
people. instead Of continuing III c1l .,'tah
with them The land conference when
ensnnJ cunlsr i'm The name OF united ire