The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-25
Mayor of Cork Calls Meet ing to Consider English Acts and Land Disputes

practically unanimIty both Houses of FarIament and both British parties acknowledged the abolition of dual ownership to be matter of Imperial concern, and pledged the Imperial credit to carry out the objects of the act; that 1t was unjust to impose upon the Irish taxpayers losses on Notation of land loans and impossible for them to bear such burden; and that any failure on the part of the Imperial Parliament to find money for continu- ing the beneflcent process of land transfer with reasonable speed would constitute repudiation of contract vir- tuelly entered into, would be deeply resented by all classes in Ireland. en- gender fresh agrarian strife, and em. bitter relations between the two coun- tries.
 Mir. oBrien said they were making history at that meeting. He claimed that It spoke with an authority un- paralleled in Irish history for all classes and sections of the south, for the Unionist minority as well as for the Nationalist majority. and for old foes as we'll as for old friends.
 Replying to taunts with reference to the policy of conciliatfon. ne Eioried in the junction of landlord and tenant representatives on the platform. By the terms of the reunion of the Irish party last January. every member of that party now stood solemnIy pledged to welcome cordially Irishmen of all classes and creeds who were willing to cooperate in ameliorative legislation. It the party were not pledged to that attitude, he knew one man who would never have re-entered their ranks. They were only fulfilling that pledge of the party by cordially welcoming their countrynen on that platform and telling them they had nothing to fear at their hands for their civil or reIig- ious liberties.
 The depudation to the Prime Minis ter and the Chancellor of the Excfe- quer would be able to speak for uni- versal Ireland when they told them that the completion of the abolition of landlordism was the first indispensable step towards peace and progress in Ireland. Any attempt to stop it, or worse still. to break it up Into driblets of $2o.000, ,000 of s25,000,00o a year. would be a crime against the peace of frland and an indelible strain on the honor of the Empire.
 He pointed out that Irland had been true to her side of the bargain of 1903. Half the land of the country had been amicably sold the tenant purchasers had paid up their instalmehts with most marvellous punctuality; wherever land purchase spread peace and good will followed in itA train; more than half the soil of the county of Cork had been sold and not single extra policeman had been seen for the past four years in Cork, where in the old days extra police were not an alto gether unfamiliar phenomenon. He believed they had only to concentrate on Mir. Morlsy's position in 1903 and nothing could withstand their claim that the financing of land purchase must be made an Imperial business.
 Mir. Morley calculated that an Im- perial bonus of Sf10.000.000 would be required, and that no money was ever more economically spent in the inter- est of England. Let the government now only take the, far-seeing advice of their own distinguished colleague Io a very moderate degree and the Fhole difficulty of land purchase fi-