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REDPATIVS ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.
[November 9, 1882.
BalEP ANNALS OF THE TRISH RACE.
AS TOLD BY ITS ENEMIES AND FRIENDS.
bra Corrected for Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly.)
"$ ILLUSTRATED WEE 8
Wednesday ight, Our record of the doings
of the Irish race, therefor @ past week (as told for
the most part by British enblo Hehotters) begins on Thursday
morning, October 25, and ends at midnight November 1.
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LOUDEN’S SLANDERS REFUFED.
Trish National Land League in the
tat 6 only money paid to members of Parliament was for tray-
eling expenses, and that in all but £1,600 was given for this pare
080, including the expenses of the trip of Messrs, Parnell and
brits ion to America, Mr. Egan, in correction of a statement made
300 salary Toarly from the Tand eague fund, not £700, as al-
lened by M Londen.—Cal
Mr. Sexton, a man of first-class capacity, for months
working night and day, until his health broke down, not only
as the chief of the ague in Dublin, but as
public speaker, every roe k—traveling long distances oud
coming back, tired out, to renew his labors in the office.
was nagged and worried all the time by earpers who
ever spent a penny nor made a sacrifice, personal or other
wise, for the Land League, and who were Jealous c ot his rapid-
ly growing reputation and of his influence with ell.
vices. even a Ireland,
2.500 to $5,000 a year; and
yet, Mr, Sexton cheerfully ‘acvepted the pay of a common
book-keeper, And now he is traduced for it—by a man who
was denounced in a great National Convention as a cowai
who ran away from danger and in his own county as a land-
grabber! And these mean slanders are cabled and qnoted by
one Irish-American journal here as evidence of “swindling!”
Treland will have earnest cauxe to thank God and take cour-
age just as long as such m 1
Parliamentary party” are ranked among her “‘swindlers.” If
such noble and Practical and able patriots are swindlers—as
Hitt Mr. Ford calls them—then Ireland will never again be
as the Isle of Saints ; for, reckouing them as swindlers,
no man “could practice virtue evough to entitle him to canoni-
zation!
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IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT.
Lo 25.—During the session the Speaker ead a lotter
from Judge Tawson eunounel ng the release from jail of Mr. E.
wyer Gray, The letter was referred to the commistee coneiden:
ing Mr. Gray’s case.
NDON, Oct. 27.— Mr. Parnell fave notice that he would call
ateepe fo the administration of he Tand and Coercion acts and
move a resolution in reference the re:
ed to inveatigato the imprisonment of 3
ladstone, Sir Stafford Northcote,
Whitbread, liberal; Sir Jo! fow!
ike conservative; Sir Hardinge Giffard, moderate conserva.
tive ; Afr. Plunket, conservative : ney-General James, Sir
‘harles Forster, liberal s 3 Mr. Dillw: rn ro tiberal Mr. Parnell, Mr.
McCarthy, Mr. Sexton and Mr. Heal
Oct. 27.—At a menting of the Irish Parliamentary
arty to-day a resolution in favor of amending the Arrears of
Rent bill was passed. The amendment agreed upen is for the
extension of the time in which @ settlement can be made with a
landlord in respect to the rent ot 1881. The meeting also de-
cided to support various amendments to the closure rules,
THE JO ¥ck “MURDERS.
27.-The Grand Jury have returned a true bill
against the ten men charged with murdering the Joyce family,
THE KILLING ‘Or KAVANAGH.
LIN, Oct. 27 —Waleh, who is to undergo penal servitude
tor life for bein essory to the taarder of Constable Kav
nagh, has been removed ira ‘om the Ga’ Prison, and is on t he
way to England, where he will be contined-
DAVITT Ly SCOTLAND.
When Davitt and Parnell were like the Siamese twins, the
English Government arrested him. Now that they think he
will be the means of splitting the Land League his every
movement is chronicled by cable and his every utterance
reportes
They will find themselves mistaken in Davitt; for although
he is stubborn in maintaining his prejudiors as wel a
rading his own personal views, he has too disinterested a love
for Ireland to u as a wel dye to disunite Ireland.
Cable dispatches tell us he is in Scotland lecturing, and ot
his way | to Skye to become familiar with the cuse of the croft-
who are threatened with eviction there.
"This whole policy of fighting any batt‘e except the battle of
Treland is a mistake; ba Davitt’s failings, like the tower of
Pisa, Jeans to virtue’s
Besi these crc rofters ro descendants of the old Irish, and
speak ee Celtic language.
THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.
ITS PRINCIPLES AND POLICY.
‘This is the programme of the Irish National League:
Resolved, ‘That ai p oasocintion ee formed to attain for the
Tish people the following objec:
irst — National self-g: 8 rnoent
Second — Land Law feform.
‘Chird—Local self-government.
Fourth—Extension of the parliamentary and municipal
franchises
‘th. e development and d encouragement of the labor
and ‘industrial interests of Ire
Thai association be called “ She Trish National League.”
‘That the objects of the League be defined as follows:
ARTICLE
‘The restitution to the Irish people of the right to manage
their own affairs in a parliament elected by the people of
Ireland.
The creation of an troup stag ownership or peasant
prouristary by an amendment of the parchase clauses of the
Land Act of 1881, 60 as to secure the advance by the State of
the whole of the purchase money and the extension of the
period of payment over sixty-three years,
(0) The transfer by ees purchase to ¢ mnty boards
ot land not cultivated b: owners and not in the ecenpa.
tion of tenants for resale or reletting to laborers and small
farmers in plots or grazing commonages,
(c) The protection from the imposition of rent on improve-
ments made by the tenant or his predecessors iu title, to be
effected by an amendment of the Healy clause of the Land
Act of 1881,
ta. Lhe admission of lease-bolders and per excluded
classes to all the bevefits of the Land Act, with the further
amendments thereof included in the Land ‘Law (Ireland) Act
Amendment bill of Mr. Redmond.
(a) The creation of county boards, and the transfer thereto
of the fiscal and administrative powers of grand juries.
(2) ‘The abolition of the principle and nomination by gov-
ernment fe membership of the following boards
The al Goverament Board.
‘The Board o Be
The General * Valuation and Boundary Survey.
ae Board of National Education.
he Reformatory aud Industrial Schools Board.
‘The Prisons Board.
@ Fishe ard.
And the transfer of their powers to representatives elec'ed
by county boards.
(¢) The transfer to count beards of the management of
union workhouses, Innatio asylums, and other institutions
supported by local rat
The substitntion “of local for imperial control in the ap-
pointment and management of the police,
The extension to county hoards of the power to nomi-
pate county sb sriffe, & at present exercised by municipalit es
in the a of cit,
¢. esting in "county boards of the right of nominat-
ing inagistrates, now enjoyed by lord lieutenants of counties.
(9) The abolition of the office of Lord Lieutevant of Ire-
nd.
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(2) The extension and assimilation of the Irish Parliamen-
taryand municipal franchises to those of England.
@ che adoption of the English system in the registration
of vot
The securing that any measure of popular enfranchise-
ment introduced for Great Britain shall also be extended to
Separate legislation to elevate the condition of agricultural
laborers, to secure—
a) TI roviding of laborers’ dwellings, with half.acre
allotments in’the proportion of one to every £25 veluation in
the ease of all holdings, pastoral or agviculinral
(3) The abolition of payment of poor ae ‘in respect of
Iaberers’ dwellings.
‘The repeal of the quarter-acre _clonee, so as to entitle
laborers to outdoor relief during illne!
Co-operation in the movement for fostering Irish industries
by the appointment, in connection with each brine of the
organization, of an industrial committee, on which m
turers, shopkeepers, artisans and farmers shall have propor
tional representation, and | the functions of which shall
‘a) To encourage the use and sale of Irish products.
b) Toco operate with the National Exhibition Company in
securing the genuineness of articles offered for sale as Irish
the organization of local exhibitions
obtain scientific reports of the industrial capacities
of their varions districts and stimulate tho establishment of
local manufacturing and cottage industries
The ieh _Natonel League ‘shail consist of branches aud
oe
Connell chat! consist of thirty members, twenty to be
electoa aby county conventions and ten by the Irish Parlia-
mentary party. The branches in each county shall send del-
~ legates ‘bo an annual county convention, and each delegate
on cast his vote for the candidate nominated to the Central
uncil in manner provided by the rules. Members of Par-
lament shall be ineligible for election to the Council by a
county convention.
The branches to be organized, rules framed and the method
of nomination and election to the Council settled by an Or-
ganizing Committee.
The Organizing Committee shall consist of five members of
the Mansion House Committee for the Relief of Evicted
Tenants. five members of the exeentive of the Labor and In-
dustrial Union, five members of the Council of the Home
Rule League, and fifteen other gentlem
The Organizing Committee shall have ‘all the powers of a
Central Council until the Connells is elected, aud vo longer.
MR. HEALY ON THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Mr. Healy is one of the ablest of the Parliantontary party
and one of the most radical; and he is on: those radicals
who base their action not on Saud Lot dreams. but on Irish
social facts. e thus writes to the Republic about the old
Land League and the new organization
W THE LAND LEAGUE GREW.
A complete agreement prevails among all Sections of the
party. Supposing the government to allow the new move-
ment to take root, distienlies mee at first orn in reference to
organization such a League had not to encounter.
That body bad i its birth in the want and starvation of Con-
in Dablin, will have to be created in the metropolis and
pushed through the country at a time when want no lon;
Drives the people to desperation, and when the legal mi
chinery of the Land Act is taking the place of the rough-and-
ready methods of the Land League for lowering rack-rents.
FECTS OF THE OLD ORGANIZA
werfal ne was the Land League organization, its consti-
tution was fall of anomalies, which it is proposed to. correct
an the new movement. Formerly, branches were not con-
pected i in any way with the head organization in Dublin, ex-
cept by occasional money payments, They had no represen-
tativeon the executive, and obeyed instructions simply th
a feeling of loyalty and confidence in the men at the head of
affairs, @ Dnblin officers were controlled entirely by the
members of what was called the ‘ Central League,” that is
by those who had subscribed £1 per arnum, and it was these
who elected the executive. No constitution was ever really
agrend upon, and it was only just before its su;-pression, oiter
the holding of the great convention of September ’81, th:
steps were being taken to create a feveration of the branches,
so that the county organizations should have a voice and con-
trol over the executive.
‘This condition of things had arisen out of the manner in
which the Land League was originally established. A dozen
or sof gentlemen met in the Imperial Hotel, Dublin, formed
themselves into an organization, and d puted Mi essrs, Parnell
and Dillon to visit America. Funds flowed ii in from the tour
of these gentlemen, and these had to be administered by the
limited body of which the Tenge originally consisted. As
the movement grew no corresponding change was effected
the executive, and the supression of the League prevented its
meaibers from giving effect to their intentions of placing its
governing body ons ae more representative basis.
In the new organization it is proposed, until branches bave
been formed locally ‘that an orgunizing ecmmities shall be
appointed to carr, the work of direction t!
branches have been established, ‘they will send representatives
to county conventions which will cast a vote for members o
a central executive, “a equal number being chosen from each
province, As I write, the idea is that the members of Parlia-
iment shall be ineligible for election by the county conven
tions, but that the Irish parliamentary party shall be asked to
nomivate a small proportion o mbers to serve with the
men chosen n by them to act as the central executive,
Such ar ‘angement will remedy one of the chief defects
of the orgenizetion of the late Land League, whose executive
meetings could scarcely ever be attended by county repre-
sentatives, so that there was a liability to ‘lose touch” with
the actual feelings of the people in the provinces and the por-
sibility of imperfect acquaintance with local needs and re-
quirements, a:
on purpose, the
result being that quite a disproportionate amount of fands
‘aised in Ireland réached the Dublin offi
the branches at the discretion of the “local executive on
meetings, printing, defending actions brought by landlords
or policemen avd kindred objects, the fund of the abla
executive, coming almost entirel: "from A America, so that, al-
though it has been calculated that the Irish contributions ‘o
@ League exceeded the amount subscribed from abroad, the
hove contributions were never placed a the disposal of the
body, but were locally expended. medy this it is now
proposed that each branch shall contribute a FoF the eo of
the subscriptions of each member to the treasury of the
erning body.
The objects of the 1 new organization will be the attainment
of rational and 1 self-government, land law reform, the
extension of the porliamentegy and municipal franchises, and
the protection, development and improvementof our laboring
and jadustrial resources.
fiel e branches get into working order the National
Convention will assemble in Dublin, probably some time next
year, and it is intended that this Sathering shall elect trustees,
to whom the existing Land Lea will be handed over,
with a public statement of the seceipte and expenditures to
date. Mr. Parnell believes that such an organization will be
able effectively to cory on operations without giving the gov.
ernment an excuse for harassing the people by the prosecu-
tion and imprisonment of the local leaders, while at the same
time the work of pressing on reform
forward. There is no doubt whatever that the mind of the
cE
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strike unfairly at a movement directed to secure the dey.
ment of principle: which they themselyes have legislatively
a
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UNION IN IRELAND.
All onr Irish exchanges show that the privciples avd pro-
Davitt, are received with hearty enthusiasm in Ireland,
Examiner expresses the universal opinion when
it says of Mr. Paruell’s speech :
HOME RULE FIRST,
“Tt will be notice with satisfaction that he places first aud
above all other aims the restitution to the Irish people of the
right of managing their own affairs in a Parliament elected
in Ireland. ‘I wonld always desire to impress o1 n my fellow.
countrymen,’ he says, ‘that their first duty and ‘highest ob.
ject is to obtain for our country the right of making onr own
laws upon Irish soil.’
PEASANT PROPRIVTARY,
“Bat as the attainment of the organic change must neces-
sarily be a work of time,
system of local administration in the country. Not the least
important declaration of policy contained in Mr. Parnell’s ad-
Gress is the statement that the national leaders look upon the
creation of a peasant proprietary through the oj fi
the purchase clauses of the Land Act, ay th vmplete eet
Intion of the land question. ‘We’ may.’ says Mr. Parnell
i
existed for centuries, which does not put the 1 eee
and his improvements beyond the cliennery of the law
ownershi i iment ap the
iP; OF peasant proprietary, by an smendent of th
purchase clauses of the Land Act of "81, 80 as ecure the
advance by the State of the whole of the purchase, and t. °
extension of the period of repayment over sixty-three years, : »
Home Rule and Peasant Proprietary were the onl two
vital issues presented by the Rotunds National Convention
of oy aeepeat rete ee, ew cresnization, therefore,
cardinal prin 8
on which all Irish patriots ean agree. Tt ee Panag hers
improved the machinery of the Land League
iy Ring ean cotel ig ‘that henceforty