ANOTHER LAND LEAGUE MANIFESTO.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2419, 6 January 1882, Page 3

ANOTHER LAND LEAGUE MANIFESTO.

The “ Central News ” elates the following Manifesto of the Land League has just been issued and privately circulated to the widest possible extent in Ireland : —" To the People of Ireland—The Government of England has declared war against the Irish people. The organisation that protected them against the ravages of landlordism has been declared ‘unlawful and criminal.’ A reign of terror has commenced. Meet the action of the English Government with a determined passive resistance. The no-rent banner has been raised, and it remains with the people now to prove themselves dastards or men. Pay no rent. Avoid the Land Court. Such is the programme before the country. Adopt it, and it will lead you to free land and happy homes. Seject it, and slavery and degradation will be your portion. Pay no rent. The person who does should be visited with the severest sentence of social ostracism. Avoid the Land Court. Oast out the person who enters it as a renegade to his country, and to the cause of his fellow men. Hold the harvest is the watchword. To do that effectually you should, as far as possible, turn it into money. Sell your stock when such a course will not entail a loss. Make a friendly arrangement with your creditors about your interests in your farms. A short and sharp struggle now, and the vilest oppression that ever afflicted humanity will be wiped away. No rent. Your brethren in America have risen to the crisis, and are ready to supply you with unlimited funds provided you maintain your attitude of passive resistance and pay no rent. No rent. • The tenants of Ireland have still one tremendous move in their power, and this is to quietly stay at home and pay no rent. I believe that if they unitedly adopted a policy of passive resistance, which I do not see how it would be possible for the landlords to combat, it would lead to one of tho greatest revolutions that Ireland has ever known.’ — Nassau William Senior, Professor Political Economy, University of Oxford. 'ldo not suggest an impossible hypothesis to your Majesty when I state the possibility (I might state it more strongly) of the tenantry of the country refusing to pay tithes or rents. The clergy and the landlords might have recourse to the law, but how is the law to be enforced ? How can they distrain for rent or tithes upon millions of tenants?’—The Duke of Wellington to the King. ‘ The land, therefore, of any country is the common property of the people of that country, because its real owner, the Creator, who made it, has transferred it as a voluntary gift to them.’—Dr. Nulty, Bishop of Meath. Pay no rent.—By order, Patbici Egan, Treasurer,”