THE IRISH QUESTION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 51, 8 October 1887, Page 3

THE IRISH QUESTION.

TREACHERY IN THE LEAGUE CAMP.

aTTUGHn “INFORMING."

LORD BOSEBEBBY IN DENUNCIATION.

SYMPATHY OF THE PEOPLE.

JOBS BBIGHT ON THE SITUATION. Loxnox, October 7.

It is reported that a Moonlighter named Callum has been prevailed on to turn informer.

Callum it is said hM disclosed the workings and objects of the National League. He declares that amongst the many objects the Leauge has in hand is is the procuring and storing away of large quantities of arms and ammunition, and the frightening of farmers into compliance with their demands. Lord Roseberry speaking at a taeeting at Ipswich said that the policy the Government were pursuing in relation to Ireland was likely to produce rancour and rebellion. He further stated that the British people were already beginning to see the highly dangerous course the Government were taking in Ireland, and as a consequence the people of England are losing their confidence in the present Administration. Mr John Bright has published a letter in which he says that it is necessary that the Irish tenants should be freed from the suspicion that they had entered into conspiracy to encottrage dishonesty and crime.

The following is a report of a speech made at Mitchelstown by William O’Brien before his imprisonment: — The Government, he said, dared not suppress the National League nor deal with the Plan of Campaign manfully. Here I am, he said, preaching it to you to-night, and let one of them touch me. They are capable of attempting to evict from an old house when they think there is nobody in it to defend it, but we will not stand its You know that this is an attempt to rob the tenants on the Kingston estate of the right that they will be entitled to in a few days. When the Land Bill is law every leaseholder will be entitled to claim a greater reduction than has been aimed at under the Plan. The justice of our claim is now recognised by the law of the country. He argued that this new Land Bill was a confession that they were more than right and more than moderate in their demands. The English people would not stand any imfamous attempt to shut out the tenants from the rights to which they were entitled. If it were tried it would be the last imfamous and dastardly thing they ever should attempt against Irish tenants) and speaking there as their representative, he dared to say, in the hearing of some bailiffs and some policemen, if these evictions were carn.J out they would be evading the law and the intents of Parliament, and would be justified before God and man in resisting the outrage and defending their homes against these assassins. They would not be men if they did not resort to every honest means in their power to resist. The English people would despise them and say it served them right if they Were to lie down tamely aud submit tamely and without a blow to a foul and intolerable outrage. There bad been a sort of truce on both sides. Mr Parnell bad held out the olive branch. He and his followers were willing to test this new Land Bill and to give it a fair trial, and to see whether anything could be done to restore peace Ind narmony by means of it. But he himself warned the landlords not to come like thieves in the night to rob them of rack-rents, which the Land Bill declared to be intolerable and unjust Their efforts had won this Land Bill for the tenants of Ireland. The Irish people would not allow them to be victimised by either the Countess of Kingston or the Government i - victimised because they were right end because they had forced the Tory Government, in spite of themselves, to give - this Land Bill and pull down the rent-roll of the landlords of Ire-

land. He told them to rest as secure m the Heavens above in the justice and strength of their cause and defied all powers of darkness and injustice to Stand against them. I, for my part, he said, will take care, so far as my humble powers can, to help to make this eviction campaign, if they attempt it, a dear and expensive job for the Government and for Dublin Castle. I ask you not to be caught napping. I ask you to be as alive and vigilant night and. day as the corps of bailiff up in the Castle. He urged every man for miles round to set the estate in a blase around these people’s ears and to make it a dear, a sorrowful, ' and an expensive job for them if they carried out these evictions. If they did.so these would be the last evictions w ihat ever would be witnessed in Ireland. Not the tenants and their ontanisations, but landlordism and the Kry Government would sink together into the same grave and would never rise again to curse the lives and interfere with the peace and happiness of the Irish people.