"SPREADING THE LIGHT."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 264, 30 December 1880, Page 4

" SPREADING THE LIGHT."

The Times' Dublin correspondent says :— The special organ of the Land Leegue is distributed gratuitously in order to " spread the light." The policy it advocates ie plainly communistic. It oims nt an overthrow of property of all kinds ; the redivieion of the land into lots, upon which families are to live atd feed upon the produce ; the practice of selling cattle instead of using them for food being condemned as a violation of the law of Providence. AH payment of interest is repudiated, and the State ia called upon to advance any money which the cultivators of the eoil may require free of interest, the cultivation being regarded «i o source of wealth, which ought to be thought sufficient to recoup the State for ite temporary lose. All large accumulations are to be broken op, and only a third allowed to the owner, the rest to be distributed for the benefit of those who have no mesni. In short, the principles advocated — if they can be called principles at all—- are of the most levelling revolutionary kind. The paper is chiefly occupied with the Irish land question. Sensational telegrame are Bent by Mr Brennan, secretary to the Land League, giving accounts of passing events here, coloured according to the political hues of the journal. The term " landlord " never occurs in its columns ; the term " landthieves" is invariably substituted. Murders and outrages are extenuated aod explained awpy if not actually justified. The late Lord Mountmorree is represented ss a monster of cruelty in bis dealings with his tenantry, Bnd the readers of the journal would be led to think that he hod a number of tenants whom he wee always evicting or rackrenting. His moral character, (00, jb osE&iled in the grossest manner. Murder is described as an "execution." The procesß-server who was assassinated in the north recently is slated to have met his death at the bands of the " executioner." In order to tn&ke the "light" more impressive, the sanction of religion is invoked for the doctrines of rapine and violence which are preached, end a blasphemous tone pervades the editorial matter, It is euob a paper as ibis which is permitted to be circulated in Ireland at a time when the couptry is aeeihjngMn eome places