THE IRISH QUESTION. MR PARNELL'S PROGRAMM. .

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 121, 26 September 1885, Page 6

THE IRISH QUESTION. MR PARNELL'S PROGRAMM. .

Dublin, August 25.— The Parnellite managers held a secret meeting here to-day to select candidates for the coming campaign, and to discuss the further policy of the Home Rule party. Mr Parnell himself presided over the meeting, and it was resolved to advise all Home Rule constituencies to select no candidates without first consulting with Parnell, and to vote for none who would not give pledges to act with the party as a unit in Parliament. Ifc was also resolved that the candidates should each sign a pledge to vote and act with the Parnellices and to regain if the majority of their colleagues so ordered. Addressing a public meeting, Parnell said that the triumph of the Irish cause was assured, whether the Whigs or Tories won the elections. The Tories would give as good a scheme of self government as the Whigs. " Let the Irish farmers," he said, " support the League and prove that they will not allow the landlords to trample upon them during the ensuing winter." Mr Parnell said that it had been the league's policy to support evicted tenants to the utmost, where it was shown that they were determined to suffer for principle, and thereby encourage the tenantry generally. Be was glad io say that the policy had succeeded. Many evicted families had been restored to their holdings, their arrears cancelled, and a reduction of 15 to 20 per cent in rents obtained. The indirect results were even greater. Landlords, feared to eviot unjustly, and hundreds and thousands of families .thereby escaped ♦ evictions It was the duty;, of^ tenants to subscribe freely for the support of those .evicted. "If we use judgment and moderation," he'

continued, "we shall see the, two parties competing to settle the Iriah'.ques- . " tion. There is something solemn and dazzling in the thought that we belong to a generation about to witness the finish of a struggle lasting 700 years, opposed by such tremendous obstacles and odds. (Cheers.) Only the Irish can defeat themselves. ..The English Parliament cannot defeat us. (Cheers.) We have met and beaten the worst that England can do." Davitt has written a letter, in which he says thatwhilesupportingtheParnellites, he will maintain his agitation of the question of the proprietorship oi land. Davitt. admits that the Irish parliamentary party, has done and is doing'a good work, but he looks upon their efforts as subsidiary to the main Question, which is the redemption of relaad's soil. He believes the question of the ownership of land is the most vital question now before the people,* not only of Ireland but of England and the world.

It has transpired through the columns of "Na Mata" (The Messenger), the official native paper now. published monthly, that the administrator and the officer command* " ing volunteered to send a Black Brigade to the Soudan, Fortunately for Sydney, the offer was declined, or the Kai Viti would have completely eclipsed the Cornstalk contingent. Perhaps the Hon, "W. B. Dalley is not even now aware of the eminent risk he ran of having his brilliant political coup utterly spoiled by its Fijian burlesque.