THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DALY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3463, 30 January 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DALY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1880.

Thb Irish agitators, Michael Davitt, James Daly, and James Killen, have, our telegrams announce, been nominated for scats in. the British House of Commons. We shall not be surprised to hear of their return, for many instances have occurred in the past where men have been elected who were not qualified to sit, and when refused recognition by the parliament, have, out of a feeling of opposition, been re-elected a second time. Irishmen, it is well known, are easily led by their feelings, and their gratitude once excited it is very few obstacles they will allow to stand between them and their object. Believing that these men lately arrested for seditious speaking are martyrs to the cause of Ireland,, that belief will be sufficient to cause their countrymen to rote for them against all-comers. The following are passages from the speech of Mr Daly, and will show somewhat the feeling of the people, and the objects the speaker had in view:—" What will the people do if we only ask for a peasant proprietary? Will you submit to be evicted and put but on the road ? t In the meanwhile, I say, don't allow yourselves to be evicted; and in the three cases referred to it is your duty as tenant farmers, if they are evicted, to go there the following day. I won't say that night, because it might be illegal, but when they are evicted, assemble in your thousands, see that they are not evicted, or, at all events, reinstate them, and continue every time they are turned out. But, above all, if they are evicted, let no cowardly fellojv be found to take their lands. It is very easy for people to make flattering speeches. I, however, am too fond of telling the truth, and I tell you it is with you to keep the people on the soil. I tell you not to pay the landlords. Pay no party. I won't say the shopkeeper; do pay him, for may require him again, and the seedsman; but don't pay the landlord until you have some guarantee from him or the Government that they won't see your children starving. Self-preservation is the first law of nature, an,d if it is the case with you that the grain crop is worth very little more than the tilling and seeding of the land, how can the landlord expect that you are to pay rack-rents that he hampered you with year after year? Will that landlord act as he should ? Will he reduce it to the actual value you got out of the holding ? It is easy to praise up landlords,, but I don't care how good they are, I say that until the word • landlordism ' is written out of the statute-book, as in France and elsewhere, you will never be contended or prosperous. I won't detain you any longer, but in conclusion will give you this bit of advice :—Holding your farms, let them serve you with a notice, to quit, with ejectments; let them, if they like, proceed to the court ; defend yourselves, but do not allow them to evict you. Then suppose any one is to be evicted, you assemble and put him in again that very night; and if there is a coward enough among you to take another's land, then I hope he will be served as he deserves.'