MR. PARNELL'S PROPOSED LAND SYSTEM.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1337, 25 January 1881, Page 2

MR. PARNELL'S PROPOSED LAND SYSTEM.

At a Lite demonstration, Mr Parnell said : — " It is our part to teach the people of I i eland what their national rights are in roipect to the land of Ireluid. (Cheery.) We will not parley with landlordism. That institution, created for the purpose of maintaining English rule in Ireland, and for the interests of the few a<rainst the many, will have to fail. (Cheers, and a voice : ' Xjohl ilouutmorrei fill. ) How did it fall in Priist-ia !J! J The tenanfa cujoyed what is called fixity of tt'uuio at. valued iunh>, but the system of fixity of tenure at viluel lents w,b found so intolerable to tho Pzu>-ian tenants th.it the .State w.is compelled to como in unit put .in end to tho rights of the landlords over the l.md. (Cheerx) With a system of laud temue tar more jutu t to the tenant than that which wo po-spss, i system which, under the n.'ine oi fixity of tenure at vlued lontb, is id vacated to-day for Ireland by many able, earnest, devoted, and talented men, it wis found nece^siiry in Prussia to go still further, and to do that for Prussia winch we ask may be done for Ii eland ro-diy. (Cheurs.) The King of Prussia issued an edict giving the landlords two years in which to transfer the land to their tenants, and he told them in the same edict that if they did net a^roe with fch- ir tenants as to the terms of tho transfer within two years, then ho (the King) would step in and tiaiisfor it to himself. (Cheers, and .1 Voice — ' You may bo King of Ireland yet.' Another Voice — ' Wo will make him President.' (Cheors.) Tho landloul< were unable to make terras "with their tenants and the King of Prussia at the expiration ot tho two ye.us fulfilled his promise, and he gave the land to the tenants as their own. (Cheers) He compeußated. tho Prussian noMes by giving them paper bcaiiu? 4 p^r cent, intctesr, and he deciced that the tenants should pay interest on this debt for a ceitain number ot year ' — 40 years, I think it was— and that; at the end of th it time there should hi- nothing further to pay. (Cheers.) Now, we ask to-day for settlement on a S'miewh it similar basi<, and we say that \vh it Prussia was able to do at the coinmenoernout of Hie century England ought to bo able to do to-innrrow or in a short while. (Cheeis.) I believe, and I should bi very sorry to mislead anybody — I should bo very sorry to laise the hopes ot rtie tenants of this fouutry — but I am petfoetly confident that if they a\ ill follow our advice within a v?ry briof peiio'l wo s'l.ill h.ive ti.msferred two-thuds ot the land of lielaiid irom the Irish ( lauflloiils to the tenant s (oheeis), and tho 1 auuu.il payments to be made by the ton(inti fdi 11 period of, say, 35 I yeaid, will bo very inuoh lent, than the pr sent rackrents that they arc obliged to pay. (Cheers and a voice — "\Yu will jcive thoin what Lord Mou^11101 res got.') Perhaps, during the next bossion of Parliament the Gladstone Minutiy will Hud itself unable to settle thit> I.uiil ijiiostion. 1 tlmiL it id oxeeidinrfy likely. (Hear, Hear ; .mil a voice — 'We will Jiave :i Parliiuueut 111 College-green yet.') I think it io \ery piobahlo that the proseut ilmistiy will otter us somo a\ 01 tiller concessions not worth our aeojptance. (Cheers, and a voice — 'Obstuictiou ; obstruction, then.') But I feel &ure that in that case the longer a settlement of tho question is delayed the ■\\oiso terms the landlords will get. (Loud cbeeia.) It would be better for fihem to come fonv.irrt now and to offer fair terms to the Irish tenants, for I tell them that /' if they do not wo shall soon he in tho po-^1 sitiou of victors anil we shall be .iblo to dictate our own term:*. (Loud uheers.)s While, then, some of the old habits of subservience and slavish olxjclionce still remain among the Irish tenantry, that is the time for tho landlords to come forward aud make their proposition. Wo havo mad.c ours, and we say that interested as we are in the welfare of thu shop-keep.er3 of Ireland, the trading coiuniuuity of Ireland, the merchant's, the labourers (olieero), every class that earns the right to live ii> this country by hanl work, either jjhysical or mental, we say that interested as we are in the welfare of those classes, determined as we are to do our very utmost to make Ireland gveat, glorious, prosperous, and free, (loud cheers), to take the power of governing Ireland out of tha hands of the English Parliament and people and to transfer it the hands of om>,own peaple (loud cheers) determined as we are- to achoive those ends we believe that we can only achieve them, by making the land aa free as it was when the waters of the Flood left it. (Loud and prolonged cheering,

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