MICHAEL DAVITT ON IRISH EVICTIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1762, 20 October 1883, Page 2

MICHAEL DAVITT ON IRISH EVICTIONS.

A NwiovUi League cuiip.ugn was opened at Gappainoic, county Luneuck, on Sunday, September 2nd, a\ hon about 10,009 people assembled. An e\ti:i fmce of some JOO const ilml.it y weie di .if tec I into the village. A Roman Catholic cleigyman piosided, suppoited by some 10 or 12 othci Roman Catholics ecclesiastic-'. Mi Michael D.vwtt, who was leceived with cheois, said ho sinceiely hoped that the famieis, who h.ul benefited by the woik ot the ])ast, would now do then duty to the labomeis ; and though the bill dealing v. ith the case of the Übmuerh which Mi Pain el I and his faithful band hud bi ought fiom an alien Legislatuie was only a, small instalment of "lusiiee, still it could bo ho woiked as Lo in.itoii.ally unpiove the soci.il condition of a most deceiving class. Mr Da\ itt continued- While excitement was dying down m the countiy, and tiie popular inomnent M,h a-MUiiing a pi.ictical shape, tln>y novoitheless saw the old enemy of li eland at his congenial task of umooniig the hcnneste.uk of the people. Duiuig the quatter which ended in the numtli of June no fewer than 2,000 people \me evicted in the province of Munstei alone, and three tunes that number of people would about compiise all the pei sons deprived of shelter and homes by Jusli Lmdloidism. Was it not leason.ible to sujipose that these ontl.iges on tlic Leaithstt>nes of the lush people would dtive men to think of desperate actions — that these outiages on the ]>ait of landloulism mi{,ht i)o->stl)ly bejjot outrages of anothei kind .' Theiefoie, they ought to iaise then \oices in no uucjitain aecfiits in condcniii itum of those act-> of impolitic miustico, to -,peak id mildlj, which lecently, and at piosont, weie being eaniod out The people wlio had been OMctod had paid Kick tents hiifKcient to puichase the fee simple of then holding-. o\oi ando\oi jgain. How many of: those cabins out of which the people weie evicted weic built by the Lindlonk ' He denounced the CMclion as an act of inhumanity, winch would be punished as cunnnal it l.iv, m liel.ind w.ih .idnnni.steied in accoidame with the dictates of leligion, reason, oi lunnanity All this but showed how the people should woik for the total abolition of landloulism, and the day was coming when tlu 1 system must j^o. The tenant faitnei^of belaud, and the whole community should at once face the question of compensation, which must be discussed befoie that system was disestablished. The landloids themselves, and that heieditaiy obsti active chamber, the House of Louis, had laid down the docti me of compensation, which, he tiu.sted, would be applied to thonisehos when the tune came for finally dispossessing li eland of them Since the passage of the Act of Union, the landlords had taken £1,200,000,000 out of lieland— wealth not cieatcd by them, but by the fiimicis and industiial classes. ]f full Histice weie done to Inch landloids, they would not leceive their fares 1 ftoni ICingitow n to Holyhead.