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Show Boycotting in Ireland. New York, October 3. A London special says: There is in England a growing belief ' that the Irish people regard every concession conces-sion as a confession of weakness, and encouragement en-couragement to take the law in their own hands for the redress of their wrongs; that hope of independence, which has been fanned in Ireland by incautious speeches, has incited the peasantry to a warfare which resembles Nihilism,and that Parnell is hopelessly hope-lessly unable to control the whirlwind he has raised. The Tory Government, in the meantime, mean-time, is absolutely quiescent in regard to Irish matters. Its energies seem to be devoted de-voted to the early formulation of platforms. The moderate Parnellites undoubtedly are alarmed at the ferocity and the independence independ-ence of the local branches of the National League. These bodies are daily ordering the boycotting of people of all classes on the most frivolous ground. The branch at Fermoy has just put the Cork Herald under the ban, ordering that it shall not ba read, bought or patronized by any member of the League, and that all tradesmen who continue con-tinue to advertise in the Herald shall also be boycotted. These arbitrary measures are leading to defensive action on the part of the victims. The Loyalists are arranging arrang-ing county conventions of land-owners and magistrates throughout the country, and by the time of the general election the bulk of the people of Ireland may be found arrayed against each other, not on the lines of Eolitics or principles, but on mere neighbor-ood neighbor-ood quarrels. |