Show Archbishop Walsh on Irish Affair LONDON May 9Archbishop Walsh continued con-tinued before the Parnell commission He testified that the facts that come to his knowledge proved that the league tcnde to diminish crime There had been a grad decrease in secret societies in Ireland since1800 He was aware the league advised ad-vised tenants not to enter the land court after the passage of the act establishing that court in 1SS1 Subsequent events justified jus-tified that advice He only knew of one instance where the league had been indiscreet in-discreet This indiscretion consisted of the passage of a resolution by a branch of the league to publish in its district a list of persons not members of the league He protested gains this action and the publication cation of the list was thereupon abandoned As the league spread secret societies vanish van-ish The people had learned to prefer open parliamentary action and dislike secrecy Throughout his diocese cass of boycotting had been few although tho league was strong in that district The only sense in which boycotting ought to be tolerated came under the name of exclusive dealing anything like intimidation was reprehens ive The members of the league held that boycotting kept the country free from outrages out-rages The witness did not approve of refusing to sell the necessaries of life to a man under the boycott Heundcr toocUhe plan of campaign to bffpurtly a voluntary combination that did not imply bycotting Atkinson counsel for the Titnea here quoted from a pastoral issued by the archbishop arch-bishop in 1SS2 denouncing the movement not to pay debts as a forcible resistance to the law Archbishop Walsh said the pastoral had been issued in consequence of an increase in the number of secret societies owing to the disorganization of the league under the imprisonment of its leaders and while the people were driven to despair by evictions |