Show LAUD LAND LEAGUE parnell de alnes ills ilis principles anti 11 policy ny by W V U to the tile klenau oct 24 the tho dublin correspondent cil parnell in ili Kilmain balli jail llo baid said taken alone alonet ray illy arrest would not bavo ne necessitated any 31 change in the policy laid the national condei convention as I had bad been able to perfect alie machinery for carrying out that policy but the subsequent arrests of leading members of of the executive and of tho the leaders in in the country practically us of the power of carrying out the resolutions of the convention as the details would necessarily have required the grea greatest test caro care and attention of tho the different heads of tho the departments of tile central execute these gentlemen C being now imprisoned it is is impossible im to supply at a short notice re to them who are capable and experienced L enough biou gh for the difficult t and complicated task of attacking tho tile land act they therefore felt obliged obliged completely to abandon that portion portion of the resolutions of the convention which directed them to make tho the test and instead of a more moderate policy the executive con strained to adopt tile oft becom mended and bolder one of a general strike against paying rent correspondent ado do you believe tit that at the farmer swill tako take your advice and hefti refuse so to pay rent mr parnell I think that they will to a aa at extent wo must recollect that fu fully roly half of tile irish farm farmers ers cannot hope to obtain any benefit from tile act let even though it fulfills the expectations of tho the most sanguine admirers first all leaseholders lease holders who entered into leases previous to 1870 numbering over arc are not ben catte d second S we leave eliav e dairy farmers and other tenants valio who have entered into consulted holdings since 1817 abo having made no improvements worth mation mentioning n would practically have little interest in their holdings third wo nye have tenants on great estates v not higher than tho the standard which iv would 01 id probably be adopted by the tile court at a jair rent eastly lastly there are small tenants sunken in arrears to their landlords anden and in debts ts kotlic 10 the shopkeepers tho tile last class would I think obtain lau laudable laub bable ble reduction of rent irom A om the court but they would not reap much benefit since they would bo be compelled to sell their new interests tit order cr to pay off these arrears of debt debts correspondent you therefore that these tenants will w ill hold out against the tile landlords mr parnell we well tho the training which tho the people ba havo ve had in ti tho past two years year in in the modified form of strike against rent lias has I pared them for tho the greater exertion now required if the farmers stand firm in in this strike for ono one short year the they must inevitably bring tho the gov and the landlords to S ta knees iho the fight is is nothing more than a question of money ami and courage ana and as mr gladstone intended in any case to dragoon the country it is just as well w ell that the country should get some adequate results in return in tho the shape of free land correspondent you are arc accused of having g incited tile people to acts of intimidation do you object to answering tho the charge I was a I ways Z nir e to 1011 anything which could be into incitement to acts of tion or violence it is somewhat re that according to the ran ts tile of fences charged against inest have been cominiti comi e d in D U blin arid must have been contained in the speeches delivered by me at the weekly incepting ince eting of the league the speeches berc by far the most of any I have since tile commencement of tile movement the pro gramme on which tile government is ig seems to be this that any advice or ell dation given by me or other members of tile movement to ahe tenants farmers or laborers is intimidation in other words the way in which tiley are putting the coercion act in force is a most absolute abrogation of the of tile freedom of spencil ecil disc ilion ss and country S meeting which ever obtained ili any in taking this course tile government rendered it ain possibly Pos for the farmers either to test or with safety to use the land act it has always been of those who be liev edit possible to use the such away as to secure substantial benefito for the agricultural classes of ireland I opposed tile most extreme league party aho who desired to rei reject act the act tt entirely 1110 at the recent conven cn tion 11 but bui I j wasill amly convinced flint that the tile act could only be used safely in an organized and systematic fashion and that if the farmers were left without organization or assistance in advance th c result would be as in the case of tile abet of 1875 a disappoint 11 anent |