Show DAVITTS DESIGNS the irish agitator agitate r addresses a boston audience ny n NV V V U telegraph Telee raph to the II I erold lerald BOSTON june 20 0 between Betwee ll seven and eif ht thousand people gave michael davitt a loud and prolonged greeting as he appeared tonight to night on the platform of the mechanics I 1 fair building accompanied by john boyle oreilly Ol leilly mayor prince presided when the applause subsided davitt read a carefully prepared addicts in calm and dispassionate language a presentation of the wrongs and gri grievances ev of ireland and the remedies which in his judgment should bo be applied lie explained x liis his address was intended rather for an american than an irish audience and it was an appeal to the understanding of the american people through their press tho the position of the american ame rican people ie said he lie in the contest is a purely ry judicial one and the public opinion ion in in this country will only consider the facts and statistics as presented by the irish land league the speaker then presented statistics and argued that as it stands today to dayis day is a wretched corn and unmitigated Tai failure lure and it has resulted in a peasantry being compelled to live in one roomed buts on an inferior diet amid crimes murder and disaffection ue ile then proceeded to show that for th the e last 70 years millions of dollars had been extracted yea yearly aly from the labor and soil of ireland by some 10 individuals who contributed scarcely anything to the country themselves side by side with this vast decline 0 of f irish wealth during tho last century there are no less lem than five famines upwards of of our people stara starved ed during the the period of heso these famines and millions of pounds have been abstracted by a few thousand landlords and yet englishmen cannot understand why we want this state of things abolished the speaker showed that but butone one fourth of tile land ot of ireland is under cultivation and explained the va various rious plans suggested for the remedying of these evils all of lie thought were too much in the interest of the landlords and lords themselves my plan of settlement I 1 he ie paid said is this let the Go governa government verne nt issue bonds or raise a public loan of the tb e amount of million pounds bearing three per cent interest leathis let this sum be a compensation to the landlords for lands which their ancestors seized from the people of ireland without any compensation whatever being rendered let a land tax of 10 per cent or about one half bo be paid to he tile landlords to be substituted for such rent and to bo be paid to the state for or the loss of liberal revenue let reland ireland have the right of self govern ment and let ireland be administered by jy an irish parliament A peasant proprietary offers noth in ng g to the industrial non nonagricultural agricultural masses pf af great britain and ireland nevertheless if this solution of the irish agrarian war is resolved upon tipon or undertaken by the government in preference to my scheme I 1 shall neither be insane enough or criminally stupid enough to thwart a settlement of the burning question by an any y blind idolatry of my own views views time lias has already vindicated my past efforts in ill the cause of the irish land reform and I 1 can well afford to wait walt for the hp approval which I 1 am confident will yet be accorded me for my plan for the final settlement from a people who I 1 am proud to feel do nat not mistrust me and in whose behalf it is is my most cherished wish to devote M fic my energies and if necessary sacrifice my life |