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New Zealand Tablet, Issue 389, 24 September 1880, Page 5

Mr. Bedpath's observations are fully borne ont by the American newspapers. Mr. Davitt, after having set things in order at the headquarters of the League in New York, seems to have gone to Boston, and t© have been received there with great enthusiam. His plan is to found in every city, town, and village branches which will contribute pecuniary aid, as well as moral assistance, for the carrying on ■of the war againtt landlordism in Ireland, and already a large number of such local bodies have been formed and are in working order. It is satisfactory to note that the Catholic clergy'are giving active cooperation, xhe priests of New York especially are to the front, some of them lending the basements of their churches for mass meetings, while others frequently speak and lecture in aid of the funds of the League. The fact tbat for the next thiee months the American people will be almost to a man engaged in the struggle for the presidency must interfere somewhat for a time with the whole movement, but with the energy and skill which Mr. Davitt invariably exhibits it need not do so to any serious extent. — Nation.