THE NEW NO RENT MANIFESTO.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 458, 20 January 1882, Page 23

THE NEW NO RENT MANIFESTO.

The following, says the Daily Express, is the full text of Mr. Egan's manifesto : —

TO THK PEOPLE OF IRELAND.

Tbe Government of England hare declared war against the Irish people. The organisation that protected them against tha ravages of landlordism has been declared unlawful and criminal. A reign of terror has commenced. Meet the action of the English Government with a determined passive resistance. The "no rent " banner has been raised, and it remains with the people now to prove themselves dastards or men. Pay no rent. Avoid the Land Court. Such is the programme now before the country. Adopt it, and it will lead you to free land and happy homes. Reject it, and degrada* tion will be your portion. Pay no rent. The person who does should be visited with the 8' eres* ontence it social ostracism. Avoid the Land Court. Cast out any person who enters it as a renegade to hit country and to the cause of his fellow-men. Hold the harvest is the watchword. Turn it into money. Sell your stock when such a course will not entail a loss. Make friendly arrangements with your creditors about your interests in farms. A Bbort and sharp struggle now, and the vilest oppression that every afflicted a country will be wiped away. No rent. Your brethren in America have risen to the crisis, and are ready to supply you with unlimited funds provided you maintain your attitude of passive resistance and pay no rent. No rent. " The tenants of Ireland have still one tremendous move in their power, and that is to quietly stay at home and pay no rent. I believe that if they unitedly adopted a policy of passive resistance, which I do not see how it would be possibly for the landlords to combat, it would lead to one of the greatest revolutions that Ireland has ever known." Nassau William Senior, Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford : " I do not suggest an impossible hypothesis to your Majesty when I state the possibility (I might state it more strongly) of the tenantry of the country refusing to pay tithes or rents. The clergy and the landlords might have recourse to the law, but how is the law to be enforced ? How can they distrain for rent or tithes upon millions of tenants ?" The Duke of Wellington to the King : " The land, therefore, of any country is the common property of the people of that country, because its real owner, the Creator, who made it, transferred it as a voluntary gift to them." Dr. Nulty, Bißhop of Meath : « Pay no rent." By order, Patbick Eg an, Treasurer. In reference to this manifesto the Freeman of Wednesday, Nor. 9, publishes the following telegram from Mr. Egan :—: — Paris, Tuesday evening. Referring to paragraph in yesterday's Freeman questioning the authenticity of manifesto, I beg to inform you that the manifesto which appeared in yesterday's London papers was issued by me with the full approval of our imprisoned friends. Mr. Kgan writes to the Times as follows :—: — Sir, — In the Times of Wednesday there appeared a quotation from an interview which the representative of the New York Herald bad with me, in which I am represented to have said, " By declaring the Land League illegal the English Government has cut the constitutional ground for agitation from under our feet. We shall now bt compelled to have recourse to unconstitutional and illegal action" This version of my reply is entirely inaccurate. What I did say was that the country would probably be driven to adopt other than open and constitutional action, and I made that statement merely as * matter of opinion, not as a positive assertion. As a matter of fair play I trust you will give this contradiction the same prominence which the original statement received, although by doing so you will deprive the Right Hon. Sir William Harcourt of a most convenient quotation. — Your obedient servant, Patbick Eqan. Normandy Hotel, Rue de l'Echelle, Paiia, Nov. 4.