MR. DAVITT AND MR. PARNELL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 4, 16 May 1884, Page 23

MR. DAVITT AND MR. PARNELL.

(From the Boston PUot.) We learn by cable that Mr. Davitt contributes to the English Social, ist magazine, To-day, an article in which he declares tuat " he and his followers will have nothing to do with any extention of tha purchase clauses of the Land Act," nor will they " consent to the creation of a peasant proprietary obtained by Government advances for tae purpose of buying out the landlords' interest." In one word, Mr. Davitt will not «• consent " to any reform oh. tamed by Parliamentary methods. At the National League Convention in Dublin, in 1882 Mr Davitt, having been maie aware that the policy then agreed on* and none other, hai the approval of the Irish people, solemnly niol raised that he would give a loyal support to the policy of the National League, and that he would postpone the agitation of any special views of his own, until, to use his actual worde, he sat in aia Irish Parliament with " Charles Stewart Parnell Prime Minister, and Michael Davitt leader of the Opposition." la following his present line of action Mr. Davitt is distinctly violating that pledge. Strictly speaking he has been violatiojTib for some time bick ; but as long as be confined himself to merely preaching Henry-Georgeism the mischief of his course was of a na^a. tive character. • For Mr. Davitt's career up to this point we have had respect and sympathy. As the first and most powerful worker of the Laud League movement, he has deserved well of the Irish people • and in carrying out a previous policy he had undergone much sufferinff The Irish people have been eager to give him the full measure of gratitude for those services and have testified their desire to honour him again and again. 4. ij l l is m * or ? whole some, however, Mr. Davitt should now be told that sufferings and past services do;riot entitle any man to obstruct the pathway of a nation's progress. TT 55 * r * Davifct ' s action should cause no serious apprehension • for the Irish people are united and determined as they never were before m supporting the policy of Mr. Parnell-a policy that appeals convincingly to the reason of all reasonable men, and the course of which has been marked by constant success. They have absolute confidence m Mr. Parnell s honesty and earnestness, and every day strengthen* their faith in his marvellous political sagacity. s»*vm -it £ helrish P eo P le > we re ff ret <» s&y» have slight reason to reeird Mr. Davitt as a sagacious politician ; though they have rightly clune to the belief in his honesty and earnestness. He is at liberty to preach his theories from the house tops, and neither we not any Irish publicists, we are sure, will ask to dispute them with him. All of us every private soldier of us in the ranks, may have our own ilea as to how the battle Bhould be fought, though at the dictate* of patriot. )sm we are prepared to waive our personal views and obay the word of appointed leaders. We hope to learn that the English desire to see separate himself from Mr. Parnell was the father of tl i r»n rt ,+ What we learn of Ireland by Eoglish cable it is well to lit LZI t is a great force wasted, and a noble record losing itetlSe tempS