The steps of Mr. Dillon's suggestion, then, are these :—First,
let the people league themselves to intimidate the landlords. Next, let them permit no evicted tenants, for whatever reason evicted, to be replaced; and let them so ill-treat any cattle put upon the land of evicted tenants as to prevent their prospering. Next, let any tenant who will not unite in this disgraceful alliance be intimidated, too. And if that does not succeed, let them refuse rent altogether, and dictate their Own terms to the landlords by physical force. No wonder Mr. Forster character- ised the speech on Tuesday night as wicked and cowardly. It is wicked, because it puts all the difficulty it can in the way of a reforming and most heartily popular Government, which, more than any Government of our time, is anxious to deal with Irish questions in a liberal spirit. It is cowardly, because it directly encourages that course of elaborate cruelty to the cattle grazing on the lands of evicted tenants which has already led in some instances to the gouging-out of calves' eyes, the cutting-off of cows' tails, and other acts of secret inhumanity of which most Irishmen would be ashamed. Mr. Dillon, M.P., has some reason to be proud of his father ; but we fear that if
his father can review his son's proceedings now, he will feel no reciprocal pride in those proceedings.
