The extreme section of the Nationalists, headed by Mr. Davitt,
have been falling foul of the Gladstonians for not organising an eviction atrocities campaign on the scale of the old Bulgarian agitation. Mr. Davitt, in a letter to the Daily News of Wednesday, insists that the Liberal Party must begin such an agitation at once, instead of exhibiting " an apathy towards eviction brutalities in Ireland which looks like a left-handed concurrence in the policy of eviction as a means of thinning the Celtic population." Mr. T. P. O'Connor's paper, the Star, also urges an agitation, though in much milder tones ; and other strenuous Gladstonian prints speak the same language, and ask,—" Are we, who struck the lion down in Bulgaria, to crouch before the wolf in Ireland ?" The Daily News, however, does not join in the cry, and, indeed, attempts to restrain it. It will be very curious to see what will be the result of the demand. `Do the mass of the voters really feel strongly about evictions ? Mr. Doughty, a working-man delegate, was sent over to Ireland to protest against coercion. When he returned home, he got into litigation with the St. Stephen's Review. In the course of the trial, he admitted, apparently without feeling more ashamed than any other landlord, that he had evicted a tenant of his own because " his tenant owed him £6 for rent and would not pay him." It would seem that the working men who subscribed to pay Mr. Doughty 1116 to go to Ireland for fourteen daps did not think him thereby disqualified.
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