The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-07-21
IRISH MAIL HEws.
publinlNation. Juno asth.


perance Association took an excursion inte
| the country, aud when coming back it wal
assaiied by crowds of Orange fan atice. Re
ta!iation for an outrage 30 entirely unpro-
voked and indefensible is what any inteli-
igent student of Northern humanity would
have expected, and, we deeply regret to
say, retaliation soon came. O1 Saturday
last an excursion organized by four Pro-
testant Sunday schools was held, and when
the excursionists returned to the town in
the evening they in turn were attacked at
various points, and riot Of formidable
dimensions supervened. Stones, bottles,
and other missiles were freely used so
was the knife, for at least one man was
stabbed pistol was fred among the
crowd, but fortunately, so far as is known,
without dangerous consequence; and few
soldiers present joined in the melee with
vigor, and employed their belts on the
constabulsry with some effect. A good
many arrests were made, among the cap
tured being several men belonging to the
reserve force, mOst of whom were SEN
fenced to terms of imprisonment varying
from one month to fve. Ga Sunday night
the disturbances were renewed, but, we
are glad to say, not quite 80 fercely. Con
sideripg that as yet We are only III Jane,
and that July and August are Immediately
before US, We think it behooves the
authorities -at-once to take necessary
steps to keep down the seethingl mass of
Orange ruffisnism whose usual midsummer
overflow time is drawing nigh.
Though the Home Rale League remains
inert, and apparently dead to all -sepse
of the urgent need for activity indicated
by the political circumstances of the time,
we are glad to note that there are men in
the country less disposed to sl0th. Q ute
recently we chronicled the founding of a
popular organization in county Tipperary;
to- day it is our pleasing duty to record
the establishment of a Home Rule Aesocia
tion in Baileborough, county Cavau. The
first meeting, held on Saturday last, was
attended by both clerics and laics of local
influence, and the chair was occupied by
the Very Rev. DR.. O'Reily, parish priest of
the town and vicar general Of the diocese,
who was subsequently elected president,
have the right spirit, and are going the
right way to work, may fairly be inferred
from the principle resolution adopted,
which briefly but clearly and sharply de-
fines the objects of the Bailieboreugh Home
Rule Association to be'"to work in union
with the Cavan Home Rule Association
for Home Rule. FIxity of Tenure, and De-
nominetional Education!'
The celebrated IslO note which the
London carpet bagger, Dillon Webb, do
mated first to the clergy, then to several
charitable associations in Dungarven, and
which was rejected by each because it was
political bribe, seems still to
occupy a large sbare of public attention.
In its issue of the ooh ult., the Nation
says:
cal and moral, why honest Iriehmen should
refuse to accept money gifts proffered,
whether to individuals or popular institu
tions, by man whose evident motive ia to
work their way into Parliament. Granted
that no conditions are expressly attached to
those presents granted that the donor
does nNt cay, 81 will expect to get Xnnr
votes in exchange for my benefac:i c:iops,'
still the intent with wfiich euch donations
as are usually given by the class of per-
soma above referred to is corrupt, aud
their influence is demoralising II an in
tending candidate g0es about amongst the
electors of any constituency clipping money
into their hands, even though he never
drops hat of an approaching election,
that is bad work. II, iustead of tampering
with the electors Individually and sepa
rately, he seeks to make an Impression on
whole classes by givIng largess to societies,
or institutions, OF public works-to church
90, cbapels, converts, OF monasteries-
that sty le of conduct is quite as objection
BILE 4; for, in the first place, the bare attempt
to utilise charitable or religious institutions
for the furtherance of low personal pur-
poses is painful to every rightly constitu-
ted mind, and, in the next place, the aP-
parent success of any such endeovor is
absolutely harmful to the public conscience.
Why should poor voter in any constitu- :
ency be expected to refuse the gold of an
intending candidate if the parish priest
may accept it for schools, hospitals, or
orphanagesT 7 Why should not the poor
man take it to build gable to his totter
ing cabin if the clergy may take it to build
q steeple to the parish church The mo-
tive of the gift remains the same, and if
that motive renders the gift Objectionable
in one case it should have just the same
effect in the other. We know, ss a matter
of fact, that the reasonable and logical
view we have just stated was some years
ago not much regarded in some parts of
this country but we know also that great
harm to public interests was the result. A
number of corrupt politicians, spying out
particular counties and boroughs for which
they wished to get elected, became sudden