Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-19

The London dispatches have a good oeal to
say about ''Irish outrages." but they relate
only alleged outrages perpetrated by the Irish
people. and these are manufactured very freely
Through this one-sided arrangement the truth
as TO Ireland cannot be very accur ately asceT-
tanned by the regular cable dispatches.
1t is very certain that the outrages-reaI and
neutrality-suspicious. by the constabulary OF
the government are Systematically ignored by
the London papers. The police force is known
to be drunk half the time. and in this condition
they attack the people, brutally maltreat them,
and subject them to every indignity. Even
meetings held to formulate requests for rent re-
duction before the land court are broken up by
the Bashi-BaZouks of the government Among
other Outrages committed by the hi-Bszouks
Dublin correspondent recently related the
following:
An infamy has just been committed by party
OF police in the County of Cork, which is not to
be paralleied at the present day outside OF
Russia and Turkey. although mention of occur
FENCES OF the kind are frequently TO be met with
in the history of ireland in the days of Orange
ascendancy- For some time past horror has
been aroused even among some OF the landlord
party by the suggestion of the Orange Emerg-
ency Committee to renew the Instruction Act
which was in force in Ireland i'm the early part
| of the century. and the most odiOus provision OF
which was that the agents of the law might enter
the houses of the people at night. and. if neces-
sary. drag the inmates out of their beds to search
Tor documents or arms. or to find out whether
any persons who ordinarily would be at home
were there or not. 1t was known that this law
was made use of more than once while it was in
force. sixty or siXty-tve years ago. to insult
peasant women i'm the most shocking manner
and it was generally agreed that in this age OF
the world revival of it would OH that very
account be an impossibility But it would ap-
pear that after all we are to have the provision
OF the lnsurrectiOn Act which has been referred
to carried out at the present day. even without
that law being formally re-enactcd. Nay it
would appear az if it were to be put to the same
vile uses as in the worst days of the past. On
Friday morning last about l o'clock party OF
ponce underline command of sub-inspectOr-an
officer who is. generally speaking. OF good birth
ana educafiOn-vlSited several houses in the
neighborhOOd of KaEturk on some pretense as
Yet not publicly known. and there behaved in a
manner which simply Outrages all sense OF
decency, and the account of which will as
surediy turn to flame the blood of many a
hot-headed 1rishman. They first entered the
/! house of a woman whose husband. a CARPENTER.
had been for some days at work at distance
and had not returned. They burst in with such
little ceremony that the poor woman-who had
no one there with her but some small children
was so terrified by the unexpected appearance
OF such band at such an unreasonable hour
that she swOOned. They next visited the house
OF widow. rushing. after the front door had
been opened, into the bedroom where the
woman with her unmarried daughter and
another girl was in bed. They called on her to
ply if they retired for a moment and allowed
herself or daughter to get up and dress.
They refused. and the daughter had TO
dress herself as well as she could in
bed in their presence. and then get
up, and open the box. OF course
nothing cOntraband was f0und This pro-
gram was repeated in still another house.
which, again. was occupied at the time by
women only. the male occupants being at work.
as in the first case mentioned. in a neighboring
district. The sub-inspectOr and his men walked.
without notice or warning, straight into the
sleeping apartments where the wife. who was
i'll. lay in one bed. and her daughter, young
unmarried woman. in another. The latter had
to get out of bed in her night~Own and dress
herself in his presence. This girl was not even
as well off as the widows daughter, who. it will
be observed, was able to clOthe herself to some
extent before she stepped to the floor.
Such is the character of British rule in Ire
land. Any criticism of that rule, in Ireland.
subjects the critic to Kiln AMMAN prison. The
misery and wretchedness of the people of wes-
tern Ireland under the feldal land system are
terrible. Old men and old women are to-day
turned out in the roads to starve and die be-
cause they cannot pay the eXorbitant rent de-
manded, and have no money to pay the expense
OF prosecuting their cases before the land court
1t is no wonder that the Irish people cannot &C
cept the Land Act as a finality. Agitation has
brought to them every repeal of obnoxious act
during this century. and the British Parliament
Will yet be compelled TO follow Disraeli's advice
and give to Ireland. by legislation. all that can
De obtained by successful Irish revolution.
Ireland will have to receive the privilege of self
government. as Canada has it. as the Australian
and New Zealand colonies have it.-Troy Press.