Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-17
IRISH POLITICS.
OPERATIONS OF THE COERCION ACT
M IN THE EMERALD ISLE.
Opinion Of a Car r-0riyer-Visit Paid to the
Prisoners in kilmainham GoaI-charles
Stewart ParneII - Scenes in the
Streets Of Dublin-Swarmed
With Troops.
ENGLISH AND IRISH AGRICULTURE.
Special Correspondence Of the Register.


the wretched vehicles called "kyars" il
this most singular Of cities. "There
sorr, did ye see the bill, sorr-anotheI
priest arrested? Begorra, they'll hsv,
'en all in goal, they will, sorr, directly
and bad luck to EN- for ill.trating tn,
good men in this dreadful way" ''But,
said l, "Do you know he is in goal?'
CAV cooIse l do, sorr," wal
the reply. Don't l know, yel
hoaour, that they've
Seized Him and Stuck Him in Prison
just loike amy common thafe, and thai
they are catching them all whinive:
they can lay hands on them? Shure, il
l had my way, I'd blow the whole o.
the officials that's had hand in it into
the air, even if l had to set fire to the
great magazine in the Phaynix myselfto
do it, and that you know, sorr, is big
enough to blow up all Dooblin and the
Pyark as we'll" l did not long discuss
the matter with this amiable person,
as he had so excited himself over the
general arrest OF the priesthood to such
a pitch as to drive the "kyar" against
every thing we had to pass, 50 that l
thought it advisable to change the sub.
ject if l wanted to save my neck. Now
this gentlemanly car.driver was only de-
ing what people OF all classes in Ireland,
except the Landlords, are doing
Condemnrng tho Coercion Act,
which is now in force in this country.
This act, passed by Parliament last
January, gives the power to policemen
and other local officers of her Majesty's
Government to arrest any one on sus-
picioH of melting people to violence and
uttering reasonable expressions against
the British Government. Under this
act hundreds OF men in different
parts of Ireland have been i'm.
pri;oned upon suspicion, the trial by
judge or jury having been denied them.
Many have told me that the Coercion
Act is useless, and its working is one OF
the main causes ofthe present irritation.
One land agent over very extensive
estates informed me that he was collect
ing rents without the least difficulty till
Father Sheehy's Arrest
in different district, when all at once
the tenants stopped their payments.
Land Leaguers tell me that the men
who are arrested are in many cases those
who are most earnest in guiding the
them BACK IRON" extremes. Certaihly
there are few among the arrested who
have used violent language, but as arrest
ensures popularity its operation in such
cases has distinct tendency TO promote
violent language. But there is an ex
ceeding and many think justifiable an.
ger against the government for using its
power to put down "open and advised
speaking" It's being employed against
persons whose ofenses, if any, are COM
mitteG by writing and speaking in open
day and in presence OF reporters for the
press. But the abuse Of the coercion
act is not the only
Instance Of Stupid Police Rule
under which Ireland is governed. Take
the town Uf KilnIallock, for example,
from which place young army officer
writes me privately. Two or three per-
sons have been there arrested for using
language which in any agitation
in England would be freely in
dulged on both sides. A squahhe in
the street, connected with land ques-
tions, led to an affray with the police,
in which some Of them were badly hurt.
it was clearly right to restore order,
but there was no need to establish a
reign of petty terror. Yet, now in this
little village some half hundred police,
armed with rifle and bayonet, are quar-.
tered, with company OF infantry, at a
short distance; and all day the police
By Twos and Threes Patrol the Single
Street
or 90 out in ambulance wagons to
drive in cattle seized by an absentee
landlord. A resident police magistrate
of exceptional vigor, a Major Lloyd,
has been imported from the north, and
a late exercise Of martial law by him
was 10 summon to his court some eight
ladies who were waiting for car to con-
yey them, along with Miss Parnell, to
meeting which that lady was to address
in ano. her place. The charge against
the ladies was Constructing the
thoroughfare," which, by the way, was
twenty five yards wide, 80 that, accord
inr to the Mayors police code, one lady
can obstruct a little over three yards o
roadway. To a stranger it is simply II
diculous to find the British government
made responsible for such
Miserable and Silly Tyranny;
how CALLING must It be to those who arr
subjected 70 it. OF all the cases / have
heard l have fouEd tha
good landlords or agent
are on good terms with their tenants
Where the landlord meet the tenan
with such fair reductions as the tims
demand there Is harmony between
them, and the rents are paid. There
fore, it is quite prevalent opinion tina
for the sake OF the usurers and un]us
class OF lords, who are demanding TO
their land, what the land has not pro
duced, that Great Britain is maintalnln
an army OF 10000 troops, and l5,O
police, and creating hatred betweel
two people who should not be eternal!
at war with each other.
The Prisoners in Kilmsinhsm Jail
still occupy a good deal OF public atten
ton. l visited the goal for
second time, Yesterday, II
company with the Irish leader, Mr.. Pal
nell, NJ. P, who has unexpectedly com
to Dublin on a short visit. Having bee
suspended from Monday nights session
OF the House of Commons he will rest
short time from his parliamentary Ia
bors- The offense OF the honorable ger
tleman was his persistence in endeavoi
ing to obtain day for The discussion 9
the case OF the suspects" Low lying Il
Irish prison. The dignity" OF th
House was insulted, by the warm feelln
which Mr.. Parnell displayed and hl
non-adherence to the point under dii
cusslon; hence his
Expulsion from the House.
At kilmaiaham / held extended II
terviews with John Dillon, NJ. r, VIII
will be remembered as having made
tour through the United States with Ml
Parnell about two years since; AZ
Brennan, late Secretary OF the Ian
League, and Father Sheehy, an lris