, 1881-07-24

| lies and ProtcSlants alike arc Stcrnlv arrayct
against Irish lanliurdism. and why any potter
| Ing attempt Ike (sladsronc's Land bill will fal
| to cure the great evil. JAMES tEDFAId-
CONDITION OF IRELAND.
TIE PRISONERS At K1rMAISu.Asf-VE1r tt
THE IRISH EasTlLE.
Stcond Lttter Jrunl Jutcs Re4path-
| DUBLIN, July 10.-Onc hundred and eighty
PERSONS have been arrested under the Co
| ercion laws. Wherever the local Lane
Leaguers are giving too much annoyance tt
| the Irish landlords, the Secretary and Treas
urer are seized and taken ont of llarur's way
When it is utterly impossible to give even tne
pretext Of a reasonable suspicion" thai
they are jncitina to riot, they are arrested
under the vague generality OF ''treason
able practices" Gladstone's Government l.
as friendly to landiortlisln as the Administers
ton Of Beaconsheld, Gladstone desires. as
| Beacon,licld would have fought, to maintain
the Institution. Gladstone wishes to nIottIt,
it, while Btaconsticlu would have tried TO
keep IL Unchanged. Tie fish peasantry and
farmers are Indifferent to the Land bill. They
understand it thoroughly. They know that
that its effect will only be to pFolonE the
existence Of system Of feudaI land.
Iurtls1l which has kept them in wretch
edness for three centuries: 1? @ Americans
|
vii! fail to understand il, and grayely nlisin--
terpret it, ii they regard it FROM the point Of
view ri uuslIess OF of poliElca! SCIENCE only
| ii they forget that landlord and tenant
here, unlike landlord ana tenant i'll America,
! are not mere contracting parties, equally in
dependent a1td equally dependent, meeting
in !; fair aud open market; but tll!t here they
! are hereditary enemies who for ten genera
| tons have occupied the relation y ln;tatef
| and s.:ri-of persecutErG S.ate Reiigionlsts
| and martyrs OF the Chhrcll respectively: that
all the power vi the Government is still nler-
cilesly exercised OIL the side OF the landlord
! anu that both Government and landlord arc
regarded by the people rs aliens and usuri'-
! ers,-not i'll Il sentimental or historical sense,
but with Il living ttaiIy hatred; that ther,: is
no sucll thing III taci: out only i'll theory. as
any contract" between landowner and
holds the toi!vr at his absolute mercy, BE-
cause there Is no diversity OF Industry in Ire
land; and that, even if Mr. Par
neil himself should draft. Land bill
that preserved the principle OF land
| accept IT, and it should receive the Royal assent
it would uut and could nuf benefit the pensantry,
because the lrisn courts arc exclusively coul-
poseo, and Us long AS the present British Consti-
| tuuon lasts they iulst necessarlly be composed,
| OF landlords; and BECAUSE the judiciary Of Ire
tud1ciury au u Eas,tsn a Europe Euro Tho Enssn Eng % ad
icals are conlus over here, and tuey are disrov-
erin4 the truths that taught IN Aulerlca. Mr..
VI Tit here With 10t ia Eaxsn m audsnce Tor @ set
government for Ireland, astoundcd them by
telling them these we'll known fActs;
'' Mr.. Winks asserted tho wants OF lrctlnd to
be just laws tNr her people. administered justly,
not as now administered ny Chair;nen Of Quarter
Sessions and packed juries, Tor the irish people
had no confidence in such administration. In
the year lol3 there were brought before the
Lu1d Sessions Court claims AZ, a,noantius to ~.
them only paltry El., ,:1s)-that is about u per
| cent OF their claims; while 10 al eases where
landlords sued tenants the landlords were
awarded = per cent OF the gross total u ~ their
claims The whuie official system in Ireland
was rotten aud corrupt. Taxurion also fur
u,shed instance Of the gross INEQUALITIES
England und ireland, for while England pald
In Il of her revenue In taxes. poor Ireland was
mulcted to the extent Of in 5.
" Equality IN matters ot religion was ezempl-
fled BY the fact thAt, while the funds OF the
Protestant churches were protected against
fraud. no security whatever existed for the
funds Of the Roman Catholics; and. further, BY
the partisansh4p exhibited In filltnE up POSITIONS
il the Irish civil u'd police services; for while
1871 per cent OF the population were Roman
Catholics, " per ccnt vi the hl@nest Offices in
these services were filed bS Prolestants:
Politics Is not abstract science. HatredS
and sentiments, race and religion are fur mure
potent factors than logical propositions and phi
!osophcal theories II y oscauzs Glnds,one
as class, utterly lgtorc these great elements
OF national life in Ireland that their measures
always have been and always must be rejected
rs worthless. Forster takes as his companions
when hc is here Castle spies and Castle hirelngs
whose salaries depend un the existence OF the
mull,ham the 'nost beloved and trusted leaders
and exponents of tho national sentiment; aud
then nc grows angry becnuse ne has not Sue
cecded lis paccutor Ut Ireland.
have spent two days In visiting " the sus-
poets in kiltnatnaam Jail. DO Americans
know what Il S,lspec: is? 1t is man detulnei
in jail without triul. and without accusation.
there to reuniu Until September, 1SS.. wheu,
his release. he shall have no redress some Of
min
kepubiicans-of century usu-that a1oru the
literature of what is sometimes called English
Liberty rTla,e a ,tet to 1be Jaen "Law & OF The sns
arm the Irish Secretary who is u.ruys IN
EuEishman-wth precisely the same arhstrury
power that the Jacobin leaders possessed from
La Loi au Suspect, and with preclseIy thc saule
power OF 'tttrcS-ac- -cacAet that enublcd the old
French noblessc to send innocent men whom
they tuted To tue Bastille.
kiiu,uinhAm is the EAstle Of Ireland It Is an
old prison u tho EIontniesI description. Solid
jail-wulls Of IL thickness nor deemed necessary
now in building our niudcrn prlsous-long. low
stony pass"gc- ways, and heavy bolts and mas
sive iron doors cverysshe7e-musty smells
as you 90 along tho stony corrinors
and ascend tile stony stulrways-siltnt
officers in Uniform everywhere inside Of it
armed. red-conted sontfnets in the streets and
around tho bulding-t is not IL residence to be
desired eye.l although the rules that govern 1t,
as applied to the St.pccts, are lentent enough.
and although tho officers nre respectful to The
visitors aud courteous to the patriots whom
they guard
Each Suspect is allowed to have one visitor
daily. The interview IS limited to fifteen min
utes-
On my first visit saw 3lr. Dillon. Mr. Boyton,
and Mr.. Brennan.
Along ii low. tunnel-likc passage, stone above
around and below you; across Il large room; up
an old stone stairway worn with the feet OF
generations Of priSoners,-wc enter IL sort OF
court In which the Suspects are allowed to take
exercise, although they are hidden from our
view behind a high b.mrd fence. Enter IL cci,.
It is divided into three divisions t< coops. At
the further side stands IT prisone' oehind u sort
OF wire fence, hrcast-nigh; in the middle coup
between lis stands q silent Warden, ,vnile be-
side you stands second Warden. your guide
The middle space is narrow enough to enable
the visitor to shake hands with his friend, the
Suspect
Mr. Dillon proudly denies that bis healts: il
precar1uus: he insisted that he was In better
health than when saw him in September last:
but Dr. Kenny, his physician, confirmed my own
opinion that bis delicate and sensitive orguniza-
ton would be sure to succumb before long
imprisonment
The prison rules do not permit you to talk
Is freely allowed BY the silent Wardens
Outside it Is reported that the officers would
~ IN In thosr