The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-01-19
IRISH ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Whom the gods mean to destroy
they first make mad. The ladies of
the land league in Ireland are threat
end with imprisonment in the Dublin
Jail, heretofore always used as
a prison for lewd women of
the town when convicted of
drunkenness and other crimes unmen-
tionable. their sole offense being for
collecting and distributing charity to
evicted tenants, whom the landlords
have thrown out on the cold world,
poor, homeless and friendless. "''l
The "British authorities" are SOW.
ing whilwinds IN Ireland, and by.and-
by their statesmen" in their lord
mayors gatherings will open their eye.
lids and show the world the whites of
their eyes in horror at the midnight
murders and outrages which the infu-
rated Irish are driven by provocation
to commit. The "authorities" afore-
said have gone into the printing office
in Dublin, of United Ireland. and there
seized npon several thousand copies of
the printed paper-have gone, in all
parts of Ireland, into the shops of the
booksellers and newsdealers where it
was on sale and seized absolutely all
the copies of that paper they could
find. Now, this is an outrage in con.
tradiction to such of the laws of Eng
land as yet remain in force, and the
authorities will have to answer for the
damage; shall not call it open rob.
berry in certain courts of justice in Dub
lin and before juries of honest men !?
Gladstone having suppressed the pa
per in Ireland, it is the manifest play
of Egan and Biggar to move the pa
per to London If they do this they
will find void and vent for the re-
ception ofgreat truths which they COM
menced to articulate in Ireland.
The Ladies to DO Arrested.
"Grangegorman Prison" in Dublin,
into which one hundred additional
beds are ordered by the British author
tiles in Dublin Castle, is the reception
house of the abandoned fallen women
of the Dublin stews when they are con.
victed in the police court of their ha-
bitual crimes of drunkenness and steal
ing from their lovers. TO this "reput-
able" receptacle Gladstone designs to
commit the virtuous and patriotic wo-
men of Ireland who shall put forth
their merciful hands to the unfortunate
tenants who have been cast out upon
the roadsides in all parts of Ireland by
the most tyrannical and heartless So
ciety of men that have ever sccurged
any portion of the human race. The
ladies have been "warned" by the au-
thorities to desist from gathering or
applying charity funds on pain of, for
second offence, a locking up in this
disgraced abode, with the lowest and
most degraded of their own sex! Oh Z!
it is, it is maddening to
think of it, to hear of it, to
know of it But the ladies mean to
stand by the shelterless, outcast ten.
ants in the gripes of bitches, on the
roadsides, and to stand by their broth.
ers, husbands, and sons, who have
gone to prison for succoring and
shielding those outcasts. There will
be mo surrender" from the virtuous
and the valient women of Ireland.
Neither those in the cities nor those
in the villages will surrender an inch.
Address.
The following address was issued
to the ladies' land league:
FELLOW. CONFERENCE.-THE this criti-
cal moment in the fortunes of our
country, when your noble association,
established on great principles of pa
triotism and charity, is threatened with
suppression by brute force, we venture
to offer you, on our behalf and on be-
half of many of our brother representa-
tives, the expression of our deep graft
tude for the great services you have
rendered to the holy cause of human
ity, and of the admiration inspired in
us by the patience, gentleness and de-
votion with which you have given your
selves, in defiance of hate and calumny,
to the cause of the helpless and OPP