New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-09

sending threatening letters or. to be exact In
the proportion of n TO 49, and that the next arg-
est item in the catalogue is headed otherwise !"
Now it is well-known by everyone who has studied
modern Irish history land 1t has been proven, as
have heeI, told .: o1o AGAIN ana AGAIN. tnae
most of these threatening letters are written Oy
land agents by bailfs by consables, or In sport
from pure mischief by irresponsible youngsters
Whenever landlord who has reputation for being
more lenient than his agent goes down to settle his
estate it is for the interest of the agent and his bal
Lift to get rid OF him, and this method OF sending
threatening letters has been resorted to again and
again to drive him away. There has never been one
particle Of proof produced to show that these threat
ening letters, any of them were written by men,
bers of the Land League. 1t is fact was told In
Ireland that no man who has been shot or shot at
there was ever warned of his fate by threatening
| letter Walter NJ Bourke, who was killed very re-
| centlv-the same Mayo landlord whose exactions
| exposed in The TRIBUNE two years ago-is the only
! exception to this rule have ever heard Of 1t Is
reported that he did receive threatening letters
In the Province of Leinster during the same year.
| the number OF outrages reported was u.s. out Oh
these no less than 151 were threatening letters In
the province of Connaught, under the head of let
tiers and otherwise there are 357 "outrages" en-
tered out of the 65I officially reported. This was
able to make The authorities for these reports OF
ourages were the Irish magistrates; and the mag
| istracy of Ireland, from Lord Chief Justice May
| down to the lowest stpendiary." are all OF them
either landlords or their partisan appolntees Inc
EnglishIrish bench ut cannot be too often stated
IS the most corrupt judiciary in Western Europe 1t
! is for their political interest to exaggerate the
prevalence of crime. During this year, 1850, they
did so everywhere. Take the County Cavan as
| single illustration of magisterial subserylency 10
the desires of the party in power The statements
Of the magistrates there were emphatically dehled
| by the town commissioners and by leading cltlzens
who were not members of the Land League. Inc
bishop of the diocese publicly challenged MI
Forster to name any one locality IN which crime
prevailed. The Chief Secretary did not dare TO ac-
cept this challenge for the whole county was as
quiet as any New-England town.
According to the careful statistical criminal Ia
bles prepared by Mr. Henry Bellngham NJ. p, the
proportionate numbers for the same population
showed that in 1878 the Irish committed 2ss6 OF
the more serious crimes; the English, 4,lo9; and
the Scotch 1925! That is. the Irish committed
l 1903 fewer crimes than the English, and 3O39
| fewer crimes than the Scotch. Under the head or
Offences against property without violence there
are 700 Irish off Finders ia English offenders and
II GJ Scotch offenders. Under the head Of " Of
|
45s Irish offenders, LOLA English offenders, and
| 3,I75 Scotch offenders.
Apain. 90 Irish / 90 English and los Scotch CON-
mitted suicide; 90 Irish, 195 English and los
scotch attempted suicide 90 Irish, l51 English
and 1872 Scotch were guilty OF forgery; 142 Irish,
200 English and PSI Scotch were guilty of Of
fences against purity; 10 Irish, SO English and -
Scotch were guilty of perjury.
There is no more godly town in America than the
"Citv of Brotherly Love" All its people say so,
and as they know their own city, what everybody
| saws there must be true about Philadelphia. In
! 1879 there were 40 hOmicides in Philadelphia Al
though there are more than six times as pany peo-
pie in Ireland as In Philadelphia and although Ire
land is regarded as country prolific OF murders
vet Ireland only killed four persons IN 1879! To
have been as criminal az our most virtuous city,
therefore, Ireland should have killed at least 300
persons! Isn't it about time to have a repression
law in Philadelphia! Last year there
were II hOmicIdes Ireland. have
seen it stated in an influential paper that
last wear there were between thirty and forty muir
ders in PHILADELPHIA u have forgotten the eXac'
NUMBER, and that in Cook County, IN which Cnca-
90 is situated, there were elghty-one honlcldes
while Texas, with about the same population OIL
one million and quarter reported eighty Two a. ur-
ders with several counties to hear from" These
two communities may be taken as 1aHiy repre-,
sentative of the South and Nest, ana therefore, II
these figures correct Ireland l. STILL as compared
With them and with Philadelphia. Isle OF
SAINTS have no means at hand OF authentlcat,
ing these American s,a,istics-the first excepted;
repeat them as read them recently. . ,
Not long ago 1t was announced ny cape ina!
there had been l4l7 Outrages III Ireland Tor Ie st
three months OF this year. had the othcal slalsI
ties for these months An analysis OF them showed
that from "a to !6 per cent each 5ontn OF tilese
official Outrages consisted IN " sending threaten,
ing letters The British statistics for last April
show that there were 49, outrages In Ireian dur
ing that month. No less than 3Z3 OF these ourages
fba hpa1n t
threatening letters and otherwise -! only twenty
of the acts specified would have been classed al ser
Gus crimes i'll the United States. These twenty
crimes were two murders, four frlng at the person
nine aggravated assault, two burglary and robbery
two attacking houses and one OF resistance to legal
authority. Now If the three preceding months nad
a similar proportion of real TO Official crimes u VIII
be seen that there were only sixty grave violations
! of the law commit ted in Ireland during the nrsl
quarter OF this yeaTOut of an official total or 4Oo
six of these crimes were murders. Where - theIe
an American community which IN seasons OF grca'
excitement has a falrer record
Taking crimes trlable by jury only, tDe oihclSl
statistics show that III normal conditions the com,
missions of crime III Ireland, England and Scotland
stand thus in pr portion 10 population; SCOTLAND
1852 England, 4,1S9; Ireland 2,ss6 lreland'-
actual criminal record therefore, Is fully 40 per
cent below the the united average of her pharasaIca
step-siser islands After the arrest of the leaders
OF the Land League agitation, there was
undoubtedly an increase OF crime III IRE. ne-
that these leaders had always exerted an
their influence against agrarlan crime. Personally
know that they so exerted their ln1uence ooIn Ia
private and IN public. do not select the nuIes OS1
favorable to Ireland, but such only as happen to
have on hand They not exceptional, but repre-
sentative tor the Government statistics snow tnat
from Is4O to 1879 crime in Ireland decreased -
Der cent while IN England the decline was only AZ
Der cent and IN Scotland only 81 per cent
statistics further prove that crime III ueIanu has
increased m exact proportion TO the prevalence Oh
landlord outrages WHAT the Government call out
RACES are coun er-Outrages-ba blows OF the peas
antry. Remove the fearful influence OF seeing Ola
| men and women and children flung into the road
side TO die-drven from lands that their own hands
| have rendered arabic from homes that they buliC
| tbetnseIves-and Ireland would be at all times, as
she Is whenever there no outbuIsts OF landlord
| and Governmental diabOlism, the most vlrtuouS and