New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-16

not Allowed tn hear of the exposures. The English
newspapers, as far as we can find out. nave no os
( dared 10 spoil trade" by correcting any ONO Va
1 the four falsenoods to which we have referred.
During nv second visit to Ireland heard OF
| scores of similar instances. Once, before the
| Counties Mayo and Galway were proclaimed the
reports of outrages there were 80 many and circu-
| stantial that although had just come from them
| went back-to fnd soon, almostevery one 1.-THE re-
ported outrages contradicted, one by one, IN tne
SIN alest type in the obscurest of the Dublin
| landlord papers in which they appeared-bu' noe
| even one of them ever contradicted py tho
| London press How would American Republicans
like to see their politics represented In London, ana
through London to Europe, without a chance OF
| contradicting msstatements, by such partisan
saw. as tho late Mr.. Brick" Pomeroyi Yet all the
| Irish news that is sent to England is sent by TWO
| men who have neither Brick" Pomeroys ability
nor his fairness-scant enough as his fairness to ne
| pubicans
| @The English mind,n writes one of the lrish
members of Parliament in referring to the pssS'eo
| of the Coercion Act was kept constantly innahed
| bv press correspondents from Ireland VINO are 'he
| editors and writers of the landlord and orange
| newspapers of this country. mus tne ie'oois
| of The London Times only get as much irish news
as the Editor of The Dublin Erpress It's corresponds
emit chooses to send; while the readers Of 1he
|
beloved of The Dublin Erening Mail" These two
| Dublin napers represent the same sweetness and
liobto III Irish politics that The La Crosse Demo-
| Graf represented in American politics in Its day
| although the Dublin organs are as duil as inc
| American journal was fiery. These Dublin papers,
| for example, reported to the English press the
SANDER that Mr. Smalley himself repeats in his last
| letter thus:
Mr. Redpath himself, unless he has been misrepIe,,
sented has gwen his approval to both ROBBERY anu
| murder There is a phrase about shooting land
lords like rabbits which is attributed 10 nun ne
was understood to applaud the murder %. IN
both English and Irish papers, dld lnlu tice 10 pr.
Redpath. you will, am sure, DC only TOO glad 70
allow him to set himself right. In any case Ameri-
| cans must be permitted to regret that such views
| should be supposed to be of American origin.
This is a fair sample of the impossbty of get
ting the truth about Irish affairs in London. Each
and every one of these statements was an absolute
falsehood, and yet, as Mr.. Smalley says, they APP
| peared in both English and Irish tlandiord
| papersn and they were even quoted IN the House
| of Commons by Sir Somebody Harcourt as a reason
for passing the Coercion bill. Harcourts attention
was called to the injustice he had done me, but he
| took no notice whatever Of my denial-until l de-
| nounced him SO publicly as a slanderer and
| coward that I made my denial heard in England
| without his manly assistance. Yet hore it comes
nm againi There was q Government reporter at the
| great land meeting l addressed at Clonbur on the
| day following Lord Mountmorres's murder DO
not suppose that anyone doubted that the murderers
| were there. If they we're in the neighborhood
curiosity would have drawn them there. Yet, there
| and then, / denounced them and their deed II l
| had approved the murder of Lord Mountmorres-
| vile and debauched creature as he was-l should
certainly have been arrested, and certainly ought
| to have been arrested, next morning But the Gov
| hat I nod
thousands among whom the dead spy had not
| single friend. to denounce murder and sympathy
with murder. then and there, and therefore was
| not arrested.
The rabbit story is equally characteristic OF Eng
lsb fairness in treating Irsbmen or their friends
Tens of thousands of persons in America have heard
me make use of the illustration and they know why
| ! used it. was answering in America-never i'll
| lreland-the charge that it was Catholicism that
rendered Ireland riOtous instead of landlordlsm;
| and showed that when the landlords undertook to
| abolish the Ulster custom" the Presbyterian
| tenants became as riotous as the Connaught
| Catholics and shot them down all over Ulster
q like rabbits" used the phrase at other times in
speaking of the original settlement OF Ulser-never
even once having applied it to any event nearer to
| us than fifty years; and never either commended
| or condemned the episode. / was simply dealing
| with dead facts and not with any living policy.
Mr.. Smalley says he does not care to have the
| sympathy of Irisnmen in America who levy contri-
| buttons on their more igoIant countrywomen TO
feed and fee Irish outrage at home. There are no
such men in America connected in any way with the
| Land League. | have known Mr.. Smalley for a
| quarter of q century, and knew all the Abolition
lists with whom he was identified in his early man
hood and say that the leaders of the Irish party
we'll knowing them also-are quite the equals in
| in itv IF character n
singeness of purpose to that illustrious class of
| American agitators of whom America will be
| p1ouder the older history grows. They also
were reviled and misrepresentation their fame
will survive the memory of their detractors and
Mr. Smalley trust will live to see, and, if he SO
lives he will have the manhood know. to &C
knowledge that Garrison aud Davitt, Phillips and
Parnell, Dillon and Gerritt Smith-however differ
ing in methods and in power-were soldiers in the
same great battle for equality OF rights which has
been waged and must continue to be waged until
feudalsm in every part of Europe is abolished.
Doubtless there are outrages in Ireland. Fol
exampie out of scores of similar instances o.
which the West Of Ireland papers are full for five
| thousand persons are flung into the roadside every
week in Ireland now,-let me copy only one IRON
The Kerry Sentinel, which have received this very
morning. 1t relates to the estates of the Knigh
| of Kerry" of whom l wrote iii The TRIBUNE two
years ago:
The case of John MAuliffe is very sad one
He has been a tenant on the Knight oil Kerry
, property at a place called Grogeen. within two
miles OF Listowel. He is an old man considerably
over eighty years. and the farm from which he ant
his family of eight have been evicted has been II
his family for generations and has been in his Owl
possession for seventy-fve years During tina
nerod he had lease of the farm at an annual rem
of EGO. The lease expired che l4th April, 10
when MAulffe gave up possession and was allowed
. | in by the late Knight as yearly tenant The arei
| of tho farm had been thirty acres. About nv
wears before the expiration OF the lease the land
= lord asked MAu,ine to give him up portion OF tn
farm which he required for the purpose of straight
| eninp boundaries. Seeing that his term would OK
| pire in few years. M'Aullfe did not wish Il