New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-07
IRISH INCIDENTS.
IRISH POLICE, MAGISTRATES, AND AssAsSlNS
Scene IN TIE HOUSE.

| furiated crowd" That is Irish and Land League
/ Irish in perfection. This inspector hau ~ i'''O
tactr as to present revolver at the CROWD anu cry
ont lyon cowardly dogs come on!" Inc "hoe
tbinr Is picture-thc fcrocious policeman Alone
! confronting "A multitude of Irish rufians' ana Win
SO little tact" as to interpoSe revolver between
them and their intended pastinc OF beating poiico
man TO death. The companion picture shouiu po
simply portrait of Mr.. Sexton in an oratorlcai at
! ttude. laundering against the wretch WIZ u''0U
defend himself against a savage mob.
MIR. Sections performance took place last night
II was written that the first week after the Easier
HOLIDAYS was not to pass off without an lrlsh Tow
The reason Of il was a circular by this same IsPoo
tor of police whose name appears 10 be oun'n' w.
Smith as long ago March H. notlhed HIS hen INA.
| Mr. Clifford Lloyd's life was IN great danger anu
tbot "men nroceeding on his escort should be men
of great determination well as sieadness ana
even on suspicion of an attempt should at once use
| their firearms" So far good. But Mr. Smith, WIN
perhaps too high theory OF the prerogatlVes Oh Ills
inspec torship. and with imperfect command OF the
English language added this clause: ii men
should accidentally commit an error in shooting
any person on suspicion Of that person beng ABOUT
to commit murder shall exonerate them by com
ing forward and producing tins document" MI
Sexton who thinks police officer should have tact
| enough to allow himself to be murdered quietly
| naturally wanted to know whether the Government
approved of this circular. Not liking Mr. foisters
answer he moved the adjournment OF the House.
and raised debate.
Neither Mr. Forster nor Lord Harrington. both OF
whom spoke for the Government, JUSTIFIED MI.
Smiths language-the last clause, that IS. NObOGy
says suppoSes that an Inspector OF police mas dls
pensng power with reference to the legal penalties
men under his orders may incur for obeying his
| f,r Mn ~, V~aS
gratifying to note that the main issues raised-
the conduct of Mr. Clifford Lloyd and of The police Ill
| protecting him-Mr. Forster and Lord Harrington
and Sir stafford Nortn sustained and vlndlcaed
the acts and policy Of the Government agents.
Mr.. Clifford Lloyd has for some months past been
the best hated man III Ireland-neXt alter MI
Forster at any rate He Is one of the magistrates
whom the Government has put in charge of violent
! district Clare is his county, now probably the
most lawess county in Ireland. The No Kent
! conspiracy is there al its height and SO Is Lana
! League intimidation and outrage. by which the
! No Rent policy is enforced. You know bow II is
enforced. tenant who pays rent regardless OF the
prohibition of the Land League pays it at the
risk Of his life. The business OF the League agents
| is to shoot him. The business of Mr. Clifford Lloyd
is to prevent his beng shot. duel is gong on be-
tween the Land League and the Law. The agents
| of the League are the midnight Tuians who muir
der for money from behind a hedge. The League
does not avow them. No such instrument of assas-
slnation is ever ayOwed But what Is certain Is That
the whole success or possibility of success for the
League depends the violence practiscd, and on
the terror that springs from this violence.
! The agent of the Government is, as / SAID MI.
Clifford Loyd and this is what Mr.. Forster to his
| honor says of Mr. Clifford Lloyd: Il believe Dir.
LLOYD has stood between hundreds of men and
| 4 Il. l."
Not less honorable 20 MIR. Lloyd than the eulogy OF
Mr. Forster is the charge of Mr.. Healy. Mr.. Heay
| calls him ire-brand, "A man who accepted blood
money, a Bash Bazuuk, and | know not what
| else You will remark that Mr.. Clifford Lloyd or
| ANYBODY else who euforces the law who protects
life and property agaIns, the Land LeIguc is tar
get for the invective of the Land Leacucrs III tine
| House. Needless to say that Mr. Lloyd is IN daily
and hourly danger of a worse fate than the vituper-
atoms of IRISH members of Parliament. lie literally
carries his life IN his hand with the police to help.
Nobody doubts that If the police were Withdrawn
Mr. Lloyd would be murdered instantly. said Mr..
Forster:
"lf he asks me what its practical effect has been.
It's practical effect has been 10 prevent the people
rom shooting at Mr. Clifford Lloyd. (Mr llealy-
The people did not know about the circulate 1 10
not know that-these things get out. ms Is uli-
doubtedly true, that Nh Lloyd has made himself
obnoxious TO the men who commit murder ana IS'l-
gate to muir eT; that he Is hated by then thai trr"
are attempts To dssls,iuatr HIM; tina a price has
hrrn pu upon his head-that Is notorious; and tdat
there is combination and cons lTdcy 10 a>>aSSl-
nate him of tuat there Is no doubt, anu und"nDi-
edly he ought 10 DC projected lCle Isl suppose
that what was III the mlni 81 thdt inspector "hei
lie Issued this circular was that the coWMdly Iul,
fans who would he hkely TO shoot M. tinlord
Lloyd from behind hedge would not 40 II ii they
thought they would be III danger' lCheeIsI thcl
would be IN very Lutte danger II every body was to
wait until they had hred"
Tha is another picture Of much darker hue than
the lively sketch for which indebted To Mr.
Sexton. It's view of the Irlsh question which i,
too seldom taken. The Irish patriot does not care
to hold it up to the general gaze Ills few Radical
allies in England and his many political sympa
timers and KIN beyond the SEA draw veil over 1T
But there 1t is the Irc and III which nothing but
, ceasing vigilance prolongs the lives of the law
abiding and law-enforclug; picture OF the popula
finn of whole counties CHASTITY conspiracy O
murder.
Just now the question OF eviction is burning one
in the counties of Limerick and Clare. One thing
the League is to build huts for eycted tenants
on other tenants land. The other tenants dare not
refuse Contributions levied about lie country tC
pay these huts and again nobody dare refuse. 1t II
the hlghw ayman's ch lce--your money OF you
life The plea of charity, says Ar. Lloyd, VII,
knows, is shallow and untrue. The huts ar
meant TO be and are a standing menace TO proven
T the owner from letting his land aud to ntimdat'
c any pelson from entering" Hence Mr. Lloyd's re
solve TO put the law III force IN such cases, an'
hence the fresh explosion of homlcldal hatreC
against him. Mr.. Forster tells he has hmScl
been IN the district he has the state OF things
he has read the reports, and he has no doubt tha
the huts are III some built TO deter tenant
from taking and landlords from letting the land
and he deems it Mr. Lloyds duty to interpOSe a
he has done.
What Sir Stafford Northcote said is not less I
the point and is more cTeditablc to him and hi
that hos late baar