The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-26
An Effective Appeal to tho Protestant
Farmers Of Tyrone that Made Will
lam 0'Brien a Vicsor.
His great Speooh Not Tbs Church Thai
the Landlords Iremble For, but
Rack Rents are in Danger.

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they are lighting a losing battle in South
! Tyrone. ] think they are beginning TO
reconcile themselves to the fact that We
are going to win a victory which will
| cheer the hearts at The whole Irish race
{applause. why do [ say that? When
ever VOL end a man losing his Lelnpef
or breaking the law, you may De always
| pretty sure that things are going wrong
Wits him. Capt. Somerset Maxwell
made a speech tne other night i'll -A-9gA-
naeloy--a speech tRat, if he ever read
/ the Corrupt Practices bills. he would
| see it would iuvaidata bis election, #
| by any chance he Gould get the tenant
I farmers Of Tyrone to choose All Ener-
gencyuaan for their representative.
/ (CGies Of They won't!'') Capt. Max
4 well plainly instiga5ed his friends here
| in Aughnae}oE 10 make oAE retreat tar
/ more precipitate Jhan our advance
/ tlaugh5er.3 We come here TO offend
/ the feeling OF 40 man and Of no class
Iof OR fellow GountryR2en (cheers.l
| We come here to appeal to the reason
and to the common sense OF the tenant
farmers and people Of South Tyrone as
to the sort Of representative that viii
best attend to their interests llat
We will dc. and while we are determined
! to have q fair hearing and to get faiF-
play ourselves, we are equally defer
Hained 10 give a full aad fair hearing to
( opponents OF ours who klaye anything
TO say IN reply to rs. For my own
part am always particularly anxious
! to have the exchange Of reason, able
and friendly chat with my Protestant
I fellow couDJrymen, because | believe
| that all the misunderstanding be-
! tween as arise from our not knowing
! one another better. The landlords
| know right well that il We had more
opportunities Of meeting the Protes-
/ tant tenant farmers here in the North
4 ana Of exchanging views and ideas with
/ them t4ey know well that tileFe is not
/ . benaQt farmer in South Tyrone WAC
would be Tor one Glonlep imposed upon
by ths bug2eaE bhey raise by THE ole
women, IS tales that yl3 landlords IN
vent il order to keep the ,PfQtestants
and Catholics of the North divided ara
! at daggegs lengths lcheers,) 4 ask any
/ sensible or practical Protestant tar1aef
IN3rro ntstY Ut iIsst5aall2 30 ;led, 1 ISL
why on earth there should be- the
slightest difficulty in the w8y Of Pro-
testant aud Catholic and Presbyterian
farmers standing shoulder to shoulder
iii this struggle struggle to make the
tiliers of the soil the owners Of tfIeig
own holdings, and to free you from the
grasp Of landlordism Cloud cheers.i
The Protestant and Catholic farmers
stand precisely in the same position.
The shoe pinches you all IN the same
place; your grievances are the same,
your grudge against landlords is the
same, ana the remedy VIII have to be
| the same If the Protestant and Catholic
farmers are not to be driven 80 the wall
and to beggary and ruin altogether, |
ask any Of my Protestant felloW-coun-
tr.ymen do they find it easier to knock a
living out OF the land at the present
/ gents because they may be s'rotestantt
| DO they get better prices for their cat
| tie OF corn because they are Protes-
tant32 30 they find the landlords Oh
Tyrone Offering ATTACHMENTS OF rents
! this ealamitpus season because they
are PrntestaufsY No; think you VIII
find that Tor one iandlofdin the North
who is Offering The tenants an abste-
meut Of rent this terrible RiRber that
there are twenty landlords In Upper
/ airy reducing their rents, and mighty
glad to get the reductions tapplause.l
/ NOW, ask you why are The landlords
more naerciful or more sql1eezaale
! fIaaghterl in PippeTary than here? Il
/ it because the farmers are Protestants
/ or GathohcsS No, it is because the
farmers Of Tipperary go the right way
about doing the thing toheers for Tip.
I perary.l Here In the North OF ireland
/ the landlords have, somehow Or another
I managed to get You to combine against
the common enemy What is the
consequence tits that while Profes
tants and Catholics Ia the North are
lighting about the oyster shells The
| landlords are comfortably engaged in
eating tbe oyster laughter and cheers, J
! ask any Protestant farmer who may
be listening ro nae What he hes eyer
gained or what be can eYer hope 10
! gain, from what Mr.. Dickson III his fe-
tiriI1g address describes as misera-
BILE clique of Tory landlords. That
miserable Clique WHO drove him cut
/ OF South / yrona because hey suspected
t him In sympathy with the tenant far
liners, What have they gained, or what
Ecan they gain, By helping Maxwell, and
1 playing Landlords game against their
| brother farmers In tlle South and West
ard East, who have wDn the Land Act,
and who have wen attachments, and
Iwho have driven landlordism
! TO It's last ditch teheess and shouts
lot Nothing Though the lands
/ lords VII soft-sawder the Protestant
/ tenants d good deal while the election is
i pending, because they want sheir votes,
Etaes Will compliment them on their
/ loyalty and their other virtues. but when
i the election is oYar tilev viii asnd The
| attorney 5 letter 10 every Orange farmer
. ig tyrone who has not paid .lls 4, eyssa-
her gaie 10 Ike last farsaing | ais