The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-26
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An Eheotlye Appeal w me fro go st
Farmers IF Tyrone that Made vii VII
Lam O'Briep Victor.
Els Great Speech Not The Church That
the Landlords Tremble For, hut
Rack Rents are in Danger
N William @ Brien, Edmund Learny and
others addressed the people Of Angina
coly, oa the 18th ult. The following
report OF Mr.. O'Brien's speech is TAX
en- from the Examiner, of Belfast:
j think our opponents have already
pretty well made up their minds That
they are fighting a losing battle in South
Tyrone. I think they are beginning to
reconcile themselves to the fact that We
are going to win a victory which will
cheer the hearts Of the whole Irish race
iapplanse.l Why do say that2 When
ever you lind man losing his tenperl.
or breaking the law, you may be always
pretty sure that things are going Wrorgs
Wits him. Capt Somerset Ma Maxwell
made a speech the other night in Aug
naeloy speech Fiat, if he ever read
the Corrupt Practices bills. he would
see it would inValidate his election, if
by any chance he could get the tenant
farmers of Tyrone to choose an Emer-
gencynan for their represent live.
( CEles Of .sThey Wpn't!'') Capt. Max
well plainly instigated his friends here
in Aughnasloy TO make oNlf retreat far
more precipitate shan our advance
i{laughber.l We come here to offend
the feeling of no man and Of no class
of our felloW-eonntrylGen (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 Will
best attend to their interests. That
we will do, and while we are determined
to have a fair hearing and to get fair
play ourselves, we are equally deter
mined to give a full and fair hearing to
opponents Of ours who have anything
to say in reply to us. For my own
part am always particularly anxious
to have the exchange of a reason, able
and friendly chat with my Protestant
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felloW-countrymen, because [ believe
that all the misunderstanding be-
tween us arise from our not knowing
one another better. The landlords
know right well that it we had more
opportunities of meeting the Protes-
tant tenant farmers here in the North
and OF hanging views and ideas with
ttllaenthey know well that thsse is not
ID tenant farmer in South Tyrone WHO
would be for one plonfept ~ imposed upon
by the bugbear they raise by tie old
5Women's tales that the Landlords in
vent in order to Keep the Pedestrians
and Catholics of the North divided and No.
at daggers lengths lcheers. Task any
sensible or practical Prsssssss;ss.anb farna q.
5ii Ii,ss5 Ds % No, ls;i n
why Oh earth there should be the
slightest difficulty ia the way Of Pro-
ltestant and Catholic and Presby tsrian
farmers standing shoulder to shoulder
in shis struggle struggle to make the
.tillers Of the soil the owners Of their
own holdings. and to free YOU from the
grasp Of landlordism floud cheers.)
6 I'he 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 pruflpe against landlords il the
same ana the remedy win have to be
the same if the Protestant and Catholic
farmers are not to be driven to the wall
and 70 i,eppary and min altogether. r
ask any of nv Protestant fellow-coun-
trymen do thew find it easier to knock a
living OUT OF the land at the present
rents because tfey NAV be protestant?
IA they got better prices for their cat
tle or corn because thew are Protes-
tants? 30 they find the landlords Of
Offering ATTACHMENTS Of rents
this ealamitous season because they
are Protestantsp No: think yoa viii
ffnd that for one landlord in the North
Who Is Offering the tenants an abate-
ment. of rent this terrible winter that
there are twenty landlords III Tipper-
arg reducing their rents. and mighty
glad to get the reductions fapplause,s
Now. j ask YOU why are the landlords
mora n,ercif,,l or more scuaezahla