The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-16
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Shown by tho Authorities to the Catholl,
A Correspondence View,

ShuWh Wy thc AuthoTlueh TO inc CuthollCS,
A Correspondents View.
DUBLIN, August l5.-A correspondent
telegrsphs as follows: Representative
men here think that, apart from the mis-.
chief that this Whole ugly business in Bel.
fast has done the Unionist cause In the es.
timation OF the outside world, the Tories
have made their own task next to impos.
sibls by taking sides with the mob against
the police. The Royal Irish Constabulsry
have been faithful Swiss in the castle rule
here. For years they have done the most
repugnant and despicabls work Of the land.
lords, and have borne the execrations OF
the people and loss Of their own self.
respect with patience almost marvellous
10 behold. Stories are common OF their
taking subscriptions TO save from starya.
ton wretches whom II was their duty to
turn out Of their homes, and OF their obey
ing orders to the extent OF tearing roofs
from their own relatives novels and firing
into crowds where their own friends and
sweethearts were. These are the men
who have been put for three weeks with
their hands tied at the mercy OF the Bel.
fast mobs. They could have put down the
riot in a day II they had been allowed to
do 80; but instead Of this for ten days they
were compelled to face the rioters, who
were told by the Orange Mayor, magis.
trate and press that the police were Mr..
Morleys murderers, who had no right to
interfere with the citizens OF Belfast.
1t is not very strange, under the circum.
stances, that the poiCs are so profoundly
disatleCted. am told that all over Ire
land great change in their attitude to.
ward the Nationallsts is observable. They
will never again do 30 harshly or so read.
lily the work OF eviction and repression.
THE PATIENCE OF THE CATHOLICS.
Here in Dublin pride at the manner in
which the Catholics have kept cool undt r
fearful provocation from Belfast Is begin.
ming to bc mixed with feeling that pa.
tienCe has pretty near reached the point
where 1t is no more virtue. The story
Of the unodendiDg old man johnson, after
thirty-three years oi service In Mayor
Harland's great iron works, being pom.
meled, tarred and feathered by a mob OF
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being hunted for their lives from the same
establishment solely because they were
Catholics, exCites bitter indignation here,
and 1t Is not surprising that talk Of retalia.
ton begins 10 be heard.
What makes the situation intolerable is
that these ignorant, ianAtical brutes have
been oil along upheld by their employer,
the Mayor, and there 10 no whisper now
Of his intention Of dlsCharging or punish.
ing them. From the beginning the parti.
allty Of these authorities has been Of the
same kind. Over q month ago Belfast was
proclaimed under the Arms act, but not
90 much as toy pistol has ever been sur.
rendered and the police have never been
sent In search for arms into a single Pro.
testsnt house, though II is there where
arms notoriously are kept. Then again To
please the delicate susceptibilities Of the
0rangemen no police are allowed 10 get
into the Shankhlll district. One yentufed
in last night because his home was there,
and returned with bis skull cracked. The
Orange papers boast that II will be long
months before q policeman again dares
show his head In that section. No magis.
trate rebukes tho threat