San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-09
BAD BREAK FOR BALFOUR.


O'Brien-Blunt persecution will some
day come to the full light Of day. 1t
will then be seen that the most inhuman,
hesrtless and diabolical plot was laid by
the British governments agents In Ire
land, for tho purpose Of numbering the
leaders of the Irish cause by legal pre-
CESS, that was ever conceived outside Of
the purlieus OF perdition. The evidence
of this fact in so far as Dillon is con-
oerned has already been produced, and
the testimony of Balfour's accuser
stands unmet and bis challenge for de-
NAL UNDECIDED. That aoouser Is no less
a person than Sir Wilfred Blunt, who
previous to his own imprisonment
was informed by Balfour of the govern
ment's intentions so far as the Irish
leaders were concerned. This CONVEX
sation Mr.. Blunt has made public In
letter published some time since in the
London Times, and to which, though
challenged to do so, Balfour makes no
denial. Sir Wilfred Blunt charges
Balfour with ssying that the whole
home rule movement wac sup
ported by about half q dozen men, and
that II they were once removed it would
collapse. He said that the government
would deal so vigorously with these
men that they would leave the country
through fear of imprisonment, but II
they would not and were imprisoned
they would get such severe hard labor
that those who were not in robust health
would not be able to stand it. Speaking
of Dillon, Bsliour said thst..he was sorry
for Dillon as there was some good in
him, but he would get six months hard
labor and in the condition Of his health
the punishment would finish him. In
his letter to the Times Mr.. Blunt says
that he considered the secretary's words
as warning for himself and through
him to the home rule leaders in Ireland.
Balfour having formerly attempted to
throw discredit upon BIunt's statements,
on another occasion, to the same effect,
Sir Wilfred openly challenges him to
deny the allegations made and promises
to back up his charges with corrobora-
tive evidence in case the denial is at
tempted.
1t seems astonishing that Englsnd's
ministry has no more sagsclty, no more
of the present spirit and tenn
per OF the masses, than to continue In
rule over Ireland man of such brutal
instincts and murderous propensities as
this man Balfour, secretary for Ireland
Salisbury seems to have forgotten all
that lies behind him in the history of
British tyranny and coercion and to
have dropped back into the middle OF
the eighteenth century. That Blunt
speaks truly concerning Balfour has been
evidenced, not only by the fact that
Balfour makes no denial of the damna-
tory charges, but In the fact that Sir
Wilfred Blunt was himself imprisoned
for asserting the right of free speech in
against the injustice to
ireland. The cause OF Irelands emanci-
patton commends itself to every feeling
and instinct Of justice and generosity
on the part Of Englishmen, and 1t does
not seem possible that a majority of the
statesmen Of the United Kingdom could
deliberately covenant to destroy every
vestige OF Irish liberty, and consent TO
See them trampled under the hoOfs of 80
brutal q public servant as Secretary
Balfour. This inhumanity wards Ire
land is the blacklist, foulest spot on the
OF England today. and she
has some dark ones that will not out.
The Abilene Reporter gets things
mixed when 1t says:
SThe l0oation NJ tho ar ta nomi N tipu