The Irish standard., 1888-04-14
SATURDAY. APRIL "A, 1888.
GIVING THE LIE TO BALFOUR.

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GIVING THE LIE TO BALFOUR.
Last Sunday demonstrated clearly
that BaEfour deliberately lied when ne
said a few weeks ago in the House OF
Commons that The Government hac
crippled the Nation | League i'll sup
pressed districts in ireland. The large
,nn,iers that attended the meetings
last Sunday also afforded striking proof
oflhe statementof the Nationalist that
the League is stronger than ever, and
tina it is daily gaining strength.
Bf.lfour and his Tory friends can
now see that all their terrorizing and
oppression has been in vain. The Ma"
tionahsts can gather just as great q
crowd as previous to the enforcement
meut Of the Ubiquitous provisions OF
the Crimes Act. The meetings, the
cable dispatches say, were not only
well attended, but Messrs. O'Brlen,
I,avitt, O'Connor and others spoke to
the assembled crowds.
or course the police had made extern
sive preparations with the hope Of pre-
venting the people assembling and lis
ta,1in:y TO the men who were willing to
brave the dangers Of a prison cell, but
this they did not Succeed in to any
alarming extent. William C'Brien,
with the courage Characteristic OF the
man, dehed the police and dared them
to arrest him, and in this he was Sec
ended by the other speakers.
At Maeroom, MI. Tanner, M. p,
held meeting ats o'clock in the morn
ING, aud burned copy Of the Govern
menS proclamation. In the afternoon
he attempted, to hold another meeting,
but was removed from the ground by
physical force.
About 5000 persons belonging to the
various leagu branches Of Kilrush as
seml,leCl at 2:3O u. m. There was a
largs: contingent on horseback. The
police, led by Magistrates WEIGH and
Irwin, charged ths crowd, injuring
MANY. = number OF triumphal arches
were torn down. Father Glynn. OF
Eiimihill, was attacked by two police.
men with rifles a farmer felled one
policeman TO the ground with q black
thoru stick. a riot being imminent.
the Berkshire regiment, with fixed bay
onets, led by Captain Lynch, charged
the crowd, and many were badly
wounded. Order was somewhat re-
stored on the crowd being appealed
to by priests and Messrs. Redmond and
Crilly, members OF Parliament. Mr.,
Redmond then attempted to organize
The meeting, which had heretofore been
announced, but was prevented by Mag
istrate Irwin. Mr.. Redmond protested
that the Government action in pro-
claiming the meeting was illegal, and,
together with the priests, advised the
multitude to dispense. Ten persons
we're seriously wounded by the batons
and bayonets Of the police.
4 dispatch from Ennis says that
Messrs. Davitt, O'Connor, the Rev. {
Mr.. Cory and other League leaders left S
1armody's hotel in Ennis at 2 o'clock |
sunday afternoon, and drove 10 miles t
INTO the country, followed by 50 hus- t
ary under Col Turner, BY precon- y
.erted arrangement MIR. Condor. NJ. F., j
in town to hold the proposed /
Meeting in an unoccupied store. This I
programme leaked out, and Gordon Of t
folders was placed around the build c
ng, The doors Of the building hadl '
,een barricaded, but soon gave way to J
he sledge hammers in the hands Of ]
he police. This aroused desperate 1e- (
distance on the part of the people pres s
mt, and many were injured, including s
reporter of the Irish Times. Fifty t
persons we're arrested, among them
Mr.. Dunleavy. editor of the Clare Inde- {
PENDENT The men arrested we're after /
ward released. Il
At Kanturk, several hundred men,
With National League cards displayed {
h their hats, paraded the principal t
treets. In accordance with the an
louncement Of a League meeting f
dessrs. Healy and Flynn, after consid- Z
rable trouble in evading the police, y
attempted to address q crowd OF people
hat assembled in the town. They +
ailed, las the crowd was Simmed lately q
Iby the police. In the mean 9