The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-06-22
her MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.
A Contrast Between the WAY it Was
Observed at Dublin and at
Falcarragh, as
DEPICTED BY UNITED IRELAND.
A Most Persecuted People. but Not Help
less and Friendless as IN the
Days of Old.

less aud Eriendless as IN the
Days Of Old
The birthday of her gracious majesty
the Queen, says United Ireland Of June
/, was celebrated in somewhat move
fashion at Falcarragh. Out on the
smooth sward of Phoenix Park, amo ngst
the great pillows of green foliage touch
ed with the white foam of the haw
thorn, there was y splendid ornamental
military display. Down amongst the
bleak bogs aud mountains of Falcar'
ragh the military were at more practi-
Cal work. There the Queens troops
were engaged in making the poorest
and most miserable of the Queen S sub
jects homeless. Shocking as it may
seem to Mr.. Attorney General Fibster,
we fear the peasants OF Falcarragh
were scarcely in the proper mood for
the celebration Of the birthday OF her
most gracious majesty, as they saw the
houses their own hands built tumbled
down by the crowbars aud their women
and children weeping around them.
The most estimable Fibster vas quite
shocked By the suggestion that the con-
dition OF Ireland, until hope dawned on
her, was rebellion, tempered by a
scarcity of firearms. 1t was not submis-
sion he wanted merely, but atfectionate
reverence for the bene6cent govern ment
which carted the people like weeds off
the land, and flung them out on the
roadside like weeds to rot. Who doubts
that the peasants of Donegal-if there
were hope in rebellion and no hope
outside rebellion would fight even to
the death on their own thresholds?
What cynic dares censure them for the
gallant defence of altar and home,
which has in all ages beer. the height OF
heroic virtue? Inc coercion govern
ment breaches dlsloyalty to the Irish
people with thousand tongues. The
baton, the bayonet, the crowbar and
the battering ram are all most pers.la-
siye arguments. The lesson is Il long
and bitter one The brave MI. Bal
four may shelter himself under the
truthful plea that there were evictions
as harsh and heartless before his own
time III Donegal rather chan the plea,
not false merely, but absurd, that rack
renters and the government which do
these things, not the plan of campaign
which. opposes them. is responsible for
the atrocities But even to this plea
NAV be retorted that in the old days the
government at most positively tolerat-
ed eviction; today they encourage it.
determination has become a part of
the policy of Dublin Castle. "Baifour's
Malden,"
THE SELF DEFENSIVE GATHERING RAM,
has been added to the list Of permanent
officials. Our private secretary, Mr..
Fisher, the same who took to himself
the credit of the cadd,sh insolence to
the lord mayors messenger at the lodge,
officially represented his m aster at the
evictlons. We have ne doubt law ma
terials will be here provided for the
brave MIR. Balfour's next periodic dis.
play of finished falsehoods. 10 prevent
the unpleasant chances of authoritative
contradiction to the press, the report
ers, the English deputations. the mere
irish members of Parliament, including
the tenants own member. Mr.. z.
O'Brlsn, were vigorously excluded from
the Gordon of police, in the center of
which Mr.. Fisher contemplated the
evicti0ns with the same pleasurable ex.
citement the Romans found in the
circus when the wild beasts were loosed
upon their victims. We never care to
read of eyictions or to write about
them. We feel helpless to put our
thoughts into words. We feel as a
dumb man might feel before whose
eyes some horrible tragedy is passing,
who would fain make the whole world
ring with his cries for help. Twenty
four families were evicted-c close on
two hundred aud fifty souls all told
the infant with its gums at its mothers
breast. the old man totterlng on the
graves brink, all made homeless at q
stroke. Nineteen have been arrested,
blinded and wounded, the sentence of
the removables and the inevitable jail,
that the outraged majesty of the evic-
tion law, against which they dared to
protest, may be fairly vindicated We
dare not dwell in detail on the eavage
and hateful scene. The evictions were
personally conducted by Mr.. Cameron
on behalf of the government, He
chased outside the Gordon Of police
every man, English or Irish, whose
vigilance might be check on the
devilrries of the emergency game. One
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