Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-21
IRISH LEADERS.
Plans for Dillon and O'Brien's Arrest
Had Been Long Maturing.
Their Utterances at the Meeting at Lin.
erick was the Signal for BaIfour's
Play for Even.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
LONDON, Sept. 2O.-The talk OF the day in
| London is the sudden seizure Of the Irish lead
ers. Dillon and o'Brien. The movement was
evidently long planned. For several weeks
O'Brien has been under close surveillance. Al
though not given as ground for thu
warrant. his speech at Medlow, his
native town, appeared to have been the
last straw with the authorities. Although
his arrest and that OF Dillon had been reso,vad
upon when the report of their utterauces in the
Limerick was officially submitted to Chief Sec
rotary Balfour. The branch of the national
league at Mallow declared in their address to
o. Bnen that 1T would be as easy for n snider
TO encompass the Knockaro1ra mouptain
In his web as for Balfour and his satellites
to crush or suppress the spirit of our fellow
O'Brien." "a "i4i'"in
In his speech in reply o,Brien pttered words
of defiance which probably led the eoverpment
10 show rs hand quicker than it might have
done. After most cutting review of
THE FAILURE OF COERCION
in which he spoke OF Balfour as the linn and
CHASTITY SHADOW of what he had been. O'Brien
ADDED inst John Dillon and he (o'Brien) al
dressed Smithberry tenantry in Tipperary the
other day In far stronger speeches than the
speeches he was sent to jail for twelve months
ago, but the government had pretty nearly
ment. " - 20"
- The words had hardly been reported to the
-SAAA taSb4e WHEN the royal COlStaDularV
out on the tran OF the orator, and no was ar
rested at Glengarf, as stated ia Thursday
dispatches. As O'Brien and Dillon spared no
opportunity in parliament to Gssail the magis-
tTates, and particularly those at Tipperary for
tneir abuse Of the power and their
general general pe.EEveFsion of Justice and au-
stand no chance of fair hearing in the petty
court presided over by these inquisitors, who
british Justice OF the peace. AS the tenure OF
office of the magistrates who enforce coercion in
ireland depends upon tho will of Balfour, they
are all the more ready to do his bidding and to
go to any length to prevent the Home Rule
party from coming into power. Col. Coddell of
made himself
PECULIARLY OBNOXIOUS
ms military training having chiefly been in
tnula, ne treats the Irish as he has been accus-
toned to treat the AFFECT natives of Hindoostan.
Bafour, not being sure of as plant magistracy
elsewhere, shrewdly made his warrants re-
turnaDle IN CoddelIs court.
IL is remarkable coincident that Just |
at this time should be published by |
the British government in tho calendar OF |
ment three centuries ago, when Hugh O'Neil |
as earl OF Firone was playing fast and loose with |
S gu tl E IA deputy The papers which
teresting matter never before exposed 10 public
perusal. They show how the lands OF Ireland
were distributed
AMONG COURT FAvoR1rEs
who never set foot in the country; how the
Earl of Desmond was punished for the accident
TO Lord Cecil that, '.He had never breathed out
OF prison since his infancy;'' how
great the desire of English rulers
OF Ireland according to Sir George
Carry was Ito keep justice out, that they might
tyranize with absolute power, confscating both
Eoods and lives at pleasure and that Eng
lands policy toward the Irish chief was ac-
,ording to the English lord deputy, '.to use all
he FloreDtine practice to make them cut the
hroats one of the other.'' Tyrone
seems to have made the English so sick of fight
ng that the bishop of Chester wrote to Lord
6urleigh vat it was a common saying, Better
De hanged at home than die like dogs n Ire
and, - and the lord deputy declared that 1.-Two
thousand SCOTS, well assured to her majesty,
would perform more service upon the
raltor than twice as many English"
me Scotts, however. seem to have preference
or Thrones side, 1000 of them having been in
uced to join him by offers of ''wives aud lands in
Jlster.' Altogether the document is an excel
emit campaign publication for the Liberals as
howing that coercion was more q success in
be olden times than to- day.