Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-30
He Tells the Londoners Something
About ireland.

he Iels the LonuOnerS something
About ireland.
LONDON, September 29.h.-John Morley
spoke at St. Helens tonight 10 large audi.
ence. He gave a graphic account of his
experiences during the recent tour of Ire
land. He gave instances illustrating the
arbitrary and tyrannical methods OF the
Irish authorities.
A week ago John Dillon went to address
his constituents in East Mayo. Dillon
found the platform of the station sur.
rounded by the police and military, and
was told that if he used illegal language It
would be the magistrates duty TO disperse
the meeting.
This simply meant that the magistrate
would be the judge IS TO whether Dillons
language was legal or illegal, and in the
second plaee-what appeared almost iucred-
ible-it meant that if Dillon used language
that the magistrate considered illegal, it
was the magistrates duty 10 disperse the
meeting with baton aud rifle.
The Tipperary prosecutions, said Morley,
had cruelty blighted the hopes Of the
Unionists aud given the lie to their rose
colored pictures. The proceedings of the
last fortnight in Tipperary would have the
inevitable effect of rallying every National
ist, lay and clerical, and once more closing
Nationalist ranks. He (Morley) had been
criticised for going to Ireland. Balfour
would neither go to Ireland himself nor let
anyone else go. He (Iorley) went to Tip
perary because he felt that the proceedings
there marked the turning point in the
great battle, and because he felt that the
Government was going to drive nail into
its own coffin, and he wanted to see the
first blow of the hammer.
When he arrived at Tipperary the gath
n,iY1 nf paor,lo vr-aS favU in mr.
obstruction was offered He never saw
such an act of folly as the attitude of the
authorities. Colonel Caddell stated in the
Courtroom that it was one of the most
disorderly gatherings he ever witnessed
Three or four English ladies who occupied
front seats in the Courtroom laughed at
the absurdity of Caddelfs statement. 1t
had been asserted that he Morley and his
companions were followed to the Court
house entrance by an immense multitude
| This he absolutely denied. At no time did
| the armed men defending the Courthouse
| number less than three to one against the
| civilians. 1t was as insignificant and
harmless a crowd as he had ever seen in
his life.
The police refused admittance to towns
meu, and he saw solicitor flung violently
| from the gates and assaulted. O'Brien
went out with Dillon and Harrison and
protested against the exclusion of the peo-
pie. The police drew their batons without
| a shadow of provocation, and blood began
| to flow freely.
| He saw no stones thrown. He would
undertake to say that a couple of English
cons;ables would have done everything
necessary to guard the access to the Court.
Harrison went out to the constables and
expostulated, but the only reply was blow
| -, {bah h1n~I 10 II -
| (Moriey) saw a constable strike reporter
Keating murderous blow on the mouth,
drawing blood and knocking him from the
wall.
Outside the gates the police used their
batons ferociously upon the heads and
| bodies of the defenseless townsmen,
! several of whom were brought in dripping
with blood.
| He Morley went to Colonel Caddell and
| told him he ought to open the gates and
admit the people. Then he went into the
Courtroom, bIs found nobody there ex-
cept two resident magistrates and few
| reporters. After the gates were opened
and everybody who wished to enter ad-
mitted the Courtroom was not filled
| while the "tumultous' throng, of which
| Colonel Caddell had spoken, was as quiet
and orderly as if in church.
| The rioting was wholly on one side. If
| Caddell acted in the frs: place as ne did in
Difference to his (Morley's) wishes there
would not have been tittle of disorder.
| The whole thing was q clumsy blunder.
| But to commit a blunder when dealing
with armed men was crime. If Balfour
produced in the Commons what was pub-
lished as an Official version Of the affair he
| (Morley) would riddle it TO pieces in ten
minutes. The resort to batons was de-
| plorable, lawless and cowardy outrage.
Balfcur's system was responsible for these
scenes.
Through three and half years Balfour
defended every act of the Executive;
| through thick and thin, right or wrong,
Balfour always refused to institute an eff
fective public inquiry. He always denied
! the truth of charges made against the police
He always refused to believe the word of
an Irish member OF Parliament and thus
the Irish people have been left wholly at
| the mercy of the authorities without any
supervision, without help and without
hope.
No wonder the Irish people did not re-
spect the law No wonder they hated the
Government which inspired such abuse Of
executive force