The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-07-05

Ishe still suffers; and so on, the brutal
| tiles exercised by
THE POLICE AND JAlLORs
being reinforced by the more refined
brntalities of hint and sneer by which
Mr.. Balfour has vindieated his eminpnce
IN the Salisbury family. Eighteen
months experience Of Irish attachment
to their leaders and British opinion, at
the byelections taught him the er1or of
his proud scheme for cowing the Irish
race by treating John Dillon as gar
roter. and winning the sympathy Of
humane Englishmen by evil hints at
Join Mandeville's visits to public
houses-lying as well as shameful hints.
The BalfouresQue policy for the past
twelve months has been a total right
ABOUT face. The enthusiasm for prose-
cutting, bludgeoning aud sneering at
Irish leaders has cooled off, and we had
in Tlpperarv last week the 'tbrave Mr..
Balfour,'' whose battle CRY used to be
.'No distinction of persons, !" ordering
brutal assault on a paralytic boy and on
his aged mother for cheering Mr.. Dillon
and myself. while the batonmen who
laid open the heads of our "dupes'' con-
tented themselves with grinding their
teeth and growing like wild animals at
the principals. So it is with English
visitors. When they came over in force
to inaugurate New Tipperary, Colonel
Caddell and his braves stood obsequi-
|ously by while the vast procession
swept through the decorated streets
where on Sunday week more Tipperary
men were bludgeoned for raising q
cheer. A tipsv sergeant OF police was
degraded TO the ranks for making Of
fensive remarks in the neighborh0od Of
Mr.. HALEY stewart, M. F., who, two
years ago, would have been hustled off
a platform and sent to the plank bed for
any one,of the half~dozen speeches he
delivered publicly during his late visit
MI. HalleY Stewart. being an English
member Of Parliament, is bowed
the country, sby the officials, cap in hand;
Father Humphrey is dogged at every
step through the streets of his own town
by two insolent constaples, one Of
whom walks shoulder to shoulder with
him on the footpath, while the other
follows at his heels; and, if he protests,
he is happy if he Is not jostled into the
street and a charge of assault trumped
up gainst him, as was done last week
I in the case of humber victim. Mr..
Balfour's earlier manner was: "Wher-
ever you see a leader hit him and de-
grade him" It was at least an intelli.
gible policy. and, If it were not dropped
under the base compulsion of
THE LOSS OF TORY SEATS
at the by elections, would have had at
least an element of barbaric courage In
it. But that policy has been given over
in sheer ministerial funk. The revised
battle cry is, "Glve the leaders wide
berth, and hit the followers if you are
reasonably sure they have no friends
and that there is nobody looking. Have
no scenes that will require large head
ings in the English papers. Bide your
time for petty local prosecutions until
the English special correspondents have
fitted for want of sensational 'copy.'
Punish Mr.. Shaw-Lefevre and Mr.. Hal
ley Stewart with a coarse sneer for do
ing what you sent Mr.. Wilfrld Blunt to
the plank bed and ruined Mr. Conv
beare's health for doing. Carry out
your eYictions no longer on the Bodyke
scale. but on the newly patented silent
system in half dozens or dozens at an
expected moments until YOU have every
campaign estate in the country stealth.
Give one newspaper man who happens
to have friends among the English
people leave to write novel in prison,
while another newspaper mans. Mr.
Nc cEnery's term Of n1ne months hard
labor at Tulla more is passing over with
out notice amidst barbarities as shock
ing as ever reused the British public in
Mr. CareW's or Mr.. O'Brien's case;
above all, no more MitchelstOwn with
their inexO1a able voices from the grave,
when you can accomplish just as much
land lord terrorism unobserved by giving
policemen the right to bludgeon village
crowds in the dark for cheering. or
plaYing q drum. or setting Colonel Cad
deli over them to direct their operations
az a commander. and next morning to
hold the scales of justice between them
and their victims as a MAGISTRATE.
TheB, if the people are goaded into out
rage, the English public will see what
Hottentots they are; and if nothing
will prick the people into seeking re-
dress by bloodshed we can brag that
peace and content reign through the
island b.
lc1s.a cunning, if not very valiant,
change Of policy. The assaults com
mitted on Mr.. Dillon and myself IL the
heat OF the police razzle at Boherlahan
only argue that ind dual bung have
not adapted themselves to their new
orders. 81 llle subs stitutiOn OF q local tor
national syste tems 3of police terrorism
has been effected within the past twelve
months almost without attracting the
smallest notice ID England, although
the result has been increased by local
suffering from coercion. sss E.sSs. B.