St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-03

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lice OF their departure. and Balfour's
system OF espionage was wasted.
"fhe government cannot trust its own
servants" continued Mr.. O'Brien,
''Why, on the day before we were ar.
rested. Mr.. Dillon wrote to me inform.
Ing me what was going to take place,
although il was supposed to be a castle
secret. Balfour may attempt To
brand Us as Criminals.
but would he try to have US extradited
as such either from France or tia
United STATES? Balfour has stated his
Intentions very plainly in speech in
the house of commons. His object is to-
strain the tenants defense fund until he
breaks It, Seven thousand persons
nave been eyicted, and 100000 have
been spent" Mr.. OBrien then said
that, III view of all the circumstances,
the condition of the peasantry and the
hostility OF the government to any plan
that would better their condition. he
and his colleagues decided to appeal to
thr American people and state their
appeal in person. They had believed
that while the appeal ON their trial was
pending they would have time to come to
this country and return. 1--WE waited,''
he continued, "in 1ipperary so long as
there seemed the least chance of fore
Ing q prompt disposal of the charge. As
soon as the tactics OF the government
were quite clear. we took leave to tum-
ble their elaborate house of cards about
their ears, and we Game away To appeal
to America against Mr.. Balfour's ig.
noble dodge for starving out the tenan~
try whom he has failed to intimidate..
we Will, of course. return the moment
our business here is finished. If We
Shall have i'll the meantime secured the
means of preserving the Irish ranks IN.
broken until the general election We
VIII not .grudge Mr.. Balfour whatever
comfort he can derive from keeping US
IN Jail for our success. The essence OF
Tory policy in Ireland is land purchase
on the landlords own terms. TO effect
this, the tenants combination had
to be stamped ont. The tenants
once smashed and disnFganized under
terror of coercion, cabinet of landlords
and landlord tribunals could
Arrange the Rest
at will. 1t was with view to crushing
tenauts' combinations that all the prep
aratiOnS, batOnings and police outrages
took place. and it was to prevent that
the Irish representatives came here,
"The main point issue. in TipDerary,h
the address read. was whether we wera
to be cut off from the United States.
The Ilpperary prosecutions were in4
Sututed TO prevent our American mis-
sion; our escape was determined upon
In order to carry it out. The main
point Is that it is land not Mr.Balfour
who effected our object. If Mr.. Bal
four had dreamed tnat we quit TiU-
perary to evade the sentence Of the
rein0vables, he would jOyfnlly have
placed .yacht at our disposal. The
London Times has eXultantiY cafcu-
lated that Balfour's policy has cost the
tenants defense fund e5V,00O year,
and that it cost Us E 10000 more to build
New Tipperary. They calculated the
Irish people at home, who last year sub.
scribe; $50, 600 tor the evicted tenants
fund. would be unable TO come to the
rescue this year, and that we must
needs appeal TO America. Henc6.the
Fipperary arrests on the eve of our de-
parture. MI. Parueli's bill proposing
relief had been Sc0rnfuily rejected by
the Tory government. A single win.
ter'S agitation caused the government
to eat It's words. They themselves pro-
posed III 1887 the bill they had rejected
ny an overwhelming majority in@1SS6.
But nothing would Induce them to
offer
Quarter to the Tenants
whose combinations had forced this
measure of justice from -tnenn.. The
tenants were placed outside the pale of
the law, waicn their own sacrifices had
Won. The whole strength of coercion
for the past four years had been Gi-
rteted to intlictinS vengeance upon
them. utterly eXterminating them by
way of warning TO the rest of the Irish
tenantry. The Irish people, on the
other hand, have made these mems
cause their own. They have deter
mined at all hazards nor To let them fan
q le y-p l,lft u 10
ana cOarciOniStS. The latest and most
signal proof of this determination Is
the case of New Tipperary, where the
population OF Whole town and of two
neighborIng estates had given up their
streets and farms en- maSSe rather
than let their rents be raised by
their landlord. Both in England and
In Ireland it is recognized that the gen.
eral election will turn upon the issue of
the struggle between coercion and com
bination upon these estates. If the
tenants couid be broken by terrorism or
starvation, the government could carry
whatever land purchase scheme they
pieaSed, and go TO the coantry with
triumph over tue success of coercion
On the other hand, if Mr.. Baifour has
TO face til.. general election with the
confession that the landlords syndi.
cafe. with all their gold and Dublin
SoStlC- nttii uii lJo OtbOiICtS dilu IGtIlUt-
ableS have failed To break the spirit of
couple of dozen Idies Of Irish ten
antry. after all these years of merciless
repression. the coercion policy, already
disiiked,
VIII Be Overwhelmed
with ignonny at the polls. One of our
chief objects i'll America will he to ex-
plain the character of the struggles in
Ireland. and the system of coercion in
force there. | believe Americans will
be electrified when they hear the story
of Tipperdry. For the present the
question of a national fighting fund and
the question of charitable fund are
wholly separate. The danger of famine
along the western portion of the west
ern seaboarl is unquestonably real and
horrible. Nobody with less than Mr.,
BalfOur's capacity for heartless Jokes
coeld affect tn denv or make light of it.
The Irish party are Watching the Situa-
ton with the utmost Solicitude. They
have called for bill suSpending evic-
tiniis for non n-payment OF rent on small
holdings in the distressed districts.
n measure of this kind combined
with q large system of public works
and more liberal administration Of
tee poor laws would go far TO avert any
danger of general famine, The opinion
of the Irish party is tEat any general
American fund poured into Ireland at
this time would probably have the
effecl of confirming Mr.. Balfour in his
policy of leaving the relief of distress
TO private initiative and afterwards
boasting that the
Distress Was Imaginary,
while large sums disbursed with an inn
perfect knowledge of the circumstances
Of the country would inevitably find it's
way into the pockets of the landlords,
whom the prospect of American aims
would encourage to eXt0rt rent from
tenantry." Mr.. O'Brien told the :re-
pOrters the story of the escape
of Mr.. Dillon and himself, and ap-
parently enjoyed the telling of it. Mr..
Dillon helped him with the narrative.