The Irish standard., 1890-11-15
Is IRELAND MIsG OVERBl']BDllY2

rule IN It's present. form COMES 20 HI onu
in the Emerald Isle Of the ocean The
ofioiallsm Of Dublin Castle has been the
bane and the curse OF ireland for hum
dreds of years, but never has it been
such CALLING curse as at the present
day, Though an oft-told tale, it is our
duty, as an Irish-American journal, to
recur TO the subject of Irish misrule
and hold it up to the execration of all
mankind. We know our readers are
weary of the subject, but yet we cannot
forbear referring TO it while suffering
and discomfort exist 10 Ireland The
clique Of foreign officials who make
Dublin Castle their headquarters draw
from the Irish people every year in
salaries the enormous sum Of SIS, 600, 900.
The Earl Of Zetland, the tinsel king
.who represents royalty in Ireland, gets
the large salary Of 100000 per annum
for doing nothing but witnessing the
bludgeoning and bayoneting of the Irish
people by mercenary gang of ruffians
called the Royal Irish Constabulary.
The viceroy is merely the fgurehead of
a fgurehead. and gets twice the salary
of President Harrison for misgoverning
less than 5000, 600 poverty-stricken peo-
pie who are periodically appealing to
the charity of the world to keep them
from starvation. The secretary Of Earl
Zetlaud- bloody Balfour-receives a
prinoely salary for maltreating and inn
prisoning Irish patriots like John Dillon
and VIM. O'Brien. There is an under
secretary who is an Anglo-Indian, with
a ret1nue of understrappers who gobble
up the snug sum of $50, 900 year. The
four courts of Dublin. presided over by
partisan judges, eat up 1886 1000 a year
for dispensing injustice to Irishmen who
dare complain of British law as adj
ministered in their country. The
Judges are the mouthpieoes Of the min
istry, aud they hang, transport and i'm
prison Irish patriots without the benefit
of trial by jury. During the land
league agitation hundreds, yes, thous-
ands of men and women, too. have been
sentenced to imprisonment for no other
crime than that Of protesting against
tyranny and holding peaceable meetings
to give utterance to their grievances.
T. D. Sullivan, when Lord Mayor Of
Dublin. was sent TO prison for publish
ing in the Nation the proceedings of
suppressed meetings. and it was
strange sight to see the Mayor Of Ire
lands capital conveyed to prison cell
arrayed in his official robes for no crime
other than that of upholdipg the free
dom of the press. Men Of position and
responsibility we're compelled to assocl-
ate with common malefactors and to
wear prison clothes to humillate them.
John Vaudeville, a wealthy farmer. was
done to death in Tullamore Jail for no
other crime on earth than that he threw
the weight of his influence with the per-
scented peasantry of his neighborhood.
What a terrible state of affairs under the
benign rule of Her Gracious Majesty
No wonder that '1God Save the Queen"
is discarded for s'God Save Ireland, +"
and that the name OF Victoria is un-
popular when such crimes are commit
ted in her name. In spite Of all the
military despotism rampant in Ireland
the spirit OF the people is unbroken.
They face all danger without fear or
trembling. and are willing to suffer i'm
prisonment, exile and death for assert
ing their rights. Despite the drastic
laws enforced in Ireland the people as
semble in monster meetings and hear
soul-stlrring speeches from their repre-
sentatives. Though editors have been
immured IN prison cells they still print
reasonable matter in their papers
Balfour's satraps may kill. but they
cannot intimidate the plucky men of
Ireland.
The Irish ambassadors now in Anne
rlca will tell the sad story of Ireland in
thrilling words, and every man and
woman of the Irish race who can at all
spare q dollar will contribute willingly
to keep up the fight until British in
justice finds grave in their native land.
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