The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-07-12
OUR GALLANT TIPPERARY.
How the People Of the Old City
Sacrificed Everything For
Freedom.

Freedom.
SMITH, BARRY'S ANCIENT RELIC.
Ills Six Million Dollars Worth of Property
Abandoned Because Of Ex-
cessive Rents.
| Mr.. r. j. MolonY, of Orono, Me-, has
written an interesting article for the
Bangor Commercial which we print
below. He saws: How strangely fas-
cinating and affecting, even more so
than the widest flights Of fiction, are
the individual and national stories of
her0lsm and self-sacrifce handed down
! to us through the medium Of history
attuned to the never dying melody OF
fame. The gallant Spartans at the pass
OF Thermopvla, Horatius defending the
bridge at Rome, and the c0nstancy OF
Regulus are deeds of renown recorded
Of the ancients the oftner considered
the more impressive they become. In
| medinval and modern times we are
! aroused to enthusiasm by such gallantry
and devotion as that displayed by the
Spaniards at the gates of Granada.
| Winkelrieds charge, Borromeo's dis
interested love OF fell0w-man and the
youth Casabianca's obedience at Abou-
kir Bay. These are only few elevating
and ennobling instances which recall
manhood of the past in all that is truly
grand. Contemporary with ourselves
have transpired examples of genuine
worth which may Join hands with Scipio
or La Vendee.
The late civil war was period fruit
full ia the display of the real greatness
of American manhood Individually and
collectively. Yet the pessiaist of our
time mourns over the loss of herolsm
and chivalry. attrlbuting that which
has merit to base, sordid or selzsh
motives. This, however, is not so,
We behold an instance to-day written
on the living pages Of '90-the heroic
self sacrifice Of Tipperary town-dis-
interested indeed and comparing favor
ably with the proudest records Of the
past.
TIPPERARY.
chief town of fpperary county, situated
| In the historic Golden Vale, the richest
district in agricultural products in the
British isles, with it's 10000 souls, has
made Europe stare in wonder. and an
1ndomitable spirit not to be trifed with.
| What has transpired within the past
two months in that little tortured isle
of tears may seem incredible to a
money seeking and unclannish people.
! But nevertheless the fact is a tangible
one. Tipperary citizens have relin-
quished unanimously their ancient and
beautiful town and offered their homes,
their prospects and their future a holo-
caust to the Irish cause. A deserted
town now stands a solitary and CHASTITY
monument to landlord rapacity and
British misrule. From morn till eve
not stir or hum of business awakes it's
beautiful lines of spacious streets. 1t
stands very gnomon raised by The
hand of time to remind the human race
that the English aristocrat, 80 boasted
of, is only far back in the transition
period of the savage state or perhaps
retrograding. I'lpperary, this veritable
city of the dead, in it's silence cries a
loud cry to the curious or interesting
traveller who steals cautiously through
its forsaken streets to receive an i'm
presslon which hurries him awav to tell
in freer land how crowns rule.
To those unacquainted with the agra
rian struggle in Ireland few words are
necessary in order to the better under
standing the cause and motives which
led the citizens of Tipperary to such an
extraordinary step as to give up their
homes Of their own free will
IN DEFENCE OF A PRINCIPLE
in which they were not Immediately In
volved.
| A few centuries ago con6scation, alias
conquest, gave into the disreputable
Smith-Barry's tainted pr0genitors the
earth on which Tlpperary stands. For
this reasonable rent was annually de-
manded and as promptly paid by the
citizens, while year after year improve
ments and costly edi6ces were erected,
Of course at the sole expense Of the
towns people. when the Irish land
problem had reached climax. The
plan Of campaign. known to the world
as legal protective association. was
Instituted by Mr.. John Dillon FIVE years
ago for the more efficient union Of the
Irish tenantry to oppose landlord rapa-
city and extortiOn.
Such wonderful results followed the
workings Of the s'plan" that the land
lords saw no chance OF combating q
system coerced and decried by them as
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