The Irish standard., 1890-08-02
EVILS OF ADMINISTRATION

thOu pOllGlCal lu4tbGka W DO ~ Gt1Mk. = NMnk,
land when he came to ireland and wrote
THAT delightful and remarkable book on
Ss'Travels in Ireland he used An tx-
pression which has often been quoted
4 and winch cannot be quoted too often.
He says:
TO discover what the liberty of q
peopleis is We must live amongst them.
Snd not look for it in the statutes of
the realm. The language Of the written
law may be the language Of liberty.
The situation Of the poor may speak
hothing but the language Of slavery
lcheers) His words applies Just as much
10 Ireland now as when Arthur Young
wrote them. The language Of the law
III ireland to-day is not the language of
liberty. ! am sorry to say 1t is often the
very reverse, but when we come to the
language of its administration we find
that, in the words Of Arthur Young, it
speaks nothing but the language Of
slavery (cheers Another complaint
that we have to make against the police
ID Ireland is that they are not used for
the purpose of preserving the peace, and
that they are not used mainly for the
purpose of protecting the citizens, but
that they are used for the selfish pur-
bose OF one small class of the COM
munity. I will give one most curious
and amusing instance illustrative of
this fact. have here the notebook Of
plain clothes constable of the E. /. G..
which has come into my possession.
No doubt the constable indulged too
freely in stout, and lost 1T. At any rate
hit Is very interesting. 1t appears that
Tthis constable is at present engaged at
1.-THE expense of the British taxpayer in
ENatching the stock which the hon.
member for South Tyrone has lent to
the plantation tenants Of the Brooke
estate, for fear that the tenants should
steal their own stock .llaugnter). Did
ever anyone hear Of such a thing? He
has to count this stock everY week for
fear these beautiful tenants should steal
it Qaughter.) Finding his duties ffpht
the constable, being OF a poetical turn
|of mind, breaks out into poetry (laugh-
teri. So we no " 6ud that amongst the
various duties Ot the Royal Irish Con.
3stabnlary is that OF contributing TO the
poetical literature of the land. Here ID
the original poem as vet unpublished
(laughter.) Lam prepared now to sell
1t for the benefit Of the Plan OF Cam
paign CHEERS and renewed laughter).
| lis said in merry spring
That love is strongest on the wing.
| That Cupid wheels through fiowery May
His airy flight. his golden way
| To die in bleak December day.
Ills said that when the merles sing
And cowslips in the meadows spring,
| And daisies on the lea are seen, 49,.
| And woods resume their summer green,
And wanton lambs begin to play, .
And larks at day break tune their lay.
loud laughter, OF course l have no
objection to the constable writing
| poetry, but do object to these men
being lent for the purpose Of the non.
member for South Tyrone unless he
pays for men with his own money
| {cheers). The police in ireland have
attained their inflated condition simply
lin order that they may be the servants
of the Irish landlords; and if it were
not for this, coupled with the nlalad-
ministration Of the law in Ireland, one.
third Of the force would be able to do
the whole of the work tcheers). 1 say
this is an outrage on the. taxpayers OF
I this country, and still more upon the
poor people of Ireland who are thus
Ideprlved Of money which might be
spent for some useful purpose. Primary
education is starved. University educa.
ton is starved. Every important
department is starved; aud yet we have
imposed upon us the most gigantic, che
most overpaid. and the most useless
police force the world has ever seen.
It is for these reasons shat we oppose
/ this vote, and we say that the time has
\ come when the whole matter ought t0
/ be looked into, and when the Irish po-
- ~ 4 "a +
! lice ought to be reduced to similar
level as IN England (cheers).
Liberalism is creeping into all the
churches; but the Door preachers notice
that it,has not yet struck the contribu'
tion-box.
i The difference between the daily ex.
I Iistence of man and Of woman is thai
that OF most men is made up of-toil
while that Of most women is made u
l i Of toilet.
a camel sometimes lives tosthe age Q
I Loo years. 70 wonder he has . huml
upon his back