Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-04

Die 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.
ave waited" he continued, in Tip
perary 80 long rs there seemed the least
chance OF forcing prompt disposal OF
the charge. As soon as the tactics Of
the Government were quite clear We
took leave 70 tumble their elaborate
house OF cards about their ears, and We
came away TO appeal 10 America against
Mr.. Baliour's ignoble dodge for starving
out the tenantry whom he has failed to
intimidate We will, OF course, return
the moment our business here is quite
finished. IL we shall have in the mean
time secured the means Of preserving the
Irish ranks unbroken until the general
election we will not grudge Mr.. Balfour
whatever comfort he can derive from
keeping us in jail for our success.
The essence Of Tory policy in Ire
land is land purchase on the landlords
own terms. TO effect this the tenants
combination had 10 be stamped out
The tenants once smashed and dis
organized under terror OF coercion a
cabinet Of landlords and landlords trl-
bunals could arrnge the rest at will.
alt was with n view to crushing the
| tenants combinations that ell the prose-
cutions. batonings, and police outrages
took place, and it was to prevent that
that the Irish representatives, came here.
THE POINT AT ISSUE.
1.-THE main point at issue in Tippe-
rary the address read, "wss whether
we were 10 be cut off from the United
States. The Tipperary prosecutions were
instituted TO prevent our American ms
| sion our escape was determined IN
order to carry it out the main point IS
that it is we, and not Mr.. Balfour, who
effected our object. II Mr.. Balfour bad
dreamed that We quit Tipporaryto1 evade
the sentence OF the RemOvables he
would joyiully have placed yacht at
our disposal. The London Times has
exultantly calculated that Bnlfour's
policy has cost the Tenants Defence
Fund ESQ. 900 year, and that it cost us
600, 600 more 10 build New llppcrary.
They calculated that the Irish people at
home, who last year subscribed EGO, 1000
for the Evicted Tenants Fund, would be
unable TO come to the rescue this year
and that we must needs appeal TO AmeTl-
ca. Hence the tipperary arrests on the
eve of our departure.
"Mr. Parnel's bill proposing relief
bad been scorntully rejected by the Tory
Government. a single winters agita-
ton caused the Government to cat ITS
words. They themselves proposed IN
1887 the bill they had rejected by an
overwhelming majority IN 1856. but
nothing would induce them to oiier
quarter to the tenants whose comblna-
tons had forced this measure OF justice
from them. The tenants were placed
outside the pale Of tue law which their
own sacrifices had won. The whole
strength of coercion for the past four
years has been directed TO intiicting ven
9eance upon them, and utterly eXterml-
mating 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
determined, at all hazards, not to let
tubIu ihil "A prey W lliD 'pHoN'''4NO - 'N
landlords and coercionists.
"The latest ana most signal proof OF
this determination is the case OF New
Tipperary. where the population Of a
whole town and of two neighborlng
estates have given up their streets and
farms on. mdSsc rather than let their
rents be used by their landlord-Mr.
Smith Rarry-in ef'ectIng the exterml-
nation of the PonsOnby tenantry. Both
in England and in Ireland it Is recog-
uiZel that the general election VIII turn
upon the issue OF the struggle be-
tween coercion and combination
mon these estates. II the tenants
could be broken by terrorism or starya-
ton the Government could carry what
ever land-purchase scheme they pleased
and 90 to the country with pgans OF tri-
umph over the success Of coercion. On
+ tho other hand, if Mr.. Balfour has to
/ face tho general election with the confess
sion as the landlord syndicates, with all
l their gold, and Dublin Castle, with all
its bayonets, and removables have failed
10 break the spirit of a couple OF dozen
bodies of Irish tenantry after all those
years OF merciless repression, the coer-
cion policy, already disliked, will be
overwhelmed with ignominy at the polls
THE AMERICAN MISSION.
cone of our chief objects in America
will be TO explain the character of the
struggles in ireland and the system Of
coercion in force there. | believe Amerl-
cans Will be electrified when they hear
the story of Tipperary. For the present
tbe oneetion of national fighting fund
and the question of charitable fund are
wholly separate. The danger Of famine
along the western portion of the western
seaboard is Internationally real ana hor-
rible. Nobody with less than Mr.. Bal
four's capacity for heartless jokes could
effect to deny or make light OF It. The
| Irish party are watching the situation
with the utmost solicitude. They have
called for bill suspending evic-
tons for non-payment OF rent on
small holdings IN the distressed DIS
I tricts. A measure OF this kind combined
with large system of public works and
a more liberal administration OF the poor
laws would 90 far TO avert any danger OF
General famine. The opinion of the Irish
partv is that any general American fund
poured into Ireland n. tins time would
probably have the effect of confirming
Mr.. Balfour in his policy of leaving the
relief of distress to private initiative, and
afterward Boosting that the distress was
imaginary, while large sums dis6ursed
with an imperfect knowledge OF the CIR
cumstauces OF the country would inevlta-
Div find its way into the pockets of the
landlords. whom the prospect OF Ameri
can aims would encourage to extort rent
from their famished and coercionwrong-
ed tanantry."
THE ESCAPE.
Mr.. O'Brien told the reporters the
story Of the escape OF Mr.. Dillon and
himself and apparently enjoyed the
telling Of 1t. Mrs. Dillon helped him
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