The Irish standard., 1897-11-13
THE CELTIC LOVE OF LIBERTY
Future Of Erin Portrayed by a
Brilliant IrishWOman.
SAD STORY OF AN EVICTION
An Interesting Description of the
Irish Joan of Arc.

YES said Miss Maud Come. tho
irish Joan of Are. as she leaned back
In her luxurious easy chair at tine Ga.
Voy' in New York City, recently, 1.-The
sniferings endured by the women of
ireland are terrible. They see their
SONS dragged off to prison by the con-
stabulary, their husbands cvictcd their
children starving and their parents
homeless
prayers are powcrlcss, tears are Of
no avail, eXpostulations only bring
forth jeers and curses. England has de-
stroyed all Irish manufactures; they
nave overridden the country with 5O,-
ooo soldiers. or twice the force Of the
standing army of the United States.
In addition to these there arc $1,000
armed constablcs, who go about with
rifle and bayonct, making arrests and
cvictions.
The government has turned the pco-
pie away from the good farming lands
ana has driven them to the mountain
sides and bogs. From first to last tho
policy of England has been that of ex-
termination.
AT the present time Ireland Is a
land of heroines and martyrs When
ever tenant is evicted from one farm.
there is no place in all Ireland where
he may find another
There is law forbidding tenants
to harbor any person whomsoever I'm
der their roof either for pay or an act
of charity.
Neither fathers mothers, relatives
nor friends may be given shelter in dis
trcss, no matter how pressing the cir
cumstanccs.
Let ME mention u case that came I'M
der my own observation in County
Clare In this county there is land
lord named Dunsmore, who owns "a
great many farms.
"On one of these farms lived Il fami-
ly named Grannen, consisting of an old
couple and a grown up son.
''On the adjoining farm lived tho Ri
lcys, with their daughter Kate. She
was a pretty lass, black haired, blue
eyed and CHEEKY as a May morning.
"'They say that the truth is stranger
than fiction. It. is certainly more ter
ribc at times. Tho landlords son, in
hunting and riding about over the
farms, saw Kate Riley and promptly
fell in love with her.
but Kate had seen too many cvic-
tions and too much starvation ana suf-
fcrinE at the hands of landlords to fall
in love with one of that ilk. The young
man was persistent, but with all his
persistence there was a condeccnsion
that filled Kate's mind with rage. The
young man had never proposed mar
riagc, and probably never intended to.
"llc had not haunted the ncshbor-
hood of the Riley farm long before he
discovered that Kate had Il decided
weakness for stawnrt John Grannen.
This intensified matters. The landlord
began to harass the Rilcys in every pos
shlc way.
"I'inding that his tenants were pa
ticnt under suffering. the landlord
raised the rent some twenty por cent.
This was practical eviction.
"But the poor family struggled along
as best they might, striving with might
and main to meet the unjust burden
put upon them.
at last there came Il time when they
could not pay the monthly rental. They
In, oh tn
IT, At the end of this time, in spite Of
prayers and entreAties, they were
turned out. Their scanty furniture was
piled in the public road, and that night
they slept on the ground, because their
neighbours were forbidden by English
law to harbor them.
"On the following morning John
Granncn and Kate Riley were mar
red In the open roadway in front Of
the hut from which the Rileys had
been cvicted.
"Grannen had saved up little money,
so he took his wife and her parents
to Dublin, simply because they could
find no nearer refuge.
Here during the following year both
the old people died. Then with his wife
in very delicate health Grannen came
back to County Glare and the old farm
where his parents lived.
mot dreaming that the landlord
would object, the old people received
their son and his wife with open arms,
1.-THE awful news was Carried to the
landlord. The majesty of the English
,..w was being violated. On the evening