Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1898-11-26

every uldH OF their class VINO runs COuf1
ter to their interests.
They are the means by which the
judges of the land never hesitate to snut
and ostracise from their business any
barrister who, by taking a half crown
fee or by any other breach of bar rules,
would betray the interests of his profess
sion.
We hold that the Irish farmers are no
more bound by any law, human or divine,
to foregather with the graziers or the
grabber who is running their means of
livelihood than, for instance, Judge
O'Brien would be bound to invite to
dine with him those obstinate electors of
Ennis who voted against him and wrecked
his political career as an Irish patriot.
We are as ready to argue that issue out
in Judge O'Brien's own court as we are
here. In all former agitations the cry of
the Government was, You are working
by crime and outrage" This time even
the most outrageous of the coercionists
can not say that, and dare not say it.
The Lord Lieutenant himself confessed
in Belfast that there is no disposition to
break the law. He could not say other
wise, for, let them rage and fume as
they please, they can not lay their hand
upon single murder, single attempt
at murder, a single moonlighting ARRAY,
a single mutilation of cattle during the
whole nine months of this agitation.
There is no getting over that fact. We
need not go further than the addresses
of the judges to the grand jury at the
spring and summer assizes, in both of
which they declared there was no crime
in Connaught. don't know whether or
not they will send down to the winter
Assizes some emergency judge-some-
body with coercion on the brain or per-
haps with the Ennis election on the
brain-to retrieve the situation by a CO.
ercion harangue, but the facts will be
too strong for them.
1t is not only in Mayo, but in Roscom-
mon, that the agents of Dublin Castle
have been the stirrers up of strife. Well,
all the Government deviltry in defense
Of landlordism and of landgrabbing is
all very hateful, but it is also in another
sense very satisfactory.
What it proves is that all the enemies
Of our race are beginning to be in mortal
terror of that combination of national
lists of all shades and sections, which is
growing up before their eyes, and their
last hope is by course of indiscrimi-
nate violence and brutality to try and get
some prctext for striking down that COM
bination before it broadens out into some
new national movement as widespread |
as the four seas of Ireland. l need not |
tell you that our English rulers ale as
asinine as usual in their prophecie; and
One touch of coercion
makes the whole Irish world akin. We
all know what it is like. We have all 7
been there, as the Americans say; and
whatever else we may differ about give
rs only six months more of the batonings
md shadowings, imprisonments and
n1assacres of ten years ago,
md you will have every man who ever
'tood firm rushing to the front to prove
o England that the heart of Irish
nationality has not yet grown cold.
The Irish people, with that wonderful
intuition of theirs, always know that
wherever the flag of coercion is flying
here is the real fight going on for Ire
and, and there is the rallying point for
very man who means business when he
S talking OF Irish nationality.
For outside Connaught everything is /
ipe for another great struggle for the
and of Ireland. From the compulsory
purchase of the grass lands of Connaught {
he country will proceed and must pro- I
eed to the compulsory purchase of all
he lands of Ireland at least under $3.50 /.
r 5000 valuation. The land acts and !;
he land courts have hopelessly broken
own. They are most cruel and expen-
i've farce. The compulsory expropria-
on of landlordism is the inevitable end,
nd it will be the fault of the Irish peo- I
lie themselves if they do not bring the
lndlords to be the first to clamor for it.
Landlordism can be made, and is
lready being made, as great a curse to c
ne landlords as it is to the tenants in the
ountry.
The fact is that now more than ever
iere are only two possible alternatives !
Or England.
Either she has got to rule Ireland as =.
onquered country with the naked sword i
nd trample out every vestige of the con-
.itutional rights she has just been Civ I.
ig us, or else she has got to recognize @
nat for the future Ireland will have to
e governed, not for the determination h
her people in the interest of alien S
lndlords and grabbers, but will have
} be governed by the peoples own free II
ill, in accordance with the constitu- u
onal prerogative now conferred upon
5, and as becomes nation of freemen, p
ho will be the owners and the law
takers of their native land. 4
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