The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-04-07
The MOnarch's Visit to the Isle
Adds Insult to Injury.
COERCION ACT IN FULL OPERATION
Long List of Government Crimes
Against the Country.

The following is a synopsis of Eng
l'sh rule i'll Ireland during the reign of
! Queen Victoria, who finds it necessary
now for the safety of her empire to
lawn upon the people who have been
robbed, starved, imprisoned. cxpatriat-
cd and dccimatcd with her consent and
approval. The visit oi Queen Victoria
to ireland at the present time while
her representatives are breaking up
pcaccablc public meetings with the aid
OF armed constabulary under the Cocr-
cion act, is adding insult to injury All
true Irish Nationalists will resent the
visit of the ruler responsible for this
long list of governmental crimes
against their country
1SN-llcr Majesty Queen Victoria
began her reign without coercion. Gus
tavc dc Beaumont, 4 French writer,
noting the condition of ireland at the
time, says: Il have seen the Indian in
his forest, and | thought that bcheld
the lowest forms OF human misery, but
did not then know the lot of ireland
Seeing it, one recognizes that
no theoretical limits can be assigned to
the 1nisfortunes of nation"
lS3S-7hc Duke of Wellington de-
clarcd that never WAS country in
! which poverty existed to such a degree
as in Ireland %. An Arms act passed.
lSSo-London Times Oct. IS, $780,
"ln order to- benefit a small knot of
naughty uniceling, capacious land
lords. the well ll-bcng OF millions is dis
regarded (,) An Unlawful Oaths
act passed
lSio-(3l Another Arms act
lSlI-'l'wo coercion measures. Cd
An Outrage act and 60 an Arms act.
1Sl2-Provision riots.
lS43-'Tllackcray. in Irish Sketch
Book'-"Mc are suffering and starv-
ing by millions.' (7) Another Arms
act, and (S) another act consolidating
ALL previous coercion acts.
IS44-ln his "1ravcls in Ireland"
Kohl, German writer, says "[
doubt whether in the whole world a
nation can be found subjected to the
physical privations Of the pcasantry in
some parts Of Ireland" Disracl, House
OF Commons, Feb, 10, 1874: Owe have
starving population, an absentee
arlstocracy, the weakest executive; that
is the Irish question" (O Unlawful
Oaths act passed.
1S45-'Iimcs, June 3o lS45: "Thc
people have not enough to cat; they
are suffering real, thougl, artificial
! famine" (1o) Unlawful Oaths act
passed.
I846-Captain Wynnc, government
official: Famine advances upon us
with great strides" Lord John Rus
sell: owe have made Ircland-I speak
it dclibcratcly-thc most degraded and
most miserable country in the world"
GD Constabulary Enlargement act.
IA7-Mr. Bingham, House of Com
mons: 1--WE are driving six millions of
people to despair and madness. -
The people Of England have most cul-
pab1y and foolshly contrivcd at a ma
tional iniquity. The landlords exercise
their rights with a hand of iron and
deny their duties with brow OF brass"
Times, fcb. q: "Eighty-nine thou
sand seven hundred and fifty y-eight
cmigrants embarked to Canada One
person in every five was dead at the
end Of the year"
I848-Grcat famine, fever, insurrec-
ton G3) Treason Amendment act,
G4) Suspension OF Habcas Corpus, I5)
Another Oaths act. John Mitchell was
condemned under the first mentioned
act to fourteen years transportation
I84o-Grcat famine fever continued.
Census commissioners declared that
over a million and half suffered from
fever since the beginning of 46, and
added: But no pen has restored the
number of forlorn and starving who
perishcd by the wayside or in the
ditchcs;' oo,44o persons cvictcd. In the
kilrusl, Union alone $1,000 persons
were unhouscd Sir Robert Peel, speak
ing on June 8 in regard to the Kilrush
cvctions, said: II do not think the
records of any country. civilized or bar
barous, present materials for such pic
turc." On July 2o occurred the attempt
cd insurrection OF Ballingarry; James
Stephens was wounded. (16) Suspen-
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