The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-11-15
Political Prisoners are Hurried to Jail
Without Trial by Jury for
Making Speeches.
Earl Dudley, the Viceroy, Gone to London
to Confer With King Edward
on the Situation.

The coercion power used is sweep.
ing. Already twenty out Of a total
of thirty-two counties in Ireland have
been proclaimed under the crimes act.
This means arrests of Irish citizens at
will, but the only result has been an
increase in the membership and the de-
termination Of the league.
''The policy OF coercion will be kept
up," asserted the chief secretary for
Ireland, Mr.. Charles Wyndham, to the
Chicago Tribune correspondent in Lon
don two days ago. He said he realizes
that coercion will only do harm, but
that he is bound to preserve claw and
order" and refuse to permit boycott
ting. Irish leaders may talk all they
like, but when they urge their follow
ers to persecute any man or set Of
men then they violate the law. That
will not be tolerated. Because the boy
colt is urged by a member of parlia-
ment, said Secretary Wyndham, makes
no difference. Everybody urging the
boycott will promptly be arrested.
The Mansion House meeting on
. Thursday was held in the room built
specially to entertain King George ~.
in 1921. The lord mayor presided.
Various speakers urged all loyal Irish
men to join the league and thus aid
in the fight against British misrule.
The meeting adopted resolutions de-
claring that the action Of the castls
in suspending the constitutional rights
of the people is grievance that no free
dom-loving people should allow to con-
tinue. Chief Secretary Wyndham and
Lord Lieutenant Dudley were de-
nounced in the strongest terms.
The Tribune correspondent saw Will
liam Redmond in Kilmainham prison
yesterday. The Land League leader
was imprisoned there in 1882, and his
present sojourn in the same Jail is,
therefore, not new experience to him.
The warden stood by all the time,
nand Mr.. Redmond was not allowed to
talk Of political matters. He asserted
that he would serve the full six
months sentence imposed if need be.
Coercion results only in suffering.
The attempt of the British government
to degrade it's opponents has failed. It
is the general belief that there will
soon be important land legislation. The
pressure is too strong to be resisted.
A number of landlords already favor
conferences with the tenants over
some scheme looking to the sale Of the
lands to the latter, the government pro-
viding the funds, as has been done
under former purchases.
All the Nationalists believe the SETTLE
ment Of the land question will be the
first step in the settlement of the home
rule question. The lord lieutenant,
Earl Dudley, has been in London for
Secretary Wyndham and Sir Anthony
Mcdonnell, the new under secretary
for Ireland, believe it most important
to pave the way to a gradual settle
ment Of the land problem by legisla-
ton allowing the tenants to purchase
their holdings.
Secretary Wyndham, in his London
interview with the Tribune correspond
ent, said there will be no compulsory
land act passed. He says the change
must come by the landlords and ten
ants agreeing in each case, the govern
ment acting as the loaning agent and
supplying the tenants the funds, allow.
ing them to pay back in annual in
stallments. Secretary Wyndham says
he believes this is sure to come, and
that it will mean the settlement of the
land question after centuries of trou-
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