The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-11-15

In his Dublin letter to the Chicago
Tribune Of last Sunday, Guy Cramer
says:
Dublin is the storm center of the
Irish Nationalist movement, and Brit
ish oppression is directed from here
The entire city, with it's population Of
100000, is practically under military
rule. All Dublin has been proclaimed
under the crimes act by the authori-
ties of Dublin Castle, who at the be-
hest Of the British government rule
with the severity of the czar of Rus
sia. The most oppressive coercion tac-
tics are employed. Right of trial by
jury is denied. Men arrested at the
instance Of the British government
are tried before British magistrates
and sent to Jail without recourse. The
right of habeas corpus is denied.
Arrests are made by wholesale. Since
last August eleven members of parlia-
ment have been sentenced to terms Of
imprisonment by resident magistrates,
who are creatures Of Dublin Castle,
right of jury trial being denied in each
case. William Redmond, NJ P, the
latest victim, has been sent to Kill
mainham prison for six months, and is
now serving his sentence.
On the threshold of the Mansion
House, where the lord mayor resides,
big meeting of members of the
United Irish League was held last
Thursday night. After the speeches
had been made the police arrested
O'Sullivan, prominent organizer, and
sent him to Mountjoy prison. His CO.
worker, Kilburne, had already been
taken there. In each case the arrest
was made on the vague charge that
in their speeches the Irish leaders har
used language 'teminently calculated
to cause social discord, disturb the
public peace, promote discomfort in
the minds Of his majesty's subjects"
The real aim Of the government is
to crush out the Irish league, which
is already almost as powerful as the
famous old Land league.
The use Of the boycott is the most
powerful weapon Of the Irish nation
alists. This was the policy urged by
William Redmond in County Wexford
and was the cause Of his arrest. He
refused to give bail to keep the peace.
Other Irishmen arrested on the same
charge followed Redmond's example,
and they are all in Jail. AS the lord
mayor Of Dublin says:
eve never give bail. If we did we
would bind ourselves not to make
more speeches. Our policy is to ac-
cept punishment. The arrest Of doz-
en-or hundred thousand-men will
not stop us. It will merely make our
cause the stronger"
The excuse for the application of the
coercion act to Dublin is that crime
Is rampant in the city. 1t is admit
ted by the government authorities,
however, that there is no crime here,
compared with the vice that exists on
SO large scale in London.
The sole aim of coercion is to crush
out one persistent Irish newspaper.
1t is mockery to call it the "united
Kingdom" while England keeps Ire
land under the hand of an iron police
here.
The military force Of the city car
ries side-arms. 1t always drills with
rifles and is assigned to various places
like soldiers.
Dublin is supposed to have its own
police, but the 1900 men which COM
prise the municipal force are under
the control of two commissioners ap.
pointed by the lord lieutenant at, Dub
lin Castle. The lord mayor of tie city
has not one word to say as to their
control.
All this is a part Of the Dublin Cas-
tie rule which England maintains in
Ireland only by the sheer weight of a
force Of police which costs S7,OOO,OOO
year to maintain. Only Russia af-
fords any comparison to this state Of
affairs.