The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-04

iuggcr1ant which is prepared to crush
beneath it's pundrrous weight all-how-
ever sacred their calling-who have
the hnrdihood to refuse to accept his
views" Having thus established my
up the spirit of a modern Torqucma-
da TO re:lnimatc the tribunal of the
Holy Inuuisition, and carry out the de-
cree already pronounced 10y his Lord
ship OF Elplrin.
We'll, with all due respect TO the
memory of the great Inquisitcr, feel
sure lpa would, ut least be :ls courte-
Gus as even an average "Kelnovable,'
and require some evidence before
passing sentence. lie would, probably,
think that justice dealt with fHcts and
not with accusations. and lpa might be
tempted to ask DIR. Clancy upon what
Wufu OF atlS oI Illlilc llc DaSNl lulS
whole Indictment, which makes me out
to he ~ huge Anti-clcrical j,ggcrnnut!"
The bishop does not adduce single
syllable spoken or written by me to
substantiatn his charges. l assume,
therefore. that tire first four counts in
his Indictment are based upon
speech delivered by me Wt the Sligo
League Convention, and reported in
the press on the Sth of July. All my
references in that speech to Dr. Clancy
were contained in these words:
"Now, is it absolutely safe to say
that il that value in the use Of land
known as economic value were the sole
basis OF rent, as it ought in justice to
be. THE nine millions now levied upon
land and labor by our friends the
or four millions ut the most Nhe diff
ference is Il legal blacimail lcvied
upon our chief industry by English
law and landlord tribunals, and yet
people are found who would teach us
that any attack upon his rent so levied
is Immoral Well, ! am mot a NOR
nliSt, in tllc sense of being teacher
OF morals, but | must be excused for
doubling whether an Engish-made law
for Ireland administered by an Irish
landlord tribunal, is likely to be a sa-
cred foulM of justice and ma1ality..."...
Tenants who have not bought and who
rent land no better than that of their
nciglbors, are compelled, under the
same English law, to pay thirty per-
cent more per acre than those who
have llad their holdings bought out by
state money. Is 1t immoral for these
u.,nams to demand their land at the,
lower rent? 1t may be said that these
higher rents were fixed by the law. So
they were. But, by what law, and by
what kind of tribunal, and upon what
principle? Why, this law and its ad-
mnistration is as fair and just to our
Irish tenant as a law passed in an
Orange lodge would be to Dl. Clancy,
the Bishop of Elphin, who, am told,
declared that the combination on the
De F'reyne estate to obtain What is
called the Dillon rent was immoral.
"Wherc does the immortality come
in? The Dillon rent is a rent fixed
by the COngcsted Districts Board, and
not by the United Irish League. 1t is
for a rent which also includes an an
nual payment for the liquidation Of the
purchase money. 1t is not, therefore
lenicnt or generous rent, but one
measured by the requirements of the
transaction which made over the es-
tate of Lord Dillon to his former ten
ants. All this talk about immortality
and against league organizers, and
against strangers coming into Ros-
common savors somewhat of THE NOR
ais and sentiments of the rent office or
of the landlords dinner table. We
would like to hear occasionally. some
thing about the immortality Of evic-
tions, of landlord callousness and op-
preston, of rents which are an open
violation of justice and equity. Nor