The Irish standard., 1907-09-28
Troops Drafted into Different Districts to
Coerce the People into Obedience
to English Rule.
A Member Of Parliament and Many Others
Arrested for Insisting That Unten-
anted Land be Divided.

IV11l 1o6L 1SClSl SOu W II! 4Io .
learned something Of Irish industries
and Of the effort that is being made
by the United Irish League to encour-
age Irish manufacturers Throughout
the country, says noted correspn'd-
ent, writing from Ireland to the Boston
Pilot.
Today I have to inform you that
coercion is again rampant in Irslan3.
Six counties have been proclaimed un-
der the Police Act, and great forces
of the Royal Irish constabulary have
been drafted into the different dis
tricts to coerce the people into ohc-
dience to English rule.
This week J. p. Farrell, NJ. p, Of
Longford, together with 30 others,
have been arrested at dead Of night
and dragged into the police barracks,
whence they have been taken be-
fore a removable magistrate and re-
turned for trial. Their crime was that
they insisted on having the vast graz
ing tracts of untenanted land in Long
ford county divided among the people.
They see around them the poverty
with all its terrible consequences, as
sociated with the unequal and unjust
distribution of the land. Small far.
mers, owning four or five acres. ale
obliged to support their families IN the
little agricultural produce which such
Irish holdings afford.
Their fare and raiment are both
scanty, and when their children grow
up they see them fleeing from the
country into exile. They are natural-
ly indignant at the state Of afail 5,
and Mr.. Farrell and his fellow p:iso-
ners are indignant, and they protest
against what every justice loving man
must regard as one of the greatest
crimes of any government, namely. the
failure to provide land for those who
are willing to work it, although the
lands are within easy reach and orac.
tically at the disposal of any admins
tration which takes upon itself the
responsibility of doing effective and
necessary work.
Justice loving Americans will natur-
ally ask themselves what kind IF ad-
ministration is it that allows a repre-
sentative of the people like Mr.. Far
rell, who has undergone several terms
of imprisonment to be dragged out Of
bed at dead Of night and brought be-
fore paid removable magistrate and
sentenced to. stand trial as a, COM
mon criminal without even being left
twenty-four hours to consider his de-
fense. Probably some of your readers
may have visited Russia, and it is
more than probably that they have not
heard, even in that country, Of the
crimes which are such a favorite topic
of reprobation in the Pharisaical Brit
1sh press or of any greater scandal
than that to which I refer. .
met the other day in ireland a rep
resentative Of a New York newspaper
who informed me that he too l1ad beer
in Russia and that he had examined
into all the phases of government in
that country. In his Judgment there
is nothing in Russia to compare with
the despotism practiced by the British
government in ireland. The people
here are being dragooned into SUBJ
mission to a system against which
their whole spirit is in revolt.
They are being subjected ii indigni-
ties unknown elsewhere outside If 81
IBERIA.
They are being subjected to indigni-
and on the roadways. and all because
they desire to have place in the land
Of their fathers.
Nor are the terrorisms of today in
Ireland confined to Longford county
They exist elsewhere. In Ballinaubber
Roscommon; a few days ago we had