The Washington herald., 1907-08-18

Trouble. which in Ireland is ever said to
brew in the west. is brewing there again
trouble for the government. About half Of
the land in Connaught is devoted to the
grazing Of bullocks; so IN Connaught II is
a case Of hundreds OF thousands Of hands
wanting acres, and hundreds Of thousands
: OF acres wanting hands. Naturally and
properly, the hundreds Of thousands Of
hands have, after too long abstention,
reached out for the acres The poor people
who starve just over the fence from the
tat bullocks have for the past twelve
months been organizing to good purpose
| in all quarters. They are assembling and
driving the bullocks OF the immense graz
| ing tracts. which are so needful for the
support OF themselves and families. Many
notable drives" have taken place, and
as a result, many notable prosecutions.
also scores of the chief men engaged in
these drives have been sent to Jail for
lengthy periods In the hope that their
sentences would have a salutary effect
upon their fellows; but instead of dlnin-
ishing the grazing troubles have increased
in the west, great demonstrations are
held every week. and great drives take
place. It is a true Sim Feln movement,
too. The members Of Parliament have
taken little or no interest in the West
ern movement, and in almost all the anti
grazing demonstrations they are conspic-
uous by their absence
During the past month the anticipating
war IN the west has reached a critical
stage. whole armies Of the police and
soldiers are encamped here and there
throughout the country. but despite the
armies and despite the jails, the anti
grazing war goes gayly onward.
The hobbies, as the policemen are
named in Ireland-after Sir Robert Peel,
who first founded the fcrce-consider that
they are being worked TO death in the
anti-grazing war, and they become dam
yerously FESTIVE. Their fellows in Bel
fast. however, too, are being still more
0 5erworked as a result Of the great Bel
fast strikes. and have rebelled against all
DIS cipline, left their posts Of duty, and
have docked in crowds 10 meetings at
central places. there 10 protest against
the overwork piled upon them, but chiefly
20 demand higher pay, Matters reached
a crisis in Belfast this week when the
police trouble practically amounted 10 a
strike. Strange scenes, indeed, were wit
messed in Belfast when 200 policemen
having left their posts and duty and as
sembled IL the yard Of the Musgraye
street barracks. law and order were pro-
NOTED throughout the town by the strik-
lv-I IN
amusing as Il was strange. The police
remained CT duty for seven hours, and
then, temporarily returned, awaiting a
reply to a petition which they forwarded
70 headquarters. They demand an in
crease Of one shilling a day.
A further and great grievance IS that
although the day commission after ths
great anti-hOme rule riots Of 1856 decided
that where the Roman Catholic cOmmu'
nifty was dominant there should be a ma
jority OF Catholic police, and where the
Protestants We're strong Protestant police
should be predominant IN Belfast. wher'
the PTOtestants outnuH:ber the Catholics
by ten 10 one, the Catholic policemen ar,
IN a majority OF forty. The police trou
/ bic is only beginning.
Great dependency and Decentralization
: pervade the ranks of the Irish Parlia-
mentary party as a result Of Sir Thomas
Grafton Esmondes detection II has
capped the climax OF a series Of disas
ters that during the past couple OF
months have been treading so closely
upon the heels Of one another II is sell
dom that any political movement in Ire
, land breaks up so fast as has this Par
, lian1entary movement The following In
formation regarding Sir Thomas Orator
Esmonde and his family is furnished BY
! the newspapers.
! Sir Thomas Esmonde. Bart. who ha:
declared his allegiance 10 the Sim FER
movement, has long been the head Of thu
, aristocratic wing of the Nationalist move
: ment The eleventh baronet, he is a con
siderable landowner in Wexford. and
considerable, popular landlord He is de
scended from Sir Godfrey de Esmonde
who accompanied St-ongbcw in his inva
/ sion Of Ireland In 1172. and whose de
scendant, Lawrence Esmonde, major gen
eral Of the Kings forces in Ireland. wa,
raised the peerage in 1922 as Barol
Esmonde. OF Limerick. That Sir ThOma.
is not peer is due, says the Star, TO tn,
wickedness Of the first baron. He mar
q -
lConnaught. who had one son. Lady Es
monde, being a devout Catholic, and fear
ing that her child might be brought UP al
a Protestant, carried II of BY stealth
and returned to her family in Connaught
Lord Esmonde, so far from complaining
married another lady. and when this big
amous baron died Ireland was In so dis
turbed a state that nobody took the trou
} bic to press his only sons claim to tn,
title. He, nevertheless made a name fo
himself as a general in the armies O.
Charles ! and in 162S was created frs
baronet Of the present line. On his moth
ers side, Sir Thomas Esmonde is
great-grandson Of that famous HON,
Ruler Of q former time, Henry Grattan.
Hon. Edward Blake resigned from TIT
, party on the score OF Ill health sick o
, heart" is the true name for the maIad,
that attacked Hon. Edward; but his per
Z sonal regard for John Redmond and Johl
Dillon forbade him to tell the world tina
he gave up in despair Of ever getting any
thing for Ireland from the British Par
lament through Parliamentary methods
. Blake, now eX-member of Parliament To-
T South Longford. was, say the papers.
. distinguished Canadian statesman befor
he entered the British Parliament, an,
: was the predecessor Of Sir Wilfrid Laurie
: in the leadership of the Liberal party II
the Canadian House OF Commons. He 4
= Canadian barrister of forty-nine years
standing and declined the chief justice
ship Of the Dominion. After he entere,
the Imperial Parliament, fifteen year
ago. he developed large and Lucrative
, practice IN colonial appeals to the judi
cial committee of the privy council, hold
, ing a standing retainer from the Cana
dian government He is that odd com
, bination an Imperialist and an Irish Ma