The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-13

inent $of the police that those people
have kept their word. INA
sstIonalist cheers.). Then there is
gboycotting. can't express the horro7
Isand disgust which it excites in my
mind. It Is q most inhunan. I'M
Shristian thing. can imagine, and
Nope. the feeling OF its sinfulness and
cruelty Will grow, but ! think it is far
more liksdy to grow by the elevation Of
character than by the provision Of the
aGfiines Act tNationalist cheers). I
3 s]hAvenhuwn the. great reduction in boy
#cottlnE that has taken place stree 1887.
i@and + look forward to the time when
sitswills have, will not say disappeared
lshScause there is no country where It
ssllas really disappeared. but when in a
Syirulent and organized form It will
Shave ceased. But gentlemen opposite
Mcannot surely suppose that boycottfng
s8ean be put down by any particular
#provision in the Grimes Act. It is too
bad Of the noble lord to speak Of IRE
siland as If 1t had no history before this
Sgovernn1ent came into existence, and
ssas IL were responsible for al the Of
lenses in Ireland. These things come
rand 70 in cycles ana are associated
with particular causes, particular pas.
$ss:pns, particular feelings, which take
s,psssession Of the minds Of rural popu-
saattpns, and have to DO deals with IN
THAT spirit. Then there is the matter
sNCf, intimidation. as shown by firing in
ssstc houses. It is all very well to speak
ssof this thing as something that could
sssbe stopped by the mere application of
sa'fcriminal law. I want an answer to
1.-THE question: How am to catch
ssthese people?" am certain that II
caught they would be punished. AMI
punshsd by the ordinary law and BY
Estie 6selingfof the community.
sGls None but an incompetent politician
would adopt a measure merely because
Sitt enabled him to get a few more con-
Ticslons, IL the result was to throw tia
.prosrsss of the country back rather
8ssthan forward. That IL a view to which
I'LL adhere. I thought the noble lord
q would have dealt with one or two moro
n casos-bad cases, I admit-CNarke's
cease and the Riverstown case. Mr..
Il Clarke was perfectly satisfied with the
{! Ssmount Of police protection he and
his family received. It was done with
10. lavish hand, and it will continue t..
/. be done with lavish hand. The duty If
protecting people from lawless asso!
Sciatfons is one which the Government
YssStill never for moment abandon. The
sideration, because although the magis-
ssstrates declined to convict the Attorney
General. is sending the case forward
i to the Grand Jury, and the case is
+ therefore sub judice.' The facts de-
u posed to before the magistrates, lead
me to believe that 1t is a bad case. You
I8 cannot mention a single case where q
person has been refused the protection
If the law, and to say that am stand
Ing by supinely allowing the country
9.3t to relapse into a state Of barbarism is
\ absolutely not in accord with the facts
II ot the case. We will punish boycotters
whenever we; get proof The noble
4 slcrds idea Of proof almost mortified
me. The government have to takeleeal
Il sdviee in every case. and its cred.t
l5iiwolld not b. much Improved were we
III III take up eases which were incapable
| Of proof. We brought case OF riot
s !, - n,,A.1dA RTr Clorlr>,S 1,ouso t,oPora
the magistrates, and the magistrates,
Including two Resident Magistrates,
disniSsed our application on the ground
Il that lat was not sufficiently proved.
IL Cases Of alleged conspiracy are very
glsssdsf itult to prove, and all such cases
are made the subject Of most care.r.
I therefore contend chat
the noble lord has failed to make out
N snS case whatever why the Government
i;s should adopt the Grimes Act, nor has
lse shown to my satisfaction that any
good would result from it. Ina noble
lord said that some Of us went about
asserting that all these troubles spraES
from the act Of 1908. never said an.
thing OF the kind, and never shall
Va number Of people are strongly Of
opinion that the Land Act had one
n Ggeat object only, ana that was toll
"a turn the sitting tenant into proprie-
tot. NO doubt that was the main OBJ
IA and that part Of the Act has been
S the greatest possible benefit to the
FFsy eople. But there was another aspect
the Act. There were other prov,s
Il fsns which enable the Estate Commas
ssionerss and the Congested Districts
@s board to acquire untensnted land, and
s ss the dificulty that exists and which
causing me the greatest possible
ssi anxisty. 10 connected with this unten-
III AMtNd land s(rationalist nhearsl. Lane