Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-07-11
IRISH THREATEN
RANCHING SYSTEM
Large Tracts of Land Reserved
for Grazing Only Causes
an Outbreak
LAURENCE GINNELL SPEAKS
Parliament Member Calls on Peo-
Pile to Scatter Cattle
Over Country
LAURENCE GINNELL SPEAKS

DUBLIN, July 10.-Laurence Glnnell,
M. p, advocate OF the hazel" in clear
ing the grazing lands of Ireland, is
again under arrest on a charge of in
citing cattle driving, He was arraigned
this week before Magistrate Hill at
Rockford, Westmeath
Mr.. Linehan, instructed by Mr.. Kelly,
crown solicitor, Athlone, appeared for
the crown. Mr. Linehan said the sum-
mons against Mr. Ginnell was served
June Z. The complaint was that the
defendant on May ", at Turin, county
of Westmeath, did unlawfuly incite
and labor to persuade q large number
of persons assembled at a meeting
held on that date and at the place
aforesaid, and other persons unknown,
to commit the crime Of unlawful assem-
bly, by entering in large numbers upon
the lands of certain persons, being the
owners and occupiers of grazing lands,
against the will of such persons and
by forcibly driving and removing the
cattle therefrom, with view to COM
pei the said owners and occupiers, con-
trary to their right in that behalf, to
sell or dispose OF the said lands or to
abstain from using the said lands as
grabbing lands. Mr.. Linehan stated
that Mr.. Ginnell made a speech at a
meeting which was summoned by a
poster headed 1.-THE Land for the Peo-
pie" "A great anti-ranching meeting
will be held at the crossroads Of Rane-
lagh. The Killian band will attend.
Mr.. Ginnell, M. p, and several local
speakers will address the meeting Men
of Westmeath assemble and show by
your presence that you intend to main
tatin the Godgiven right to the land
for the people. God Save Ireland"
In the neighborhood of the place of
meeting there are large grazing lands.
The police intimated to the promoters
that the meeting would not be allowed
and no effort was made to hold the
meeting at Ranelagh The meeting
was held about one mile off, at Turin.
At that meeting a resolution was
passed calling upon the people to use
every effort in their power to drive
the evil of cattle ranching from the
land. Mr. Ginnell made a speech, the
greater part of which-cedtainly half or
omre-is relevant to the charge. In
the second part of it he used language
which is quite unmistakable. He called
upon the people to adopt the bloodless
policy of the hazel. He said that cat
tie driving should be resorted to, to
compel the persons engaged in the in
dustry of rearing cattle, to compel
them to give up the land they were
occupying. He used the expression,
HE would cause hurricane of cat
tie driving" and he called upon them
to "Hurl the cattle off the ranches.
The hazel is too sure 1t will, if the
bullocks are driven off the land, scat
ter the cattle in every direction where
you find the coast clear" and express
sions of this kind. He called upon them
to enlighten the ranchers. AS soon as
the ranches were made improbable
they would be broken up. He said the
sooner that policy was adopted the
sooner the people would have the land.
Sergeant Wallace then read his
shorthand notes. The following reso-
luton was proposed: THAT this meet
ing assembled wish to protest against
the curse of Ireland known as the
ranching system. CA voice-Down with
it). That we hope that the people will
use eevry legitimate means in their
power to drive that evil from our land
1t now rests with the people to choose
between giving Birrell a chance and a
strong and powerful agitation against
the ranching system, for it was never
known that a secondhand policy ever
gained anything from a liberal govern
ment."
Witness (reading from his notes) said
Mr.. Ginnell, in his speech, said: Forty
thousand of the young and strong leave
Ireland every year, never to come back
est young men and women in West
meath went away to the emigrant ship
never to return to this country more
They went away. to enrich other lands,
and make poor Ireland still poorer "a
Irish parents differ from all parents
in the world in knowing that they are
rearing sons and daughters not for
their own support and comfort in de-
Ginning years, nor even to live in the
same country with them but for
strange lands and to serve. strange
masters and mistresses. The youth of
Ireland differ from the youth of every
other country in this terrible fact that
no matter how intelligent, Industrious
and morally good they may be, they
are born to be outcasts, heirs only to
exile, and they have no home or pros
pect of a living in the land of their
GIpuEH cup 9Ae9I lsnm H9QL 'QlIIq
influences of home, and with little or
no preparation training must face
strange world in which, as a rule, they
are incapable for want of skill and
want of money in taking any part but
the hardest, lowest and worsJ-paid-
and all this while within sight of their
birthplace there is fine land from which,
in many cases, their own ancestors
were unjustly evicted, and which is
withdrawn from ordinary human use
and running wild in the exclusive oc-
cupation of the brute and the brutal