The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-08
REDMONDS Enjoying
UNIQUE DISTINCTION
For Many Generations Family
Has Represented Wexford
in Parliament.
BY THOMAS EMMETT.
, Tribune.

Special Cable TO The Tribune
DUBLIN. Jan. THE Redmond fam
lily. to which the Irish leader, John Red
mond. belongs has had a distinction al
most unparalleled in parliamentary MS
tory.
William Archer Redmond. who was
selected for the representation OF East
Tyrone. an Ulster constituency, is the
son of the leader OF the Irish party, He
bears the name of his grandfather, who
for many years represented Wexford In
parliament. Already members OF the
parliament-and for their native county
OF Wexford-namely, John Redmond and
his brother, William Redmond. their ia
ther and their great-uncle.
How a village feud, brought about
through the people taking sides over a
dispute between priest and curate.
led TO outrages, was told at the hearing
OF, SANDER action brought here by
John Smyth, Patrick O'Reilly and others
against James Smith, q Ballyhally far
mer, The defendant was secretary OF
the Drung branch of the United Irish
league,
One of the plaintiffs stated that eight
or ten outrases were committed In
Drung. The outrages included window
breaking. breaking into, Catholic
chapel injury TO farm indictments. toss
Ing hay. burning fuel and destroying
sldes-some with the parish priest and
some with the curate, resulting in bitter
feeling. The defendant won the suit.
a family OF two brothers and a sister.
named Kilcullen the eldest %, suddenly
lost their reason the other day in Mayo.
The brothers we're seen driving furiously
and their extraordinary behavior at
tracted the attention of the police, who
placed them under arrest.
s Their strange answers and conduct
was called in the two men were de-
cared to be insane; At their house, six
miles away, their, sister became suddenly
demented about the time that the broth
ers were arrested, and she and the two
men were removed TO the asylum the
same evening.
a year ago another brother became
insane.
Lord MacDonnell. addressing the His
toriGal society Of Trinity college. re-
Gently outlined a scheme Of devolution,
In which. he said. he had the concur
renee OF Lord Dunraven.
The proposed system has no parallel
tenance OF an imperial parliament at
Westminster, representative Irish as
sembly with legislative and adrninistra-
tive functions controlling the executive
and dealing with purely Irish matters,
and the establishment Of an Irish treas
ury, furnished with funds In the manner
continuance Of the British treasury
responsibility for financing land pur-
chase, AN and the reasonable financial
royal commission on financial relations
From tariff reform, he said, Ireland
had nothing TO gain. but a great deal to
lose. He believed Irishmen would not
relax their efforts to procure that meas
ure OF legislative and administrative con-
troll which would enable them to man
age the domestic affairs of Ireland free
from English official meddling.
The Irish people had been willing TO
live as subjects TO the king II only they
were allowed TO live in peace. They OBJ
Jected TO being governed by a foreign
nation which had demonstrated i,s ab-
solute unfitness to govern any people
foreign To itself. They objected 10 be-
ing plundered and oppressed by men who
never saw Ireland and had no interest
in N. save the interest In II which a
freebooter has In the place he pilages.
but the English government has
never forgiven the concession II was
compelled 10 make in l7s2 and has
striven at every favorable opportunity TO
recover by guile what it yielded TO force