The Irish standard., 1912-12-14
Though Nominally Christian They
Equalled Mohammedan TURKS in
Fiendish Ferocity.
Stories of Atrocities of Orange Yeo-
manry in Wexford During the
Rebellion of 1898.
Told by an English Historian Of
That Period Who Charges Them
to the Military.

The world was shocked by the
atrocities Of the Turks in Macedonia
and Armenia. The world revolts now
when it reads of the brutal outrages
committed by the retrcating Turkish
troops. Nowhere is there word of
sympathy for the beaten Turk. Which,
ever way he looks he beholds inverted
thumbs that sentence him to death.
Whatever be the schemes of states
men, the honest conscience of all
Christendom, Catholic and Protestant,
calls for the expulsion of the Turk
from every foot of the Christian lands
Of Europe and Asia Minor cursed and
paralyzed by his brutal sway. We
join in the chorus-Up with the Cross
and down with the Crescent in Europe,
Asia Minor and Armenia!
And yet we had our Turk in Ire
land, Christian Bashi Bazouks, who
equalled the Turk in iicndtsh fcrocity
despicable monsters in human shape
were the Orangenen, whom Pitt and
Castlereagh organized, armed and let
loose upon the Catholic people OF Ire
land to goad them into insurrection.
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Citizen, editorially.
We are yet in the activities of life,
but we have heard at our fireside in
the old land, in. boyhood, stories of
the atrocities OF the Orange Ycomanry
in Wexford and the districts bordering.
the Barrow, from men and women who
were witnesses of these horrors, and
in one instance, from one who suf-
tered in his own person. We arc told
by historians that the women and chill
dren always followed the insurgent
forces and they were thus likcned to
the ancient Menappii. Why did they
do this? Because nowhere else could
the women be safe from outrage. Yes,
we heard venerable women tell us
that it was a common thing in those
times, for the young women to hide
under heaps of manure when word
was given of the approach of the Yeo-
monry, and they themselves had in
this manner escaped violation by these
Orange brutes. There was one fine
looking old gentleman our memory
can picture his snow white hair, rud-
frame, and his gentle, CHEEKY greet
ing, as though he stood before us. He
told us he was seventeen years old
in 1898, when the Yeomanry came to
his house, his mother and two sisters
having barely time to reach their hid
ing holes under the manure. His
father had been killed a few weeks
before. The Yeomanry demanded OF
him the whereabouts of the women
folk. He refused to betray them, and
he was fogged, half-hanged. cut down
and left for dead. He remained un-
conscious until his mother and sisters
venturcd out of their horrible refuge
and revived him.
Hunter Gowan, a landlord and mag
istrate, rode into the town of Corey
in Wexford with human finger on
the point of his sword. That evening
he and his gentlemen" friends stirred
their punch with the "Croppy's" fin
ger It was not an isolated incident
with these monsters. On one occasion
a lady from Dublin was a guest at his
house, and in one of his playful
moods, he thrust one Of these severed
human fingers into the bosom of her
dress. causing her to fall to the ground
in convulsions. After this incident the
barbarous pastime ceased.
Most Irish people have heard of the
"Croppy Boy" of Carroll Malone's fine
ballad.
"At Geneva Barracks this young man
died
And at Passage they have his body
laid;
Good people who live in peace and joy
Breathe a prayer and a tear for the
Croppy Boy"
Geneva Barracks. at Passage. is on