TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-01-19
An Irish Plea.

HNA W AttANn W MS aAA" -
Roman Catholics Of Poland"
And yet, as ! have had occasion
10 say before, We have men regret
ting that the Kaiser IL a Protestant.
II there could be anything more
lntolerable and repulalve 10 the
Pfotestants' mind than a Roman
Pope, Il would be an alleged
Protestant Pope.
IL may % be out OF place here
10 lot the Americans know a little
about THE Times" and its work OF
the past. On July 3. 1868, this same
famous London newspaper called
The Times, that is to-day boosting
France and roasting the Germans.
on the front page OF Its Issue
had an article Iustifying the at
tempt TO assRssinate the Emperor OF
France. In the year OF 1888 II paid
blackmailers 10 prosecute and hang
or transport Charles Stewart Parnell,
Michael Dayitt, VIM. o'Brien, etc.
The paper vas found guilty, and its
witnesses p~erjurers, and some OF
The Times" paid Witnesses com
mitted suicide, etc. This book on
the Parnell Commission Is worth
reading. 1 herewith append a few
extracts from the trial, to compare
English Landlords Christianity and
Humanity with the Germans Human
ity and Christianity.
January IS, 1888. HThe Times "
witnesses from Mayo, Mr.. Powell, Mr..
Verriker, Bailiffs and underEtrap-
pers; also Mr.. Dominlck ODonal,
the landlord. He told the Judges
he was twice shot at; once the
bullet went through his coat and the
next through his hat. According 10
his own evidence, he must have been
Of the most unpopular Of English
landlords In Ireland, for which there
were several reasons. He dissented
In his capacity OF Magistrate from a
verdict Of wilful murder which a
Mayo jury gave against a Police
Inspector, who in 1881 fired, and
ordered his men to fire, on defense
less people. by which firing one man
was shot dead and hundreds Of men,
women and children wounded. Bur
he told another story which doubtless
accounted still more for the Mayo
peasants to dislike him. Here
P~arnell's counsel, Mr.. A. O'Connor,
said: well, Mr.. Dominick, at your
last eviction was not the tenants
wife sick in bed?" "She was,
replied Mr.. Dominick, with a quick
nod. "she was not able to get
out?" yes, replied Mr.. Domlnick.
did the Sheriff or soldiers put her
out?" mo" Did the Bailiffs?"
No" did the police?" no" BY
this time Mr.. Dominick was fidgeting
about rather u~neasily, and he red.
dened a little In the face as he lie.
the secret out: he carried her out
himself at two o'clock in the after-
noon. Then Mr.. O'Connor, in his
cool, dry ways, asked Mr.. Dominick
IL II was not a fact he carried her
out naked in presence of the
thousands OF by-standers. yes, but
she kicked the clothes off herself
In bed
Lastly there entered the witness
box Mr.. John Monaghan, farmer OF
0ughterard in Conemara, a stout,
rudy faced. white headed, frank
and honest looking farmer of sixty
five. He was a Parnell witness
and against "The Times" he gave Q
mournful picture of English laws
and landlords In Ireland. He quoted
instances where, If a man failed to
pay his rent by three o'clock on
rent day he was fined II shillings
$4,000, and II he sheltered any
eyicted tenants his rent was raised.
He said Martin Mulloy's rent was
raised $1,000 per year for allowing
an eVicted woman and child to take
shelter In his house. Mike Troon
suffered still more heavily for his
humanity. This happened in 1886
and hundreds persisted by the road
side through cold and hunger. The
same witness said he remembered the
brought on by the English
in 1846-(When Prince Albert said
to the Irish: Let them die or eat
He said he saw B~ianconie's
car upset by corpses laying on the
road. Then he went on to describe
a dead mother and her child. Mr..
faltered; his voice grew
then he stopped. THE old
man is crying, someone whispered
The old man told the Judges how the
child sought nourishment from its
dead mothers breast. Il, myself"
Mr.. Monaghan, brought 80
dead bodies to the grave in bags"
As some Of our Anglo-Saxon
Americans say we should not STIR up
anything against England away back
before Queen Elizabeth's time, |
will start with January 9Th, 1642,
at Carrickfergus Barracks. Crom
wells English army made an attack
the Inhabitants Of the County,
and it Is said that no less than 5000
Catholics, men, women and children.
massacred or thrown over the
Gobbins Cliff to the ocean below.
This is what England calls Humanity
and Christianity. 1852 the Penal
were enacted against the Irish
Catholics. This Is what one writer
said Of these English laws:
Our country, once the island OF
Saints and Scholars, has now wholly
become a prey to the English per.
secutors, as Judea Of old, its cities
desolate, its affairs were over
everything sacred was
trampled on, Its priests were led tc
The scaffold, and the inhabitants
that yet survived were subjected to
4 worse than Assyrian captivity. -
Neither the Israelites were more