Republican farmer., 1919-07-11


 ture, and are compelled to lie in their clothing, befouled by human excre- ment, for days at a time. 5. Persons are confined in cells which are not large enough for one man. They are not provided with beds or hunks of any kind but are compelled to sleep upon the bare floors. There are ne toilet facilities or receptacles to contain the human offal, which necessarily accumulates upon the floors where men are com pel1ed to sleep in the filth, night after night.
 G. The food is insufficient and un- wholesome. Prisoners, men and wo men, are compelled to live for days upon water and poorly baked, sour and stale bread.
 :. Hundreds of men and women have been discharged iron. jail with impaired constitutions, and are in many cases incura ble invaiids a result of their treatment. 6. During the past winter and spring, streams of ice cold water were poured upon men confined in jail,
 and they were compelled to lie all night on cold floors in unheated cells in their wet clothing. Many of them were afterwards removed to outside hospitals suffering with pneumonia. g. Police and soldiers are habitual- ly permitted to enter the cells where political prisoners are confined and
 to beat them with their clubs. 10. Solitary confinement in most horrible form is generally practised. Numbers of prisoners have been taken | directly from the jails to insane asy-
 lums. rendered maniacs by their treatment.
 1e ,riS oners, in certain jails, have been kept | without any food whatever for days at time.
 12. The right of privacy no long | CT exists in Ireland. The homes of | the people are constantly being in vaded by armed men. and the occu- pants, including delicate women and I young children, cruelty beaten and otherwise maltreated.
 13 The children of suspected Re- pubIicans, many of tender years, are kidnapped, and their parents kept in Ignorance of their whereabouts for | weeks.
 fl. Women and children of re- l finement and responsibility are ar rested without warrant. and in com | pany of rough and brutal soldiers | transported to distant parts of Ire l sand and England, where they art | confined in Jail with the lowest pros | titutes, some of whom are suffering | from vile disease, and are compelled l to use the same toilet facilities, and thus expose themselves to the danger l of infection.
 15. The right of private property no longer exists in Ireland. Places of business of Republicans are in vaded by soldiers and constabIes, fix ! lures destroyed and property con | fiscated without compensat ation. In many ca ses the owners of such busl- nesses and property are utterly inn poverished.
 1s. Heads of hundreds of families have been jailed or deported, leav- | ing dependent women and children | without means of subsistence, and l rendered objects of public charity. II. Men and women on mere sus- | picion of having Republican sym i pathies are being taken from their | homes and arrested upon the streets and highways of Ireland; deported to ] England, or confined in jails in re- mote places. while their distracted I families are kept. some times for many I months, in ignorance of their where | abouts.
 1 Among the leaders of the Repub- l lican movement in Ireland, many of ! whom have had these atrocities prac- 1 tised upon their persons, are lawyers, such Edward Duggan, George | Nichols and John Hanrahan, who i rank relatively with such men in the United States as Morgan J O'Brien John B. Stanchfield, Levi Mayer, or i A Mitchell Palmer.
 l Some of the men whom we actual | ly saw in jail, in a pitiabIe condition | were newspaper men who rank with 1 Henry Watterson, or the late Col | William R. Nelson of Kansas City, | This comparison is made because two | of the prisoners in Mountjoy, Messrs | Pierce Beasley and Williams Seares
 are the owners of principal stock | holders of papers which they edit
 1 themselves. Many others we actual
 ly saw in prison are working news ! papermen and correspondents of high class publications, such as Charles H.
 I>Grasty, Frank H. Simonds and Her bert Bayard Swope-
 i Among the men we In prison
 | are stock-raisers and farmers busi-
 | ness men of large affairs. and literary
 men of brilliant parts of the highest
 | character.
 We witnessed while in Ireland a
 | brutal and unprovoked assault by an
 | English Colonel and a crowd of sol
 diers upon the person of Professor
 | John MacNeN Professor MacNeiII is
 l Q member of the Faculty of the Ma
 1 tional University, is an educator and
 publicist of the highest type, a mem
 Der of Parliament, and occupies rela-
 | lively the same position in Ireland
 | that William Howard Taft or Nich-
 olas Murray Butler does in the Unit
 l ed States
 | EnUTCATV0N