Evening star., 1919-10-04
NO MARKET PERMIT
YET IN T|PPERARY
Military Force Is Employed,
I But Proceedings in Town
~. ,,,., Are Orderly.
BY WILLIAM r. BRAYDEN.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicag'
Daily News, Copyright, 1919.

BY WILLIAM r. BRAYDEN.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News, Copyright, 1913.
TIPPERARY TOWN. Ireland. Sep
tember 3e.-Thursday was market day
in Tipperary town. 1t was stopped by
the military. 1 saw it done, but I
cannot send you any word pictures of
brutal soldiery and passionate, excit-
ed people goaded into resistance.
The soldiers were civil and the people
patient. In fact, in external aspects
the proceedings were as quick and as
businesslike Sas an ordinary customs
examination outside a French town.
There peasants troop up with their
little carts or hand baskets. An Off
cial searches them. charges the duty
and passes them into the town.
In -[perary on Thursday, soldiers
with helmets. bayonets and complete
. equipment were posted on all the ap-
8 proaches to the town. If you had
nothing to sell in the market they let
you pass: if you had any kind of pro-
duce for sale you were stopped. Peo-
pie might come in without produce.
Some left it at the boundaries, but
most of them returned home. The
AAASN oSSASAoA VI tHC dutHol AticS " dS
that there must be no market and
they had more thasA enough power to
enforce it.
This. of course. is an agricultural
district and the stoppage of the mar
ket is hardship not only on the
small farmers who grow the produce,
but also on the people of the town
who buy it. The effect is felt most
by the poorest Of the townspeople.
s. Effect on People.
1t seems an amazing method of pre-
venting crime and encouraging re-
spect for law, and these are the de-
clared purposes of this drastic method
of government. I cannot imagine that
the effect on the mind of q man or
woman bringing in fowls and eggs
for sale. who is obliged by soldiers
to carry them home again. can be
healthy. And the townspeople waiting
for bargains on market day and see
ing the market stopped can hardly
feel more kindly toward the authori-
! ties who stopped it.
What surprised me most was the
{ quick and apparently normal charac-
ter OF the whole abnormal business.
There was nothing at all of the Ia
bern touch abou; it. The soldiers and
people, if not good humored, were at
least stoical. Perhaps this was be-
cause by this time they are used to 1t.
Five months on end. from January
to June, no market or fair was per-
mitted in Tipperary. There had been
3 shocking murder of two policemen
few miles from town. The military
in the area and the police applied
were not distPvered. In June markets
were once hpre allowed and people
hegan to feel confident that they
vould not bS molested any more.
Houses ia Town Searched.
Ehree or four weeks ago. q score Of
1kldiers on their way to Fermoy
church were held UP. One OF them
vhs killed and all were robbed OF
4eir rifles. It was believed that the
HNolen rifles were concealed in Tip
krary and every house in town sup
USsed to contain anybody in sympathy
Nth the Sim Fein movement was
starched Twenty search parties were
nit found The murder OF q policeman
al Lorrhs on September 2 was punish
e& by the posting of proclamation
akout a week ago. by which all as
s&mblies were forbidden. ~.
I'm Tipperary town there mas NOT
6&en an instance of defying the au-
tIorities and proudly refusing to ask
II a permit. The place put its pride
Z III the pocket and its town clerk ap-
!, p led promptly by telegram for
I ptrmit. He got the answer that no
sptrmit would be given this week.
Pkrhaps next week the authorities
Win think about it,
b did not observe any signs OF In
: dignation in the town. Soldiers on
I d&ty mixed freely with the people In
tie streets. The two cinema theaters
ot which Tipperary boasts are full
e&ch evening with people interested
IL Japanese pictures and apparently
utite unconscious of the film value OF
tie everyday proceedings in their own
~n.
Problems to Be Solved.
Tipperary has very urgent practi-
cal problems, to which, II the present
disturbances were over and peace re-
stored, it could usefully devote it.
self. The town is to some extent the
vetim of progress. 1t was formerly