The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-05

directly from the jails to insane asy- iums, rendered maniacs by their treatment.
 II. Large bodies of political pris- 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 fr- vaded by armed men, and the occu- pants, including delicate women and young children, cruelty beaten and otherwise maltreated.
 IS, The children of suspected Re- .publicans, many of tender years, are kidnapped and their parents kept in Ignorance of their whereabouts for weeks.
 14 Women and children of re- fnement and responsibility are ar rested without warrant. and in com pany of rough and brutal soldiers transported to distant parts of Ire land and England. where they ar, confined in jail with the lowest pros- titutes, some of whom are suffering from vile disease, and are compelled to use the same toilet facilities, and thus expose themselves to the danger of infection.
 I5. The right of private property no longer exists in Ireland. Places of business of Republicans are in- vaded by soldiers and constaoles, fix lures destroyed and property con- nscated without compensation. In many cases the owners of such busi- nesses and property are utterly in- poverished.
 Is. Heads of hundreds of families have been jailed or deported, leav- ing dependent women and children without means of subsistence, and rendered objects of public charity.
 IT. Men and women on mere sus- picion of having Republican sym 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 families are kept, sometimes for many months. in ignorance of their where abouts.
 Among the leaders of the Repub- lican movement in Ireland, many of whom have had these atrocities prac- tised upon their persons, are lawyers. such as Edward Dugsan, George
 Nichols and John Hanrahan. who rank relatively with such men in the united states as M organ J. o Brlen, John E. Stanchfield, Levi Mayer, or A. Mitchell Palmer.
 Some of the men whom we actual ly saw in jail, in a pitiable condition, were newspaper men who rank with 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 themselves. Many others we actual ly saw In prison are working news papermen and correspondents of high class publications, such as Charles H. l'Grasty, Frank H. Simonds and Her bert Bayard Swope.
 Among the men we saw 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 MacNeil Professor MacNeill Is | a member of the Faculty of the Ma [ 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