The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1919-07-12
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their wet clothing. Many of them
were afterwards removed to outside
hospitals suffering with pneumonia.
/, 8. Police and soldiers are habit
ually permitted to ea:er the cells
whcra poi,ica1 p2t3caors are confined
n! 70 beat them with their clubs.
10. Solitary confinement in most
horrible form is generally practised.
Numbers of prisoners have been TAX
ell directly from the jails to insane
asylums, rendered maniacs by their
treatment.
IL. Large bodies of political
prisoners, in certain jails, have been
kept without any food whatever for
days at time.
II. The right of privacy no longer
exists in Ireland. The homes of the
people are constantly being invaded
by armed men, the occupants, includ-
ing delicate women and young chill
dren, cruelty beaten and otherwise
maltreated.
13. The children of suspected re-
publicans, many of tender years, are
kidnapped and their parents kept in
ignorance of their whereabouts for
weeks.
IA. Women and children of refine
ment and respectability are arrested
without warrant and in company of
rough and brutal soldiers transport
land, where they are confined in Jail
with the lowest prostitutes, some of
whom are suffering from vile disease,
and are compelled to use the same
toilet facilities, and thus expose them
selves to the danger of infection.
Is. The right of private property
no longer exists in Ireland. Places of
business Of republicans are invaded
by. soldiers and constables, fixtures
destroyed and property confiscated
without compensation. In many cases
the owners of such businesses and
property are utterly impoverished.
16. Heads of hundreds of fami-
lies have been jailed or deported,
leaving dependent women and children
without means of subsistence and rem
dered objects of public charity.
IL. Men and women on mere sus-
picion OF having republican sympa-
thies 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 republi-
can movement in Ireland, many of
whom have had these atrocities prac-
tised upon their persons, are lawyers
such as Edward Duggan, George
Nichols and John Hanrahan, who
rank relatively with such men in the
United States as Morgan J. O'Brien,
John B. Stanchfield, Levi Mayer or A.
Mitchell Palmer
Some of the men whom we actual
ly saw in Jail, in pitiable condition
were newspaper men who rank with
Henry Waterson, or the late Col Will
liam r. Nelson of Kansas City. This
comparison is made because two of
the prisoners in Mountjoy, Messrs.
Pierce Beasley and William Seares,
are the owners or principal stock
holders of papers which they edit
themselves. Many others we actually
saw in prison are working newspaper
men and correspondents of high class
qualifications, such as Charles H. Gras-
ty, Frank H. Simonds and Herbert
Bayard Swope.
Among the men we saw in prison
are stock raisers and farmers, busi-
ness men of large affairs and liter
ary men of brilliant parts and of the
highest character.
We witnessed while in Ireland a
brutal and unprovoked assault by an
English colonel and crowd of SOL
diers upon the person of Professor
John MacNeill. Professor MacNeill
is member of the faculty of the
national university, is an educator
and publicist of the highest type, a
member of parliament and occupies
relatively the same position in Ire
land that William Howard Taft or
Nicholas Murray Butler does in the
United States.