Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-21

margin of rich-hued forest on either
side, was thought by the authorities
to be the hiding place of the wanted
men. Accordingly, at dawn one
morning last week a flood of soldiers
and police was let loose upon It's
fields and peaceful homesteads, 10
explore every nook and Granny for
the suspects, While high up in the
air squadron of airplanes sWOoped
around in circles playing some
occult part in the great manOeuVre
Ihe inhabitants, many of them
already working in the fields, Others
brought out of their cabins by the
drone of the airplanes, enjoyed
the raree-show-as they called it
gratuitously provided for them bv
the government, with interest and
wonder. what the divvle did thep
hope to do with the airplanes, any
way" asked one of another, and the
joker of the district responded: "Ah,
We know, they think the chaps have
wings and they want to prevent them
flying up into the mountains!"
So tire display of British might and
power on land and air was wasted on
the untutored denizens of this remote
Irish valley, evoking only derision.
They had many a joke that day ut
the expense of the British army ana
the Castle police when their cohorts
went empty-handed away, and the
airplanes droned home to their air
dromes to register another painful
fiasco,
Irishmen Ncer Forget.
But while the Irishmans tempera-
ment enables him to laugh at the
stupidities and malignities of British
rule, he never fOrgets them. Where
in additions to the restriction of his
liberty the aim of British policy is 20
ruin him financially on the suspicion,
sustained by no evidence producible
before any tribunal, and based solely
on political prejudice, that he is Il
criminal or sympathizar with crime.
1t burns in the sense of injustice still
deeper. This is the intention that un-
derlies the proclamation of towns or
districts under martial law.
The population of the town of Tip
perary is 1000, and it has been calcu-
lated by inquiry among the shop
Keepers and traders that the nineteen
weeks of martial law meant loss of
the trade of the town of about $4,000
per week. The loss to the surround
ing farmers by having to take their
cattle and produce to other more dis
tant markets cannot be computed, but
it must be considerable. The unwar-
rantable infliction of a punishment
of this kind on an entire community
even if the policemen were murdered
by men from Tipperary, would be an
act of arbitrary oppression. What Is
to be said of it, when there is no
PROOF whatever that the criminals
were from Tipperary?
The answer is supplied by the
natural evaporation and resentment
against the responsible authorities
and the unutterabIe loathing of the
system under which these wrongs are
perpetrated. Tipperary win never
forget the experience it has gone
under the unprovoked martial
law. Such measures have always
driven the desperate spirits in Irish
movements to criminal reprisals. In
any other country they would provoke
revolution
Communities Infatuated.
The murder in open day of another
policeman at Thurles, eight miles
from Tipperary, in the midst of n
crowd returning from the races is a
lresh testimony to how Mr.. Macpher-
sons martial law is succeeding.
The more innocent communities thus
penalized, the more the souls of the
wild section will be. infatuated and
their hearts filled with schemes or
vengeance against ms instruments.
The men who commit these insen-
safe acts are under nobody's control,
but represent the maddened revolt
against tyranny of Unbalanced minds.
Oppression has begotten assassina-
ton all the world over in all times.
There is no use pretending it is A
result peculiar to Ireland, except in
so far as Ireland has had ar the
hands of England an experience of
political oppression more fnexorable
lnd extending over a longer period
than has fallen to the lot of the most
subject races.
Andrew Fisher, the famous Austria