Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-07-01 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

ESTATE.  And ice's the man who was opposed to coercion ! You see the true spirit of the man when you rEmember that when Mr. John -Morley moved a clause limiting the Coercion Act for three years, this man voted against it. "Not for three years," he said, "let it bo for ever." And ii space were at my disw,sal it would be an easy matter to bring a host of cases where he has been opposed to any measure of conciliation. Will the men of Craven let Irelandebelieve they agree with this spirit, or will they prove to the world that they believe in a common brotherhood, and will no longer tolerate the poor beirg goaded ton, despair by rack-renters, while the rich roll IA plenty ! Have we not felt our indignation at bailing point when the Balfour battering ram went crashing against the home of the helpless, hopeless tenantry in Glenbeigh, when we saw the forces of the British Crown going on to the thatched roof and pouring petroleum thereon, that it would the more easily burn to the ground? When, above the crash of the battering ram and the crackling of the fire, we heard the cry of despair, we sank the thought of Irishmen, and our hearts went out to them as brothers. And now we seek to heal the broken heart and build for them a home in their own land. Did Mr. Morrison, the man who was opposed to coercion, raise his protest when on a cold bitter December day the forces of our land (the land of the free, where slaves cannot live) were ordc.-red to turn from their humble home between forty and fifty families  ON TO THE BLEAK, BARREN MOORLAND, out of the homes they themselves had built, simply because they could no longer pay the exorbitant rents demanded from them, the land being too poor to give it. But it is not a question of what they could pay. Money the rich must have. If the poor have not got it they must go. The law will crush the poor. The money of the British taxpayer must be used to level their homes to the ground at the call of the landlord. But never did we hear the voice of Mr. Morrison_ pleading for these poor wretches, while the scenes were such as to bring tears into the eyes of the police when they saw a sick father, an afflicted mother, and their half-naked children driven ont on the crags and moorland, as they saw at another home a dying baby with its mother driven out, heard the mother appeal to the fell monster of an agent to given her shelter for the child's sake. But no she must go. The door of her home he nailed up, and this poor woman must take her child into a pigstye and beg some straw for its bed. At another herrn we find even the sheriff imploting the agent to spare his hand, but no: Money, or blood when money is nut to be had. So eighteen human being made in the image of God, and our brothers and sisters (for do we not all say "Our Father which art in heaven") were turned out on the roadside with no shelter but the heavens, and no fire but the smouldering embsrs of their own homes brashed and burned to the ground. Did you hear Mr. Morrison's voice pleading the cause ot the old men taken from their homes and left by the ditch to die, motners taken out on their beds with their babies by them, to die if succour should not come? The police might well weep and subscribe some money for them, in spite of the orders otherwise. Nor did we hear Mr. Morrison, who is "opposed to coercion," utter one word of condemnation when the meeting of peaceful citizens was dispersed at Mitchelstown and many were shot dead by the police. The police told us they did not shoot them, the jury brought in a verdict of. "wilful murder," but Balfour's Removeables—no doubt having a wink from Mr. Balfour himself—simply said All right, never mind !" But will this do for us here? Shall we again return the man who is so craven-hearted that whatever this tyrannical Government may do he has not the moral courage to stand by his promises and vote against coercion? But turning from these poor people, let Us look at the fate of the men who dare to unearth their grievances and expose the tyrants who crush them. For love of country they must