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Show Assizes Show Little Crime In Ireland. Dublin, March 27. The spring assizes, which are just being opened all over Ireland, give the lie, as usual, to the English journalists and other who delight de-light In representing Ireland as a hot-bod hot-bod of crime and outrage. In many of the counties there has not been a single sin-gle case for the judges to try. and in most of them the few cases which have been brought in by the grand juries are of a trifling character. The judges all congratulated the grand juries on the freedom from crime of their counties, and remarked on the difference between the real conditions and those which are alleged to exist. It cannot be denied, of course, that there is much agitation in some limited districts in the west, which, of course, leads to unlawful acts. But no man of common sense will argue that driving j bullocks off a farm in pursuance of a political campaign, no matter how mistaken mis-taken the method may be, is on a level of criminality with theft or murder or any of the crimes which are constantly coming before the English assires. At long Intervals these agitations lead to more serious crimes, such as the shooting a few weeks ago of a policeman, police-man, who was guarding a boycotted farm at Craughwell County Galway. This is the first case of its kind for years, and every decent Irishman, nationalists na-tionalists as well as unionist, desires to see the murderer brought to Justice. I may note in passing that all the Roman Catholic bishops, in their Lenten Lent-en pastorals, warned their flocks against cattle driving and boycotting as serious sins, and placed them on the list of reserved offenses with which the ordinary confessor may not deal. A sample of the attitude of some of the liberal ministers toward Irish affairs af-fairs is afforded by an order just issued by Sydney Buxton, M. P., the postmaster post-master general, to all his heads of departments de-partments whereby in future they must not recognize or have any dealings with the Irish Postal Clerks' association. This organization has been in existence for years and has been recognized as the medium for voicing the grievances of the clerks by successive postmasters general. Mr. Buxton takes exception to the criticisms directed against some of the higher postal officials by the organ of the association and ho adepts this way of punlshini? all its members. Mr. Buxton's attitude is ail the more remarkable because in England he posed as the friend of trade unionism, and allows the English postal employes practically unlimited liberty to criticise their superior officers. He is fond of appearing at the meetings of the postal organizations and inviting the men to come to him when they have any complaint com-plaint to make, and he has even refused re-fused to interfere when the government govern-ment premises were used for the propaganda prop-aganda or socialism under thcguise of j meetings of the postal associations. In Ireland, however, to merely criticise an j alleged. Injustice by a superior office is regarded as a crime for which all the i postal clerks in the country must be punshed. The last "of a family famous in the history of Ireland died a few days ago In the person of the Earl of Howth, whose ancestor, Sir Aniory Tristram, came to Ireland with Strongbow in 1177 and seized the village on the hill outside out-side Dublin, which has since given the family its name and title. Like many of the other Norman invaders tike Barons Bar-ons of Howth for the earldom is a comparatively modern creation became be-came patriotic Irishmen, find fought valiantly against the English in subsequent subse-quent attempts to ensiavc Ireland. The last of the race, who has just died, was remarkably popular among his tenants. It is said that he never evicted one of them, and it is on record that he forgave his rents year after year in bad times and often reduced them. Boston- Herald. |