Show JOll MORLEY TALKS About What he lately Saw in Ireland THE OBRIEN AND DILLON TKTAL escribed The People Were Peaceful bat Uift Police Assaulted them The Bol four Reslma Arraigned LONDON Sept 20John Morley spoke at St Helens tonight to a largo audience ilegavea graphic account ot his experience during his recent tour in Ireland He gave instances illustrating the arhitray and tyrannical methods of tie Irish authorities A week ago John Dillon went to address constituents in east Mayo Dillon found the platform of the station surrounded by police and military and was told that if housed ho-used illegal language it was the magistrates rates duty to disperse the meeting This imply means that the magistrate would bo c the judge as to whether Dillons language vas legal or illegal and in the second place what appeared almost increditable it meant hat if Dillon used language that the magis trate considered illegal it was the magis trates duty to disperse the meeting with the baton and rifle Toe Tipperary prosecutions had cruelly blighted the hopes of the Unionists and given the lie to their rosocolored pictures The proceedings of the last fornightin Tip perary would have the Inevitable effect of rallying every Nationalist lay and clerical and once more closing the Nationalist ranks He Morley had been criticised for going to Ireland Balfour would neither go to Ireland himself nor let anyone else go Ho Morley went to Tipperary because be-cause the proceedings there marked the turning point in the great battle and because be-cause he felt the government was going to drive a nail into its coffin and he wanted to see the first the blow of the hammer When ho arrived Tipperary gather hog people were few in number and no obs truction was offered He never saw such an act of folly as the attitude of the authorities Colonel Caddell stated in the courtroom it was one of the most disorderly dis-orderly gatherings he over witnessed Three or Jour English ladies who occupied front seats in the courtroom laughed at the nbsurity of Caddells statement It Tina Yr rt ncan tnrf tl wt ho ATmToT > and his companions were followed to the court entrance by an immense multitude This ho absolutely denied At no time did tile armed men defending the courthouse number less than three to ono against the civilians It was an insignificant and harmless a crowd as ho ever saw in his life The police refused admittance to townsmen and ho said the solid tor flung violently from the gates and assaulted OBrien went out with Dillon and Harrison and pro protested against the exclusion of the people peo-ple The police drew their batons without a shadow of provocation and blood began to flow freely Ho saw no atones thrown Ho would undertone to say that a couple of English constables would have done every thing necessary to guardk access to the aoiiEt Harrison went out totho consta bcs and expostulated but the only reply was a blow on his head causing blood < o flow freely Ho Morley saw a constable strike Reporter Keating a murderous blow on the mouth drawing blood and knocking him from the wall Outside the gates the police used their batons ferociously upon the heads of the heads of the and bodies of the defenseless townsmen several of whom were brought in dripping with blood Ho Morley went to Colonel Caddell and told him he outtht t to open the gates and admit the people j Then he went into the court room and found nobody there except the two resi deut magistrates and a few reporters After the gates were opened and every body u ho wished to enter was admitted the court room was not filled while the tumultuous throng of which Colonel Cad dell had spoken was as quiet and order ly as ii in cnurch The rioting was wholly on one side If Coddell had acted in the first place as he did in deference to his Morleys wishes there would not been a title of disorder The whole thing was a clumsy blunder but to commit a blunder when dealing with armed men was a crime If Balfour produced in the Commons what he published as the official version of the affray he Morley would riddle it to pieces in ten minutos A resort to baton vas a deplorable lawless and cowardly outrage Baifours system was responsible for the scene Through three and a half years Balfour had defended every act of the executive ex-ecutive through thick and thin right or wrong from the od ious and wicked slaughter at Mitchells town of Vard Balfour always refused to institute an effective public inquiry He always denied the truth of the charges made against the police he always refused to believe the word of the Irish members of parliament and thus the Irish people had been loft wholly at tim mercy of the authorities without any supervision without with-out help and without hope No wonder the Irish people did not respect the law No wonder they hated the government which inspired such abuse of the executive farce |