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Show BITTERLY ATTACKED QUEEN. Ti.ne of the ( nlred rhtim:in, Dublin, Sup-preaurd Sup-preaurd for AtfacUluc Oieeti Ictoria. The United Irishman of Dublin, during dur-ing Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland, published an article by Maud Gonne bitterly arraigning her majesty, entitled en-titled '-The Famine Queen." The issue was suppresred by the authorities. An extract from Lhe article is as follows: "In truth for Victoria, in the decrepitude decrep-itude of her eighty-one years, to have decided, after an absence of half a century cen-tury to revisit the country she hates, whose inhabitant are the victims of the criminal policy ol' her reign, the political necessity must have been terribly ter-ribly M rong, for a f I er all she is a juccn and, however vile, selfish and pitless her soul, she must .sometimes tremble as death approaches when she t hinks of the countless Irish mothers u ho, shelterless shel-terless and watching their starving little ones, have cursed her before they died. '"Every eviction during sixty-three years has been carried out in Victoria's name, and if there is justice in heaven the shame of these poor Irish emigrant girla, whose very innocence renders them as easy prey and who have been evercome in the terrible struggle for existence on a foreign shore, will fall on this woman, whose bui geuise virtue is so boasted, and in whose name their homes were destroyed. "Taking' the shamrock in her withered with-ered hand, she dares to ask Ireland for soldiers to protect the exterminators of their race.'' |