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Show England's Irish Janissaries. TTJILLIAM O'BRIEN'S Irish People YY pours words of bitter scorn on the degraded mercenaries who form the English garrison in Ireland, the "Royal Constabulary." It says: If the history of the world was searched and we don't forget the "Queen's O'Reillys" and "Queen's O'Donnells" of our own tragic story no more horrible or disgusting gang of recreant reprobates could be pointed point-ed to with the finger of scorn than the 11,000 able-bodied creatures in hu- man shape and dark green uniforms Avho are doing England's hellish work in this country for twenty-five shillings shil-lings a week per animated machine. Lombroso is the great authority on criminology. He has not yet co)iipei- ed his studies, because, so far as we know, he has written nothing- about that most abnormal of human mon-strosities. mon-strosities. the Irish "policeman." 1 We are sorrowfully and shamefully certain that in no other country in the i world couid so many thousands of the . able-bodied men be found to take service ser-vice with the enemies of their race i and faith for the especial purpose of J crushing and conquering their own kith and kin. The unfortunate Irishman Irish-man who, in'a frenzy of drink, becomes a "Dublin Fusilier," or "Connocht Ranger,"' or "Royal Irish Rifle," and marches away to fight gallant freemen like the Boers, or to slay naked savages sav-ages at England's bidding, disgraces his country sadly; but he is a hero j when compared with the big strapping farmer's son who enlists in the Royal Irish Constabulary, and takes the money dragged from the Irish taxpayers tax-payers in reward for, such "services" as those now demanded of the baton-men baton-men of Sligo and Mayo at the same time knowing that increased pay and promotion can be most rapidly achieved by resorting to the devices of Sheri-dnnism. Sheri-dnnism. North Roscommon. South Sligo and the decaying little towns and villages ol ue-ioiatea tayo are now occupiea by hordes of armed men dressed in the uniform of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Constabu-lary. These Irish-born men are there to play the parts of bullies, spies and pimps at the bidding of their superiors. They are to break heads, to suppress the right of free speech, to peep over walls and around corners and into doors and windows, to crawi within earshot of any Nationalists who may be speaking to one another in fine, to do everything that could be expected of tyrants, traitors and cowards. The meanest uniformed creature out of an English city slum who is still parading the streets of an Irish city because be would be good for nothing in South Africa, would feel demeaned were he asked to undertake the "duties" of the Royal Irish Constabulary. These are a force unparalleled in the world. No other country is shamed by such a body of its sons. They are, as an English paper recently boasted, England's real garrison in Ireland. Yet so accustomed accus-tomed have the Irish people become to political slavery and all that accompanies accom-panies it that they accept the Royal Irish Constabulary as a natural institution, insti-tution, and do not pay too much attention at-tention to the workings of the evil system sys-tem even when a . Sheridan is discovered. |