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Although often frigid and uncommunicative to natives, the policeman Is free enough with strangers, and his Information Is apt to be reliable about the country generally, for. as he Is never kept long at any one place, his local knowledge knowl-edge Is extensive. It Is true that he 1 apt to bo biased against the peas-antry, peas-antry, because, although a peasant's son himself, his training and employment employ-ment have made tho people hate him, for the common people have no use for the "peeler," as the constabulary e-,W; , V : .j . ,-'-1 v fair, dance, wfiko ami festival where Hople congrrKated. In the political life of tile village he was always on the popular sliie In giving giv-ing bin opinions, and even his money mon-ey Had he continued this gait he imiBt have found himself In some public office. J'oor I,aw Ouanllan, or a Juntlce of the Peace he might have been if the plot had been allowed to develop so far. "Of course, there were those who had their suspicions of young allrt-ley allrt-ley Where did he come from, and what were his antecedents? When this kind of n.u stlonltitf got too close, he managed to turn It off la son e adroit way, Ifeyond the statement state-ment that he had had some trouble with his parents, and that he bad resolved to earn his livelihood away from them, ho would confide nothing noth-ing as to his pant. The old men shook their heads, and warned the young men to shun him. One said , - i 'i.w. -, j -ill . " ' '' ' : li ILi- a. ; -, , - . 1 V'- j - ft " i lPf . ..v -' ' a " -V'v t .y-- (,: ' l : , . - v- are contemptuously called by them. ns Imagine the policemen, the natural protectors of life and property, being bated by the people! That Is the condition In Ireland yet. and has been so almost from the beginning. That does not mean that the Irish do not want to have life and property protected. It means that they have so long seen the policeman Identified with the protection pro-tection of a particular kind of life, to-wlt: the landlord's and bailiffs, and a particular kind of property, to-wlt: tho landlord's property In land that they overlook his other useful public services. serv-ices. It Is a most unfortunate state of things. The policeman has been made the buffer between the English Government and the Irish people, and the elllclent Instrument of coercion of the latter, and between the two his lot has not been a happy one. When home rule becomes an accomplished fact, the Royal Irish Constabulary will be disbanded. dis-banded. It will no longer be necessary to keep an "English garrison" In Ireland. The estrangement between the police and the people la indeed remarkable. I In the lawless districts dis-tricts of which there are still too many, the people who could give Information to the police will not do so. Hence, there Is a good deal of unpunished crime in those districts. One of the worst counties coun-ties In this respect Is the county of Clare, the historic constituency that first elected OCo'nneil to Parliament. Here the old wounds of the agra-rlan agra-rlan war have never closed up. During my stay I saw In one of the papers a pastoral letter of the Most Rev. Dr. Fogarty. HiBhop of Killaloe, giving giv-ing a blood curdling description of outrages which continued to be committed with Impunity against life and property In Clare. I visited Knnls, the capital of the county. I was told that In one week do less than three shooting outrages had been perpetrated on unoffending men. One of the victims vic-tims was an ex eoldUr, who was acting letter-carrier, letter-carrier, and who was shot in the highway n open day. Although many people passed his or.sf t body on the roBd, not one would comfort or relieve re-lieve him til! the police came several hours afterwards. after-wards. These passers by doubtless felt that if they gave any help to the victim they might meet the same fate as himself. So helpless has British law become In tho county of Clare. Sauntering round the narrow streets 1 fell In with an old man who did not object to conversation. conversa-tion. He proved to be an ex policeman. This man did not mince matters In detailing his views and experiences. "Clare was the mot peaceable county In Ireland," said he, "when I Joined the force, but the cursed Land League came upon us. and since then things have been different. Most of the men you meet on the road are Fenians or rtlbbonmen, and many of them are criminals " I told him I thought this was too strong a description de-scription of his countrymen. He, however, stuck to his opinion, and took me to an elevated spot at tho bock of the Court House, from which he pointed out tho scenes of as many as seventeen assassinations, all more or less successful, but for which only one man was ever brought to Justbe. It Is not alone the malcontents and the secret society men that refuse to tell the police what they know about outrages. Even the relatives of the Injured persons are often known to adopt a similarly uncommunicative attitude. To give Information In-formation to tho police Is to be branded as an Informer." which Is the most offensive epithet In the Irishman's vocabulary, being wore than that of "hangman," The stigma descends from father to son, while there Is any of the family left to endure it My ex policemsn friend told me that he himself bad Lest d a (Tare mother, hoe son was shot before her eyes, make tho avowal thi.t she would rather see alt her sons lying dead beside be-side her than become a hated "Informer" Fbe brought the secret to the grave with her I asked my friend for his opinion as to why the frrce was so uniopu!ar. He la'd the blame un-hesitatingly un-hesitatingly upon the English Goi;mer.t. The Government have -rnplfy-d the i!. s'ro't x-rlushively x-rlushively at evictions and other si.cn ur.jiopular tasks. wbn they might have emi l d She regular regu-lar soldiers or the militia The rf uit ts Ut the latter forces are popular, or at least are treated with some toleration, whereas the police are detested. de-tested. It may be that recruiting reasons were buck of England's policy of keeping the army and militia out of Irish agrarian troubles. Ireland uaed to be a Rood recruiting ground for these latter lat-ter forces, and It Is Important to England that It should continue so. This consideration would dictate dic-tate the wisdom of keeping the military rorc neutral In Irish Internal affairs. One of the allegations made by Nationalists Is that outrage have often been "manufactured" by police agents at the Instigation of the Government itt-;r, Ir. -der to furnish an excuse for coercive laws. I asked tnts veteran If there was any truth In this statement. "It Is no longer true," he said. "Hut," he added, "I can well remember when there ere some very queer methods employed by the Iub!!n Castle authorities to get evidence about outrages. Pld you ever bear of the Tubbercurry conspiracy?" be Inquired. I told him I had not. He thereupon fold me the story of how a Government spy, disguised as a blacksmith, settled In a Western town, got into in-to the confidence of the people, became sworn In as a secret society man, and ended by making things ro hc.t that nearly one hundred young men bad to flee the country. "It Was," said he, "in the early Land league' days, when the famous, or infamous. Jimmy French was Bt the head of the detective department depart-ment In Dublin f'astp I as a recruit In the constabulary depot then. Tubbercurry Is a little fo'An In the west, and many outrages were committed com-mitted around that spot, but not a man was punished pun-ished for them, nor was any word of Information g'ven to the police Hecret societies ruled the pine. Going among the raw recruit one day. and questioning them, Jimmy French picked out a young mn, named Morris, a blacksmith's son who hsd also learned the trade himself, and Instructed In-structed blrn to repair to Tubbercurry. set up a blacksmith's foree there, make hlnu-e'f popular wl'h the people, keep I. is ears and even ojen. and if he got any bit of !ir ;-rtari' Information, to take tt Mmitelf to iJuhHn. He was nt to cHvu're his identity to the locii oiiee. for this wo-itd ruin hi e nanus. 1hy er to ! k:.t In the O.rk n much as the rensantty. of eo-trs, Morris as to have jlrnty of money for the job. but hf " ti I've poorly and dres poorly en the profits of the forge. "Morris rrrrled c t Ms Iris'r i. ; ions to the letter. He took tf s name of 'I'dy I'artlry ' Hartley's Hart-ley's forge n t.c-en.e a rej 'l-t ons for the law v.' half Idle you:! e! 'he oelihttorbo'id. Th kind young i.i.. fc-rff h iv.'.4 t n'y e'.-arge fe-r eo; t. rs for shoeing a hor . mendi! e a s;,sd. and smaller jobs he ofUn &H for totfcir?. p- he was too good to inxt long. Another said bs might be a Government spy who would get them all In trouble. That he went to maas regularly was admitted, but there were some who remarked that his manner of blessing himself revealed the amateur worshiper. The conjecture that he might be a Government spy came to Hartley's own ears, and at once he set about to explode It, "The first thing Hartley did was to go to a Ibpior seller's and get drunk. When be was told to get out he became abualve, cursing everybody In authority, especially the Government, the Iird Lieutenant, afd the Queen, tolling In the gutter, he called for three cheers for sn IrlWi Republic and a I'aiilmient In College Green. When the police came Hartley become more abusive. At stn""!! bouse be assaulted two of them, and challenged any mpeistui !;f""id that ever wore the Queen's uniform to a st ui'lup PKht. When he spjieared before the megtf trntes he wss fined heavily, and. In accordance with the part he was pholiig. would have gone to Jail Instead of paying the fine, had not a crowd of swnpathlrlng Nationalists Na-tionalists In the body of the court subseriled the amount of the fine between Hum After giving this liicontestntiio proof that he wss a genuine Nationalist aiid no Government spy. Hartley's reput.i lou win ree.--ib'l !i, i 'Work at the forge now became more brisk. Hut weefeas pievtoiiftly the men brought spades, shovels, sn ! plowshares to mend, they now brought pike ntid mu.kets Hirtlcy was trusted us he had nev r b en In-fore Tie week afur hi encounter will) the police h Was r -"n in as a regular member of the s-eej socio r-ro'v to take the pci(J (!fijrt the Government w , i ) rebellion won nt 'ioumed lie had. however. sti,.'i la led that le tloild fKit bs ached to bfive t) fo:g Uh'H a'tiial wsr bad hr-iKen n.it. sad . i wishes were r six'c'ed .any fir. emu wet tin! did f fid mau I ties -re mad- for He fnfii ! r iif ti e r r lutiort.i'y 'ii fy l' ir!lv i new the tisme of eer men her; Ilie name of every man wto h'd a n"e; Hie ti.i'ne of ir) Imm'v ttho committed su eirr'ir U r 'e years n ei - u-iy. Slid Hie rtsie t en rv jersnrt on w hum fir: out r.-re wis Il ie: ) .) to to romintttd It.-i'ite? j fide rprt4 of thei-e pisrilciiia's to tte e-itrxl o,rs in ImbVn He wan thimini r rt! toirj to) Jeep io-! Wt.i n fin ', ' eru luent thoui-M the ne! 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