given by my first visit. Throughout the province the feeling is still
the same--an immovable determination to resist at all hazards the
imposts of a Dublin Parliament. They will have no acts or part in it.
They will send no members, they will pay no taxes, they will not
accord to it one jot or tittle of authority. They will offer armed
resistance to any force of police or Sheriff's officers acting under
warrants issued by the College Green legislators. Resistance to the
Queen's authority they regard as altogether out of the question. But
it remains to be seen whether British troops will "shoot them down
like dogs." The Ulstermen think not, and they have good reasons for
this opinion. The mere threat of Home Rule in 1886 cost forty lives in
the streets of Belfast alone. Who can say what would be the results of
the bill becoming law? Surely every reliable test points in one
direction. The Gladstonian party, without a shadow of reason, have
affected to doubt the courage and resolution of the Northerners, but
the breed of the men and their long history are a sufficient answer to
these cavillers. True it is that their courage has not been
demonstrated by murder, by shooting from behind a wall, or the
battering out of a policeman's brains, a hundred against one, or the
discharging of snipe-shot into the legs of old women and young
children, after the fashion so popular with the party with whom Mr.
Gladstone and his heterogeneous crew are now acting. But for all that,
the pluck and tenacity of Ulstermen are undeniable. Their cause is
good, and left to themselves they would win hands down.
It is therefore demonstrated by a consensus of the weightiest
authorities and by the results of personal investigation that not only
would civil war between Irish parties be the inevitable result of Home
Rule, but that there would also be war between Ireland and England;
that Irish Unionists are determined to resist to the last, and that
they possess the means of resistance. They are touched on the
subjects they hold most sacred--religion, freedom, property; and
despite the assurances of Mr. Gladstone, who desires to judge the
Nationalist party by their future, the keen Ulstermen prefer to judge
them by their past. And bearing these things in mind, it is not
unreasonable to say that Englishmen who support the present policy of
the Separatist party are at once enemies of Ireland and traitors to
their native land.
And now my task as your Special Commissioner in Ireland is at an end.
Without fear or favour I have described the country as I found it, and
have exposed the character and the motives of the men to whom Mr.
Gladstone would entrust its future government. I was no bigoted
partisan when my task began, but in a period of six months I have
traversed the country from end to end, and at every step my first
impressions have been deepened. It would be a folly--yea, it would be
a crime--to withdraw from Ireland that mitigating influence of British
rule which alone prevents a lovely island becoming the foul and
blood-stained arena of remorseless sectarian strife.
Birmingham, August 18th.
FINIS.
GENERAL INDEX
ACHIL ISLANDS, 244.
AGRICULTURE, Mr. Balfour's aids to, 179 and 370.
"ALL YOU WANT," an Irish Programme, 331.
AMERICAN Tourist's Opinion, 7 and 31;
Help for Ireland, 329.
ARAN ISLANDS, 156.
ARMAGH, 291.
ASHBOURNE ACT, Happy results of, 133.
ATHENRY, 177.
BALFOUR, Right Hon. A.J., reception in Belfast, 20;
reception in Dublin, 40;
Galway Fisheries, 135;
Ditto, 140;
The Man for Ireland, 152;
Aids Agriculture, 179;
Secret of Success, 210;
List of his Light Railways, 387.
BALLYMENA, Description of, 32.
BANKS, Effects of Home Rule Bill on, 8.
BEGGARS, Irish, 237, 360, and 378.
BELFAST, Newcastle Miners in, 22;
Belfast and Dublin Corporations compared, 22;
Chamber of Commerce, 29;
Riots of 1886, 29;
Later Opinions, 317.
BLARNEY STONE, The, 65.
BODYKE, Visit to, 103;
History of Estate, 105;
Evictions at, 106 and 109;
Tenants could Pay, 118.
BOYCOTTING (_see also_ Outrage, &c.).
The Darcy Family, 118;
Mr. Strachan, of Tuam, 130;
Children Starving, 151;
For expressing Political Opinions, 227;
Father Humphreys on, 264;
Mrs. Taylor's Case, 346.
BOYNE, Battle of the, 307.
BUNDORAN, Attack on Protestants at, 384.
CABLES, Nationalists and Atlantic, 11.
CHAMBERLAIN, Right Hon. J., and Mr. Dillon, 297.
CAPPAWHITE, Assault, 53.
CAPITAL, Idle Irish, 200.
CATHEDRALS, Tipperary, 48;
Monaghan, 299.
CATHOLICS, Roman, Opinion of Unionist, 14;
Hatred of Protestants, 14 (_see also_ Intolerance);
The Loyalist, 166 and 266.
CATTLE in living rooms, 245.
CHARACTER SKETCHES--A Kerry Shopkeeper, 69;
Philip Fahy, 125;
An Old Woman, 148;
Local Names, 175;
Ladies and their Boots, 178;
Bailiffs and Gangers, 182;
Achil Car Driver, 247.
CHARITY, Effects of Home Rule Bill on, 7;
Hopelessness of helping the Irish by, 238.
CHURCHYARD, an Irish, 223.
CLARE, "Unmanageable Devils," 74;
the Curse of County, 81;
Civil War in, 102.
COERCION, Irish Legislature and, 114.
CONGESTED DISTRICTS, a precise definition of, 178;
Description of, 230.
CORK, Sentiment in, 61.
CREDULITY of Irish, 3, 13, and 119;
Belief in Fairies, 138;
Hill full of Diamonds, 150.
CROKE, Archbishop, 351.
CUSTOMS, Collection of, under Home Rule, 58.
DE BURGHO, Lady, and Evictions, 113.
DEGRADATION, Glimpses of Irish, 244.
DILLON, John, convicted at Tipperary, 53.
DISLOYALTY (_see also_ Union of Hearts); "To hell with Queen
Victoria," 4;
the Town Crier, 218;
Cursing the Queen, 262;
Father Ryan's Manifesto, 276;
Irish Press admits, 287;
Poem against joining the Army, 364;
T.D. Sullivan's Verses, 337.
DONEGAL, Do-Nothing, 371.
DUBLIN, Opinions in, 1;
compared with Belfast, 22.
DUGORT, 251.
DUNDALK, 278.
DYNAMITE, Use of, justified, 235;
Daly, 275.
EDUCATION, Catholic designs on, 301.
ELECTIONS (_see also_ Voting) in Ulster, 342;
False Swearing, 360.
ENGLAND, Apathy of Electors in, 6;
Effects of Home Rule on English Industries, 43, also 213 and 372;
English Ignorance of Ireland, 238;
Not Governed by Englishmen, 279.
EVICTIONS (_see also_ Bodyke). Sadleir case, 57;
Ruane, 130;
What They Mean, 228;
In Queen's County, 334.
FACTORIES, Galway Bag, 141;
Ditto, 182;
Flour Mills, &c., idle, 200.
FAMINE in Achil, 253;
"Please God we'll have a Famine," 255.
FARMERS, English and Irish compared, 99;
Irish Petted and Spoiled, 281.
FENIANS, Opinion of, 260;
O'Leary and Stephens, 388.
FISHERIES, Priests' Falsehoods about, 94;
Galway, 135;
Price of Fish, 139;
Aran Island, 158;
Curing Taught, 181.
FLAX-Growing Neglected, 290.
FOREST Planting in Congested Districts, 180.
FOWL Breeding Encouraged, 370.
FRANCHISE, Effects of lowering, 78.
FREEMASONS, Archbishop Walsh and, 19.
FUNERALS in Connaught, 214.
GAG, _Irish Catholic_ on, 343.
GALWAY, Board of Guardians, 140;
Harbour Folly, 175.
GEOGRAPHICAL Necessity, 357.
GLADSTONE, Right Hon. W.E., attacks Parnell, 96;
"Oi'm goin' across the Say," 134;
Mob Rule, 150;
As a "Jumper," 248;
his "firm belief," 309;
"the party of law and order," 325.
GLADSTONIANS converted in Ireland, 137, 154, and 312.
GORT, Description of, 116.
GRUBB, Sir Howard, 1.
GUARDIANS, Boards of, and Rates, 267.
HARRINGTON, "Tim," 9.
HARVEST Hands for England, Irish, 247, 251, 258;
_see also under_ England.
HEALY, "Tim," his parentage, 64.
HOLY WATER, 186.
HOME RULE, a Coffin for, 3;
Nationalist Opinions of Bill, 8;
How Nationalists will work, 10;
A Peasant's View of, 54;
Not Yet, 70;
Home Rule from Mr. Balfour, 70;
Mr. Manley on, 98;
Praying against, 120;
Masses don't want, 137;
"Let us have Chaos," 164;
"Can we eat it?" 173;
An Irish Criticism of, 215;
Who oppose it? 249;
_United Ireland_ on, 291;
German View of, 305;
Its Friends and Enemies, 330;
Parnellites dread it now, 376.
HOUGHTON, Lord, 272, 286, 316.
HUMOROUS INCIDENTS narrated: The Phoenix Park Orator, 9;
An "Iligant" Tenant, 31;
"The Devil's Bite," 56;
The Timprance Man, 56;
A Lending Transaction, 80;
The Galway Fisherman, 124;
"When I'm sober," 148;
"'Tis Home Rule ye want," 160;
Mr. Morley and the Car-driver, 177;
The Wild Ass, 181;
Michael and the Postal Service, 208;
The Cattle Boat, 275;
A Question of Feet, 357;
An Irish Retort, 364;
Finn Water _v._ Purgatory, 354.
IGNORANCE, the Kerry Folks', 68.
IMMIGRATION, Effects of Home Rule on, 210.
IMPROVIDENCE, in Connaught, 124;
Irish Farmers', 227.
INTIMIDATION (_see also_ Bodyke), Sadleir's Case, 57;
How it is Done, 132.
INTOLERANCE, Irish, 339, 349.
IRELAND, Another Injustice to, 122.
IRISH LANGUAGE, 203.
IRISH NATIONAL FEDERATION, Commissioner attends a "Mass Meeting" of
the, 282;
Sequel thereto, 371.
IRISH MEMBERS, Popular Opinions of, 8 and 57;
Protected by Police, 60;
Contempt for, 114;
Why Distrusted, 151;
Matt Harris, 205;
Fenians on, 260.
JURIES, The Cork, 69.
LANDLORDS Must Exist, 117;
Tim Healy on, 338.
LAND (_see also_ Rent), Sub-division of, 58;
Land Hunger, 99 (_see also_ Summary Article, 396);
Tenants Real Owners, 192;
a Farmer's View, 225;
Must be Worth Something, 228;
Land Commission Rewards Idleness, 373.
LAND LEAGUE, Defying the, 65;
Reign at Loughrea, 142;
Overmatched, 254;
Gladstone and Harcourt on, 315.
LAND PURCHASE, Falsehoods about, 144.
LAZINESS, Examples of, 36;
Mr. James Dunn on Irish, 123;
Mr. McMaster's Offer, 155;
In England Work, in Ireland Play, 229;
an Excuse for, 245;
Death and, 250;
"Going to," 378.
LEGISLATION, with a Hard G, 330.
LIES, Nationalist, about Daly, 279;
about Westminster, 316;
about Mr. Balfour, 344.
LINEN TRADE of Londonderry, 34.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, A Nationalist on, 277.
LOGAN, M.P., False Statements about Rents, 195.
LOGUE, Cardinal, 293;
his Father, 357.
LONDONDERRY, Description of, 34.
MACADAM, Mr., Bodyke Agent, 103.
MCFADDEN, Father, his income, 369.
MAGEE, Detective James, 388.
MANSIONS IN RUINS, 184.
MARRIAGE Customs in Connaught, 213;
in Achil Islands, 246;
Juvenile, 257.
MAYNOOTH, Enemy of England, 76, 326;
Dr. Wylie on, 350.
MINES, Delusions about, 121, 145, 212, 233, 358, 362.
MINORITY, The, 296, 312.
MONAGHAN, 299.
MORLEY, Right Hon. John, soliloquy, 89;
on the side of crime, 104;
tight-fisted, 153;
the cab-driver and, 177;
police on, 226;
philandering, 389.
MULLINGAR, 191.
NATIONALISM, its real nature, 4;
_see also_ summary article, 390.
NEWRY, 285.
NOLAN, Colonel, interview with, 126;
a Parnellite, 210;
assaulted by a priest, 281.
O'BRIEN, WILLIAM, convicted at Tipperary, 53.
O'CALLAGHAN, Colonel, 100.
O'SHAUGHNESSY, Dr., on Home Rule, 115.
ORANGE LODGES, their toleration, 33;
demonstrations, 319;
charged with rowdyism, 323;
constitution of the, 324.
OUTRAGES: Two girls brutally assaulted, 60;
fifteen in County Clare, 83;
hushing up, 89;
dread of, 91;
Loughrea, 142;
a terrible list of, 167;
a fire, 198;
Mr. Moloney shot, 199;
Castle explosion, 218;
Mr. Blood fired at, 281.
PARLIAMENT, an Irish, what it could do, 188;
fancy picture of, 268.
PARNELLITES and Anti-Parnellites defined, 270.
PARNELL, Mr., Priests and, 79;
secret of his success, 133;
still worshipped in Dublin, 277.
PEACE, Ireland needs, 72.
PLEDGES and Promises, Value of Irish, 97.
POLICE, The Dublin, 5;
refuse protection at Bodyke, 107;
Mr. Morley and the, 226.
PONSONBY Rents, 50.
POST OFFICE Savings Bank, Run on, 8.
POTATO Seed Wasted, 248.
POVERTY, English and Irish, 255.
PRESS, The Irish, 272;
on finality, 337.
PRIESTS AND PEOPLE (_see also_ Voting): A terrible danger, 71;
priests' one idea, 73;
priests at Home Rule Convention, 164;
never denounced outrage, 167;
people believe anything priest tells them, 204;
present day priests, 211;
"I am responsible," 242;
"admit bearer," 263;
"pay, pay, pay, from the cradle to the grave," 325;
spiritual tyranny, 332;
refusing the sacrament, 348;
a loyal priest, 365.
PROTECTIONISTS, 269.
PROTESTANTS, Attack on, at Cappawhite, 53;
persecution of, at Tuam, 131;
colony at Dugort, 246;
why they are Unionists, 380;
Bundoran outrage upon, 384.
RAILWAYS--Mr. Balfour's--Cork and Muskerry, 65;
the Connemara, 169;
a ride on a new line, 174;
an engine ride, 230;
building on a bog, 231;
a dangerous ride, 241;
full list of Balfour Light Railways, 387.
REGISTRATION FRAUDS, 341.
RENTS, the Ponsonby, 50;
rack renting, 100;
quite low enough, 143;
what rack rent means, 190;
land must be worth something, 228;
to whom is rent due? 335;
Dublin Corporation tenants and Clanricarde tenants compared, 335;
a Donegal rent book, 354.
REPUBLIC, An Irish, 162;
could we reconquer? 185.
RIBBONMEN and Nationalists compared, 276.
ROSSMORE, Lord, and Monaghan Town Council, 301.
RUINS, Irish, 310.
SALTHILL, 149.
ST. PATRICK, 307.
SCOTCH and Irish Compared, 286 and 375.
SECURITIES, Effect of Home Rule Bill on, 7.
SECRET Societies, 148.
SENTIMENT, a Priest on Irish, 188.
SMITH Barry, Mr., 50.
SOAP as a remedy for Ireland's ills, 95.
SOLDIERS, Irish Girls and, 79;
complaint when withdrawn, 278.
STRABANE Agricultural Show, 375.
STRANORLAR, 352.
STRIKE Leaders and Nationalists compared, 370.
SULLIVAN, T.D., on India, 337.
SUMMARY ARTICLES:--
1--Irish Nationalism is not Patriotism, 390.
2--Land Hunger: Its Cause, Effect, and Remedy, 396.
3--Clerical Domination and its Consequences.
4--Civil War a certainty of Home Rule.
SUPERSTITION (_see also_ Credulity), the Holy Man, 62.
TENANTS' Losses, 52.
TERRORISM in Dublin, 10;
Rev. R. Eager, 12;
at Tipperary, 48.
TIPPERARY, New and Old, 48.
TOLERATION, would Catholics show? 300 and 303.
TRADE, Home Rule effects on (_see also_ England), 7 and 65.
TRADITION, Effects of, 76.
TUAM, 128;
Indignation Meeting, 220.
ULSTER, Feeling on Home Rule Bill in, 13;
Preparation for War, 13;
English Sympathy with, 15;
Loyalist Programme, 16;
Character of Ulstermen, 243;
Articles on, 285;
"tak a doom'd lot of managin'," 321.
UNION of Hearts, Dublin mob on, 42;
"When England's bur-r-sted up," 74;
Miss Gonne, 93;
Union Jack cut down, 191;
"When Britons first at Hell's command" (_see also_ Disloyalty), 197.
VICTORIA Disaster, Irish opinion of, 297.
VOTING, Priests and, 263, 332;
Priests endowed with a thousand votes, 353;
Regulations wanted against priests, 360.
WALSH, Archbishop, 274.
WAR, Preparations for, in Ulster, 13;
Mr. Morley's precautions, 27;
Ireland's policy when England is at war, 314;
Danger of civil war, 409.
WORTHINGTON, Mr. Robert, on ruin by Home Rule, 43.
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