another fellow wanted his
job of one and six-pence a day! It has come to this, that if
you differ with one of them for a shilling, or refuse to give
him his way in everything the first thing that comes into his
head is to moonlight you.... They have not elevation or social
instinct to settle their petty disputes by process of law
provided for the purpose by a civilized society, nor have they
Christianity enough to bear a little wrong or disappointment
for Christ's sake. No, nor the manliness even to meet an
opponent face to face and see it out with him like a man; but
with the cunning of a mean and vicious dog, he steals behind
him in the dark and shoots him in the back, or murders the
helpless woman of his family, or shoots out the eyes of the
poor man's horse, or cuts the throat of his bullock and spikes
his beast upon a gate."

Nor has the present year brought much improvement. In May 1913, Mr.
R. Maunsell was fired at and wounded close to the town of Ennis. His
crime was that he managed a farm for a Mr. Bannatyne, whose family had
been in possession of it for about sixty years, but who had recently
been denounced by the United Irish League and ordered to surrender it.
As he has refused to do so, he is now compelled to live under police
protection.

The abolition of landlordism and the acquisition of firearms can
hardly be said to have brought peace and tranquillity to the County of
Clare.

And as to Galway, we may gather the state of affairs from the report
of a case tried at the Winter Assizes of 1912. Three men were charged
with having done grievous bodily harm to a man named Conolly. Conolly
swore that he knew a man named Broderick who had become unpopular but
he (Conolly) kept to him and this brought displeasure on him from the
accused and others. On the night of the 11th September he went to bed;
he was subsequently awakened and found 44 grains of shot in his left
knee and four in his right. He then lay flat on the floor. Other shots
were fired through the window but did not strike him. The judge said
the district was a disgrace to Ireland. Day after day, night after
night, heaps of outrages were committed there, and not one offender
was made amenable to justice. The jury disagreed, and the accused were
again put on their trial. The judge in charging the jury on the second
trial said that then, and for some time, the district was swarming
with police,