On Sunday Mr. Dillon spoke at a public demonstra- tion
to protest against a case of landgrabbing, held at Ballybrood, a few miles from Limerick. "With regard to the ]andgrabbers," said Mr. Dillon, "what course did he and his colleagues recommend? (I voice: "To shoot them.") He remembered a nursery-rhyme, Little Bo Peep, and he dared say they did also. He would apply the- rhyme to the grabber, Leave him alone, and he would go home, and leave the grabbed farm behind him.' The people should unite and make landgrabbing an impossibility; and if they did not do this, they had no one to blame but themselves." Meantime, Mr. Morley, who only holds office owing to Mr.. Dillon's support, is honestly doing his best to prevent the persecution and intimidation of the unfortunate men who- have taken evicted farms. The very meeting at which Mr. Dillon spoke was held a mile away from the farm, in accord- ance with the new police regulation,—" Morley's mile," as it has come to be called in Ireland. It is a very sinister situa- tion. We believe Mr. Morley is in intention perfectly honest but we cannot help wishing that he would tell Mr. Dillon that he will not remain an hour longer at the Castle to help- the Nationalist cause unless Mr. Dillon and his colleagues cease making such speeches as that of last Sunday. If he did so, Mr. Dillon must muzzle himself, for Mr. Morley's resignation would mean the end of the Home-rule Govern- ment.
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