The Eighty Club in Ireland were maliciously described by a
Unionist speaker as a party of dull bores who had to go with
h one another because they could not get anyone else to go with them. It was also pointed out that they went with the r minds made up and that their inquiry into the state of th.. country was a farce because it was a foregone conclusion. These animadversions, we are glad to be able to say. cannot now be altogether justified. The Eighty Club have made a die. covery : they have found a Protestant farmer in County Cork suffering under a systematic and ruthless boycott, for which there is no moral or economic justification, and cm, of their number, who happens to be the special correspon- dent of the Daily Chronicle, has issued an appeal to M r John Redmond "to exercise his great authority to stop this persecution of an innocent man." Better late than never. The Eighty Club, if they go on waking up in this way, will one day discover the existence of outrage as well as boycottintz. TheY may even yet lift up their voice, though the Radical Press have kept silence for three years on the subject, in condemn:aim/ of the murder of Constable Goldrick. who was shot dead ar Craughwell while protecting the occupants of a boycotted faro' or of the abominable and protracted boycotting of Mr. Char;e4 Clarke near Thurles. It is right to add that Mr. Clarke aa- only a landlord, and that at the time of the Croughweli murder Liberal politicians were not yet in a position to ask Mr Redmond for concessions in return for value received.
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