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22 THE TOMAHA WK. [January 16, 1869-
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THE WITCHES OF THE WAR OFFICE. A Farce, ...
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" The Agrarian War In Tipperary—Another ...
landlord would not be half so general , or so powerful , if crimes of this kind had always been punished with the same energy and severity that we employ in ordinary cases of murder . Without the slightest scruple we advocate the utmost rigour of the law against the murderer of Mr . Baker , and against all the accomplices of his crime , whether before or after the deed . We would have no reward offered for his apprehension—that is another mischievous practice which the English Government has always pursued with disastrous pertinacity—but we would advocate the instant publication of a proclamation , declaring that anyone found affording aid or shelter to the murderer will be punished with the utmost severity that the law admits ; and after a reasonable time has elapsed , and if the police have still reason to believe that the assassin is in the country , we would have the most rigorous house-to-house search instituted by a sufficient force , and picquets of constables stationed at every point by which he might try to escape . Any of the people annoying or throwing obstacles in the way of the authorities should be promptly punished ; and when the arrest of the assassin has been effected , and he has been condemned and hung , then , and not till then , will it be time to propose a measure for regulating the tenure of land in Ireland , securing every advantage to such tenants as may be willing to improve their land , but giving every facility for evicting those who steadily refuse to do so . Unless we -are prepared to do something like this , the cry of " Justice to Ireland" is mere mockery , for it means nothing but the grossest favour and indulgence to the idle and vicious at the expense of the industrious and the good . We have given the most solemn assurances of our intention to abolish all abuses in the government of Ireland ; let us show that we are determined to uphold the law , or the large party of disreputable robbers and assassins , who call themselves Irish patriots , will mistake a just concession for a cowardly submission , and will only grow more and their more excesses insolent . their demands , and more and more brutal in
Take up Nassau Senior ' s book on Ireland , converse with any moderate and sensible Irishman of real liberal opinions , and you will find how impossible it is to do any good to Ireland till these agrarian crimes are relentlessly suppressed . If the people will not aid the law as it at present exists , the law must be made strong enough to do without their aid . It is not our object to enter now into elaborate details of the condition of the land in soon I relan discover d , but any fo r himself , who is the not fac too t prejudiced that it is reall to see y impossible truth , may to make the land in Ireland productive , except at the risk of your own or your agent ' s life . Other tenants can make the farms return ample profit , but your Irish tenant sits down and expects the crops to grow of themselves , and is ready to murder the owner of the land if he objects to the perpetual occupancy by the Irish peasant of the soil , which he is doing his best to convert into a waste as irreclaimable and as useless as himself . Fearless of the thunders of abuse which the O'Donoghues and the Sullivans , . and the host of other persons who are always ready to give away what does not belong to them , we entreat the authorities to act in this case of assassination , and in all other cases of agrarian outrage , with the utmost severity ; to listen to no cry for mercy , and to no plea of extenuation , but to teach the fears of the people that such things are dastardly crimes , if they cannot teach their minds or their hearts .
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22 THE TOMAHA WK . [ January 16 , 1869-
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The Witches Of The War Office. A Farce, ...
THE WITCHES OF THE WAR OFFICE . A Farce , in One Act ( not of Parliament ) .
Scene—A Cavern, Kept Very Dark. First Wi...
Scene—A Cavern , kept very dark . First Wit In ch the . — charmed Round about ingredients the cauldro throw n ; go , Schemes Pay of discontinued concocted in clerk the ; dark Rumours of impending Plot ; ; Vested Fire burn int ' rests and cauldron gone to pot warm ; This our hell , -broth of Reform , All . —Make Dep the artmental gruel thick toil and with trouble double ! Second Witch . —Cover torn from Book of Blue To give colour to our stew ; To Tang tie th ' pudding official tape into shape ; The Slice n the Colonel charm ' s is sinecure doubly , sure . / All . —Make Departmental the gruel thick toil and with trouble double ! Third Witch Shavings . —E from stimates the gen cut ' ral down staff one ; -half ; Spoke of Waggon ; tear from th' eye Add Of desponding cheese-parings com , miss good ' sugge ; stion , To Stir make into th it ' easy envenomed of digestion whole ; Essence of half-fledged Control ! All . —Make Departmental the gruel thick toil and with tro double uble ! \
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to The the Editor Ex ' -Amateu of th & e Tomahawk o : f Two Feet , and present begs s to his inform compliments him that he Clerkship Having has , during in now the the p Wafer lenty past week of and time Ice , successfully Office upon , Whitehall his competed hands . , for The a Junior Ex-Amateur of Two Feet will send next week a sketch of " the Amateur ment Office Clerk . , " giving a picture of life in a West End Govern-
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), Jan. 16, 1869, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_16011869/page/4/
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