CATTLE-DRIVING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 61, 5 December 1907, Page 5

CATTLE-DRIVING.

MR. GINNELL'S ... A DEMAND FOR. HIS ARREST. BY TELEOEArn—rRESa ABSOOIAWON-^COrTHIOUT. London, December 3. Mr. L. Ginnoll, Nationalist membor fo r ' North Westmoath, speaking at Kilskcer, de clarcd that the promise "of- Mr.' -'BirrelP, "Chin Secretary for Ireland,'to do what tliapeopl wanted if the demand was made with sufficient '**cient courage and energy, meant that the; ;° ought to pursuo cattle-driving vigorously." 18 The "Westminster Gazetto" urges th Government to. prosecute imemberstnof - thi '• House of Commons who arc inciting thi 5 - cattle-drivers, especially" Mr." Gitinoli. 3' C( .. i "Roscommon Percival. Phillip: in the 'Express') claim's tho ""doubtful liqnoui of being tno pioneer f cattle-raidiii! . - movement. It was' Mr.' Ginnoir who'*first'at! vocatnd brigandage as, a ;for agrarjai ills. Mr. Ginnoll,' bv the wayi'-is the mos vigorous of the incendianvoratore-who aro iu citing the men of Coniiaught to""lawlessness 'Let the bullocks wander,' said Mr. Ginnell ii his famous speech at the Downs a few month ugo. The raiders aro grateful to Mr._.G.inijel for this neat battle-cry. It will long survivi the present opidemic of brigandage... Mr- .Gin noil's inflammatory appeal spread-like wild firo throughout Eoseonvmon. .Local agitatpri took it up. 'Let the 'bollocks wander !' Eos common responded with enthusiasm. A' fev days after Mr. Ginnell's defiant speech, a inol opened the campaign .it^Tonlagee."... Laurence Ginnell, born at Delvin, West inoath, in 3854, is a self-educated man, ant a barrister. He is one of the founders of tin Irish Literary Society, and has written "Tin n Brelion Laws" and "Tljp Doubtful _ Grant 0 Ireland." In 1900 he was'defeated for .'West meatii North, but was suteessful in v 1906 , . J1 : Mr n Ginnell , hfia previously declared ..that ~"somi u members of the Government would bo glad t( seo the cattle-drivers-,-deal. a.-death-blow al i> all landlordism and ranching "by .blearing'tbi r land." Mr. Birrell's -teertt' 1 utterances "havi been clearly against cattle-driving, which, hi '• says, will, 'if persisted in, endangor all hii 1, schemes of reform. , ..; ..; ;