Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — Irish Newspaper Is Seized. [ARTICLE]

Irish Newspaper Is Seized.

The police seized at Dublin William O’Brien’s weekly paper, the Irish People. It is reported that the seizure was on account of reflections Upon King Edward. Another report says that the organ was seized for a coarse personal attack upon Mr. George Wyndham, the Irish secretary. It is probably for “lese majeste,” a crime almost obsolete in England, that the paper has been confiscated. It is surmised that the attack on King Edward was Mr. O’Brien’s comments on the civil list, which passed the house of commons, the Irish Nationalists voting against it. Several Irish papers have been seized recently for alleged scurrility and articles the English administration regards as seditious.