The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-05

lrisbwomen in America, who have for year
past been making very liberal contributions
of money to aid cause which they are now
told has not, thus far, had the benefit of one
cent of hundreds of thousands of dollars
they have squeezed from their little incomes
and savings, and poured into the Golfers of
OMAHoNY, ROBERTS, and SWEENEY.
Another member of the same inquisitorial
delegation, fresh from the sod, is reported to
have pitched into the falthess stewards in the
following more vigorous than iastidious Ian
guaRe. He said:-
"Men sre making promises and telling such
lies 10 the people in this country as j never
heard of in my life. l am sick of them, and
am sorry TO say that my country has too much
reason to be sick of them, and that they deserve
the abomination of our people. The world is
sick OF them, and If they escape instice they
may hide their faces evermore and thank their
lucky stars IL they succeed in doing so. They
talk OF our country, and they have not rides
enough there for one regiment The we're
some revolVers bought, which were afterwards
retailed TO our poor people at profit. This was
nice way to arm q people. All this sham is
row pretty well exploded, except among some
tools on whose backs you can ride till the day
OF Judgment"
Well, now, if all that is here stated be true,
then a good many honest people have been
very shametully swindled, to say nothing of
the cause that enlisted their afTec ions and
their means, and which should, at least, have
been too sacred to every true Irish heart to
be disgraced by the dishonesty of peculating
mercenaries in any part of the world.
But the hope of Irishmen for the indie
pendence of Ireland seems doomed to be for
ever cursed by few talse-hearGed upstairs
and pretenders, who use the worlds SYM
pathy with the wrongs and sorrows of their
native land either to fill their empty pockets
with the gold coined literally from the sweat
drops of honest Irish labor and given freely
by honest Irish patriotism, or to advance
themselves, politically and pecuniary, in
foreign lands. Whether O'MAHoNY, Ro-
BERTs, or SWEENEY ever entertained
a serious intention of going to Ireland,
and taking any part in her proposed war for
emancipation, we are not prepared to affirm.
But there are certain young Irishmen in this
city gifted with more tongue than brains, and
more zeal for their own advancement in this
country than manly and sincere solicitude for
the liberties OF Ireland, who may b. heard
almost any night splitting their lungs at
Fenian meetings. What they get for that
cheap service from thesHead Centres here is
not yet revealed TO the public; but they
manage to have their names printed in the
newspapers, and brief abstract of their
twaddle reported in their columns.
In short, the truth probably is, that Fenian-
ism here is grand humbug in so far as the
leaders Of it are concerned, and will result in
nothing but huge embezzlement OF funds
contributed by the honest friends of Ireland
to assist her people in a generous yet despe-
rate effort to relieve themselves from political
oppression.
That enterprise never was either well
founded or well conducted, and when this
last attempt to revive it was first made, we
saw that bitter dissenson among the Fenians
here, and a selfish struggle for the leadership,
would cause the whole thing to end in dsap-
pointment. Events have confirmed that pre-
vision, and our duty is to warn all true Irish
men in America to beware of being longer
cheated by false promises.