, 1870-05-29
SATURDAY.. A{AT os, 1870,
THE FEHlAN TAI.p4yEps

IN one respect, this Feniau bnsinasa
about which there is some seeming .n5
ONE real interest, makes demand mon
Us 1of onr entire sympathy. To Ibera.a
Ireland by an invasion Of Canada IN x;n,,1-
a monstfous Irish bull, which non, h..
hioernlans could ever conceive Of: fo,. If
Canada lay to-day at the feet of Fenian.
ISM with oNeill as Governor Ganer,I
Ireland would be no nearer har libo,,t;,n
than she was before. The Canadian. b,ra
nothing to do with Ireland-neithar bola
hes III suh}ection, nor can make nor nnnr
her prosperity, and to invade their soil has
no mo7e 70 do, practically. with the ulti-
mate purpose of the Fenian movement
tean raid ware made unon
New Zealand or Hong Kong. The invasion
ot tanada therefore, Is only e1plicable on
the Donn,.bnook Fair principle, Of .sxhare-
ever you see head, hit it," tl.at an 1r;,b.
man 10 loves scrianage tha. he is readvt In
pitch in anyvh hers, without tie slightest re-
gard to any other result than broken head
to somebody. Looked 1t in this light. the
whole affair is of not much consequence.
except that the amusement is rather In ex-
penslEe one. For it is not much else tha,
sort Of Donnybrook Fair MI along the
border, without the slishsest possible
chance of success Of making Fenian lode-
nent in Canada, or tha teuo.es. poas;biii-
ty Of involving the Britiah and American
Governments in the trouble,
But there is one class Of Fenians far
whom We have good deal Of sympathy.
Devotion to liberty and county is feeling
Fhlch We must always respect, and we can
only wish that, in this case, it were better
directed, mud that these well-meaning peo-
pie we're not the dnps, Of parcel Of de-
Signing knaves who take advantage OF the
simplicity and real patriotism of their coun-
tyuen- It is pitiful to think of the hun
dreds of thousands of dollars which these
designing men wiring from the hard-easned I
wages Of DAY labore1a and servant women
to support themselves in idleness and The
achievement of nothing elsa bat their own
bad notoriety. These men know perfectly
well that they can do. nothing, and |
tnas, IN reality, they propose to
do nothing for the liberation
OF Ireland, and that in wasting away the
substance and the enthusiasm of their
dnped countrymen in these useless raids.
they are drawing upon fund, both material
and moral, which might, some time or other,
he needed for an effective purpose. They
are, moreover, in another way, guilty OF
great wrong toward Ireland No. only arc
they literally robbing the poor under false
pretenccs, but they are committing posi-
tive and immediate injury to the Irish peo-
pie at home. There is hardly poor Irish
g'rl or boy in this country who has not left
behind, who can only hope to
escape from poverty and w1etchedness at
home through the aid Of those who are sent
before to the United States. Mauy a ser.
want girl hero has denied herself clothinc
with bare subsistence only. that
she might hoard her wages to assist q broth
er OF sister, father or mother, to cross the
ocean Hundreds Of thousands Of dollars have
been sent homo annually to Ireland by this
class, either for this purpose, or to aid in
khe support of the family. To them aad to |
their quick sympathies, the Fenian appeal il
made, and from their scanty pittanca is
made up the fund which is wasted paztly IN
Ehese abortive raids on Canada, meant only
tor show, but chiefly in supporting these
|oafets who set mp their central Offices in
Dur Large cities, on the plea of working for
Ireland s liberation. There is not, that we
know OF, any remedy for this outrageous in
position upon the simple and ignorant; but it
IS none the less very pitiful 1t is difficult
20 get mt and undere1va Y37oea d,x,, LIZ /
here sre among the Irish a good many
oeople Who are not made fools Of, it is to
'e regretted that they will not or can not
make themselves heard, and expose the
nonstroua deception imposed upon 30
many Of their bamboozled country men and
women