The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-25
THOSE EXILE.S OF ERIN

The struggle over O'Denovan Rossa and his
companions in exile appears to have subsidized
for the time being. These illustrious per-
sonages impaired by their presence additional
grandeur to the grand pageant in which the
New York Democracy INDUCED on st.
Patricks Day in the morning; and having had
by that time surfeit of ovation and recep-
ton, they settled down to more serious busi-
ness. 1t is scarcely worth ones while to be
an exile, unless it can be turned to sonae SUBJ
stantial account. Rosa and his
compatriots, albeit amateurs in
the exile line, are by no means so ingenious
that they do not comprehend the true func-
tions of an exile, and discern the rare privi-
leges which fall in the way especially of an
exile from Erin in these United States. Are
there not hod-carriers to be plundered, and
htchen-girls to be filched from Is the Irish
Directory business played out Are Head
Centres, and Central Organizers, and the
likes O. them utterly undone? Is the cause
of Irish independence an accomplished
fact Has the Sunburst sunk into the
sea, along with the snakes? O'Donovan
Rosa and his compatriots opine not; and
they have lost no time in organizing for
grand campaign against the hod-carriers and
the kitchen-girls whose scanty earnings at
tract their attention as the ill SAVIOR of the
carcase allures the bird of prey. So they Or
ganize Central Directory, or something of
that sort, for the custody of the funds which
are to purchase the redemption of Ireland,
and condescendingly invite all the Irishmen
and Irishwomen in America to drop their
old associations and send forward their cash
to the headquarters of the new one.
But they have run counter to opposition
from an unanticipated source. John Savage
has been in the Irish Redemption business
for some years past and knows Just what
percentage it pays. His experience has taught
him just how far kitchen-girls and hod-car-
riers may be bled without fatal effect. And
Savage is naturally 10th to give up his calling
at the bidding of this self constituted Direc-
tory. At session of the Fenian Brotherhood
in New York day or two ago, Savage let
fall some plain words. With one stroke of
his tongue he stripped O'Donovan Rosa
and the rest of the exiled crew of the
fiimsy conceit which had before disguised
them. she took OCCASION" says the re-
port, ''to rebuke the exiles for their dicta-
organization in this couhtry, that they might
establish secret directory, composed of
themselves, for the custody of the funds. "
Mr.. Savages head is perfectly level, as a man
with half an eye can perceive without spe-
cial effort. O'Donovan Rosss is after the
''custody of the funds" So is Savage, and
hence his rebuke of the exiles. 1t is not
that Savage is opposed to the systematic
plundering of hod-carriers and kitchen-girls,
under the vain pretense that their contributions
are to be directed towards the liberation
of Old Ireland. Savage evidently favors ''the
funds" objectjng only to undue haste on the
part of the exiles in constituting themselves 9
secret directory for their custody. If Savage
were ready to throw himself into the gap,
without thought of "the funds, he woald
not care silver who became the custodian,
so long as the money accumulated in some
body's hands. If O'Donovan Rossa and his
immediate companions in exile had theil
eyes on the gap alone, they would moi
attempt to disturb Savage in his
stronghold, nor indulge in unseemly
strife over ''the custody of the funds.
/ Both sets of Liberators are after
'the funds, the exiles being little more
eager than their rivals, because they are 9
tritie more seedy. Each crowd is ready tc
leap into the gap, but it is the gap in the
pockets of hard-fsted Irishmen and red
armed lrishwomen that invites their head
long plunge. They are after gold, not gore
The od-letting trick has long since ceased
10 be attractive, but ''the custody of the
funds is mighty good thing as long as
there are more fools among our fellow-citi
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