The New York herald., 1879-12-03


they began, that they intended only
peaceable and legitimate presentation OF
the grievances of the Irish peasantry
and small farmers. They have made
of it lawless, violent and revolu-
tionary movement for the subversion
of the rights of property. Such move
ment cannot improve the condition OF the
class who engage in it and in whose behalf
set Of unscrupulous agitators pretend to
act. 1t is certain to bring them suffering
and want An attack on society
and on the rights of property,
no matter on what pretext, is sure
to injure first and most seriously the
poorer part of the community, which lives
from hand to mouth, and to which peace,
security, the presence and free use of capi-
tai and the opportunity for uninterrupted
labor are of the utmost consequence. The
agitators Parnell, Biggar, Rea, Davitt, Kill
len are the worst enemies of the class in
whose name they are exciting Ireland to
violence, rapine, murder and revolution.
The British government has shown unpar-
donable weakness and carelessness in allow
ing these unscrupulous demagogues to 60 so
far. 1t ought, as the guardian of the Irish
peasants, to have crushed this agitation in
the beginning and thus have prevented the
imposition of burden and loss upon the
easily deceived peasant class, which these
can i'll afford.
What happens in ireland is Of extreme
interest to large number of people of Irish
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the knowledge of this fact probably which,
as the HERALD correspondent cables, brings
Parnell and some of his fellow agitators to
this country. They find Ireland getting too
hot for them because tho authorities have at
last begun to pay attention to their incendi-
ary and revolutionary attempts. So they
come over to the United States with the
purpose to set up an agitation here, where
they are safe from the police. leaving the
more courageous or less intelligent of their
fellow demagogues to take the risk of jails
and hanging.
When an Irish demagogue comes over
here to stir up his countrymen he always
means business. He does not mean to
fight. If he did he would stay in Ireland,
where, if anywhere, the fighting is to
go on. Absurd a creature as he is he is
not ridiculous enough to come over to ne
gotiate. No; he comes over for money.
We shall have Parnell and Finnegan and
lot Of Irish patriots over here in a steamer
or two. and they will begin their opera
tions by asking for contributions to pay
their expenses, their hotel bills, and after
that they will demand money to fit out the
revolution at home, which means to pay
the hotel bills and travelling ex-
penses of lot of other agita-
tors in Ireland and to get them
safely out of the country when they have
done as much mischief to the deluded Irish
peasantry as stupid government, busted
with foolish and failing foreign policy,
will allow them to do. When Parnel' and
Finnegan are therefore teiegraphed from
Sandy Hook it will be the duty OF the Irish
laborers, servants and honest hard working
poor people generally of that lineage to
unbutton their pockets. draw their little
savings out Of the bank and prepare to
pour them all into the big Parnell hat ''for
the sake of the old sod" There will
be a Parnell procession, and the hard
working Irish will not only be required
to turn out and march through the mud,
but they will have the expense Of the Par
nell carriages and the Finnegan ribbons
and the general glory Of the day. Then
there will be Parnell mass meeting in
Cooper Institute, wherein they will listen
to denunciations of the Saxon's tyranny and
be called on to curse the landlords, and for
this they will have to pay out of their
small earnings for the hire of the hail. for
the gas--that supplied by the gas COM
panies and still more for that furnished by
too easily aroused pity for the unfor-
tunates at home by raising the wind for
the unfortunates who have prudently left
home.
We should like to see the Irish of New
York show these agitators that they are not
so easy to be humbugged out of their hard
earnings. We would not ask them to be
SO ungenerous as to give nothing to Parnell
by no means. An Irishman always gives
something when he is asked. Let them
give these demagogues the cold shoulder;
that is all they deserve.
Docs the HERALD in this advice urge the
Irish in America to be needless ofthe suffer-
ings or the grievances of their countrymen
at home? Not at all. But it urges
them to act like men of sense in
helping their kin. How is costly
procession in New York going TO help q
suffering small farmer in Ireland? How
can costly mass meeting in Cooper In
sttute increase the comfort of even one
Irish family at home? The Irish of this
country, if they have means to spare, can
easily help their friends at home. Let
them turn their backs on Parnell and
Finnegan and on oil revolutionary at