, 1881-09-07

the most effective repression of SINH
lar shipments in future. While
American sentiment discourages any
interference with newspapers. no
matter how wildly they may talk,
American effort may be fully depen-
ded upon to do whatever is possible
to repress this ~nefarious business.
If the rascals engaged in it can be
caught, it will be o great pleasure to
Americans to capture and punish
them. While the will is there,
however, there seem almost insur-
mountable obstacles to the perform
ance. 1t is almost impossible in the
vast foreign export trade of the
United States to detect similar ship
ments, although all the officials are
on the alert and the steamship COM
panles c%leerlully cooperate. At
Boston they have been trying to hunt
up the shippers Of the cement BARRELS
but they have disappeared, and the
transfers who hauled them can not be
found. The search might as well have
never been ordered, because it would
be natural that the shippers OF the
doubtful goods who made their ar
engagements Oil june 9would get out
OF Boston as soon as possible.
Though the search may be fruitless,
however, il will at least convince our
k!nsmen in England of the excellent
intentions of the American Govern
ment q d people in this regard.
The commotion on the subject has had
a remarkable effect on the Fenians
themselves. They seem scared at the
Observation-Disclosures not so much at
the Liverpool discovery, as at the wonder
full demonstration OF American Indignation
that it has produced. They misinterpre-
ted American sympathy with Irish mis-
fortune as meaning connivance at their
own rasCalitY. They were entirely unpre-
pared for such a wholesale castigation
as the Press had given them. They
behaved like a lot Of frightened children,
no longer telling their ~braggart tales to
every newspaper reporter who can be got
to print them, and even denying many OF
the yarns they spun a few weeks ago.
They are experiencing the whitening
effect Of a deserved scoring by the entire
American Press in the unmiStakable Ian
Guage the American uses when he gets
excited. In popular estimation these
plotterS stand in the same position as
Guiteau. The effect has been almost
electrical in the sadlen s1oppage Of their
operations. The Internal machine trade
Is either brought to a Standstill or else it
is much better concealed than at any time
hithertofore. Tie plotters seem to have
almoSta all left their hauntS in New York
and elsewhere, and when the u~ntiring
''interview' on the newspaper staff is now
able to find the bra. CART that used to
talk so loudly, he can get nothing ont OF
him. They all seem to want TO hide them
selves and even ODonoyan RosSa, whom
nothing hitherto could abasn, is now
denying the stories he used to tell, and
almost declining to talk further. His
paper comes ont. but its sting is not as it
used to be. He tries to encourage that
the Liverpool discovery was a ruse, but
does it in a sickly sort of way that seems
half conviction. l think after a review of
the whole situation, that England cannot
but be convinced ofthe earnest intention
of America to suppress this trade, if pos
sible. and that the Fenian conspirators
themselves nave learnt Il lesson they Will
not soon forget.