The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-08-05

Despite the growl VI those who never ap-
preciate good thing until It 10 gone, and
who pirate continually ~ "the good old
times" II Is an accepted fact thai the world
Is growing wiser and better. Civilization 10
gaining the mastery over barharism and In
tellect Is Harvesting the forces of nature and
placing the Ieins In the hands If man. RAJ
tional religion Is reaching remotest lands,
and the intelligent desires OF mankind are
, gratified by scientific achievements that pre-
sent daily the history Of this, aud measure
the ways Of q universe Of worlds. We are
better clad and fed, travel easier aud quicker,
take less medicine, read more and talk less
Is each generation succeeds another, and
ought ~ be better, and are. II requires r-
Elections general as these occasionally to dis
sipate the feeling Of horror that some great
crime arouses aud the sequent thought
whether the world Is not going to the devil
by the short cut. An instance Of this kind 10
suggested now In the interview accredited 10
use If Internal machines to liberate Ireland
aud crush the power Of Great Britain. Not
Whilst anding O'Donoyan Rosa pronounces
| IL Joke, there Is q CHASTITY reality ia the
capture of the machines, aud consideration of
the purpose Is quickened IN remembrance Of
the dead Gar, the wounded President, the
recent mysterious explosions on record, and
the seitimement Of Nihilism and communism
that Is abroad. These are sufficient to ueu-
tralize the the impulsive thought that the
project Is too dsstardly to be contemplated.
Itussa says lie spent $4,000 building ali Irish
torpedo boat which was failure. What did
ireland want with torpedo boat? Has she
declared war against England ? and where
between a method that would sink a
vessel from the outside or blow IL up with all
Internal machine from the inside? Is this
the disposition made Of the money col
lected from the Irishmen and lrshwomen u
America " alleviate the sdfferings Of Their
{ country people at home A? The story OF
Grove is more credible than that Of Rosa,
and both are Infamous. The Irish are Q
brave race Of people. They have carried
mole muskels aud standards In wars for lii.
erty than any other nation Oh earth, and are
mol afraid To fight for Ireland when her stand.
| ards are up for war; but that very courage
which has placed them In the van Of battle
and made their name synonymous with val
or, will resent the act Of those who throw
discredlt Oh the name aud cause. The ell
NIFTY 10 Britain which cannot distinguish
the difference between honorable, open war.
fare, and placing dynanit. machines OIL pas.
senger vessels to carry down men, women
and children, without moments warning
in mid-Ocean, Is fendishness. That there
are those who would resort TO this expert.
ence demonstrates, but IL does not by
p'hilisin or communism would approve the
act, or that these exceptional attrocitie:
would not have been attempted and perpe
trsted any age.
As such exceptions they should meet con
dign punishment, and 1t is gratifying to SEE
the chief law officer Of the nation assert thai
be can fluid law TO reach such cases and de
liver the communists To the Justice VI th.
lands whose citizens and property they men
ace. America should DO neither an arsena
f"r the manufacture Of Internal machines MOI
. refuge for rufians. II Il shall prove a
ODonnovsn Rosa claims, that the Peori'
machines were harmless affairs, he will still
b. left to explain the $4,000 torpedo boat
but " they prove Is Grove states, veritabl'
engines Of destruction, designed to sprea'
terrorism, death and destruction, It is 10 b
hoped English law will have opportunity u
break up the manufacture by the present pru
priet0rs. Their continuance Ia busiuea
might strengthen the arguments Of thos
who hold :" the times are out Of jpint," AM
that we gov wickeder with wisdom,