New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-23
THE NETS FROM DUBLIN.

Private letters from Dublin enable us 10 reau
tbe proclamations issued on Saturday between
tbe lines. II is estimated that not less than
tUo hundred people must be cOgnizant OF the
facts of the murders in the Fh6nx Park' tnat
a large proportion of these are so far lmpl-
Gated as to be in danger If the murderels are
discovered, while they would place themselves
in safety and secure a reward by giving ln1or-
nation to the police.
There is no other country in the world, per-
haps, where such a secret would have been
kept for so long time by so large number
of ignorant people The IriShman has learned
one lesson during the centuries of bondage OF
which he compans-that is to hold his tongue
His silence in this case is not due so much to
the national hatred of the infOrmer though
that bore its part, as to AFFECT terror, llrst OF
English law and secondly of Irish revenge.
witnesses state that there has not been as
profound an agitation among the better classes
of Irish society since the rebellion OF 80 as
that which followed these Park murders.
Threat of summary vengeance were loud anu
fierce. not so much from the English as from
the reputable Irish who felt that their name was
being disgraced IRE parably III the eyes OF the
world; and it is no wonder that this unex-
pected coalition between their own people and
the Sassenachs appalled, the ignorant accom-
phces of the murderers so that even yet they
dare not avOw their knowledge of the crime
As 10 what the iniOrmer has right to expect
from his coadjutOrs, the wholesale slaughter OF
the Joyces shows him plainly. Only one OF this
family was suspected of having betrayed a
crime Ca much less crime than that OF
the Phoenix Park, yet when ten men
received the order to murder :he whole
OF them not one ventuIed to protest, or indeed
had apparently any wish to do So The rewards
now offered are high, and must seem like mex
haustible. riches to tie half-starved wretches
who have guarded this terrible secret SO long.
Two thousand five hundred dollars for anony-
nous information concerning the car or Its
driver or the clothes or weapons of the assassins,
would assuredly tempt them unless the power
that keeps them silent be as relentless and
certain in its operation as that of the Indian
Order of the Thugs. We do not believe they will
be tempted.
The same obstinacy and impracticability of
the Irish character are exemplifed by MI Par
nell, who sets his face against every method of
relief proposed by the Government. He will
have none of their almshOuses and as tor the
proposed assisted emigration of the paupers to
this country or to Canada, he denOunces it as
a plan to starve the poorer inhabitants out of
the country-nothng will satisfy him except
the immediate establishment of public works.
Mr.. Parnell should remember the loud COM
plants of his own followers as to the occasions
when the Government established public works
for their relief that the ouly class relieved
were the managers (or bosses as they would
be called here), who put the money into their
own pockets which should have gone to the
"actual labOrersn 1t has always been the
policy of his party to throw di ficulties in the
way of every movement OF the Government !;
but how much the Irish now doubt this policy
is shown by the report read last week in COM
mittee, stating that of go branches of the as
ISOLATION only seventy mine had sent in any
money, and these subscriptions did not aver
age $50 for each ASSOCIATION. No answer is
made by the committee to the demand that the
money now In their possession should be
handed over for the relief of the suffering poor
" In Gods name,' cries the irrepressble Lady
Florence Dixie, what are they bugging this
"money fort 1t was given to help the people
"who are now starving. What right has
Parnell TO withhold it2" The committee
only renew their appeal for larger contribu-
tions.