The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-05-18

udy OE6dh VI pedC6 anu prosperity JUST
as the sun was coming up above the
horizon close the shutters? The Irish
need not hold one meeting of indigna-
tiOn or pay one dollar to convince the
world that they are innocent of this
damnable butchery. England knows it.
Europe knows 1t. America knows 1t.
God knows it. The Irish are impulsive
and wrathful enough against wrongs
inflicted, but there s no people on earth
more grateful for kindness, and when
William Z. Gladstone conquered himself
and conquered his Cabinet, and in true
Christian spirit practically said: 81
have no personal pride in this matter to
crafty, and as coercion has failed, let
us try magnanimity and the olive
branch, practically recalling or applying
for the resignation of Mr.. Forster, the
rigorous Secretary for Ireland, and send
ing in place of him a milder man, a
more liberal man, more acceptable
man, a more promising man, Lord Fred
erick Cavendish. When the English
Government made that change of policy
appreciated it, all good Irishmen appre-
ciated it, and the shout of greeting
which on Saturday afternoon was heard
on the streets of Dublin as Lord Fred
erick CaVendish rode through was only
an echo of the great heart of gratitude
beating all through Ireland. Ireland is
no more responsible for the death of
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke than the United States are re-
spOnsible for Guiteau's shooting of
James A. Garfield, or John Wilkes
Booths murder of Abraham Lincoln. /
cannot see why Mr.. Parnell and his CO.
labOrers, transatlantic and cisatlantic,
should be so nervous, as though the
world would mistake them as the auth
Ors of this assassination. There is a vast
amount of good sense among all nations
and the blame in nearly all cases is
finally pat upon the right shoulder This
hellish deed will not Tetard the cause of
Heland's redemption year, nor a day,
nor an hour, unless MIR. GladstOne's
great age makes it necessary for him to
let some one else undeTtakeathe work
which he has begun. If he has the
firmness which he once had, and which
l believe he still has, he will not, at the
glitter of two daggers, change his policy
of kindness toward Ireland because she
happens to have two assassins in her
territory. Especially ought he not to
change his gospel of peace when, by
every drop of blood in Phoenix Park,
Ireland is now bound to stand by her
friends in English Cabinet and English
Parliament.
If the new bill of last Thursday for
the suppression of crime in Ireland be
only intended to stop crime, and if it
mean reversal of policy, and mean to-
ward the Irish nation clencEed fist in
stead of open palm, it is teTrificmistake; /;
and then the assassination of Lord Fred
erick Cavendish and Mr.. Burke has ac-
cOmplished what it proposed to accom-
plish. l am now to tell you who the two
assasSins in the Phoenix Park Were-pO-
litical desperation and Nihilism. The
names of the two miserable men with
knives are of comparatively little impOr-
tance. The name of the two principals
which sent them out on their bloody er-
rand is of incompatible Importance. PO-
litical desperation! There were cool, in
telligent, but wicked men in council
who saw with dismay that the day of
gOOd-feeling between England and Ire
land was at hand. That meant death to
their occupation, which finds its chief
emOlument in political disturbance. No
carriOn, no food for crows. These sharp,
educated, far-seeing cOnspiratOrs in
council said: "Let US kill Lord Freder-
lex Cavendish, and that will rouse the
vengeance of England, and the people
will say there Is no use treating with
these Irish Mr.. Gladstone will have to
back down, and they will enact more
offensive Coercion Bill, and then the ju-
bilee of devils will go on" When eagles
fight mid-air that makes dinner for
jackals. Political desperation handled
the one knife in Phoenix Park and stab
bed Lord Frederick Cavendish in the
breast.
The other assassin was Nihilism, and
that stabbed him in the back. This last
desperate is no more Irish than he is
American, than he Is Russian, than he
is French, than he is Italian. He is
cosmopolitan wretch that thriVes in all
latitudes. He would, If he had the pow
er, cut the throat of every honest, indus
triOus and prosperous citizen on the
planet. Idle himself, he does not want
others to work. No money of his own,
he feels that every man with penny in
his pocket stole 1t. Talking blatantly
about his rights, when the only right
that he ever had was that of the moose
of the hangman's halter. Nihilisml
This Is what burned the railroad depot
at Pittsburg in the riots and killed ne
grOes in New York during the war, and
attempted to poison James Buchanan at
the National Hotel the night before his
Inauguration, missing him, but des-
tTOying the health and lives of hundreds
of men and women who were unsus-
pecting gnests; put dynamite under the
Cars chariot, and sent Internal ma
chimes to Cy-us W. Field and threatening
letters to Jay Gould, and attempted to
Guy-Fawkes the House. of Parliament,
and works all the denominations of
blacEmail. The only God it worships is
eternal Smash-up. The only heaven it
wants is hell, and wants it now. 1t
slept last night in your statiOn-hOuses
in the shape Of able-bodied men, who
are able to work as you or l. Let a gro
Ger driving through the streets lose a
box or package off the wagon. 1t is
ready to steal the sugar and biscuits be-
fore the driver finds that the taiI-board
is out. 1t lOosens the switch of the rail-
road, so that from the wreck of the train
it may pick up the OvercOats and valises.
Its disciples are the men whom the dem
agOgues buy up for the elections, and
they will for consideration go on the
stand and swear to any thing. "Tramps,"
not necessarily in rags, but some of
them dining at Fifth Avenue, OF Tre-
mont, or Continental. They are ready,
under the temptation of the $4,000
fOOlishly subscribed for the arrest of the
two murderers at Phoenix Park. to band
together and swear the guilt of persons
who, perhaps, were never in Dublin.
When the English Government offered
$25, 600 reward, that was enough. All
these other rewards raised in England
and America are only premium on