The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-01-05
THE EXPRESS AND MIR. HEALY.

The attack of the mornings Express
upon Mr.. Healy and upon, the cause of
the Irish people is characteristic ofthat
journal. The lack of knowledge ofthe
question he attempts to write upon is
hardly an excuse for a public Journalist.
If he don't know anything about the
Irish question then he should not ven-
ture to write about it. The Express
says of Mr.. Healy: H
The address of Mr.. Healy at Turner
hall, Tuesday evening, was character
istic of that class of Irishmen who come
to the United States to stir the heart
strings and loosen the dollars of pat
riotic Irishmen. He presented a hypo-
thetical case, and then argued from the
premises thus established. Were not
the Instantaneous so blinded by their
love for the Emerald Isle and their
sympathy for the suAerings of that I'M
happy country, they would see that the
plea of such lecturers is to sympathy
and prejudice rather than to sound
judgment.
The intimation is, that Mr.. Healy's
visit is to make money off of the Irish
Americans. This. of course, is gross
SANDER upon a patriotic man, who is
risking his name, his fame, his fortune
and his liberty, if not bis life, in his
advocacy of the cause of Ireland.
The fact that Parnell, Davitt and three
hundred other patriotic Irishmen are
languishing in British jails to-day, be-
cause they have undertaken to right
the wrongs of Ireland, is an answer to
all such scurrilous insinuations as made
by the Express. The Express con-
tinues: 49,.
They have no policy, no programme,
offering anything but what must entail
still greater suffering upon people al
ready suffering to a degree that ap-
peals to the sympathy of nearly the
whole world.
This opinion of the Express dis
closes to a still greater degree the ig-
norance of the editor or his small men
tai caliber. Never did men undertake
a more important revolution with a
better laid policy, or a more perfect
programme, and what is better, the
Irish people understand themselves
better than they ever did before, and
are not likely to be swayed from their
great purpose by the barkings OF little
two-legged "fces. AS to sympathy, the
world sympathizes with success, and
the Express man would be the first to
shout hurrah if he thought the Irish
people would succeed, particularly if
he thought it would pay.
There is a good deal more nonsense
in this attack of the Express, whose
sympathies are entirely with the land
lord, the money bags, and the monop-
olist,-and not with the people-par-
ticularly with an oppressed and down.
trodden people. These same fellows
would have crushed the very life out
of the unfortunate negro--would have
held him in perpetual slavery-would
have perpetuated the landlord institu-
ton of southern slavery--if it had not
been for the patriotism and humanity
of the republican party. And even af-
ter the slave had his shackles stricken
from him they would have kept him in
the same condition that the Irish
tenants are in to-day, that
is, made them subject to the oppres-
sion of the landlord. The landlord
and tenant act of the democratic legis-
lature of the state of Texas was fair
sample of the true inwardness of the
party to which the Express belongs.
In attacking Mr.. Healy and the Irish
cause the Express is true to its instincts
of cruelty, oppression and inhumanity.
They would have the Irish people
manacled hand and foot; they would
have them tamely submit to remain the
slaves of English landlords and to till
their native soil for these landlords
without complaint. They would have
them kept on the verge of starvation