The Labor enquirer., 1883-09-22
Three Types Of Informers.


Disaster will sometimes attend the
most heroic resolves.
Six more victims have been tabooed by
the British in Glasgow.
The national ranks ant very badly a
new general wedding out of. informers
and suspicious blackguards. Before any
more good work can be accomplished we
fear there must be a general clearance
made, and braggarts and scurrilous pol
troons must get fright which will drive
them from the ranks, or close their lips
forever to the workings of all secret or
ganizations.
Where men openly profess allegiance
TO any cause, and where that cause needs
a large number of adherents, it is only IN
the nature of things that recreants, spies,
informers and talkative chatterboxes,
who often mean no harm, but still do an
endless amount of injury, will creep into
the ranks. No human ingenuity can
guard against such accidents, and, there
fore, we say emphatically, true men
should not be disheartened if sometimes
aVillain will be unmasked who has posed
as brother and patriot.
Experience must be had in revolu-
tionary matters as well as in all other
organizations, and burst-up or breeze
is often the best medicine-the best cor
rective, the best purifer-that a secret
society can have. The wolves heads
will, when crisis occurs, peep from the
Woolly clothing of the pretended lambs,
and in the honeYed mock argument of
defense or explanation the hidden vii
lain will oftentimes convict himself.
For the present, in the face of facts
which have lately occurred, we do not
deem it wise to proceed further. Silence,
which is said to be golden, cannot pos
sesss this auriferous characteristic in too
rare degree in political or revolution
airy matters.
The burden of our discourse on many
an occasion has been the overwhelming
evil done Irish societies by informers.
"Informer" is now a divisable term.
There is the "out and outer" who boldly
worms himself into the secrets of a So
ciety with no other purpose than to be-
tray it, and reap the benefit of his vii
lainy by the gold of the enemy; and
then there is the mock Nationalist, who
boasts that he is not bound by any rules
or any laws of any secret association,
and who, under the cover of the honest
profession of journalism, would murder
the fair fame of honest men who have
always acted consistently, according to
their lights; then there is the blatant
Nationalist all talk, without acts or
money, who grayitates on the fringe OF
secret association, who worms out a lit
tie, and by dexterious management and
consummate art, pretends he is privy to
all the secret workings of Irish republi,
can societies.
Against all these classes of "informers''
for they are all informers-the strug-
gle for Irish freedom has had to contend
A brilliant blow has been struck in the
Carey case, but there are other men alive
who pose as patriots, and who, in their
heart of hearts, and in their greed for
money, would descend to Carey's level il
the chance were only afforded them
men who plead guilty" in the dock
and confirm the verdict of packed juries
on their brothers who stood manfully in
the face of the enemy-are another class
that raise their heads among us.
Carey made his first fatal step when
he shiyered for mis- life. Other vile rep.
tiles with the faces and demeanor ol
men, who strut before the world as pub.
lie instructors-spit filth and dirt at hon
est workers and, trying to defile them
seek to throw ignominy on the National
cause. A clearance from the reyolu.