National Republican., 1883-03-19
HUMAN MONSTERS.
An Irishmen's Outburst Against the Dye
mantle Policy.


Mr.. A. NJ. Sullivan, late editor of the Dub
lin Nation, and member of parliament for
Louth, Ireland, under date of London, Eng
land, Feb. 2i has written a letter to the
editor of the Irish american of New York city,
concerning the Dynamite Policy" Mr.. Sulli-
van says, among other things; Even before
| visited America knew fairly well the av-
crage value and purpose of these announce
ments the pronuncinmentos ofthe dynamiters
ns TO what they proposed to dol that they
were generally, though not always, composed
for the express purpose of being Cablod to
London and being quoted in the house Of com
mons, so that subscribers should hurry up
with the dollars, seeing how NOR
tally John Bull was being fright
cned.' | know that the leaders of the Irish
movement here invariably refused to regard
these things seriously, and discouraged all
notice of them as calculated only to serve a
mischievous purpose. j am one of nearly two
millions of Irishmen resident on this side of
the Irish channel. Our homes are in the
midst of the cities that are forsooth to be
kerosened and dynamited. Our little ones
to roast in the fires which our chivalrOus
friends (safe and sound, 1900 miles away in
New York or Peoria are to send men to start
around us. The bruto creation will fight for
its young. Are we lower and baser than theyt
Could we hearken unmovcd to childhOods
shrek from garret and nursery, calling in
vain on father for rescue? Should we for
sooth coolly answer bnCk to our pcrishing
children, Burn, burn away, dear little ones,
in order that Mr. Grove, of far OFF Peoria,
may think that he has frightened John BullY
"'All things are lawful against Englandv
Are they? What tribunal of public morality
or religious accountability has settled that
pont2 And what is meant by 'EnglandY 2
Is il unarmed English men and women and
children? If so, are we to cut tho throats of
any of the enemy we can take Mt n disad
vantage on II lonely road, or in railway
train? If so, are we TO frighten England
by battcring out the brains OF any little Eng
lish boys or girls we can catch coming homo
from school2 What is the difference in
morality between employing men to treacher-
ously burn down London, at no matter what
sacrifice of human life, and employing them
to poison the water mains and so kill the
enemy by millions? Or suppose some hand
ful of his men socedo from Mr.. Grove and call
him half hearted because he shrinks from
magnificent scheme for u simultaneous dosing
of the London milk supply with strychnine,
would they be entitled to call themselves
Ireland and make war on England af-
ter this fashion? Surely if the world could
produce body of men capable of any such
line of action the nations and peoples of
Christcndom would confederate to cXtermi-
nate them as human monsters.
"Well know that no such cowardico and
atrocty dare be practiced or really will be
practiced. But while those men on your side
of the water who publish such schemes arc
thinking of how to irightcn John Bull, or
put Harcourt in rage as some of them de-
clarcd to me last autumn, they are not fright
ening England bit, but they are doing hor-
rible injury to Irishmen and to Ireland. They
are evicting honest Irishmcn from good en-
ployment and comfortable homes and casting
them into cruel poverty. They are hurling
Irish girls upon the streets of English cities
They are before my eyes, driving Irish chill
dron of tender years to mcndicancy and crime
in the cutters and slums of London"