The Labor enquirer., 1883-09-01
No More Informers.

The trade of the informer is now a
thing of the past /; in fact, it is matter
of history. Carey's magnificent sending
off, the shivers which have lately crept
into the hearts of all those shaky indi-
viduals who would earn an honest penny
by worming out the secrets of the Irish
Nationalists and then selling them to
the British-or any other-consul, are
now things of the past. The grand
equalizer-the revolver teach ruff
fans of this character that they cannot
hope to bamboozle honest men and then
sell them to their enemies for the best
price they can obtain.
Informers have done more harm in
every coalition for remedy against
wrong, than can we'll be estimated.
They have allowed the inner workings
of the organizations into which they
have wriggled themselves to be opened,
SO to speak, to the enemy and more
than all, when their disclosures have
been followed by convictions, they have
intimidated honest men from connecting
themselves with any society, which may
be interdicted at any moment by their
vile Vaccinations.
Who would join society-no matter
how meritorious its object-if he i'm
agined he was not secure within the
bosom of his own family from arrest and
perhapsimprisonmentf for iifeP What
man-no matter what his love for Ire
land might be-would undertake voy-
age across the Atlantic to fulfill the
orders of the brotherhood to which he
belonged if he feared that, on his arrival
his motions had been tracked, and men
were ready to swear, according to an in
formers private instructions, the neces-
sary information to get him hanged,
perhaps, by brutal, unjust and blood
thirsty government
If the cause of Irish independence is
to 60 on, we must have no more inform
ers. Informers, before this time, have
frustrated too many brilliant movements
and the world is now too intelligent, too
powerful, too equalizing in the admins
tration of an ounce of lead out of a we'll
aimed revolver, or a dose of dynamite
prescribed and administered according
to the teaching of the school Of resources
of civilization, to allow any man-no
matter how powerful-to crush or betray
his fellow beings.
The reformers of the age do not want
murder. Murder they detest. They do
not want men to join their organizations
unless men are driven by conviction to
enter their ranks
They do not wish to coerce men to aid
or abet them. In free country, pre-
sumedly, all should be free, but they are
determined that if any man shall Join
them-shall be privy to their secrets
that he shall not then trade upon those
secrets; that,he shall not live in luxury,
with the best wine, the best of cigars, the
best of idle good fellowship, and laugh
at the men he is drawing into the nets of
the oppressers'whoshave paid him for
his peculiar, knowledge
Men of this class must be content to
meet their fate. What that fate will be
We will not say: Let history tell it, and
history tells no lies; The age in which
we now live has we'll outlived humbug.
Too long have honest mems feelings
been trifed with too long have inform
ers fourished, and good men been made
to bear tie brunt of theirhellish treach-
cry. Irish matters are now-in simple
phrase coming to ahead. The govern
ment which is in power has been we'll
worried by the few men who are fighting
the little constitutional battle; but what
effect would their fillibustering have,
was not the pinch of dynamite" behind
them? No one is fool enough to believe
that what has been given, up to the
present, to Ireland, has been given by
verbal argument; Parnell himself knows
it., and he is perhaps wise enough to hold
hispeace on the subject and let the out
side-the only. true nationalists-
their work but on one point all must
unite, and that is, that the existence of
the informer has done more to thwart
the good designs of all misunderstanding
men than three-fourths of the good
which has ever been wrought by the
honest patriot.
5 When Ireland will look upon the pail
lid corpses Of her informers, then may