The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-19
TERROR-STRICKEN LONDON.
CONSERVATION Caused by the ExpIos-
ions ON the Underground Railway.
The Irish Invincibles Held Responsible for
the Crme-English Horror of Rosa
An Unhappy Coincidence.
of the Indianapolis Journal.

QaV nights EXPLOSIONS. NOG Hterdllyi W NC
sure but rocking with indignation and fear.
An earthquake could hardly have produced
greater CONSERVATION. What was an empty
boast, regarding the consequences OF the at
temptto blow up the government buildings
at Westminster, has become in this instance
a stern reality, for the people of the me-
tropolis are really terror stricken. The last
blow is a new departure. 1t was known
that officers of the state were in danger and
that state property was threatened, but
nothing beyond this being suspected, the
populace remained calm and left the matter
with confidence to the authorities. Now,
however, the situation is changed. The
enemy, whoever he may be, pounces upon
private property, and attempts the lives of
the innocent and unsuspecting. In this is
to be found the deep horror of Tuesdays oc-
currence and it is this feature OF it that has
SO stirred the popular heart. AS l stated in
my last letter, something was expected, but
not this. The bold and bitter speeches OF
the closing hours OF Parliament could not
fail to bear fruit, but no one anticipated
a crop of this kind. 1t was
Carey that the spirit of assassination would
be revived, put that it would take this turn
would not have been credited week ago by
even the worst prophets of evil. The re-
ported plot against Lord Lansdowne caused
little or no surprise and though all have
been shocked, no one was very much aston
ished to hear that the second son of the
d T,,lo
mite in the harbor of Halifax. Similarly,
the public would have accepted as a matter
of course any report OF a desperate attempt
to rescue o. Donnell or to wreak vengeance
for real or supposed injuries upon the repre-
sentatives of English rule in Ireland. But
what has actually occurred is a genuine sur
prise of most horrlfying character, and the
whole nation is dumbfounded. No one feels
safe now. Londoners are convinced at
length that their very hearth stones are men,
aced and that they carry their lives in their
hands as they go about innocently to attend
to their daily business. Hence the alarm,
which amounts almost to a panic, and the
utter loathing which all feel for those whom,
by common instinct, they charge with the
On the latter point there is among Eng
lishmen but one opinion. They lay it at the
door of the invncibles, and for all that these
do they blame the Nationalist. The latter
having declared in the House of Commons
that Ireland was at war with England, this
IS looked upon as part of such war. The
leaders fight by means of infammatory
IN ,,A IF Ill
rank and file use daggers and dynamite. So
reason the British public and there is loud
call now for severe measures, not only
against the latter but against the former. A
canvass of opinion among the London Irish
brings out the protest that this latest horror
is the work of enemies of the National caase
that it was done by those who wish to keep
the Green Isle in bondage. But the English
people have heard such talk as this on for
mer occasions, and have seen the hollownesS
of it. They remember a similar cutlery in
connection with the Phoenix Park tragedy.
That too, according to many leading Irish
men, was the work of 1relands enemies.
But when the murderers were brought to
justice they found among those who had
formerly affected adherence for the crime
their warmest sympathiZers, and these very
people, after their execution, were the first
to exalt them as martyrs. Naturally there
fore, the protest in the present case produces
an irritating rather than soothing
effect and it may be confidently
predicted that Tor some time to come the
prominent Irish agitators will be looked upon
with anything but favor if indeed they are
not taken hold of and brought to direct ac-
count. Nor is it merely against a few leaders
that public Indignation is aroused. Hatred
of the entire race seems suddenly to have
sprung up once more, manifesting itself in
the bitterest epithets and in a revival of the
old wish that all the Irish were at the bottom
Of the ocean.
RossAS vAPoRINGS.
Great attention is paid here to what ODon-
AVIAN Rosa says. This may seem strange to
the better class OF people in the United States
who have been accustomed to regard his
threats as empty vaporings. But such as
these have only to imagine themselves in a
similar situation to the English. and they
will at once see how natural and reasonable
is their horror of this man. A peculiarly of
his utterances at times like this is that there
is more and worse to follow. So he said alter
the Westminster affair; so he says now. And
from the fact that his predictions have hith-
erto been fulfilled, people here are inclined to
believe him in the present instance They
really think too, that he and his confederates
on your side of the Atlantic are CARRYING on
open and oganized warfare against the British
government, and that little or nothing is being
done by the American authorities to restrain
them in this course or to show them that
the nation disapproves of it. Whether
rightly or wrongly, this, am bound to say,
is the opinion held here by the great mass of
the people, and | need not add that it engen-
ders bad feelings and gives rise to remarks
that are not complimentary TO our country.
Cannot O'Donovan be somehow prevailed
upon to come over here and beard the Brit
ish lion in his own den?' This would GER
tainly be most opportune time for him to
take census of the esteem in which ne Is
held by his English cousins-opportune at
least, SO far as the results of such an expert
ment might afford qualification to those who
would be glad to get rid of standing menace
to the friendly relations of the great powers.
The people OF London would make short