St. Landry democrat., 1883-05-19

Better for them they too had perished
in the flames. They would be hunted
like wolves and slain without mercy.
This is the fate, such the penalty, being
valorously prepared for us by men, Sc
cure and safe in Manhattan and Illinois.
Why, sir, their mere vaporlngs III the
press, and their n-canister foolings
about the London Mansion House and
the Liverpool City Hall have brought
suffering and destltution into Irish
homes IN this country. Not only have
Irishmen been refused employment,
but many OF them iu comfortable posi-
tions have been dismissed, with no
cause, save the not very unnatural ap-
prehension of their English employers.
! Indeed, of the scores who have sought
! my poor assistance In their distress, not
a man of them blamed those employers,
considering all they had read in the
| papers as to the projected burning OF
| warehouses and DOCKS
"It is, in such case as this, an argu-
ment from very low level to discuss
the expediency of those projects. Ii
anything and everything be justitiable,
to any and every man against one
whom he on any ground dislikes-if
there is no such being as God, and no
tribunal of religion, conscience and
morality to judge human conduct, OF
course men may initiate the tiger and
| hyena, and all resorts are much the
same. But the Irish people believe in
God, and in tribunal established by
Him to justly judge, and wisely direct
the thoughts and actions OF mankind.
Of all subjects life taking. or blood
spilling is the one on which, among
catholics especially, individuals are not
allowed to be sole judges for them
4 selves and the line between what IS
lawful and not lawful, evin in open
war and between parties entitled to
make war, is one which only the tribu-
nails of authority which we, as Catho-
lies, believe in, can for us rightly and
safely settle and determine. Even be-
tween belligerent nations in time OF
| war such treachery and murder as am
| alluding to would be forbidden. But
'all things are lawful against England
Are they +? What tribunal of public
morality or religious accountability has
settled that point And what is meant
England /? Is it unarmed Englishmen
and women and children Ii so, are
we to cut the throats of any OF 'the en-
envy we can take at a disadvantage on
a lonely road or in railway train u
so are we to 'frighten England, by ba I
terlng out the DTdluS OIL any ilttic LII
lish boys or girls we can catch cfplng
home from school =
i eff the world could produce a body of
men capable of anv such line of action
as that, the natiors and peoples of
christendom would, hope and believe,
confederate to exterminate them as hu-
man monsters"
=
!. "But while those men on your side of
the water who publish those schemes
are only thinking OF how to 'frighteen
John Bull' or 20 put Sir w. Harcourt in
"a rage as some Of them declared to me
last Autumn, they are not frightening
England "a bit, but they are doing lorri-
BILE injury to Irishmen and to Ireland.
They are evicting honest lrishmen from
good employments and comfortable
homes, and casting them into cruel pow
erty. They are hurting Irish girls upon
the streets of English cities. They are
!, before my eyes, driving Irish children
: of tender years to mendicancy and
crime in the cutters and slums OF
London.S
TERENCE MCGUIRE