The Labor enquirer., 1883-09-08
netsn Of Terror.

A Reign of Terror. Il
The foxy representative of the woman
who calls herself the queen of the good
people of Ireland is now shivering in his
skin at his probable fate. No one seems
to have threatened him he only fears
his own guilty conscience. No wonder
that he should. Myles Joyce's pure
ghost should haunt him every night,
and, pointing to his strangled neck, tell
the bloody earl that he permitted his
murder after he had had conclusive eRi-
dence of his innocence. The ghosts of
the peasants who have died on the way
side should haunt him, as he has been
the governmental means of sending their
withered remains to pauper graves.
Spencer in Ireland is more than simple
John Poyntz in England Spencer in
Ireland means starvation, murder, law
robbery, treason to all honest principle,
support of base informers, military thral-
dom, oppression of every kind. His
name is synonymous with all that is held
hateful by the patriots; and, therefore,
he fears the just wrath of those whom
he would do to death.
From Dublin to Cork is long stretch
of country, and yet small army of un-
fortunate policemen were placed within
shouting distance of each other to pro-
tect the foxy tyrant from possible peril
of his life on his journey from the ex-
hibition to the viceregal lodge. No one
was mad enough to upset the train IN
which he rode. Throwing the cars off
the tracks might kill innocent men, as
we'll as the guilty one, and yet Spencer
must have thought that was the plan
which "the men" in Ireland had deter
mined on. He never made a greater
mistake as upsetting railroad cars and
killing innocent officials is not within
"the resources Of civilization" Still it
is not without an inward chuckle of sat
isfaction that we can conceive the Woe
begone face of this foxy bully peering
out into the darkness, as the train scuds
along through the country, and imagin-
ing that every telegraph pole that flies
by the window is an Invincible ready to
blow him from the face of the earth.
Gentlemen blackguards, of the Spen-
Ger, Forster, Clifford, Lloyd type, have
always asserted that the only way to COW
a people or faction was to lrighten them
into terror Of their lives. They were
right in this conclusion, but now, that
the turn has come to their own door, like
skillful doctors, they have decided OBJ
lection to swallow their own medicine.
We have always asserted that terror
wasthe only agent worth anything to
gain practical remedial measures for Ire
land. A little bit of "clean business,
| in a blow up, advances the cause of Ire
land further in one month than fifty
years of obstruction in parliament.
Parliament, we must honestly admit
ss'is moving little ahead these latter days
but, then, is that forward motion attrib-
utable to the arguments of the honorable
takers in the house Every man with
half an ounce of brains in his head must
| be convinced that it is the men of action
/ behind the men of wind who are helping
on the latter in their course.
We regret that, with all the enthusi-
asm of the Nationalists in this country,
that so little is done in a practical way.
Our friends can easily conceive the
mountains of difficulties we labor under,
and therefore can see the necessity of
backing the resources as they should
| be.
The true Nationalist never Oleeps at
his work. Day or night some one is at
his post, thinking, plotting or acting for
the futherance of the cause. One matter,
! however as we are on the subject, we
must refer to, and that is the obvious
necessity of keeping US supplied with
the "sinews of war" in the shape of con-
tributions, without which We can achieve
little
In looking back at, the work of the
past month the most cheering circum-
stances which present themselves to us
are the blows Struck at the infOrmerS
If once the movement could be thor
oughly weeded of such vile garbage a
solid phalanx of able men would daily
fill the ranks, and with sufficient means
in our hands to put them to their work
they could raise such hell in England
that the old-time tyrants would beg us,
for mercy sake, desist, on the under
standing that Ireland should be free.
This may seem to some minds, perhaps,
too promising an outcome of our &is-
sion, but when any one sees the terror
implanted in the breast ref England by
the efforts of "the resources" up to the
present, what might not occur if we
were placed in a position to follow out
our own designs
A good time is coming 1t is long
lane which has no turning.
Growth of MonopoIies.
AS long ago as May, 1874, Judge Mott,