The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13
IRELAND's WORST ENEMIES,

IRELAND's WORST ENEMIES.
No fact is more apparent than that the
leaders of the Irish cause" are and have
been totally unequal to the emergency and
can never hope in themselves either to OBJ
tain the redress they seek or to assist in any
degree. the Irish people to higher plane.
Neither Parnell Biggar, Dillon nor Egan,
nor all combined, can solve the perplexing
problem now up for the thousandth time.
Neither by oratory, force of character, nor
them concentrate the sympathies and
cooperation of the people they
have taken it upon themselves
to deliver. Instead of bettering the condi-
ton of Ireland they have steadily made it
worse. By winking at agrarian crimes and
assassinations, if not actually conspiring
with their perpetrators, they have seen
anarchy installed and lawlessness enthroned.
They have silently witnessed the most re-
voting crimes, and have raised neither voice
nor hand to stay them. By their incompe-
tency they have indefinitely postponed the
day when the Irish people shall enter upon
better order of things.
But now it begins to appear that these
maicontents are to be swept away. The fight
of Patrick Egan under the circumstances is
significant, and it is not impossible
that he and others may yet be proved acces-
sorry to the Phoenix Park butchery 1t is
limited that the authorities may show,
further, that the Land League is directly i'm
plicated in encouraging the "Invincibles,"
and that funds of that organization have
been employed in equippng and encouraging
assassins in their deadly undertakings If
these men, or any of them, are guilty, it is to
be hoped that the fact will be fully de-
veloped and the offenders brought to justice.
These men, whether guilty or innocent of
connection with the assassination
of Burke and Cavendish, have
done more to retard Irish progress
than can be recovered from in ten years.
American sympathy is with the Irish people
in their efforts to secure justice, and this
feeling prompts the heartiest condemnation
of every political murder, outrage and assas-
sination that has stained the cause and i'm
peded the great work. America feels for the
people, the masses all over the world. The
Nihiists OF Russia, the Socialists of Germany,
the communists of France and the Repub-
licans of Ireland have numberless friends
west of the Atlantic in every sincere and rea-
sonable effort to lift themselves above their
present condition; but for the
miscreants who resort to bombs to take
the lives of czars, 10 pistols to make away
with kaisers, who would burn the most beau
tiful city in the world, and those who cow
ardy assassinate the representatives of gov
ernment there is nothing but the most un-
qualified condemnation. A bold fight for
liberty and right is the grandest undertaking
possible. But a covert organization banded
together for secret crime and for the perpe-
tration of murder upon helpless and inno-
cent victims is certain to bring upon the
people who countenance it the contempt and
distrust of the world. If the investigation
now in progress in Dublin shall result in get
ting rid of all of these self-consttuted lead
ers the result will be to the unmeasured ad-
vantage OF Ireland.