Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-05-05
THE IRISH AMERICAN CONVENTION.


 delphia seems to have exercised more judgment and discretion in their delib- erations than is usual for Irlshmen. The firm tone of the Eastern press con- demuing the dynamites and rash meas ures of every kind, did much toward bringing the leaders of the Irish party in this country to a sense of the true situation. The people of the United States will allow wrong to be done, and continued for some length of time, but when It gets beyond all reason, the con servaIve element, the people who read and think. may be depended upon in any emergency where the law IS tram pled under foot, or the reputation of the nation is placed in any unquestionable position. The people of the United States cannot afford to allow internal machines manufactured in this country to destroy human beings in any land, much less a people with whom We are at pesce, and tO whom Te are largely in- debtei for our prosperity and success. But there is still a closer tie existing be- tween large portion of the people of this country and Great Britain. The early settlers, those who came over in the sixteenth century and the fore part of the seventeenth century, were largely made mp from English immigrants. The very fact that the English language is spoken in tuis country to the exclusion of all others, is of itself sufficient evi- deuce of the strength of the descend ants Of the English speaking race. The descendants of this old English stock Ehich has been largely reinforced by the German, furnishes the conserva tive thinking class in the United States the rlass who are looked up to in the the time Of great emergency. and who may be depended upon to act with reason and discretion. Such ignOram- ouses IS Denis Kearney may come to the surface and lead the rabble for 8 time, and the solid substantial men of the country may permit such extreme ists t. go to certain lengths; but when the necessity arises for the removal of such disturbing forces, the solid think ing portion of the community or State come tD the front, and crush out such elements as did the better class in San Franc sco ID the case of Denis Rear ney. They bore his ignorance, hIs non- sense and hls lawless teachings until he had gathered about him a rabble that became a stench in the nostrils of all good law-ahiding people. Then it was that the better class of the citizens of San Francisco, regardless of party, rose ID to the necessity of the occasion and said to Denis Kearney: "You have gone far enough. Your teachings are bad and contrary to the law of the land. You have no interests here. You are in reality but a soiourner among us. You cane here a pauper. and we gave you work and put you in a way of making an honest living: but you have thrown away what We gave you, aRd have turned upon yonr benefacto-s. Not on y this, but you have induced an ignorant people to join you in perform ing things contrary to law and against the interests of the State and city. IT. fact, you have paralyzed business in California by your com munistic teachings. Step down, Denis Kearney, we have no use for you, and wlll hear nothing more from you." From that day to this Kearney has been as dead to the world as though he had been under the sod, and 1t ls not known out side of San Francisco what has become ot this worthless creature.
 n--4 .I... ;..,arnaIs ,ys Ll-- Ts,-.ss l--- L~0., more prompt in condemning, O'Dono- van RDssa and his followers, than were the people of California in conforming Kearney. They have told the lawless element that they may expect no sym pathy or countenance in the United States, which has had its effect on the Philadelphia convention. Instead of encouraging the use of dynamite, they have condemned 1t in the strongest terms Not only this but they have al- lowed the old Land League to die, and all Irish societies concerned in the vel fare of Ireland are combined in the Irish National league" Irish Ameri cans now for the first time realize that they cannot commit acts of lawlessness in this country commit arson and con- coct schemes of assassination to he ex- ecuted in England, and escape the law by screening themselves behind Ameri- can naturalization papers. They begin to learn mat to become citizens of the United States, does not hceuse them to commit all manner of crimes against England and English citizens. That assaesina- ton, arson and kindred crimes should be punishable, no matter where con- mitted: that all who engage in such | Iawle-s acts in England and seek refuge | i1.the United States, will be delivered l I'D to English authorities for punish ment according to the laws of that 1 country. From the tone of the Eastern 1 press, 1t would seem that every as sistance will be rendered in hunting up | the guilty, and where sufficient evidence | can be produced that they will be turned over to English authorities for | trial. Dynamite has had its day, and | every reasonable man must admit that | It has injured the Irish cause. Land | leagues and secret organizations in the | United States have never helped the | cause of Ireland, and never will. The | people of this country sympathlze with l Ireland and m legitimate way would | help them, but they do not approve, and | will not sanction acts of lawlessness committed in this country or in England.
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 APACHE is one of our best grazing | counties. The county Is sparsely set | tied and could support ten times its present population and still allow