The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-24
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the homes Of their fathers and came
to America to escape a persecution
which had become ~intolerahle, they
left all feelings of revenge behind
them and brought to the land of their
adoption only the simple implements
with which they could pursue a
peaceful avocation. When they bid
farewell to the land of their birth
they parted forever with the cares,
the burdens and struggles which had
beset them, and forgot in their liber-
ty the expressions of their political
and religious enemies. But times
have changed since then. Although
the %oppressor's heel bears as heavily
upon the neck of his PROSTATE victims
as it did in the days of our forefathers
and malcontents still flee from Euro
pean tyranny to the shores of
America many of them bring hearts
burning with hatred of those who
caused their self-expatriation and
nursing a revenge to be directed
against a foreign foe from this land of
liberty. The following evidences
may be cited in proof of this fact.
The first a New York dispatch under
date Of the 18th inst, says:
1.-THE anniversary of the Paris COM
mune, in 1871, was celebrated by the
Communists of this city to-day.
There was a large gathering. On the
walls were revolutionary notices
bordered with blood-color, and the
sashes of the officers were of the
same hue. Herr Most, in an address.
said the Paris commune of the future
would be established without regard
to humanity, and with a fair hand
to WELD the sword of destruction"
The second is from Waterbury
Comm, under the same date:
"Patrick Egan spoke here tonight.
He said Ireland is to-day in the hands
of a most brutal and coercive foe, who
is hanging innocentmen, bayonetting
women and shooting down children.
England, he said, with her spies, in
formers and packed juries, is trying
to crush cut the national life of Ire
land, but there is a new Ireland on
this side of the Atlantic, which she
cannot trample out, and which will
hold her to a reckoning for the crimes
committed at home. He believed
Ireland's long night of slavery was
approaching its dawn, and that meas
ures for her national independence
would be successful"
The first is an expression of a rep
resentative man of the radical element
Of his country, the second the
utterance of one who has figured
prominently in the Councils of the
Land League. Each has a large fol-
lowing in this country. The first
would throw humanity to the dogs
and with the dagger and dynamite
would secretly assassinate its enc
mics. The second would employ
legitimate means to free his country
from an insufferable oppression. The
one appeals to the baser passions the
other to that love of liberty which
fills the breast of his countrymen.
The one would mark his path with
blood, the other would reach his end
by less sanguinary means. And
here the distinction ends. Both
choose America as the base of their
operations and both are collecting
means to carry on a contest with
which America has nothing to do az
a nation. To what extent this turn
ing America into a camping and re-
cruiting ground for transatlantic dis
contents will affect our social and
political r relations with each other is
a matter which is being gravely con-
sidered. The situation is full Of fooa
for thought.