The Labor enquirer., 1883-02-17
Trcacherous TeIegr.ms.

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retary of the treasury, to show the com
Aplete power that the corporations hold
over the newspapers most complete of
all over the Associate" telegrams of
foreign news. We have from time to
time dragged out the brotherhood that
exists between those corporations and
the goddess manslay ers and starVers that
trample Ireland, and England, too, under
their feet. And this brotherhood is daily
becoming more close and dangerous.
Now, when the cable kilograms come
burdened with the bought perjuries of
informers, and with the civilizations of
that accursed government founded on
those bought perjuries-a all, all is re-
printed In our daily papers and scattered
broadcast over the country as news
as foreign news" The telegramer who
cables them is skillful villain. A vic
tim is sentenced to be judiciously MUIR
dered, and, in fendish mockery, he is
asked what he "has to say why sentence
of death shall not be passed on him"
He has great deal to say, but to what
purpose should he say it? If he answers
it by an array of facts that show he is
innocent, the villain telegramer tells us
he made a rambling speech :" implying
that the victim had nothing to say, but
went off in a "ramble" of confusion.
And the judicial murder itself is glazed
over, as if the forms of the concrete will
Amy they dare to call claw" took away
all guilt from the judicial murderers. 1t
is not even the Jeffries-the Hanging
judge" called Lawson-that murders
those innocent men. 1t is not even his
sentence-it is only "the sentence of the
law"--that is executed" when those
innocent men are brought out and
choked to death.
But looking at the ruin of his home
and all that his heart loves starving in
cold and hunger on the roadside-out
under sentence Of DEATH" as even
Gladstone describes tiff that robbed
and ruined man kills this murderer of
his family, then the press loads itself
with assassin" murderer all the
foulness of the English language is
heaped upon the man who dares to take
defensive part in the chronic war the
war of right against wrong; the war
that never, never can cease so long as
the wrong lasts and the sense of right
remains part of human nature.
Franklin, when in Paris, was called on
to have "thirty-fve pictures designed
and engraved, each expressing one or
more of the horrid d'barbarities committed
by the British on the American people,
to get them into the school books, in
order to impress the minds of children
and posterity with deep sense of Eng
lands bloody and Unsuitable nature and
wickedness." These are Franklin's
words, and he adds: Every fresh i'll
stance of her devilism makes me abomi-
nate the thought of reunion with such
people,"
We printed this matter more fully
week or two ago. Why do we recur to
it? Because Of the shameful funkeyism
shown to the British consul, Archibald,
in New York, last week. A smothering
crowd of men and women Mrs. B. F.
Butler amongst them, presided over by
Mr.. Everett, spread ont luxurious ban
quet before him, Archibald Intertwist
the American and British flags. Blend
the words of the Star Spangled Banner
and God Save the Queen. Just think of
American mouths chewing out words
like this:
"God save great Vic, our queen,
Long live our noble queen,
God, save the queen.
Send her Victorious
Long to reign over us,
Happy and glorious,
God, save the queen.
0, Lord! our God arise,
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall.
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks;
On Thee our hopes we fix;
0, save us all"
All in the one basket, and more of the
same stuff! The United Irishmen made
travesty on it, of which we only re-
member the refrain:
"H-ll seize the king"