New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-11

| TIE AMERICAN IRLSH AND Mr.. PIRNELL
1t is easy to understand why Mr. Parnell has
changed his mind and decided not TO visit
America this spring. When he first announced
his intention of coming his friends and sup
porte here were conducting the IRISH cam
naign against England in accordance with Land
League methods. They did not cOuntc-
nance open violence, and they professed to
believe in agitation by lawful and humane
means. Within the past few weeks they have
made radical and remarkable change of posi-
ton. Led by The Irish World and Messrs
Sheridan and Egan they have become the most
Jealous advocates in this country of the dyn-
amite policy. Two weeks ago The Irish World
made complete change of front and came out
enthusiastically for dynamite as the only remedy
LETT for the redemption of Ireland. The whole
paper was literally saturated with the dynamite
gospel. In his widest moments O'DOnOvan
Rosa never advocated an internal method of
warfare with more infamous zeal. There were
articles Oh Dynamite a. REVOLUTIONARY
dynamic as a Refcrmcr," and dynamite as
Divine agency for the doing away of older and
more costly methods OF warfare.
One of the articles closed with this diaboli-
IL
"political revolutionizer will produce great good
land little suffering, it is not TOO much TO hail
sit as the friend of humanity" Another with
this in the same vein: IF the dynamite
"poIcy forces from Irish politics the gentry who
keep IN thepretence that all that Ireland needs
"is modification of English tyranny. that alone
would be sufficient to win fOrit the support of
"carnest Irishmcn who are determined that Ire
" land shall be nation once more These
merely stray samples OF the spint which per-
meatcd the entire paper The use of dynamite
was advocated with many pious CALCULATIONS
and with specious arguments OF It's small sacri-
flee Of human life compared with the lives lost
in regular warfare, all calculated to confuse
the moral perceptions OF the Irish
reader. The subsequent issue of the paper
was filed in the same way, and the explosion
in the Government Offices in London was
hailed as the first step in practical warfare"
and as an exploit for the Irish race to he
proud Of Messrs. Sheridan and Egan took up
the same cry in their talks with the reporters.
Then came the official call for the Philadel-
phia Convention. This camo from an Irish
body which has hitherto opposed the dynamite
wing of the party, and has strenuously insisted
upon lawful and peaceable methods of agita;
ton Mr.. Egan visited the president of The
body while he was preparing the address, and
when it appeared it bore the marks of the
dynamite influence. 1t was filed with bitter
ness and rancor toward England, and con-
tanned not word of censure for the London
explosion, or of disapproval of that kind of
warfare.
To comprehend the full significance of these
various utteranccs several things must be
taken into account. In the first place, The
Irish World is undoubtedly the most power
full Irish newspaperin America 1t was through
its agency that Mr.. Parnel's Land League re-
ceiyed the bulk of its American contributions.
Ii collected and sent TO the League in about
two years time no less than $342,54S SO. 1t
was the organ of the League in America, and
spoke with more power than all the rest of
the Irish press combined 1t speaks with the
same power to-day, and when it uses that
power to advocate dynamite the matter be-
comes worthy of serious attention. The raw
ings of 0DOnOyan Rosa amount to nothing,
because they reach very few ears and infiu-
ence very few of those whom they reach. But
he preaching of The Irish World is quite an