The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-21
Az IRISH CHANCE.

, ! world. They Will hOld 4 cOnVen
T ton of a nation al character in Phila
t delphia next week. The delegate
will gather from every section o
the United States, and will repre-
sent their country men in the vari-
Gus, cities and states Of the Union
The OStensibl6 object of the Conyen
ton is legitimate enough and not al
| all improper. It is the better organ
cation Of the Irish element il
is opposition 20 the treat
ment of Ireland by England
That opposition is natural and to be
expected. Every lover Of liberty
hopes that it will IN the end be sue.
cesSiu though there are fears that II
will fail. Now, what the Irish should
] do at Phila ielphis next week is the
prompt and emphatic disavOWal of
all sympathy with the methods
being pursued in Ireland and Anne
RIGA, by a certain class of Irishmen.
They should declare them
tselves more strongly oppbBsd to
the dynamite and assassination
policy than they are to British
coercion. Nothing that Eng
land has done or is liable to do
can justify the conduct OF the
Phoenix Park murderers or Of the
dynamite fends who have lately
displayed so much activity and
reckless determination. Nothing
Is to be accomplished by such a
course, and if the result striven for
could be achieved by these means,
the end would not warrant their
employment. There is no use trys
ing to deny the facts that Irish |
Americans are largely responsible |
for much of the crime sthat have |
certainly not increased the respect |
for the Irish name. Money has
been freely given in this
country, and as it trsnspircs, men
have gone from here in the pay of
Lrish-Americans to labor with the
assassination party on the other
side. Some may have understood
ior what purpose their money
would De used, hut the great major
ty of Irish who gave did so in the
belief that they were helping TO re-
Ieve the distress OF the poor, dis.
5ressed people of Ireland. The
Philadelphia convention can place
these deceived givers right by de-
Glazing, as their representatives,,
that the masses of Instantaneous
have no sympathy with the
policy of assassination and in
destruction Of prop
ertY, and that they do not
intend and never meant to ene0ur-
age that policy by giving material aid
to those who preach and practice it.
The sympathy and moral support of
the American people is worth
good deal more to the Irish in their
struggle for right and justice than
all the money that can be collected
for carrying on open or secret war
against Great Britain. The Irish
cannot afford to ALLEVIATE the sympa-
thy or lose that moral support; but
unless the law-abiding Irish make
some dissvowal of the doctrine of
murder and destruction, America
will be obliged to deny comfort and
aid to those who are struggling for
Irelard's emancipation. The civil
iized world is already cenSuring the
United States for supplying the
sineWs for this most wicked warfare.
One of these days the Christian
sentiment will be powerful enough
to compel America to be fair and
just, if not generous with a nation
TO which it is bound closer than to
any other, and when that time
comes, the Irish will find that they
have lost about the only friend they
have among the governments of
earth. If the Philadelphia conven-
ton is wise, whatever 1t may declare
concerning the English, it will not
fail to show that the Irish of this
country. as O whole, do not sympa-
thizs with assassination, and are not
knowingly giving aid and comfort
to the criminals who, as pretended
friends to Ireland, are doing her
greater injury than her worst
enemies can possibly do.
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