Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-14

next day came the first explosion and the
dynamite policy developed. It need
scarcely be added that the frat
named wing of the Liberals was at once
strengthened. The dynamite assault
was taken as the answer of Ireland, and
such sympathy as she had enjoyed among
the English was well nigh obliterated. It
has not availed to plead that Parnell and
his friends are not responsible for the acts
of these secret assassins. 1t is replied
that he has not denounced them, as he
should have done, nor has he repudiated
and scorned O'Donnovan Rosa and the
| plotters in America. 1t is useless to point
out that these reckless dynamite conspir.
ators had no authority 10 speak or act for
Ireland. The sentiment that conciliatory
measures are no longer advisable, and that
severity shall be the rule, has been greatly
augmented, until now it is the tone of
nearly all the English press, and what good
feeling existed between Irish workmen and
English employers has been seriously i'm
paired.
This, then, is what the dynamite policy
has accomplished for Ireland. Among
Americans there should be no middle
ground taken on this matter, for
no amount of recital of EngIand's errors
and Ireland's wrongs can excuse the fiend-
ish means employed to terrorize the coun-
try. There is hope that the Irish
people will listen to the voice
of some of their wiser leaders, and by
unmistakable expression warn the assas-
sins and dynamite agents to withhold their
hands If not, all the sympathy Ireland
has had will be withdrawn from her By the
civilized world. OF course, in the feverish
excitement now prevailing, small events are
apt to be magnifed but enough has been
done by the dynamite conspirators to prove
that there has been method in the manner
that there has been deliberate plotting to
assault in the most cowardly form, to deal
blows in the dark, to strike down indis-
criminately, to make the torch and the in.
fernal machine means to political ends
1t has been suggested that possibly the
alarm inspired was TO furnish pretext for
levyinguponthep pockets of Irish. Americans.
The evidences do not warrant this conclu-
sion, for it is reported by the Irish agents
everywhere that the collection of funds
for the Land League has been seriously re-
tarded by the dynamite operations.
In the meantime the conspirators O'Don.
novan Rosa, John F. Finerty and their
despicable cohorts parade daily in print
the letters written them approving
assassination, and inclosing money for
the purchase of explosives to blow up
the "tyrant Englishman Ard this
brings US to the consideration again of
what should be the attitude of all good
men toward these ghouls. There can be
no pure sympathy with them. They must
receive unmistakeable notice that the citi.
zens of republic will neither tolerate their
practices, their plots nor their threats
against friendly power. If necessary,
their dastardly and bloody breathings
must be made offenses. America must
not become the tramping- ground for the
assassination recruiting agents. The ques-
ton of the rights and wrongs of Ireland,
the past mistakes or present errors of Eng.
land, have nothing to do with it. We
cannot, even with England's example dur
ing our late war before us. consent for a
moment that funds shall be solicited in our
streets for assault against her people by
assassins. 1t is within the possibilities, if
these outrageous proceedings continue,
that Americans will, in their indignation
at dynamite methods, rise to determine.
ton not to tolerate the presence OF the
men who advocate and applaud them.
There are enough, and too many, of such
vermin as O'Dounovan Rosa, Herr Most |
and John Finerty in the country now, and
there is probably but one way of teaching
them the distinction between liberty and
license