The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-23

Swered every week.-Mrs. demand for compen-
sation was regarded as reasonable, and 1000
was voted to him for two years services; a
small sum was actually placed in his hands
and his Indebtedness to the fund was pro-
nounced cancelled.
The new trustees on assuming control of
the money made an entire change of front.
First of all they changed the name of the
national fund" as it is still properly called,
and then they issued manifesto in which,
under guise OF increasing the scope of the
objects of the fund, they very plainly threw
overheard all Rossas doctrines of blood and
fire. The document was on the whole, non
com:nittal in tone; but it was promised that
the money should be used in preparing the
way for the grand struggle for Irish indie
pendence, and the people were asked to re-
pose confidence in the managers. who would
apply it according to their best Judgment.
Under this new programme the fund in
creased marvelouSly until about three years
ago, when the growth stopped. Picnics and
balls, societies and individuals; the United
States, Canada, Australia, and even Ireland
and England joined in swelling the total,
and this finally reached about 100000 AT first
investment was made in registered United
States bonds, but after awhile the trustees
became afraid of litigation and of possible
proceedings melted by the British govern
ment and the registered were exchanged for
ordinary coupon bonds, and the bulk of the
fund is said to be still invested in that way.
What expenditures have been made it is well
nigh impossible to discover, though it is an
open secret that very large sum was ex-
pended on the "Fenian RAM" or Holland tor
pelo boat, whose removal from her moorings
ct ) srsey City has recently been chronced
by the Herald. 1t has been charged from
time TO time that portions of the money have
been used to aid the Land League. This is
most explicitly denied by the trustees on
one hand and Land Leaguers on the other,
and few Irishmen can be found who will not
ridicule the charge
In 1879 Thomas Clarke Luby resigned from
the board of trustees. So far ms is known the
board of trustees remains otherwise unal-
tered from its original composition, though
this is not matter of certainty.
RossA's NEW DYNAMITE SCHOOL.
Rosa never got along very well with the
new trustees, and in 1878 matters reached a
climax. He was forced to resign the secreta-
ryship, and thenceforward he has been in
open war with his old associates. He spenta
long time in hospital, suffering from loco
motor ataxie form OF paralysis, and was be-
lieved to be a physical wreck. A public
fund was then started for his benefit, and
very considerable sum was raised. Then his
health began to mend and he repaired to
Philadelphia where he soon after called his
convention of the Irish race" He said he
wanted to strike a blow at England, and he
began demanding anything, from 81. 900 up,
from the national fund to enable him to be-
gin. Except himself no freshman of any
note attended the convention, and the hand
full of delegates who composed it represented
no constituency except themselves. They
began however, the series of attacks on the
national tnnI trustees nD tn
account for the money, which, in one form
or another, has been kent ND ever since.
Back III New York, in 1881. Rosa, through a
paper which he calls the United Irishman,
began the collection of new fund-this
time he says to unite the resources
of civilization" He claims to have at his
back besides the sorry remnant of the old
Fena Brotherhood. an Irish Revolution
airy Brotherhood" United Irishmen," and
Advanced Nationals" He asserts that
there lisa United Irish Revolutionary Coun-
cir governing all these. and he claims to
hayer relations with organizations in Ire
land, as weH,as to have there special emissa-
ries for Establishing work. His colleagues
in the leadership of these bodies are men of
the utmost abscurity, and only his genius for
putfery has kept the affair afoat. He claims
however, to have received S4. 900 in subscrip-
tons TO his new fund.- and the dynamite
laboratory up the Hudson, in which he
keeps Professor Mezerof xperimentng on
explosives, has been described in the Herald
l t is unnecessary here to do more than re-
mind the public of the hints and innuendoes
lie threw out when some internal machines
were alleged to have been found in Liverpool
in barrels marked Cement" when the ex-
plGslon took place on the gunboat Dotefei,
when the attempt to blow UP the Mansion
House in London was made.
WHO FINDS MONEY FOR THE INvINcIBLEs.
OF late Rosa has been more reticent, and
he was very cautious" indeed regarding the
local government board office affair and the
recent Birmingham raid. He has at all times,
however, given suggestiveness to his silence,
which, among those who dislike him, is inter-
preted as striving to wiring money from the
hot-headed and the ignorant by leading them
to believe that he and his colleagues support
the dynamite plots unearthed in England
Those, however. who claim TO he most in
earnest in hostility to British power in Ire
land find i'll his love of Publicity the best ar
gument to show that he is doing nothing
dangerous, and has no connection with the
'lnvincibles" or other incendiary organza-
ton.
On the other hand, it is for obvious rea-
sons impossible to ascertain whether the
trustees OF the national" fund contribute
the means for the production or purchase of
the dynamite which was found in possession
of Deasy and Flanagan at Liverpool. of Car
mody. O'Herlihy and Featherstene at Cork,
of Norman Wilson, Dalton and Gallagher in
London, and at the factory of Whitehead in
Birmingham. In interviews with Herald
reporter in this city, John J, Bresin and
other trustees of the diminishing fund de-
MED all knowledge of the explosion in the
Local Government office. All Irish American
Nationalist assert that the names of the
prisoners are entirely unknown to them, and
the only direct piece Of evidence that has
been cabled is the statement that from letters
found on Dalton it Is believed that lie had
relations some nine years ago with Dewey,
Breslin,, and others in this country. The
fact is also announced that notes stamped
with the name of New York banking firm
and American letters OF credit were found in
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