Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-29
The Daily Defamation Of the Irish
People by the London News
MOng0rS.
Every Crime and Accident
Credited to F'enianism.
The EHe olive Service OF tho rcle.
graph In Behalf OF British SUI
premaoy.

their leaders, with which the Ameri'
can press Of the day is filed, permit
me to offer a few hastily conceived
thoughts In defense of that people and
those leaders.
1t surpasses comprehension that
notwithstanding those gentlemen, who
digest and manufacture news In Lon
don for the information of American
readers, have repeatedly proved theil
own reliability, yet their utteranoes
and conclusions flashed across the GA.
BILE to this country are accepted with
implicit confidence In their truth, by
the average American editor. To the
student of oontemporaneous events II
must be clear that those London news.
mopgers are but the tools of the Bri.
tish government In the vile work Of
defaming, not only the Irish, but the
French and other European nations
In theseyes of America and for the In.
terest of English Supremacy" an ex.
ploaion occur In Downing street, and
q woman "crank" IL alleged to have
been attacked by assasslns In her own
garden and within q hundred feet OF
q gardener, publican and soldier, not
one Of whom heard her alleged screams
or saw the attack; both Of these
acts are instantly cabled to
America as "Fenian outrages," 90
companied by denunoiatIons Of the
Irish people as brutal rufians and
oowardly assasslns. The attack upon
Lady Dixie has been proven to ba
nothing more or less than the "wild
imaginations" Of a deceased mind
a hoax. Another "Irish outrage"
has been dashed to pieces for want Of
what they all need-proof. 1t Is now
nearly two weeks since the dynamite
explosion which, without investigation
or reason, was charged to Fontaniam
and has there been one iota of evi.
denoe discovered connecting the
Irish people, OIL any part thereof, with
That act2 Certainly not. In the min
Ing and manufacturing districts OF
England and Scotland, there are to.
day thousands and thousands of la.
borers out OF employment, and conse.
quently there 10 great suffering among
@nsm. These miserable people are
dangerously impatient and harbor q
deep hostility TO wards those who are
in power, Tho cables do not tell III
Of this nor do the editorials Of the
London papers, but the columns OF
those papers containing the stories OF
the poor and vastly Increasing mum.
bers OF the crimes of violence speak
In Items. That 1t Is to disoontents
among the employees Of The Times the
attempt on that paper must be attribu.
ed Is shown,,by Mr.. Jennings In hislet.
ter to the New York World. London,
too, Is an asylum for excited socialists,
communists and nihilists. While I do
not attribute the explosion to any OF
these probable causes, I ask, would II
not be the duty Of an unprejudioed
mind, In the face of the circumstance
cited, to hesitate and investigate for
evidence hat would be thoroughly
convincing before charging such an
act upon Q brave and generous people.
lawfully %contending for that which all
the world comedies Is their just due.
This the English press has not done.
And many hold that the government
was the instigator of the explosion, In
order to imbitter the English against
the Irish, and thus ALLEVIATE Parnell's
mighty following In England and
Scotland, and thereby weaken his
power-a power which "Buckshot'
Forster admitted would be, were 1t
lot for tho Phonix park murders, IT.
resistible In the politics of the day.
But whether the government did or
did not instigate the explosion, the
fact that the London ministerial
papers, without investigation and
without reason, charged 1t upon
the Irish people, at so critical
a period In Irish politics lead to the
same result and is equally criminal.
But it Is answered that O'Donovan
Rosa claims credit for the act.
Granted that he committed the crime,
but there Is not q prominent Irishmsn
In thh country who believes that r 1ssa
knew anything about the explosion
before the rest of the American PEG.
pie. Who has authorized Rosa to
speak for the Irish people or any por.
ton of them2 Why listen to his de-
clarations and turn O deaf ear to Par
nell and Sullivan ODonnell and
others who have been tried and hon
ored by the Irish people and commits
stoned to speak for them2 They re
pudiate 1t and place 1t, where l believe
1t belongs, upon the English govern.
ment. AS we'll charge the assasins-
ton Of Garfield dpon the stalwart part
of the republican party, or that OF
Lincoln, by Booth, upon the South
ern people, as charge the acts and say
lngs of O'DOnovan Rosa upon the
Irish people. But this says the reader
does not account for the crimes that
are being daily committed in Ireland.
Let the reader transport himself In
imagination to the famine haunted
shores of Western Ireland and
then view the native owner
of the soil surrounded by a fertile
country, In the very midst Of plenty,
dying from starvation. Look at the
hungry crazed women and children,
bawllng with the beasts Of the field
for the unnutritiouz sea weed. Come
with me into the cabin of misery,
where starvation hold court and wit.
ness the dying mother, sister, child or
wife lying upon . "sop" Of straw,
spread upon . damp earthern floor,
without . spark to temper the bitter