The Indianapolis journal., 1884-06-24
THE IRISH MOVEMENT.
An Important Communication from Mr..
James Stephens the Great Agitator.

DR. John G. Waters, of this city, who is now
the chief officer of the Irish Republican Brother
hood yesterday received by cable from Paris
an important message from Mr.. James Stephens
the great Irish revolutionist, which will be read
with interest. 1t has especial reference to the
rumored attempts to blow up English cities by
dynamite, with which the followers of Mr..
Stephens and the movement which he repre-
sents, are accused of being accessory The let
ter is confidential but the purport as given by
Dr. Waters to journal reporter last night, is
as follows Mr. Stephens said that he wished it
to be generally understood that the
members of the old Fenian con-
spiracy were against the murder policy
and were not at all connected with the plots that
were now alleged to be forming In reference
to the general policy that is now being operated
in behalf of Ireland, Mr.. Stephens said that he
considered the action of Parnell as useless be-
cause he had to contend with the House of Com
mons large majority of which was against
Irish rights. The poor men who were associated
with Mr.. Parnell in this movement were being
gradually drawn away. Ring back on
the old echo" said Mr.. Stephens, (which is
for order, and not anarchy; war if needs be, but
not murder" He also wished it distinctly un-
derstood that in any effort he might make for
his suffering countrymen he would not in any
way impede the work of Parnell, and added that
while he regarded Parnell as a brave man.
and his party party of brave men,
he believed that they had profted more than the
Irish tenants by their actions. While he did
not wish to destroy the Parnell party, for the
sake of itself, he considered that the time had
come when every honest man would work for
the future of Ireland, without regard to what
Mr.. Parnell had done. Parliamentary agitation
of the violent kind was about to expire of its
own weakness, and it was only galvanized by
the subsidized action of certain journals in this
country and in Ireland. He thought that Mr.
Parnell was trying to make use of party he
could not control, and had failed in the effort.
ton which is to be held in Paris, the
attitude of Ireland will be understood
not to be that of parliamentary agitation,
which is a failure. The English government.
and the English people can easily understand a
war policy on the part of Ireland, but not pol
ICY OF subterfuge. The parliamentary policy of
Mr.. Parnen has condoned this assassination and
brutality which has disgraced ireland, with
which we are not congener. The old war party
will now take its place without asking testimo-
malls and incurring all risks"
The above dispatch was sent in cipher Since
the retirement of Mr.. Stephens from an official ca
pacity, DR.. Waters is now at the head of the
Irish revolutionary movement and next to
him was Edward O'Donovan, the war
correspondent, who recently died. Sc
cret communications are made between
the leaders of this movement by means of mes
sages written with a mysterious ink they have.
The secret of its composition is known only to
one or two, and it was intrusted to Dr. Waters,
by Mr.. O'Donovan, who came from Washington
City here for that purpose Manuscript written
with this is invisible and the color can only be
brought out by another secret preparation.