The Labor enquirer., 1884-03-22
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY.

DuG now by So-Calcu fhonpiopio
methods? By offering to fight him on
equal footing upon green hillside? You
can find no field, even in green Ireland,
so green as such a man as that. The
enemy would laugh in his sleeves at him,
And the enemy has laughed, laughed
! tilljhis sides did ache, at the ridiculous
exhibition, "the bombast circumstances,
horribly stuffed with epithets of wal"
which our honorable" men have made
of themselves.
But England has stopped laughing.
Why? Observant men know the reason.
Oh it offends us to the soul to see a
ranting platform hero, with more lungs
than brains, putting on an air of shabby
responsibility, and trying to below him
self into the good opinion of the enemy,
or the enemy's allies, by denouncing as
towards" and "miscreants" men whose
| shoes he is not worthy To loose. .z, e
''rhe dagger, the bullet, dynamite, and
the hedge" We don't advocate the en-
ployment of these things in all cases nor
in any particular case. But we do say
that these things may be properly used
and they may be improperly used. But
honor" is the subject of our story. Very
well kings have worn daggers; bullets
and dynamite are now employed i'll all
wars, and what is the difference between
shooting from behind hedge and shoot
ing from behind an entrenchment The
dagger is not dlshonorable unless it is
used for dishonorable purposes. But
here comes along man who hurls "a
sentence of death" at you and your in
nocent babes he breaks into your house
with the intention to level it with the
ground and to cast you and yours out on
the merciless roadside. What are you to
do? If you are a man, your action will
be manly if you are a dog, why, you
will 60 to your vomit and subsist in your
baseness. You have no right to get chill
dren unless you are determined to sup
port and defend them. That home-de
stroyer is a rufian, a burglar, and a MUIR
derer. By the law of selfdefense you
are clearly entitled to kill him, and un-
der no pretext can he talk to you of
"honor" Some NAV say that this teach
ing is unchriGtian. 1t may be said that
no good Catholic will endorse it or rrac-
tiCe it, But we say that the man who
has no care for his household is worse
than an infdel
OF course, we do not mean to put any
forced Interpretation on scripture by an
| indirect twist 1t is not any question of
moral theology, but merely the senti-
ment of honor, that is considered.
Moreover what We here say is to be un-
derstood of Ireland in particular man
ner In a self-governed country, like
America, where the people may correct
any error or remove any evil on an un
derstanding among themselves, methods
which ought to be resorted to there
would be Insufferable here. England
has waged war of determination against
the Irish people for centuries. The war
still goes on. 1t will contiue to 90 on
whilst the English remain in Ireland.
The practical question is: How put an
end to this numbering war? If the
dagger and the bullet, dynamite and the
ditch, can be servicable to that end, why
should they not be brought into requisi-
ton? If a bloodless method is being
invented, then God bless the inventor,
and God send his invention speedily
along!
We are not in love with war Would
that all nations forgot the art of fighting,
either with gunpowder or dynamite, and
that peace and goodwill brought all
men together in the embrace of common
brotherhood. And this spectacle would
gladden. the angels if the law Of God
were honestly accepted on earth. But
it is entirely useless to talk to England
of God, of Justice, of right, or brotherly
love. The British empire is the king
dom of Satan in this world.
Its rule has been the rule of devils
everywhere, and in all ages. 1t is the
curse and the plague of the human
race. The SYSTEM by which it operates
is alien to every instinct Of Christianity,
which has failed to civilize it. All good
men should lift up their hands to
Heaven and pray for the destruction of
this wicked empire. As to honorable"
warfare-as to the methods that ought
to be employed against this Evil Power
why, if some do not feel called to
help on the good work, let them at least
hold their tongues from wagging against
it. The enemy that Ireland is fighting
is not an honorable enemy, and even if
he were everything would be justifiable
in war not prompted by wantonness.
Let this be known and remembered l.:
The Irishman that INDUCES in denuncia-
ton against any mode of war Waged
against the enemy is to that extent CIV
ing aid and comfort to the enemy.-Irish
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