Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-27
The BRITISH LION
ROars Through Its Minister at
Washington
BUT SAYS PEACE WILL CONTINUE
Talking of Dynamite and Dynamite
Fiends in the Halls Of
Congress.
SOON FOR SPRINGER.
Special TO he R.gisler.

SpsciaI 10 he RsgiEfer
W4sHISGToS, January 26. - Minister
West. who represents the British Lion here
at the National Capital, is SO good as to
tender his assurances to the American peo-
pie TIT the existing friendly feeling be-
tween Enslend and America will not be,
shattered BY the echo Of the dynamite ex-
plosion. At the same time he demonstrates
with somewhat patronizing air with the
Congress Of the United States on the care
lessness which it has displayed in the past
about the dynamite agitation. He does
not demand the immediate arrest OF
O'DonoYan Rosa, but quietly in.
Inmates that something ought to be
done to stop the agitation. Many Of those
members of Congress who are afflicted with
anglomania agree with Minister West but
there is no likelihood that even shock to
all human feelings brought about by the
manning of so many innocent persons will
cause the majority of the Senate of the
United States to do anything which will
initiate against the liberty of the press in
order TO satisfy the excited spirits and quiet
the throbbing hearts ofindignant and at the
same time tremulOus Enghshmen.
Condemned.
The condemnation OF the methods of the
Rosa men is almost universal here in
Washington. But hearty, whole-souled
Insbmeu in Congress and out of 1t are not
disinclined to acknowledge the existence Of
palliating circumstances John FineTty, of
Chicago, is one of the Representative Irish
men in the lower House. He is in favor OF
active measures to free Ireland and since
the National convention at PhTla-
delphia two years ago, has
taken sides with Rossa against
the milder element of Irish agitation which
has controlled the National League through
a combination between the A. o. II. and
the clerical Irish leaders. But even Finerty
does not pretend to jnstify the methods
which brought about the last explosion.
He SAYS that the brutality which prompts the
use OF such methods is the result Of system
of equal brutality applied to the government
of Ireland by the English and amounting
in the course of years to an edu-
cation in itself. He points cnt the
effect of the Treason Felony act passed
in lS4S, which makes the leaders of an open
revolt in the Emerald Isle if captured by
the British forces, not political prisoners, as
they had always been held to be, pricr to
thas time but felons liable, on conviction.
to be transported or imprisoned with the
criminal classes. He SAYS that up to lS48
many Irishmen of practical patriotism lad
been imprisoned, and many executed by
the British government, but each and every
one of them had been treated as gentlemen,
as political offenders and had not been con-
fined in company with murderers, burglars,
and men guilty of even more unnatural
crimes. Congressman FinertY shows that
the natural result Of such legislation
was to force the sort of manifestations OF re-
sentiment which are now exciting the detes-
tation of the civilized world and to put his
opinIon in the fewest possible words he be-
lieves that England has only herself to thank
for the course which events have taken.
Logic,
There is logic in Mr.. Finerty S position in
so far as the paliation of this latest etfense
against humanity is concerned. There is,
of course, no justification for the action'oi
the dynamiters and Finerty does not stand
on the ground of justification.
Congress while it will do nothing to pre-
vent Rosa from publishing just what he
chooses in the United Irishman, is very
likely to pass the Edmpods bill, or one sim
liar TO it, looking to the suppression OF the
manufacture Of dynamite intended for
criminal purposes; in the United States.
Int it is easy to see that such law making
he crime consist in the use to which the
dysamite is prosPectively pat, will be ex-
Needingly hard to eaforce. Neither the
manufacturer nor the buyer, seller or trans
rortcr Of the explosive can be proven in
apy but the most exceptional cases to have
manufactured, or bought, or sold, or trans
ror,d it for use in carrying out the aims Of
politically inclined Hibernions.
h is believed that the adjournment taken
by a tie vote settled by the Speaker, on
Saturday, has killed the Mexican pension
bin and that it can never be resurrected.
J. A.
DISCUSSING EDMUND'S BILL.