The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-23
THE SAN FRANCISCO MONITORS -
JESUITICAL DEFENSE.

The Gazette has published, "by re-
quest" an article from the San Fran
cisco Monitor of April 18th, which
purports to be reply to the ADvER-
Users comments on the "appeal to
Irishmen," issued by certain "gen-
tlemen of Irish birth,'' to which refer
ence was made in the AItd California.
We are gratified that it has done so,
but if the indignant Irishmen who
procured its insertion in our con-
temporary had brought the article to
US, we should have printed it willing
ly. Because the Monitor simply goes
out of its way to disprove something
we did not say, and attempts to make
up for lack Of argument by vulgar
abuse.
AS a matter of fact, every word
printed by US was true. We said that
Father Rooney, violent clerical
demagOgue, during the Land League
agitation in San Francisco, had
stimulated contributions to the
League fund by declaring that every
dollar given to the cause of Ireland
was bullet directed to the heart of
an Englishman. Furthermore, we
said and here repeat, that this
atrOcious sentiment was commented
upon by more than one San Fran
cisco paper, and that the accuracy of
the charge was not denied, either by
Father Rooney or by any one on his
behalf.
We stated as matter of fact, and
we repeat it here, that at a crowded
meeting held in San Francisco, on
Saturday, May 9th, 1--WE take the
date from the Monitor,) presided
over. by Judge Toohey, the dis
graceful scene occurred as here
tOfore described by US, namely,
that the Chairman interrupted
the proceedings to read a dis
patch from New York announcing
the assassination of Lord Frederick
Cavendish and Mr.. Secretary Burke
in Phoenix Park, and that the au-
dience cheered the news without one
word of remonstrance or rebuke from
Judge Toohey, or the respectable
Irish gentlemen who sat upon the
platform.
These are statements of fact. They
are not to be found in the Monitor
undoubtedly, nor perhaps in the
Examiner, which that journal quotes
in reference to quite another matter;
To h. Of
pendent press of San Francisco of
that period will bear out the truth of
what we say.
Now, what has the Monitor done i'll
its attack upon us? It quotes reso-
lutions passed at a Land League
meeting held on the Monday follow
ing the receipt of the news of the
assassination, deprecating the crime,
and offering a reward of $500 to bring
the perpetrators of it to justice. That
this meeting was held is undoubted,
but it was an "open secret" at the
time that it was convened to placate
in some degree the outraged public
sentiment of the community, in con-
sequence of the previous occurrence
which we have mentioned. In pur-
suance of this plan interviews were
had with prominent agitators, and
one and all of course expressed alb
horrence at the crime. They overdid
it, however, Judge TOohey declaring
that he did not believe ''that Irish
blood flowed in the veins OF these
cOwardly assassins," and so on
through rigmarole of disingenuous
eXaggeration, put forth, as was the
rest, to humbug American and Ger
man citizens, whose reprobation of
the dastardly crime might probably
lead them to discriminate against the
Irish agitatOrs at the coming election,
at which nearly all of them were
candidates for Office.
To complete the farce, Father
Rooney was interviewed by reporter
OF the Monitor, and that "man of
God" gave unqualified expression of
his adherence of the murder, but,
said he, suggestively:
If the friends Of Ireland wished to wreak
vengeance on some one representing the
cruel and bigotsd government of Gladstone,
it would not be Cavendish, but the tyrani-
cal and cowardly Forster, who gave them so
many opportunities for having their worst
passions aroused, that they would select as
the victim of their rage. 1t may be put
down, then, as absolutely certain that the