The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-27

patch announcing the assassination |
of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Sec
rotary Burke, in Phoenix Park, Dub |
lin. When he interrupted the pro-
ceedings to announce that fact, the
meeting rose and cheered to the echo.
These protesting gentlemen were
present and participated in the MUIR
derous exultation of the moment
and Mr.. Toohey was subsequently
elected Superior Court Judge as an
acknowledgment of his sympathy
with the Irish cause.
At previous meetings the most
truculent sentiments were uttered re-
garding England, and upon one nota-
bic occasion, Father Rooney, an Irish
Catholic priest, urged large contribu-
tions to the Land League fund, on the
ground I" that every dollar given to
the cause of Ireland was a bullet di-
rected to the heart of an English
man." This Christian sentiment was
likewise applauded, and the aforesaid
Irish gentlemen, who sat by, opened
their wallets and flung out the shin
ing coin to swell the Irish assassina-
tion fund. Some of the San Francisco
papers had the courage to protest
against this atrociOus sentiment, but
the bulk of them were mute lest the
| purse proud gentlemen of Irish
birth " should withdraw their patron
age. Father Rooney did not modify
a word or thought, but ministered in
holy things from the altar of his
church to his sympathetic and APP
proving flock.
These are facts-only two out of
heap of similar ones which might be
| cited. Now, why should these gen
temen" be so sensitive regarding
| English press comments upon Irish
| character? Do not the facts warrant
all that can be said derogatory of it?
Have not these very men cheered
| themselves hoarse applauding the as
| sassination of innocent people because
| they were born across the Irish chan
mel? Are they not now contributing
| to O'DOnoVan Rosa y dynamite fund ?
Are they not passive participants in
all the crimes, cOnspiracies and out
RACES which disgraces the Irish name
| in the four quarters of the earth We
say they are, knowingly and by de-
sign. If, therefore, the character of
| the Irish people is to be judged by the
acts of the San Francisco Irish "gen-
! tlemen in question, then the Eng
| fish language is not copious enough
| to express its detestableness.
Their appeal" proves that cow
ardice and syeophancy underlie an
irresistible race tendency to assassi-
| nation and reasonable conspiracy.
The great names of Irish history of
which the world Of art, literature and
arms is proud, do not belong to them.
They were "aIiens in blood, Ian
guage and religion" While Tone
and Fitzgerald, Emmett and Grattan
| were battling for freedom and filling
the universe with the story of Ire
lands wrongs, the blood relations of
men" in all probability were engaged
in the congeniaI task of informing
upon Irish patriots, who were of an
other race, and procuring for money
their alleged judicial murder by the
Irish Executive. The leaders of Irish
nationality, of whom Ireland itself
was unworthy, did not belong to
race of congenital assassins. The one
man who stands alone in the present
movement, Charles Stuart Parnell, is
of mixed English and Scotch blood,
like all his illustrious predecessors.
Yet men who blow up innocent
women and children in England, who
mutilate dumb animals, and butcher
! in the most savage manner men and
women in Ireland, have the brazeD
assurance to claim affinity with a
leader whose lofty sentiments they do
not understand, and whom they hate
| in their secret souls more intensely
than they do the British Govern
ment.
1t is time this Observation-Disclosures
! tic wave of criminal excess were
stopped. The American people owe
it to themselves and to civilization to
check its farther advance lest it in
carnadine the earth, and fill it with
violence and death.