Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-31
DYNAMITE AND DAGGERs.

'NNA round it. God save Ireland from the un- scrupulous and unrelenting foe-and, oh, more earnestly still, we pray God save Ire land from the inconsiderate friends who permit their enthusiasm to outrun their discretion and do more injury to the cause of their espousal than the combined bigot- ry and brutality of Balfour and his brigade of butchers could effect. To-day the Co., ercion Law has full swing in Ireland. Trial by jury is abrogated; the Bill of Rights is trampled under foot; the guaranteed rights of Magma Charta have become a myth and mockery. The poor privilege of com plaint is denied to a persecuted people; and if a man dares to protest against mag isterial injustice or governmental abuse he is regarded as a felon and punished with plank-bed imprisonment; and if he should look crooked at police constable there will be a fury and fervor in the police mans oath rendering escape impossible. These are every day occurrences. No victim is too high or too low for the Cas- tie conspirators. Members of Parliament selected by constituents to speak their views at Westminster are subjected to the most effectual gag of solitary confinement in the jails of Ennis, Galway. Tullamore and Sligo the priests cassock is not proof 70 against the demonism of Dublin Castle; and the peasants lot is not too insignificant to save him from the distinction of State prisoner. And meanwhile evictions go on
 nd hl voung the able bodied and the intirm are cast homeless and foodless on the ditch side to starve and die.
 All these things are hard to bear, but they have been borne; borne in submission to Gods inscrutable decree; borne in the hope inspired by the growing sympathies of outside nations and peoples. But save us from our friends. What sympathy can Ireland expect to create or retain as long as such appeals to passion by men who are supposed to represent Irish interests and voice Irish sentiment are made as were made by O'Donovan Rossa and Frank O'Byrne in New York on Sunday night? Rossa, we regard as man of sterling hon esty, but enthusiast who recognizes no bounds of reason whe" in pursuit of his patriotic principles. O'Byrne is not less honest, but is perhaps more pronounced in his indiscretion; both have much to complain of in respect of their individual treatment by England but neither has jus tifcation to imperil the general cause for their personal hatreds. Rossa on Sunday fbo somebody did something for Ireland; and advised the arming of their people and the use of dynamite; while O'Byrne called upon the Irish to follow in the footsteps of the five men who killed Burke and Caven- dish and were hanged for it lie advised the taking off que after another of the Lord Lieutenant, the Chief Secretary, the Judges of the Supreme Court; and then followed the plan of crippling England's commerce by the burning of ships in all the British ports.
 This is sheer madness; the very extrava- gance of the suggestions deprives them of their force and danger; and perhaps we give the matter an undue importance in thus referring to it. No one who exam ines the record will doubt our earnestness in the Irish cause-or our willingness tC seal our treason with our blood in the face of the enemy, judicial military; we have not now, and have not had for years, any faith in the moral force idea of iberatine Ireland by prayer and petition to an I'm perial Parliament; but still we would not II. ,l men, money and material urge the people to physical force effort which could only end in annihilation and still less, very much less would we countenance the se- cret crime that would add dishonor to de- feat. O'Connell left to Ireland maxim which should be of effect for all time ''The man who commits crime gives strength to the enemy" and nothing could give Balfour more power to-day-nothine bring such joy to the ancient enemy as the following of the evil counsels of Rossa and O'Byrne. Look to the results of the dyna mite doings hitlrerto-fascos that amounted to farce as far danger to English inter ests were concerned-tragedies for the victims in lifelong penal servitude. The attempt to follow the teachings of these enthusiasts would be joy to the Coercion ists; it would justify their tyranny ano make things easy for the govern mental design of plotting out the name of Ireland from the map of Europe and inserting the nomenclature of West Brit ain. Balfour, or any of his predecessors in the slaughter house of Dublin Castle never gave such deadly blow to Irish lib erty as was given on that May day in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, when the blood o1 Lord Frederick Cavendish and Secretary Burke empurpled the green sward near the viceregal Lodge. It put Ireland's cause back half century in public sentiment and in probable success. By all means lei Ireland, when her time appears propitious meet the enemy face to face in the oper field, in the blaze of beaming sunshine and invoke the God of battles-and Eng lands difficulty is Ireland's opportunity but let not the dagger of the assassin, the stealthy aim of the bullet, or the torch o1 the incendiary, give not only strength tc