The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-10-17
p. p. J. lyman.

Chicago last October, when / was a del.
egate to the convention there, by estab-
fishing an Irish National Alliance, q
public organ for the establishment Of an
Irish republic.
The object of the alliance is plainly
stated, and it means to attain that OBJ
sect. it is equally plainly stated, by
force. I include dynamite and every
other method of warfare in force, just as
the United States government includes
the Zalinski gun. The first use of dyna-
mite known in history was the blowing
up of the Basulo chief, Soeichinis, in a
cave, when 10000 men, women and
babies were blown to atoms. l will
say that l visited Gibraltar and possibly
other places where, if the British gov
eminent knew anything of my move
ments, |
Should Not he at Liberty Now.
That shows how absurd is the state
ment that l was Swallowed by British
detectives ever since l left New York.
The night before my arrest, l saw that
my valise had been tempered with.
L lLlllh III VI ~ lIlOcS AhipoAttlt
matters for the cause of Ireland is a
proper propaganda, to let the European
nations know that while the British
flag covers one inch of Irish soil Irish
men will never cease latent or active
hostility against the rule of alien gov
eminent, which is cunningly and NAL
~iciously depopulating Ireland. I think
o that my arrest has done some good in
that way, by making the people Of
France take an interest in the struggle
of the Irish race for freedom"
Twenty-Mile Ditch.
A 20-mile ditch, he said, alone was
between England and all invasion by a
French army, and a hundred thousand
men could sweep the country. The
British army, he asserted, is composed
of the r~iff-raff of the cities, while its in.
efficiency is the laughing stock of the
experts of continental Europe. Russia,
he said, is moving on India, and the
downfall of the British empire with
Macauley's prophesy of the New Zea.
lander on the ruins of London bridge,
would undoubtedly be realized within
the present generation.
In the course of the talk, lyman was
asked point blank what was his conne
ton with the Phoenix Park murders.
lyman begged the question, saying the
deed done in Dublin on May 6, 1882,
was not the act Of one man or two men
or a small body of men, but of the
whole Irish National party.
Was struck by the Irish Race.
THE blows that struck down Caven
dish and Burke were struck by tn,
Irish race" he continued. What h
was charged of was one of the phase
Of that cruel war for centuries between
Ireland and England. Englishmel
speak of May 6, 1882, but convenient,
forget the a~ssassinations of the nigh
previous, when boys in Ballinar wer
stabbed and shot by British hire,
assassins-when N little fellow,
years old, fell down weltering in hi
blood and expired i'll the presence G
his agonized brother.
They forget" he asserted, 18th
brutal assassination of Helen McDel
mott, a young girl in the bloom {
womanhood, brutally stabbed Il deaf
by the knives of England's hired bra,
ADDE'S. They forget the murder of Ma,
Deane and her aged mother, ASSASSIN
ated by Buckshot Forster. All the.
infamous crimes are ignored by Il
British press and public. Coroner
juyies in Ireland returned verdicts
wilful murder against the assassin
hut England made no arrests. Instes
~ that she conferred honors and pr