San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-16
lyman is FREE.
He HAD NO DESIGNS ON THE GEAR
OR QUEEN.
His Object is to Free Ireland From British
Rule-British Crimes Against the
Irish Bitterly Remembered, ,

lyman is a free man. His release was
unconditional There is no question
of expulsion from French territory,
or surveillance. He will go to Paris
at once and will sail for New York
| from Cherbourg by the next steamer.
Your correspondent saw him as he
came out of the prison door, looking
| healthy. His face was ruddy and
he was wearing a light suit of clothes.
He was apparently none the worse
| for his thirty-three days detention, in
fact, he said that he had fairly good
time, the officials having treated him
with every courtesy. lyman sent
two cablegrams-one to his wife at
Audubon Park, telling her of his re-
lease the other to VIM. Lyman, treas
urer of the Irish national league of
| America.
In an interview he said: Whatever
the nature of my mission to Europe
was, it has been more successful than
l anticipated. l look forward to the
| establishment in the near future of
an independent Irish republic. The
object of my visit was not what was
attributed to it by the press. There
was never any idea of a plot against
| the car and there was never an idea
of doing any injury to the Queen of
Great Britain, poor old lady, that's an
absurdity. We IriShmen have moth
| ing to do with things of that sort.
We are honorable in our warfare. AS
for the car, would myself stand be
tween him and danger, as | would be-
| tween danger and my own son.
Exactly what the nature of my
mission was | cannot say, but l may
| tell you this: | am no believer in the
| anarchistic ideas of the general de-
struction of persons and property. If
YOU are the father of a family, as |
am, you can rest easy, no harm could
ever come to any one of your children
from any act of mine. l would not
hurt a hair of a dog in the street.
Il believe in dynamite as weapon
of war and we Irish Nationalist are
at war with Great Britain. The Irish
people in America proved their union
feeling in Chicago when l was dele
gate to the convention, by establish
ing an Irish national alliance, pub
lie organization for the establishment
of an Irish republic.
THE object of the alliance is plain
ly stated, and it means to attain that
object, it is equally plainly stated,by
force. l include dynamite and every
other method of warfare, in force,
| Just as the United States government
includes the Sealinski gun.
Talking of dynamite, the first use
of it known in history was the blow
ing up by the English of the Bazetto
Chi"f Soecichinis, in a cave, when TO-
| 600 ,..,--. women and babies were
blown to atoms. l will say that l
| visited Gibralter, and possibly other
places, where, if the British govern
ment knew anything of my move
ments, | should not be at liberty now.
That shows how absurd is the state
ment that was Swallowed by Brit
| ish detectives ever since l left New
| York.
Il think one of the most important
| matters for the cause of Ireland is
propaganda. to let the European ma
lions know that while the British flag
covers one inch of Irish soil, Irishmen
will never cease active hostilities
against the rule of the alien govern
ment which is cunningly and mali
ciOusly depOpulating Ireland.
think that my arrest has done some
good in that way by making the peO-
pie of France take an interest in the
struggle of the Irish race for free
DOM"
Regarding Bell, Kearney and
Hayne, lyman would say nothing,one
way or the other. In the course of
talk lyman was asked point blank
what was his connection with the
Phoenix park murders. lyman beg
ged the question, saying the deed done
Dublin on May 6, 1892, was not the
act of one man or two men or small
body of men, but of the whole Irish
national party. The blows that
struck down Cavendish and Burke
struck by the Irish race, he continued.
'What he was charged with was one
of the phases Of that cruel war waged
for centuries between Ireland and En-
gland. Englishmen speak of May 6,
1882, but conveniently forget the as
sassination of the New Year previous,
when boys in Ballinar were stabbed
and shot by British hired assassins,
when one little fellow, twelve years
old. fell down weltering in his blood,
and expired in the presence of his
agonized father They forget the
brutal assassination of Helen McDer-
mott, young girl in the bloom of
womanhood, brutally stabbed to death
by the knives of England's hired
braves. They forget the murder of
Mary Dean and her aged mother, as
sassinated by the buckshot of a for
ester.
"AIl these infamous crimes are ig-
nored by the British press and pub
lie. Coroners' juries in Ireland re-
turned verdicts of wilful murder
against the assassins, but England
made no arrests. Instead Of that,
she conferred honors and promotions
on her wretched criminals. But the
Great and Good, who visits with pun
ishment, nations as well as individu-