The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
lyman IS RELEASED
He Walks Out of Prison a Free
Man Again.
LOOKS wElL AFTER CONFINEMENT.
Grants Long Interview to "a Correspond.
ent Of the New York Hersid-ssys He
Looks Forward to AN Independent Irish
Repubiic--Beiieves IN this Use of Dyns-
m te, but says lie Would Not Harm
Queen Victoria or the Cxsr.

m te, but says lie Would Not Harm
Queen Victoria or the Cxsr.
New York. Oct ia special TO
The Herald from Bouiogne-sur-Me
says: +. ]. lyman is a free man. His
release was unconditional. There Is no
question OF expulsion from Franch ter
ritory or surveillance. He VIII 60 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. look
ing healthy. His face was rudy ana
ne was wearing a light suit OF clothes
He was apparently none the worse FOR
his thirty-three days detention. in
fact, he said he had a fairly good time.
the officials having treated him with
every consideration. In ar interview
he said:
"Whatevr the nature of my mission
| to Europe was, II has been more sue
cessful than ! anticipated. l look for
ward TO the establishment In the near
| future of an Independent Irish repuo-
| lie The object Of my visit was not
what was attributed to 1t by the press
| There was never any idea of plot
against the czar. and there was never
an idea of doing injury 20 the queen of
Great Britain. poor old lady That's
an absurdity.
| Honorable IN Warfare.
| I'VE lrishmen have nothing TO do
| with things OF that sort. We are hon-
orable In our warfare. As for the czar,
| I would myself stand between him and
danger. as would between danger and
my own son. Exactly what the nature
OF my mission was | cannot say. but
| may tell you this: ] am no believer IN
the anarchistic ideas OF the general de-
struction of persons and property IL
| you are the father OF a family, as l am.
you can rest easy no harm could ever
come To any one OF your children from
any act OF mine. | wouldn't hurt
hair of dog in the street. L believe In
dynamite as a weapon or war, ana we
Irish Nationalists areat war with Great
Britain The Irish people in America
proved their union in Chicago last Oc-
tober when | was delegate TO the
| convention there. by establishing an
Irish national alliance public organ
ization FOR the establishment OF an
Irish republic The object OF the ALI
ance is plainly stated and il means tC
| lNdl pIJtANt ~ - Nqbu's f's~s'
stated. by force. | include dynamite
and every other method of warfare ir
force. Just as the United States gov
ernment Includes the Zalintski gun.
fir.t Use of Dynamite.
Talking of dynamite, the first use oi
IL known in history was the blowing VI
by the English of the Basulo chief
Soecichinis N q cave. when 10000 men
women and children were blown e
atoms I viii say that visited Gibral
tar and possibly other places. where y
British government knew anything ol
my movements I should not be al Ito
erty now. That shows how absurd u
} | the statement that l was shadowed o,
British detectives ever since ! left New
York The night before my arrest
saw that my valise had been tampere'
with
II think one OF the most importan
/, matters for the cause OF Ireland is
, proper propaganda to let European ma
, tions know that while the British tiaI
covers one inch Of Irish soil Irishmel
. will never cease. latent or active, hos
. tiljty against the rule OF the alien gov
|, | ernment which is cunningly and mali
!, ciously depopulating Ireland ] thin
that my arrest has done some good u
that way by making the people
France take an interest In the seVe
centuries OF the struggle OF the Iris
race for freedom