The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15
TIE IRISH AND THE QUEEN.

1t is decidedly funny to see Mother
Britannia when she gets scared. She is
like nearly every other woman in this
that she can walk up to an elephant
and pat it on the ear. but when she sees
a mouse she win gather her skirts close
around her limbs. jump upon a chair
and scream for dear life. During the
past year England has been pecked by
the great American Eagle, growied at
by the Russian Bear and snarled at by
the Wild Boar OF Germany. She stood
the menaces Of these great powers with
comparative calmness, but when an
Irish dynamiter appears upon the scene
"a mere speck compared to the other
dangers, the whole nation, whose drum
beat is heard around the world, goes
into nervous fit and apparently the
peace Of the world is shaken. Friday,
according TO the dispatches, a man
named Jones testified in London po-
lice court that he, as an English spy,
had come into possession Of the secrets
of the CIan-na-GaeI society. He did not
say what these secrets We're, but he be-
came very nervous, the prisoner against
whom he was testifying became very
pale everybody in the court trembled
and the whole nation was startled.
England is a fool She is afraid of los
ing Ireland. but in her slow way OF
thinking and reasoning she does not see
that she herself is building up the
power that will wrest Irish independ-
ence from her some day. This power
is being educated at her own expense
IN the little national schools of Ireland
and not in the Bowery beer gardens of
New York Ireland's hope of indie
pendence lies in the school houses and
the colleges and not in the gunneries
and the arsnels. The modern Irish
know that; the English do not realize
Il. The grand victorious battle OF Irish
will be fought and won
in the halls of Westminster and not on
the shamrock clad fields of the Emer-
aid Isle.
The Irish dynamiter is the biggest
fool in all the world, with the exception
OF the English statesmen, whom he
keeps in perpetual fright. He is more
the enuemy of Ireland than he is the
enemy Of England. He hurts Ireland
more than ne harms England. He is
not a patriot, but murderer. Mur-
derers never gained the independence
of any country and never will. The
Irish people know this and hence they
encourage no dynamiters. Dynamiters
are raised in New York and not in Ire
land. Their patriotism is not real. IL
is an abnormal and ignorant love of
their native country caused principally
by the excessive use of bad whisky and
an association of wild ideas. In other
words, the dynamiter is Ike an Anarch-
ist. He neither loves his God, his church
nor his country. He would steal the
chaIice from the altar OF his fathers and
pawn 1t for mug OF beer; and then he
would be willing to throw a brick at
the man VINO would say aught against
the sacred temple which he has robbed
ard Gesecrated.
The dynamiter is not dangerous, after
all. He is a man with a big active
mouth and that is all that can be said
about bin.
A dynamiter is not necessarily a
a fln,a -na tC Il
necessarily a dynamiter. The clan-na-
Gael society is physical force organi-
"a ton, but By physical force they mean
the use of arms in a legitimate man.
ner to attain the independence Of their
country .Itis doubtful whether as an
organization they would sanction the
blowing up of Windsor castle; it is
doubtful. and ever will be. whether
they sanctioned the murder of Pat Gro
min at Chicago. The truth is that these
organizations are sometimes used by
local cliques for the advancement of
some personal or factiOnal designs.
More often they~are used by their enc
mics for the purpose Of diScreditlns
the cause which they represent and the
legitimate objects they have in view. In
other words, they are used 10 destroy
their own influence.
England dignifles the dynamiiers by
following them with spies. England
is foolish in the TOO free use of spies.
Usually these spies are, and perhaps
have TO he. greater criminals than those
whose trail they follow. France 'suf-
fered from spies. They were the bane
OF Cardinal Richelieu's splendid admin
of the Bourbon government
France has no spies today and hence is
not thrown annually into a paroxysm
of nervousness by their discoveries. If
the dynamiters and the spies could all
be brought together in saloon row and
killed off by one another the good peo-
pie of Ireland and England and their
cousins could get some sleep
and enjoy ii.
LET Us BE CRUSHED NOW.