Show THAT JUNTA OF THIEVES In the judgmont of the local organ o Imperialism Irishmen who sympathize with the Boers arc a sot of loafers who are trying to swindle tho Irish born population popu-lation of this country and It warns them against antagonizing England because she Is powerful Ilcrnld Of course that is most contemptible We do not know whether it comes from Ignorance or original meanness but it Is probably from both For quite twenty twen-ty years in New York city there was a junta of thieves that levied regu lar assessments upon credulous honest hon-est Irishborn men and women throughout through-out the country They were going to free Ireland They must have coliceted 200000 per month for quite twenty years Many of them did nothing but write receipts for the money received and with every receipt sent out was a mendicant appeal ap-peal for more money At last sensible Irishmen dropped upon their work and stopped it Now the Boer war gives them a fresh excuse and they are doIng do-Ing business at the old stand I is plain too that they care not one straw for the Boers The reason is they arc every one Roman Catholics and the laws of the Transvaal directly discrImInate discrim-inate against every man of that faith and positively forbid that any man oC thai creed shall have any oflicc of honor hon-or or profit Is It not clear that when the Irish World champions the cause of a people of that kind it i Is not out of either love ot1 sympathy for those people peo-ple The purpose is simply to inaugurate another robbing of credulous Irish born men In this country and they ought to bo warned against the intended in-tended steal |