Show 0 AMERICA THE riot in toronto on st patricks day some particulars of which have appeared in our dispatches has haa brought into prominence again the name of odonovan rosa rowa he he ia Is an irish fenian who was engaged in two or three of the geris ns ings which used to heat the blood of the sons bons of erin to boiling point which always resulted in a fiasco without accomplishing any good thing and inflicted little injury upon any one except those who actively participated in those burlesque rebellions rossa WM was arrested in 1858 while enlisting denju men in theu the then dorth north orth of ireland for lor an uprising he served nine months in gnan in 1 a another attempt was yaa made for the freedom of ireland and bossa bobba with many other othen feniane was captured and after waiting in jail three months for his trial he was wae convicted of treason and sentenced to penal servitude for life he vas was incarcerated for a long time in di florent prisons and was subsequently released when bp toe came to this country and is still engaged in plotting against the government of great britain the riot at toronto was occasioned by the thet atrocious gentl sentiments m ants which odonovan rossa bossa has haa utter utters s ed through the columns of the irish world in support of the national fund otherwise called the skirmishing fund to which the laborers and servant girls who have immigrated from the emerald isle talc are liberally contributing the windows of st patricks hall wera smashed rossa bossa escaped in a carriage jumping out ot of the window of the vehicle on the opposite side from the mob and proceeding to the house of a friend the assail assali lantan near ten thousand then attacked and wrecked a house bouse known as Cos groves grovels and ia in a fight with the police who acted most gallantly a large number of persons not less than thau sixt sixty y we were re wounded and at least three killed as pst pistols ois were freely used besides brickbats brick bats bludgeons stones and chube one policeman was dangerously gerou sly and two others severely injured the movement now in progress among the irish americans with fenian sympathies seems to have no definite object in view except preparation for an attack on england when opportunity arrives the society of which bossa rossa isnec ia seo beo secretary claims to have on hand not a very form formidable sum with which to supply the sinews of war against such a power as great britain some are of the opinion that rossa and the chief conspirators will continue to coax the dimes out of the paddies paddles and bridgets until a million has been accumulated when they will quietly pocket the proceeds and disappear but gen oen thomas F bourke who is one of the six trustees in charge of the I skirmishing fund says the money is invested in united states registered bonds and is so arranged that it cannot be touched without the order of the trustees an and d the presence of at least three of their sumber t the idea of an 0 onslaught na aught upon england with such in an insignificant fund aa as could be raise raised d for the purpose in this country MR may y seem ridiculous dic di ulous but when the devilish plans plana proposed by rossa are considered si the necessary cost will not appear unattainable here are a few quotations from a back number of the irish world worlds hinti hinting dg at what the agitator suggests HUMANE WARFARE the shortest swiftest and abd cheapest warfare that which eh does ibe the greatest material damage to the enemy with the least loseff loss of ilfe life to either side la li the most humane warfare CHEAP WARFARE this is tho th age of dynamite and torpedoes agencies with which lature has come forward to aldthhe aid ald the weak the poor and the enslaved cheap chea war warfare farel farei let this be the mo motto it war against england with the smallest number of men ihen and the least possible pos Vos sibie sible expense WARFARE NEARLY OBSOLETE fleets fleeta are now almost useless ueless As the ironclad drove out of existence the old oid fashioned wooden ships so the torpedo will wilt drive out the ironclad the fleets of europe and america are at the mercy of the stealthy little enemy and the best type of the to torpedo ape boat carries no crew FEAR three men and a fw pounds of dyna dyDa dynamite mite are more than a match for the mightiest frigate months of preparation preparations hundreds of men the biggest guns and all the latest improvements go down before the apparently insignificant ant assailant england today to day is beginning to count the cost of her expensive aud arid cumbrous iron claas and a vague and unpleasant adea idea is just shadowing hadow luc lug itself anthe on the british mind that all this preparation a for the defence 0 of f the isla isia island nd may have beim been u beless useless ak As skirmishers it behaves behoves us to acquaint ourselves with buch such appliances ances auces as are calculated to crown our efforts with suc kuc success cess in this connection I 1 should wish to draw the attention of the skirmishers skirmish e re generally to an ad item appearing some time ago in the papers with the caption bottled death s asat at a recent meeting of at the paris academy of sciences a member exhibited a small vial of osmium the most deadly poison known in a short explanatory address he remarked that 20 pounds of the metal would be sufficient to td poison the entire population of the world one thousandth part of a grain of camle eid celi LC eld Vi tt vat laa taa xea ima in alame ot 0 cae cac at 0 cubic yards would possess such a deadly influence that all persons respiring this air would be poisoned what makes it the loredan mo more redan dangerous is the fact that it has no known anu and antidote dote s some persons with nine fine drawn consciences may exclaim that this would be a terrible way of making war odonovan rossa bossa is the writer of these extracts his plan is neither more nor less than to blow up some of the chief cities of england poison the inhabitants destroy her shipping and spread death and destruction truc tion without resorting to the general modes of civilized warfare but it is due to bourke and other more rational conspirator a to say that they do not endorse these fiendish projects of the fenian prossa but wish to wait until a favorable opportunity occurs to strike a blow for the independence of ireland in a fair fight according to the usages of modern armies but klut whether the proposed assault be conducted with powder or dyna mite with the poison of the whole bale assassin or the weapons of the soldier the fact remains that an expedition tion against england is being organized and money to tb support it is being collected on american amerlean soil within the purview of the united states it is also a fact that this is in violation of the spirit of a treaty made with great britain in 1871 therefore it appears to be the duty of the government to put its foot down p promptly r 0 aptly upon this 11 skirmishing ze scheme e m e and flatten it out before it brings any trouble between two nations that ought to be in a mity it is not enough to pooh I 1 pooh I 1 the idea of such a wild scheme by a handful of agitators the past history of irish uprisings shows what may way be expected of 01 the hotheaded natives of the emerald isle when their patriotism is perverted under the treasonable eloquence of fenian demagogues ireland for the irish the pale paie UY uv the union and home bule rule or death may be all ve very well twell as cries ories fori ford for the boys on t the tho a sod ss but irish men and women who have become citizens of the united states should sink their national lonal ional enmities and remember that they are now part and parcel of a nation under treaty obligations to the government which they formerly regarded as their oppressor but from whose dominion they are now entirely free and if they will not conform to the requirements of thein their new now position the united states has a duty to perform in relation to td the matter which ought not to be let the anticipated war with russia be inaugurated and unless this irish rebellion pa american soil is crushed in its reland ireland wili will be arrayed against eng england abdat at an early period odthe of the the united states as the base of supplies and a of the enemies of the british government there is no wonder that the canadian orangemen orangeman Oran gemen were aroused to fever heat at the advent of such a firebrand as the liberated fenian and while the violence of such demonstrations rations is to be deprecated the riot at toronto is an indication of what the conspirators may expect if they attempt any more nonsense e in the dominion |