| Show THE DYNAMITERS The trial of Cunningham and Burton has terminated as was generally expected and the protestations of innocence by the defendants had no effect whatever It is usuall the case with all men who ore founwp > w tt of what charge j thatt1iay rPt test their innocence it has some tendency to raise doubts in the minds of tHose wlio 1i m fh proi stations sta-tions but the weijfot i of the evidence usuaHc verb tUlces any such declarations declara-tions The crime with which these two I men were charged was far more heinous than the usual crimes against the members mem-bers of society for their crime was against society osaoLorgauiEation and in the destruction they sought to spread the J L 1 J71ai1 r > < > c = o I I innocent and the guilty the weak and tho strong were1 alike its victims That Ireland Ire-land has its wrongs nond will deriy but j theway in which toright her wrongs is not by outrages upon humanity at large Such crimes as those of Cunningham and Burton and the crimes against life and property ih Ireland have injured the just cause of the Irish people throughout the world The theory that the wrongs i I which onepeoplehave put upon another or one portion of a people upon another can be rectified by assassination or those secret ocieties whose object is to spread terror by means of unknown agents and thereby create a panic among the more t lawabiding portion of the community I This has been the method of the Socialists Social-ists the Nihilists and to some extent the Communards but in overyinstanc they have signally failed in their efforts Russia Rus-sia is no freer from tyranny and oppres sion because Hartman succeeded in Killing Kill-ing theCzar than she wasbefore his death And so it always is and always hasbeen when such methods have been resorted to Charlotte Corday killing Maratdid not lessen the horrors of the Revolution although it avenged the death of a lover Nor did the killing of Buckingham by Felton stop the outrages of Charles and nis venal court The act of Brutus only hastened has-tened the time when Rome should fall to he free no more Perhaps the motives of the two miserable men who have just I been condemned to penal servitude for life were to benefit their fellow countrymen country-men but such conduct as this only injures in-jures them and the sooner their fellow countrymen learn this the better it will be for them Nor does such conduct as this meet with universal Approval among the Irish although every Irishman feels that he has to bear part of the reproach which it brings upon them asa as-a people Nor should the acts of these two dynamiters in any way affect I the legislation of Parliament on Irish i affairs Those affairs should receive the same consideration and attention as do the affairs of England and Scotland which are treated in accordance with their merits and not in accordance with the prejudices of Parliament When this day shall arrive there will be no more trials of Irish dynamiters in Old Bailey i or anywhere else in England as there I will be no more dynamiters to try |
