A COOL SCOUNDREL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3664, 12 April 1883, Page 4

A COOL SCOUNDREL.

Tin-; coal on, crin-; i"on ikisii ■ikovhlkh. The following is extracted from a mass of similar infamous correspondence appearing in the Irish "World, which bears the date of Feb. 17. It is sent by Mr I\ "W. Crowe, from l'coria, Illinois, and thus advises Irishmen : "As I said before, we have to fight. Now, any honest, intelligent man knows that Ireland has no chance of success in a tight with England after the manner of what is'callod honorable warfare-—not a ghost of a chance. "What, then, are we to do 'r I s:iy we must fight—fight as best we can : Enirlaud wont allow tis to arm ourselves and learn lite uso of anus, and experience has taught us that we cannot arm in .secret. "We cannot fight the British Empire after the manner of 'honorable warfare' with old and rusty muskets, pikes, scythes, No, these weapons would be useless against breech-loading cannon and rifles. Wo cannot afford another 'OS, or '-I"), or '07._ "But against all these odds, and in face of all these difficulties, I say we must tight. And this next iight with England for the freedom of Ireland, must, unlike all our former combats, be fought in England. But, notwithstanding reports to the contrary, I am not a champion of dynamite, explosions, in London or elsewhere in England, as a mode of warfare, for the reason that there i.s to use an old phrase, ' more fuss than lYwifcher.-i' in tins dynamite business. lam opposed to destroying human life—even English human life—where it is not an actual necessity. The occupation of Irelaud by English forces is a matter of pounds, .shillings, and pence. England makes money by- her occupation and government of Ireland. I hold that as soon as it becomes unprofitable to her to occupy and govern Ireland, England will cease to. do m:j. Her wipremacy in Ireland is worth to England about £00,000,000 a year. If Ireland or Irishmen destroy £000,000,000 of English property in England every year it won't take voiy lung to convince Englishmen that iliey were losing more than they were making by holding on to Ireland ; and, as a matter of course, they will only be too anxious to get rid of a bad bargain. Now, this train of reasoning brings me back to my assertion that we must fight. We must make Avar —not war on Englishmen or Englishwomen, but war on English capitul,oii English palaces, on English warehouses, manufacturing establishments, on English shipping, on her dockyards and ports. Now, the easiest way to do anything is the best way. Mrs O'Leary's cow did more damage by kicking over a coaloil lamp in a stable to Chicago than did the German army, with all its artillery, to Paris in four months or more while they laid siege to it. Therefore 1 hold that coal-oil, judiciously applied, is a million times more destructive of properly than the ' villainous saltpetre." Now, for this mode of warfare we ought to have 000 sober, brave men; and we ought to have §000,000 for their support and maintenance for one year in the field —000 of these men to occupy London, fifty for Manchester, fifty for Liverpool, fifty for Bristol, and fifty for Glasgow. Each of these soldiers on entering the respective battle ground to secure a room, a furnished one. To that room he ought to convey a live-gallon can of coaloifin his trunk, and a box of matches. On a stonuy night, on signal from the officer commanding, :iOO fires should blaze out in different parts of London, and, fanned by an equinoctial storm, they would make a blazo that would ho the wonder of the world. ' Moscow and Chicago would not be v patch to it in grandeur and magnificence. In its light we should read the charter of our independence as a nation."