ANOTHER SHY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 25, 19 October 1883, Page 19

ANOTHER SPY.

(From the New York Freeman?) James McDeemott was a weP3chown " man about town " in Brooklyn— &~ poetical,*. 1 heeler " and sfc- blatant "pa.trioV'7 Bje nas^a; fiery dynamaniac— a follower of O-'Donovan Rossa. He hated England ; he wanted to tear > do wm to bimv^o\bjow-.iip. British gore was meat and drink to him. As he had Brfght's disease of the kidneys and did not expect; to live long, .he, proposed to blow up the House, vl Commons. He wept oy er- several "martyrs," whpm t .it > seems, hejhad topped .to-beisay- to-.thq . British -Government. .Otfthe whole, he was a model Invincible, who, being unfaithfui'to' his" God, may be expected to be at any moment false to the members- of f his. society. .!,»." . • . •-•?*•>.* To.^put the matter on the, lowest plane," it is evident.tbftt th% man who connects himself -with^a secret societiy, a^ndplaoa wholesale murder in the name of " patriotism," .takes His life in his hands— or, rather, givea it into the hands,, of miscreants like Carey. To put" it on the highest, he refuses to hear, the Church ; he turns his back- on our Lord ; excommunicates himself. ,ThG man who sriot Carey was probably ordered to do eg by tbs counsels of the Carbonari to which both Carey and he belonged. . "* ' . . , .■> , Themeorberof a secret society ,i!aay be ordered to face death phy^ sical and death eternal at a* moment's,* notice. The command given, he goes out from his fireside to kill op be killed. If he flinch, death awaits him. If he geos forward, death awaits him.* If he succeed, death awaits , The beginning and the end of. these societies is death, The, best he can hope, for isonjj the respi've.betweeij.assassyaatipn.and the rope.oMhe, haopmaov ./_,„'•< • ■ ." - '*' - There are people who call themselves Christians, yet so biin'de'd by hatred of England, that even criticism.of -the act of the assassin of Carey is intolerable to them. Carey, according to his own testimony at the Dnblin trials, was, a sacrilegious monster, whose ignorance of his religion conld not excuse his hypocrisy, approaching the altar with murder, in his heart, and excusing himself on the plea that murder, was. not yet actually done. There is nothing more horrible in criminal history that the spectacle of this wretch — sent suddenly before -the Judge he bad outraged— swearing away the lives of his associates in crime, and admitting his sacrileges. . And yet, a few mbnfhs before he deliberately , gave over his accomplices, bound, like him, by. a secret oiathj to British law, he wus knowji as a "patriot" 1 This James McDermott, procounced a spy in the pay of the British Secret Service, was also a " patriot " ! 6od hejp a land coxsed-by such patriots 1 Let Irishmen beware how they express sympathy with assassins and assassination — beware how ttiey smooth over the evil of secret societies. Their children are quick to learn.' He who shudders at the thought that his son should ever die a '' martyr," not to Ireland, but to a secret oath and the avarice of an informer, had better reflect well before he approves or condones disobedience to the Church for the " good of Ireland." Secret societies have brought disgrace and ruin to families and dishonour on the name of Ireland. The man who joins one of them denies the faith for which hisfathers suffered. There is no escaping this conclusion. He chooses between the Church and what he calls "patriotism." Secret societies are chosen places for informers as a matter of course. The Christian unfaithful to his. "baptismal vows Cannot be trusted when he swears by lhat Sacred Name wtich he bas renounced. The man who trusts him is a fool. The crop of Careys and Mcßermotte will increase so long as secret socieiies exist and the British Government has money with whiph to buy informers. "The wrongs of Ireland have been and are inexpressibly horrible. The -sufferings of Irish political prisoners in British prisons hav,e driven them to madness. The best we can say of O'Donovan 1 Rossa is that he is mad. But what shall we say of men— Christians — Who express, in their families, approval of this madness 1 On one side is the Church. On the other the secret societies. The man who turns away from her accepts the dcvil — he becomes "a heathen and -a publican." The warnings of the priests of the Church are verified by the •' good for Ireland " the secret societies have of late accomplished.

The Irish Times s?ys :— lt fs an undoubted "fact that the action of the Australian Government in. prohibiting the landing of the informers Kavanagb, Smith, and Hanlon from the Pathan at Melbourne was due to the consideration that knowledge had come to them that a plot was in existence to assassinate the approvers in case they entered that tjerritoiSy. fcjyhen, some time ago, information reached the heads of the Australian Govqmment that the informers were beiasrseot- to their colony J&ey forwarded a formal protest to the home Government, and disi nctly intimated that they would not be responsible for the safety of these men. It" now turna out that a number .of persons who might hav..e known th,e identity of the approvers had an opportunity of. witnessing their embarkation. It is asserted thai the real names and characterjof the three men mentioned were known to passengers by the same ship. A Dublin trader happened to proceed from London to Gravesend upon the tender with the informers on, the day they took ship. It is 'stated that Kavanagh, the carman, wtfnf under the name of Kelly, and represented himself xis coming from Wexford. There were three other Irishmen on board the Pathan going out to make new homes in Australia, and it is asserted that tbej soon saw, through thexlisguise of the approvers, and that when Malta was reached edme letters conveying their suspicions-were sent home. This, at all events, is certain, that long before the Pathan reached Adelaide it was "wellknown both in Dublin and Australia that the approvers-were going ouCby her to be despatched to various 'destinations— 'Kavaaagh and Hanlon for Melbourne, and Smith for Urisbaae. - — --