opes that have hitherto stimulated our efforts for Ireland,
every day will make more clear to your understanding. The efforts
at concealment made by the men who created this trouble, the
withholding of information as to the wholesale suspension of D's,
and the mendacious assertions made in recent circulars, have all
failed of the desired effect; and in every D in the organization,
to-day, there is gloom and discouragement and members are fast
falling away. No official denials, a thousand times repeated, can
any longer conceal this fact. Every member from Maine to California
can see it for himself. The truth is beginning to filter through
the barriers set up against its entrance to the D's, by desperate
men, whose characters depend on its suppression. The frantic
efforts and reckless statements of the army of paid organizers,
sent around to counteract the progress of truth and avert the
exposure of wrong doing, are useless and unavailing. Many of these
are the men under accusation of complicity in the fraud, and they
now use your money to deceive you and prolong the reign of
dishonesty. Their prevarications, contradictions, and shuffling
evasions are doing more to establish the truth of the charges,
against which they are vainly struggling, than the strongest
statement made in the interest of right and justice, and a spirit
is gradually growing up in the organization which will produce one
of two results--reform and punishment of the evildoers, or
disruption of the organization and escape of the prisoners.

One or other of these results is inevitable. And whichever it is,
it will be the clear and logical result of your action. Your
withdrawal from the organization, in despair or disgust, will no
more enable you to shake off your responsibility than if you give
an active support to the criminals. Which result shall it be? The
decision rests with you. If the men responsible for this wretched
state of things cannot succeed in stifling all investigation into
their misdeeds, they would prefer to see the organization smashed.
"Dead men tell no tales." They know that an honest investigation
would overwhelm them, and they are fighting for existence.
Therefore they are determined there shall be none, and every D that
demands one is suspended or left without c