The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-30

hOJ Deeu ~ nome on Oaturuay ana Ouuuay
till last Saturday for five weeks; and then,
from the inquiries made at the door
whether l was home the Saturday previous to
the outrage, something even more serious
might have happened than the attempt to
blow me up on Saturday last. If L
go to bed, il must be dog sleep, and always
on the alert. My coachmsn has not dared to
drive me home at night for the last twelve
months. ~ My servants wish to leave,
as they dare not stop in the house; my friends
dare not come to the house. No
one at present knows where sleep.
For the last twelve months have gone home
in cab, and been seen safe inside, because
it was unsafe to walk from the railway station.
1 have applied to the county police to protect
my house while 1 slept at night, and
to the city police to protect my brick
machines at night. They reply
they will give me as much protec-
tion as like, but must pay 3d. per hour for
each man. l say no, on principle, and if
have to pay at all, / will have my own armed
men, and that will be disgrace to the Gov
ernment of this country, if the Home Secre-
tary allows it" Prosaic and stupid and SIM
pie Mr.. johnson who believes that it is the
first duty of a government to maintain the
security of life and property, and who cannot
understand now it is that every or any unof-
Tending citizen is, as things are, assumed by
dubuOilJy W D6 DOuuu W uldluIdlu dU Ills OWu
expense an armed force of personal retainers
to guard him to and from and at his dwelling
place, and who really thinks it hard that he
cannot sleep two nights in the same bed for
fear of the fate of Darnley.
Fear of the fate of Darnley; why the Edin-
burgh tragedy of 1867 has been, at least in
purpose, repeated in this year of grace and
civilization 1870, in the second city of England,
the very home and metropolis of manufac-
f1,ra a11 opJ np O.
April 80, Mr.. Johnsons timber-yard at An
coates was fired; but this was mere trife.
On the very same night-and it was the first
night for a fortnight that Mr.. Johnson
had entered his own house, al Levenshulmo,
for the purpose of sleeping there-a violent
explosion of gunpowder took place in his
drawing room, and three bottles filled with
powder, and enclosed in tightly y-compressed
clay, were found in and about his premises
1t was only because the night was damp, and
because the explosion took place outside the
window, instead, as was intended, of being
inside the room, that the house, and probably
all that it contained, was not blown to atoms.
There is grim pathos in Mr.. Johnson's
quiet appeal "Truly my lot is hard one."
Rather, we should say, and so we think the
whole country will say; and we venture to
hope that, in our righteous indignation
against the bloody deeds of Arvanitaki at
hdIhtuOu, We Sudll uOG IOfBeC Inc OuUy OF
tracking out and avenging this hideous crime
committed on and by what Mr.. Gladstone
calls our own flesh and blood In some re-
spects the crime perhaps equals Broadheads;
at any rate, it is a new development of the
trade-union policy. At Sheffield rattening
and murder were carried out by workmen
against their fellows. Now it is at Manches-
ter against an employer-and against an en-
ployer whose whole life has been, so we are
assured, spent in bettering the condition of
the workingman, and in attempts, costing
much time and money, to elevate him
socially, physically, and morally. Mr.. John
sons only offense is that in the in
terests of Manch ester labor quite as much
as in those of Manchester capital he in
tends to conduct his business as builder
under such conditions as alone can prevent
the prohibition of all new buildings at Man
chester. No doubt the Manchester brick
makers are too debased and stupidity igno-
rant to see this; and they answer Mr.. John
sons argument for free trade by the con-
vincing argument for protection of trying to
blow him and his family to pieces, and of de-
stroyipg all his stock in trade. OF course we
shall have the old story. The Trade Unions,
with more OF less indignation, and with that
well-known indignation more or less fcti-
tious, will disavow all participation in these
murderous outrages. The Sheffield farce will
be played over again. And all that Mr..
johnson gets from authority is the permission
to defend himself, his life and property, and
family, if he can, at his own cost. The Gov
eminent cannot protect him further. They
cannot, we suppose, issue another special
commission. Between Manchester and Shelf
field there is not pin to choose.