Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-13
DYNAMITE pICrAroRsHIP.

DYSAMIfE DICTATORsHIP.
Is dynamite king? and have explo-
sives become the arbiters Of Empire?
are questions now prominent in Euro
pean discussion and Of no small import
in the considerations of Governments.
Nitro-glycerine has been accepted as an
agent by the Anarchists Of France;
Italy .discards the poisoned dagger for
the destructive bombshell; German
Socialists have faith in what they call
the "secret hcters Of scientifie reprisal;"
Great Britain Is sorely troubled at the
presence of explosion plotters and the
prospects of torpedOes; but for Russia
is reserved the distinction of reducing
talk and theory to the practical devel-
opments of treason. In all other coun-
tries dynamite is q dream, a trick and
a threat, beginning in brag and ending
in inglorious or infamous discontinue.
Yes, in Russia things are different.
The lavish promise of bOundless good
things on the occasion Of the formal in
vestiture Of ALEXANDER III. with the
title of Emperor and Autocrat OF all the
Russias and some scores of dignities be-
sides, has not appeased the violent
hatred of the Nihilists to the Imperial
rule. On the contrary, it appears rather
10 have whetted their appetite for
Romanoff blood, and the Imperial an
nouncement that monster repast, to
be washed down with a judicious guam
tity of non-intoxieaHt liquors, would be
supplied to all the Cars children who
were present at the coronation festivi-
ties, received prompt counterblaSt in
the shape of Nihilist manifesto an
nounciHg that that powerful brother
hood intended to blow up the Kremlin
at the time of the ceremony.
This is the one point Of weakness in
the Nihilist programme declaring de-
signs beforehand, somewhat in the
fashion Of the dynamitard heroes here
who plot destruction at a distance and
then send dupes to incur the danger,
with perhaps the message to the threat
encd Power in advance to prepare for
the attempt and intercept the too con-
fiding agent. There is this difference,
however: If the Nihilists proclaim de-
signs they do not inform on one another
while they prepare Tor work they do
not give away the workers. There is
not bureau Of information of ready
access to newspaper interviewers, and
there is no COnsul's Office near At hand
for the practice of peridy to associates.
But returning to the coronation dam
gers. To blow up the kremlin would
lie u task that might defy even the
Nihilists, with all their command Of
dynamite. guu.cOttOn and "villainous
saltpetre," iuasmuch rs the kremlin
extends over many acres. Some faint
idea of its extent may he gathered when
we state that it contains within the
high walls and Notifications with which
il is surrounded .our palaces belonging
to the Crown, three cathedrals, num-
Der Of nunncries and monasteries, a
University, the residence of the Gov
ernOr and the headquarters OF the I'm
perial Guards. From this description
the Kremlin has all the characteristics
of strongly fortified cathedral town.
To undermine this space, therefore,
would not only take more time than
the Black Brotherhood could devote
even to-from nihilistic point OF view
so laudabie work, but would be a
feat of engineering skill that could
scarcely he carried on undetected. Ina
late manifesto, however, they announce
that all their preparations for the coro-
nation are made, and they warn those
present not to approach too near the
person of the Gar.
The probable assumption is that ifany
attempt be made on the life of ALEX
AMBER it will DE 10y mountaineering;
and ubiquitous and desperate rs are the
Nihilists, we think that their power to
arrest the coronation ceremony in this
sinister manner may, like the declara-
tions of friend nearer home, be treated
as mere idle braggadociO. But they
have been stirred to fresh luminosity by
the Cars recent positive refusal to
grant a constitution hot placated in
any degree by the paltry promise of
remission Of poll tax; and il is to be
feared that they will, as soon as posi-
bic, make further attempt on the life of
the Emperor, oblivious of the fact that
Cars and Czarinas will arise faster than
Nihilists can destroy them.