Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-31
"pAEcLAsr1rIs,D

vised new and wonderfully destructive
explosive compound, called panclastitis,
which, literally translated, means "smash
ALL" 1t is said to be entirely safe to
handle, inasmuch as it consists of two dis
tinct compositions, which, singly, are HARM
less, but united, explode in short time
with terrific violence. Thus it can be car
ried about in two walls, be mingled at the
proper moment, and time enough will
elapse before the explosion ocurs that fairly
rocks the earth, to reach place of safety.
This, if true, will be peculiarly acceptable
news to Herr Most, Louise Michel, O'Don.
novan Rosa, the Russian Nihilists, and
the French Anarchists. Dynamite has
already taken its place in politics, but,
while it has more euphonious name, its
new rival will displace it for effectiveness,
and probably be reckoned as much
more an important political agent, as
it is more destructive compound.
The new system of governing country by
the use of explosives is becoming entitled
TO notice by modern political economists.
In America the entire business of blowing
up Government departments has hereto
fore been committed to the press, which
has discharged its trust with a fidelity and
vigor almost phenomenal, but in a manner
more humane than the methods adopted in
Europe. 1t is probable that our system
would meet with favor there, were it not
that in most cases the Governments shut
up the press before it can blow up the de-
.partments.
Seriously, however, the panclastitian.
dynamite business has attained proportions
that may well cause alarm among
this people. When we read of
the threat to destroy the Kremlin
when the Car is crowned; of the warning
given to the Archbishop of Canterbury
concerning the proposed blowing up of the
Deanery of the attack with dynamite on
the Government offices in London of the
threat to throw Paris into panic by the
use Of explosive substances of more terrible
power than any yet used of the bombs
found in Lyons of the dynamite depots
unearthed in st. Petersburg; we deem
ourselves safe in being SO far removed from
such disturbed localities. But it occurs
to the thoughtful that there may be dan.
ger nearer home, since exiled members of
the assassination society have exhibited in
New York duplicates of the deadly
cartridges alleged to have been used re.
Gently in London.
There are with us just enough of such
devilish spirits as Herr Most, socialistic
cranks and communistic lunatics, to set on
foot here, for the very lust of destruction,
the murderous assassination policy which
has so terrorized Europe that the explosion
of child's firecracker in the streets of
many of the great cities stampedes nearly
the entire population. They are of the
class who SOW not, but would reap the har-
vest of others. Perhaps they but await
the first depression in business to infame
with their diabolical sophistries still
larger number who are possibly to become
their dupes. Perhaps their plans are al.
ready laid to aim the blow that shall give
this nation taste of the dynamite treat
ment. These men are not producers, nor
toilers, but the worst products of idIeness,
viciousness, malignant envy and the pot
house.
1t will not do to say that because this is
republic and here there is no distinctive
ruling class, we have no cause to
fear. The brutes who use dynamite as a
weapon and estimate assassination as a
science, find sufficient excuse in the pros
perity of others. They are fairly repre-.
sented in these United States; they
would revel in their secret deus over
the horrors of an explosion that might
destroy the national Capitol, or the White
House, or any of the public buildings
scattered throughout the Union. If de-
tected they would deem themselves mar
tyrs to a holy cause, and be sufficiently
rewarded by their infamous notoriety.
The assassin never wants for an excuse.
He welcomes with eagerness any means for
accomplishing his ends, that will at the
same time conceal his identity. As the
facilities for destroying human beings
multiply, the temptation to test them in.
creases, and the class referred to is the
more beset by that temptation, because
pretense of justification is found in the in.
famous preachings of such as Most and his
fellow-outlaws, who have liberty in our
midst to say what they please. The New
York Euenng Post seriously believes that
these powerful explosions capable of being
packed in such an exceedingly small com.
pass may, combined with the anarchical
spirit, put our civilization in great danger.
The ruthless barbarians of the North were
the terror of luxurious Rome but, as the
Post well says, our barbarians are in
our midst and invisible; our criminal
class is in danger of becoming
our anarchical class, has all our scientific
advantages within its reach, and appears
to be possessed with rage for simple de-
ssruction and it adds: The best means
of meeting them seems still to have to be
devised. Eyen If thew had to be killed IN