Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-04-27
TIE DYNAMITE CROWD.


attcmp, 20 blow up the London Times olice
had been discovered and that Norman had
turned informcr and was giving such evi-
deucc against his fellow conspirators rs w"uil
send them to the gallows or to penal serVi-
tudc The first fact shows anew the ex-
tremcly illogical and unreasonng state oil
feeling among the conspiring lrishmen-for
no doubt the attempted crime is to be LAID al
their door. They may have reason tor COT
admiripr the editorial course of the Times,
hut what grudye can they have against its en-
ployes ,Lat they should attempt to scat er
their trturated ,Gu::ins over that quarter oi
London, and why can they imagine 1t woald
helm the Irish cause to hurt the Tint. Uir-
ticulaty to destroy its office-for even the
total obteration of its building would be
mere incident in the history OF great news
paper like the Times? The faci is, . more
foolish and ipsensate crime was meyer al
tempted, aud one would hardly expect 10
find SO great degree.ot folly essa sm9ng'he
dynamite crowd.
As to the second piece Of news broughtbY
the cable, the world has become 50 familiar
with the story oftreachery in the conspirators'
camp, .hst tits newest revelation causes no
surprise whatever. The PhGnix Park assas-
sins will meet their richly deieryai iste
through the tresciiery Of trusted associate
the dynamite conspirators will come to g'ief
through similar means and it Is evident
that, as in times past, when the English gov
ernmSr: vents an informer he is surcto turn
I'D. Lynch alias Norman's testimony,
which has every mark Of being truthful and
Trustworthy, gives some interesting details CT
the way in which the conspiralors manage
their business. The secret society OF when
he was all ornament had for its object The
Liberation Of Ireland by force-the means to
which end appear to have been the blowing
up with dynamite OF various puhi,c buildings
in London a plan about as feasible as Vo-!d
be that of freeing the prisoners in our jail by
| the simple process of blowing up The county
court house and t.Q police station. The
members OF this secret socisty were known
only by Il number and not by their names.
and individuals were arbitrarily selected to
20 on foreign MISSIONS not exactly to lie
abroad for the good of their country, as Slr
Henry Wo.ton said, but to tie various eXplo-
sivc compounds " the tail of the British
lion. Lynch was tc 20 to LONDON
and was presented with .mSll box
which on investigation. he found con,aired
Il inin
and which he thereupon incontinently pitch
ed into the ocssp. Arriving at London, he
met one Gallagher, who APPEAR TO have been
one of the leading apostles OF the ne" goanei
of dynamite and who walked through the
streets of the great city and pointed out the
buildings he intended to destrov-thc list
including Parliament House, Scotland Yard,
etc. Before these highly laudable plans
could be executed, however, tlls police were
down upon the crowd and they found ITEM
selves in Jail, and with no immediate pros
pect of handling much dynamite.
The conclusion of the whole matter is well
put by the Boston l'rapeller, which says;
ITO the Irish people it certainly ought to
| be evident that by violence lhey Ga+ NY
achieve the aslf-goverpment they desire, ana
which the world would like to see them OBJ
tain. OF course they may 60 on subscribing
money to diminishing funds, and It may
Weld them new harvests Of explosions, as
sassinaions and outrages Of Infinite variety.
And after it all comes what The freedom
and independence of Ireland Alas not
SO, but instead the wild cry of retribution.
the bloody assze, and row OF slrangled
men. Along that path the rlghling OF Ire
lands wrongs will Lot be reached. Equally
| clear must il be to the English people and
their rulers, by this time, that Willie they
can meet force with force, and checkmate the
Iuvincbles with Jack Fetch, yet the states
manship of the scatfold has but wooden wis
dom, and, while 1t may repress, can peyer
remedy the evils which are feeding 1t with
victims. When the present mortal combat
between the Irish Invincible and the English
executioner is over in Ireland, and TEN.
porary luil is reached IN which the words OF
ieason and humanity can be heard, it viii be
time for the VOICE Of civilized opinion
throughout the world to sppesi from the
brutalities to the moralities, and say bot,. TO
England and to Ireland that they owe 1t to the
civilization in which they both claim men,
bershp to find some other arbitrators be-
tween them"