Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-04
PUBLIC ssNTImENT AND CoNsfIR-
ATORS.

The New York Herald says that among
the dynamite conspirators in New York
i" there is not man of respectable posi-
ton IN business or society. The chief
conspirators are The scum of the population
of New York, but kind of scum which
keeps keen lookout for it's own safety.
The res. are ignoCant, passionate dupes,
whom the others thrust into all the posts
of danger This is the first Indictment
against the personality of the crew, and
the evidences all tend to the establishment
of its truth. These fellows aim to collect
money from deluded followers, live in
case, and keep up ferment of agitation
that will supply the needful cash for their
pockets. They are careful not to assume
any personal risks, but to put forward for
their infamous work men more deserving
Of pity than eensure, since they are but
the tools of designing rascals. The Gin.
cinnsti Commercial Gozette, in consid-
ering the relation Of the dynamite
conspirators to our own Government,
very pointsdly puts the case as it
would be if our OK was gored. Sup.
Tscse this dynamite conspiracy was against
American lives and property, none would
deny the atrooity Of the crime. The uni
yersal demand would be that all who
plotted it should be hanged. As the
GGzette pertinently asks. Is the crime any
less, because it is conspired in America
against Engiishmen and English property?"
And there would appear to be but one an
.swer to the interrogation by honest and
plsin-spoken Americans, whether native or
foreign born. If we have no law to meet the
case, shall we enact the necessary statute?
Whenever it is said, then, England has no
right to call on us to crush conspiracy
agsinst the lives and property of her SUBJ
jects, we reply, certainly not; but we owe
something to ourselves. In short, this
country should not be permitted to become
the breeding.nest for as vile and treacher-
GUS a crew of communists as ever drew
breath, and American sentiment should be
so pronounced on the subject that our laws
viii reflect it. II we continue to warm
vipers at our hearth stone, they will az.
sursdly in time turn against us. Yet the
difficulties in the way of dealing with them
sre very great. Profound political econo-
nists and doctors OF law consider that we
can never afford another nation protection
by processes of law. As one eminent pub.
hoist puts it: "A great and, we fear, in
passable chasm separates the honest indig-
nation which the performances of O'Don.
novan Rosa and his confederstes arouse in
the American breast from their punish
ment or repression by American Courts. ="
But in the danger, and not very remote,
that is to be seen In the growth of the
communicate spirit, the fostering soil
In which dynamite conspirac;es flourish,
we may read the warning that bids
us prepare as best we can for assaults from
the same sources upon our own institu-
tions. When it is by the consent of pub
lie sentiment established that malcontents
may blow up and destroy any and all
against whom they may conjure up griev-
ance, then will result anarchy and a rule of
terrorism, and it is not improbable that
such condition may be brought about
in this republic by mere tolerance of such
CLASSES as now preach the dynamite /"
policy upon the highways Of the country.