The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-04-28
WHITE PINE NEWS
The Dynamite War.

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of the Fenian intrigues to blow 10
atoms that populous city. To a great
many people this looks like q very
wicked mode of warfare. But Eng
land should be the last power on
earth TO cry out againstthe asperity of
Its enemies, for in all her wars of
conquest and despoilation she never
stopped to consider whether the ends
would justify the brutal means she
employed to carry out her con-
quests. In Ireland, in India, in
Africa and the West India isles the
historian records the same total dis
regard by the British conquersrs for
the lives and property of their un-
fortunate victims. Human life vas
sacrificed to British avarice and plum
der without a qualm of remorse, with
out regard for age or sex. But now
that the s%'resources of civilization
are being brought to bear on John
Bull in the very citidal of his empire,
he raises his hands in holy horror at
the w~ickednes of the dynamite revolu-
tionists and calls on the nations of the
earth to denounce and strangle this
new mode of warfare. England has
s'sown the wind" and il she reaps a
big crop of ''whirlwind" at the hands
of the dynamite "fiends," no lover of
human rights will heave IA sigh of
regret. The down-trodden of every
land have the natural and God-given
right 10 employ natures most de-
structive element to strike down the
the oppressor. Tryants have never
shuddered at the means they PM
ployed to enslave the pople. Why
should the long-oppressed be more
considerate The following, from
the New York World, put the position
of Irishmen toward the British Gov
eminent In clear and impartial light:
ITO Irishmen it is a mere mockery
to- talk of time aud peaceable agitation.
Ireland has been trying time and
peaceable agitation, varied by out
RACES, for five or six hundred Years.
aud hates England a. much As ever.
Not a single conceSsion has been won
from England during all these centu-
ries by Irish appeals to the English
sense of justice. Whatever conees-
sions have been made have been ex-
torted by outrages, and so have not
a any effect in allaying irish dis
content Or in mitigating Irish hatred
OF England. This lesson OF history
has been faithfully learned by Irish
agitators, and If they want anything
from England their readiest way 10
get it is by killing Englishmen, or
blowing up the houses OF Englishnen,
or houghing the cattle of Englishnlen
or IN some other way destroying the
property and d~isquieting the lives of
Englishmen.
IL Is perfectly natural that English
men should object to these modes of
political agitation and should prefer
moral suasion, which they can stop
by summary measures whenever II
becomes uresome. 1t may be natu-
raj that they should desire to enlist all
foreign governments as police 10 help
them Keep peace ia Ireland. Bat il IS
not In the leas. natural that they
should expect foreign governments TO
accede 10 their desires. So far as for
eign governments are concerned, Ire
land Is part of England, aud the gov
eminent OF England is responsible for
the condition Of Ireland, which has
been produced by the government of
England. That they should call upon
foreign governments 10 pass special
Laws in order to enable them 10 sup
press disturbances in their own do
minions, argues an assurance NOT,
perhaps, un-English, but that they
should expect such a call TO be an
swersd Is not easily credible. II the
English cannot govern Ireland with
out calling on all mankind to help
them suppress Irish resentment OF
the process, there is clearly nothing
for them to do but to allow Ireland TO
govern herself"