The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-23
Preparing for the Coronation of tho
Emperor of Russia.
Cause of Prince Bismarck's Ill Hea.th-Tho
Mahommedan False Prophet Reported
to Have Captured Khartoum.
THE NEW YORK CoNspIRAroRs.
The Moral and Legal Responsibility of the
United States Governments.

The Moral and Legal Responsibility of the
United States Government.
London Special
The Standard has an editorial on the dyn.
amlte disclosures, of which the following is
an extract:
THE striking disclosures in Bow street in
reference to the dynamite conspiracy, what
ever their ultimate value may be against the
prisoners leave little doubt in the minds of
the public on both sides of tine Atlantic that
the murderous design originated in New
York, and that the shield of American free
dom is being prostituted to cover the arm of
the assassin. 1t is, indeed, remarkable that
the story of the plot, as far as it is vet before
us, does net present any OF the conspirators,
whether principals or tools, as either English
or Irish by domicile or even, it would seem,
by nationality. Such evidence as is
already given indicates that not only
was the conspiracy hatched in New
York, but that it was found neces-
sary or desirable to the conspirators to
import from America. at considerable ex-
pense all the men who weFe to take active
part in its execution. The men who make
up their minds to bring about the freedom
OF Ireland by the sacrifice oftinnocent lives
of all nationalities in the heart Of London can
have known little or nothing but what they
were told of the supposed tyranny OF tho
Saxon and the assumed wrongs of the Celt.
The equal laws and the justice which remain
calm and impartial, even in such days as
these, and the generous hand in times of dis
tress, which England has ever extended to
her weaker sister, are never heard of by the
New York artisan who glories in his Irish de-
scent, and the passion of traditional animosi-
ty and prejudice is carefully planted and nur-
tured by interested hands. The fear of the
consequences of refusal, and sometimes ap-
parently the greed OF pecuniary reward seem
to be the motives which enlist such men in
an enterprise for the wholesale destrratioT of
innocent lives, and the specious pretext OF
| spurious patriotism.
But the responsibility, moral MS well as
| legal, which rests upon the country in
which such miscreants make their lair is, we
believe, already felt and appreciated by the
vast majority of the American public Great
Britain might, we think, well ask the United
States to extend their extraditon laws so as
| to include dynamite braves, but in truth ex-
| tradition is not what is more essentially
needed in this state of affairs The real
| point is to bring within the reach of Amer-
| can punishment those who conspre in New
\ ork to commit these outrages. There is no
doubt they can be brought within the
| English law of treason and felony il any
| overt act is committed in England by any of
the conspirators But it is American law
which can most effectively punish or deter
| those who at present openly concoct these
| schemes In the cities of the United States.
Is it an ofense against American law to
conspire in America to commit murder
in England? If not, it ought to be
made SO. The common law of the United
States was almost wholly borrowed from our
own, and We have the highest authority for
saying that such conspiracy in England is
criminal olfense by common law To con-
spire in England, as Rosa boasts that he is
doing in New York, wonld be an offense
against English law. If the American code
is weaker in this respect than ours, surely
the good sense OF the American people willln-
sist upon having it altered. The Importance
OF such deterrent force is we'll shown by the
fact that in the possession of one of the pris-
oners. now charged at Bow street. was found
a book with marker inserted at the page
containing information as to the law of the
United States on this very subject. Ii the
dynamite conspirators knew that the Ameri-
can courts could and would punish their
Vaccinations, and if the law of extradtion
were amended in the spirit indicated by our
own commission on the subject in 1870, the
wretches who have hitherto publicly and in
solently boasted of their murderous designs
would soon be compelled to abandon, or at
| least to conceal them"