Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-29
DYNAMITE GOSPEL.
Prophet Mezzerof Defends the Use
of Tri.kitro and the Slaughter
Of inn0csnts,
And Wants to Play a Leading Part
in a Tragedy, Entitled,
Dynamite"
He Will Contract to Explode Eng
land and Free ireland for q
Small Sum.

New Yosx, April 2S.-Proiessor Mez'
zeroff, OF the dynamite school, has issued
what he styles Series No. l. Of mani
festos, endeavoring to show that the use o.
this article as weapon OF warefare is en-
tirely legitimate, He says:
Was it honorable war for England to
send twelve monster shipsof.war to Alex
dria? the commander OF which, Admiral
Seymour, told the people OF that city II they
did not do so anil so he would lombard
the city at the expiration of twenty-four
hours and then began and bombarded it
in twenty hourI-four hours before the
time appointed by the English villain, who
has since been made lord for his coward.
ly work. Was it honorable to blow up with
dynamite
The Huts OF Innocent Arabs,
in which were a large number OF men,
women and children? Was it honorable
war to mas saCre the ka.lits in their caves
with dynamite" Was it honorable war 10
order the Royal Irish and lnyincible High
lsnders 10 steal into the trenches OF AraHi
Pasha at midni ,ht. TO stab and Kill the
people in their tents! Was il honor
able war for English soldiers. by the
command OF General Wolseley, to shoot
and stab poor wounded Arabs found OH
the battlefield next morning after the
massacre? II is ridiculous to hear such
men as Congressman Robinson and others
prate about a,thing OF which they positive
ly know nothing. have been soldier
$ nee was sixteen years old, and | tel!
the world now that in the vocabulary OF
tvrants there is no such N"rd HS "hunord'
ble Warfare.
Would il I've honorable tUr lrishmen TO
s5nd lui"" men 10 go ard
Resicgc London With 100 Ton CannOns:
Would any innocent women and chill
drcn he killed if monster siege guns would
lombard London for twelve hours. 8
seymour did Alex ,ndria? Would 81.
tn guns he juStiliabe weapons OF war
All the world says yes. Would it be justi-
liable and honorable for sappers and miners
To undermine London and blow it up? The
USages OF war say yes Would 1t he Justiti-
able for torpedo rams to 90 into the Thames
and destroy all the shipping! The usages
Of modern war say yes. Would it be Just
aud honorable to stand five miles of Lon.
don and throw into the city red hot Goals
and set London on fire! Ges, England has
immense numbers of hollow shells which
during war she intends TO fill with the FOL.
lowing lluid, namely: white phosphorus,
hi-sulphide of carbon, benAne or petroleum
oil. II the war-ship lnvincib!e should
come here She could stay seven miles out
from New York, and by shells filled with
this Au.d she could and would
Set All New York city or fire
IN n few hours, That this is no idle or eX-
sggerated talk is proven by the fact that it
is only a.shOrt time since shells nlied with
this llud were actually experimental on
at WOodwich Arsenal. The shells were
thrown against structure specially
erected for the experiments. When the
shells hit the structure they burst, and the
,lud spontaneously set fire in from eleven
to seventeen minutes. SO England is eX'
permentiug on shells Tiled with
spontaneous fro iuid. with which she
intends probably soon to burn New
York or Boston Nes, experimenting with
money stolen from the w"rkingmen OF
Ireland ami England, What is the moral
or legal difference between setting city on
ire with shell filled with this ''uid and
fred from 100 ton gun that cost the work
ingmen SlJ0,uOU, or setting the same city on
IRE BY men armed with tin kettles All
the usagcs of war prove that II would be
lOnOraDlp 10 suTTOiUu ~ 'NH ah' p'''' sc
H. The Germans did so with France lately.
In that case innocent men, women and
children we're killed. What, then is
;ne moral or legal difference between
Il iIIing innocent women and children
with krupp guns or killing them with dy'
nSmiic IN tin kettles Let the mOrih~t
and "nOuorablc war men answer y hat
is the moral or legal difference between
'rairc Ipers and miners UNDERMINING
London and destroying u, and between
thirty men going into the City and sliTrep
;itiOUsly b'owing il up with iynamtir or
citing il on lire? W" are next told iuat
the dyuamtards are tiend, hrrsu7e they
would secretly destroy life an lrn.'efIy hy
wholesale by wholesale h"st Ger
tain!y We would We are not \ the re-
ruiI killing business. What -
the moral and legal difference
| rr;wecn destroy ing life and property by
.-f.olf,aIr or by retail II killing j. II b"
dcre in the cause Of human liberty i )
more humane to do il quickly than 20 DO II
| slowly by retail. The angel OF tod slew
| i@5, ,GJO OF the Assyrians in one night We
are next told that one objection against
| dynamite is that some innorent lives
! would be lost. lust so. Well. were there
! no innocent lives lost while twelve mon
! >ter war ships were bOmbardin: aid setting
| Y
! ol English bOndholder,' Were any limo
! cent lives lost when the angel slew 'hc
! Egyptians az Midnight? In all Sara ,oiuc
! innocent people suffer.
If the Immortal Washington
| employed Bushnell - make ,ecrrt devices
10 blow up the English ships and men III
| retaliation for employing Indians 10 scalr
men, women and school glr!s. it - perfect
| jy justiiiaOle for lrishmen to use secret de-
| vices 10 punish the nation that hangs
| innocent men un the subOrneI testimony
OF spies and informers, We no" IN
iorm the ignorant and cowardly ennis
and Europe, that The advocates o
| dynamite are in n position to take care o
| themselves, and that in q short time, Ire
| land. and every other country will 6t
| freed from the tyranny OF CARBON. IN
| Europe there are noT over iOnr hundfed
schools and ere long there will be fou,
| thou sand, so that every trade society snd
yOrkingman's club shall be taught sll tht
| scierce Of explosives, and two.thirds oi all
| the soldiers in Europe are ready 70 str1k'
| yitn us any day in the cause OF human
| liberty; and when We do 50 We shall MAKE
TbeTyrnnts shudder on Their Throne.
and the scene shall live 10 the sWe-ssruc,
| minds of men, If the foes of liberty thini
that no notice has been taken OF their sour
| rilons writings, We infDrm them tina
everything they have said is on ale a
headquarters. The only way that irelsn'
Can ever meet England is for lrishmen q
study the science and use Of explosives
The war-ship Invinc!ble cost osef ). on.
90. and 80 worth tri-nitro can sink her II
a minute. English war ships have cos
over 81. ~. 40. and $500, wor h % dyn,
mite can destroy tle Sh0le hHgiish fee
and merchant ships
! Every Irishman should sub-crise MOI ie,
than 81, but a. .nGtI more s. they I-ease, ,
and ssery man Subscribing s. or upward
| should receiye q bond, the interest al
principal Of which sboCld be repaid froH
taxation Of Irish land. II al lrishme
would unite. as there are probably ten mi
| linp Ir:sb-uen Who would subscribe froI