Daily Republican., 1883-04-23
AOA DAY, APRIL 23, 1888.
The Root on the Other Leg.

England has by legislation made that
country warm place for the dynamite
alOtters. Sir William Harcourt says
the government has no trouble in cir
cumventing the dynamite tiends where
a British law eXertS a control, and there
can be no security whatever to those
who enter into dynamite plots upon
British soil, but he feels that at the
samo time there can be l.o security for
England so long as the agents of the
dynamite rebellion are permitted to car
ry on their campaign in this country
without fear of punishment. 1t is not
surprising that England looks with an
anxious eye across the waters to Wash
ingtOn to see what h, United States
will do in the emerg, ncy. The people
Of this country may have some idea Of
the feelings of England when they com
pare them with their own feelings dur
ing the late civil war towards England
when she permitted the building and
fitting out of Confederate privateers to
aid jeff Davis in overturning the gov
ernment of the United States. Our Eli
giish friends are in about the same pre-
dicament now in regard to the United
States that we were in during the late
civil war, when Canada swarmed with
Confederate refugees and sympathizers.
If the com mbustible and deadly qualities
Of dynamite had been known during
that war the Confederate refugees pro-
tocted in Canada by English law would
have pounced upon New York with
cans of that deadly compound instead
If oil to fire the city. DR.. Blackburn,
since Governor of Southern State, un-
der Canada n protection would have
found dynamite to be more effective
than old clothes reeking with yellow
fever, cholera and smallpox. 1t was
well-known that the United States all
the time during the war referred to had
enemies in Canada where they found
not only secure refuge, bata conven-
lent base of operations Americans knew
very well that nothing would be
done by the Canadian officials to dis
turb Or punish these agents who We're
plotting death and destruction against
the United States They had there
fire like the English people now, to
face other plots of the sam" nature but
with the boot on the other leg. Irish
refugees get no more encouragement
from America than Confederate refu-
gees got from England during the war.
There is however one distinction more
in favor Of the United States in com
pairing this dynamite plot on Ameri-
can soil with the yellow fever and
smallpox plot on Canadian or English
soil.
There was regularly declared war be
tween the Nortu and South, but there
iS no war between England and Ire
land. England made no effort what
ever to prevent the fitting out of Con-
Teterate privatrerS against the North,
and plots in Canada, for burning the
large cities Of the North, thereby tacit-
iy taking the side Of the South in the
struggle. The United States have not
done that yet. There is no declared war
IN England. The refugees in thi, coun-
Sry have committed no offence yet
against the United States, for which
I hey IAN bn brought to punishment.
II IN no crime IN this country to belong
a" secret order neither is it any
!nNre Of a crime to make dynamite,
shan /, make guns and swords. If
- something for which the law pre-
,e'r!ih@ penalties. The London Times
Inal olher English papers who are cen
sn.iNg the American press for not adj
wora,Iug all immediate eXtcrninltiyn
If tTlsh refugees in this country seem
u "ug"iy to have forgotten their own
u ituhr towards this country At IA time
>slnN Canadian soil was >waIming with
JI5, 5,"tcrs against our government, and
. Me. d,-k yards Of England w"r" filled
s,.tN Confederate privatccr>.
s.. l.. FENNINGToN, E.Q,, i, a ci"v-
'~g, pjucEy looking little lawyer with
III eye tor "A full share Ut the crumbs
d" hjCa tall from the Democratic table,
l5c u.::. r"ver troubled with rush uf
4irG)~. hI, whav AecI be care 50 long
& ir con carpet bag between Winning
S,' auU b"yer, and pick the choicest
A.t- iru, he Democratic board where
.H"i .p'@iu. only some three years
~ 'e. .H,Dr up from Dover, hung ot
~ So Oh Wilmug'ui.. lnd announced
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