New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-11

are inspiring words The whole speech is lu
, minous with ethical purity and moral dignity
great soul shines through it in every line
There is no stronger proof of the progress o.
civilization and religious regeneration in Eng
land than this-that her greatest statesman
possesses the civil courage and the elevation Of
character rec uired for such q speech rs this
THE PROBLEM or TIE AGE SOLFED.
1t is a comfort to know that the great prob
lem of the age has beeli solved We have sup
posed for some time that if the philosophers
who meet in Clarendon Hall to regulate the
affairs of the universe could only have a fair
chance they would solve it, and we rejoice to
learn that they have. The solution was an
nounced to the Tenants Defence Association
by "Profcssorn Mezzerof, the author, last
Monday evening. The Tenants Defence Asso-
citation it may be promised is an organization to
resist the raising OF rents Professor Slez-
zeroff is in sympathy with the association and
its objects and opposed. we should say. not only
TO the raising of rents by the landlord bnt TO the
raising of rent by the tenant; opposed III fact
to the payment Of any rent whatever. In his
remarks before the Association he said he was
an American citizen, his mother being High
! lander and his father Russian that he had
diplomas from three colleges and had devoted
! his life to tho study of medicine; that when
boy he fought in the Crimean war; and having
received five wounds and become Disguised
with autOcratic rule he determined to devote
! his life to the welfare and elevation of human
! ity. IL appeared from his subsequent remarks
| that his method Of promoting the welfare of his
! fellOwmen is by teaching them the chemistry
! of explosives and how to compound them, and
| his manner Of elevating humanity is by putting
dynamite, or what he calls rinitr0- glycer
ire under it, He informed the audience that
he had "recipes for forty-two explosives in
burelar-proOf safe" and in case of his death
they would all be published to the world in
"order that all may know how to deliver them
selves from tyIanto and those who wrong
them
He can stake tea and similar articles Of
food, he SAYS, and make explosives with them
mere powerful than Italian gmpowdcr, the
strongest gunpowler there it,. He has col
lcgc in Boston where he teaches how explosives
are compounded, anl although he was followed
the other day hy three detectives, one
woman" who tried to find out where the co-
lege is and pat stop to his career" lie
says he "will not stop until every woIninS-
man i'm Europe and America knows how to
"usc explosives against autoc"atic governments
and Era,png monop0iies.' il may be easily
inferred from the tenor of these remarks that
,he solution of the problem of the age l. not un-
connected with the coMpOundmS OF explosives |
instruction in which is given at Professor"
Mczzcrofi's college" at Boston, which three
detectives. one woman have tried in vain to
find. With this somewhat broad ntlmatiOn as |
to what constitutes the solution of the prob |
lem of the age, the Professor" does not hest |
tate to tell Us IN single sentence what the |
problem of the ago il. To certain portion of |
the Tenants Defence Association II would |
seem TO be the problem of the age how to pre-
vent landlords from raising rents; tc another |
portion how to raise their own rent; and per-
haps to another how 20 get rid OF paying any
rent at all We may imagine with what eager
interest the Tenants of these several classes
leaned forward to hear the Professors" solu-
ton The Professor tool. higher and |
broader view. Said he, "Whcn you stop ono
man getting one hundred or two hundred mil
d" lions OF dollars, you solve the problem of the
age" There's the problem of the age in
nutshell. Stop one man getting one hundred or
two hundred millions of dollars
9 Now under a strict construction of the Pro-
fcs>oI, cnunciation Of this great discovery in
philosophy each tenant could solve his own
problem Of the agc-aud doubtless haS--by stop
ping one man" 10 wit, himself, from getting
these millions But the " Professor probably |
did not mean precisely this. What he means,
no doubt, is that the problem of the age is to
stop any man from getting this amount And
his proposition is to do it by compromising ex-
plosiyes out OF tea and similar articles of
food" "You can learn,' he says, " to make
b" tri-ntro-glyccrine, and if you carry two or
- three pounds about with you people will re-
/" spcct you much more than if you carried
1" pistol" The same ould be true. we pre-
sumo if each person should carry about with
him two or three pounds of ordinary gInpOwder;
Or, to digress Il trI'lc from the compoundiug of
explosives, If each one should endow himself
with the smallpox. There's 4 faint suggestion
Of personal peril to bc sure in a mans carrying
about with HIM two or three pounds of "tri-
nitro gyccrinc' or gunpowder OF i'll clothing
himself with the smallpox rs wlJh a garment !
but that is of small account compared with the
solution Of the problem of the age. Men and !
brethren, let us all carry about with us two or
hiee pounds of tr-nitro-g lyccline, and So OK,
ort the respect of our fellow and solve the
problem of the age. We may occasionally 20
IL in a horSc-car Or convention, but We shall
AVE the satisfaction of eloyating mankind"
Is 90. !
BUILERS VIIN HOPES.
TIE most uneasy man in the Uni.ed States :