Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-28
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THE professors and patriots who preach
What they call 'the gospel of dynamite
will not likely find anybody to gainsay
heir argument that dynamite is quite
Is justifiable an instrument of warfare
Is gunpowder, and any law of nations
Or code of war that permits the use Of
the one cannot consistently condemn the
application of the other. 1t is not by
any means certain that the invention of
increased the frequency or
horrors of war. When one small man
with rifle became equal to many strong
ones armed with javelins and bows and
arrows, and battery of artillery was
rendered able to check regiment OF
cavalry, it only had a tendency to make
wars short, sharp and decisive and the
invention and use of an explosive agent
thirteen times as powerful as gunpow-
der and applied with much more
facility, may, in turn, prove a powerful
paci6cator of the nations. 1t is not
against the use of dynamite as an instru
ment of open and honorable war that
the universal sense Of humanity pro-
tests, but the resort to it, as conve.
nient agent for cowardly assassination.
If Ireland shall declare war against Eng
land and put her people in that attitude,
subjecting her cities to bombardment
and her armies to the fate of war, there
will certainly be no better reason against
dynamiting London than against shell,
ing Dublin. Students of military history
and those whose profession it is to kill
their fellow men and do the largest
amount of destruction to the property OF
their enemies, may well pause and con,
slider the momentous possibilities of dyn.
amite in making the smallest nations OF
Europe capable of rs great destructive
power as the largest. Gunpowder has
been held by many moralists to have
been an agent of civilization in evening
up the disadvantages with which right
was encountered in it's struggles with
might; dynamite may serve the same
good purpose in putting it absolutely
beyond the power of great nation to
oppress weaker 10y the arbitrary exer
else of brute power without risking
greater evils to itself. But this applica.
tion of the new force in open, honorable
warfare is very different thing from it:
employment by the assassin simply be
cause of its convenience for his cowardly
use.
THE change from Saturday to Friday
night sessions in the Legislature does moi
seem to have been productive of any
great improvement in the punctual at
tendance of the members. In the House
last night there was barely a quorum
secured by the aid of the sergeant
alarms, and out of 200 mem
bers there were absent on roll-cal
IS Democrats and 53 Republicans
The Philadelphia members were, a:
usual, the most conspicuous offenders
no doubt because they are near HON,
and ride thither on free passes. Tht
House certainly has the power, if it ha(
the inclination, to enforce better attend
ance than this. 1t has only about foul
weeks left and will undoubtedly find
itself at the end of the session with I
large amount of legislation on hand un
finished, over which much time has beer
spent. In this time it should be sparins
with its grants of leave of absence ant
it should hold in contempt of its author
ity those who fail to respond to roll-cal
without good excuse.
CHINAMEN in New York are being
naturalized and acquiring real estate.
THE Sandwich Islands object to the ex
elusive immigration of male Chinese.
AUTHORS of last winters vile scandals
against the president arc said to be
given good places in the interior depart
ment.
THROUGHOUT the country generally the
cigar manufacturers are granting an i'll
crease of from 81 to 50 per thousand to
their makers.
Probably the management Of tho Young
Mems Christian Association can find a
valuable hint in the plan of the Young
Mems Social Organization of the Moravian
church.
THE people of this and other interested
counties have right to know why the
bill to salary county officers is left to
slumber in the judiciary local committed
of the House. What has its chairman,
Mr.. zimmerman, to say?
UNDER Clerk of Quarter Sessions Urban
a considerable portion of the papers in his
Office were re arranged and put in order, at
the expense Of the county. 1t will be
we'll for the court and commissioners to
see that an attempt is not made to un-
necessarily repeat this work in order to
make the &" per diem " allowed for it, "by
order of COURT
THE total exports of the United States
for the twelve months which ended March
31st, 1888, amounted in value to sSOS, 72G,
$50, an increase Of s17,917, 1886. on those
of the preceding twelve months. Our
total imports for the twelve months which
ended March 31st, 1888. we're s743. 442, 259
an increase Of s41, 500, ,ss5, on those for
the twelve months which ended March
31st, 1882.