Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-28
uYNAmITE GOSPEL.


,hoW that the use OF Cnlb artlcie ds
weapon of warfare is entirely legitimate.
he says:
,end twelve monster ships -of-war to Alex.
andria, the commander of which, Admiral
Seymour, told the people of that city that
If they did not do SO and SO he would
lombard the city at the expiration OF
twenty -four hours, and then began ana
bombarded it in twenty hours-four hours
before the time appointed by the Englisn
villain, who has since been made lord
for his cowardly work Was it honorable
TO blow up with dynamite the huts of inno
cent Arabs, in which were large number
of men, women and children? Was it
war to order the Royal Irish
and rnvincible Highlanders to steal into
the trenches of Arab Pasha at midnight,
to stab and kill the people IN their tents
Was it honorable war for English soldiers,
bv the command of General WOlseley, to
shoot and stab poor wounded Arabs found
in the battle field next morning after the
massacre 1t is ridiculous to hear such
men as Congressman Robinson and others
prate about a thing of which they posi-
lively know nothing. 1have been a soldier
since was sixteen years old, and l tell
the world now that in the vocabulary OF
tyrants there is no such word as honOra-
BILE warfare
"WOnld it be honorable for Irish men to
send 1,O00. 900 men to 60 and besiege
London with 100-ton cannons? Would
any innocent women and children be
killed if monster siege guns would bonn.
bard London for twelve hours, as Seymour
did Alexandra? Would S0-ton guns be
justifiable and honorable weapons of war !?
All the world says yes. Would it be just
and honorable f0g sappers and miners to
undermine London and blow it up? The
usages of war say yes. Would it be justi-
fable for torpedo rams to 60 into the
Thames and destroy all the shipping
The usages of modern war say yes. Would
it be Just and honorable to stand five
miles off London and throw into the city
red-hot shells and set London ON fire.? Yes.
England has immense numbers of hollow
shells which during war she intends to fill
with the following fluid, namely white
phosphorus, bi-sulphide of carbon, ben
zine or petroleum oil. If the war-ship
Invincible should come here she could stay
seven miles out from New York, and by
throwing shells filled with this fluid, she
could and would set all New York city on
fire in few hours. That this is no idle
or exaggerated talk is proven by the fact
that it is only a short time since shells
filled with this fluid were actually ex-
perimented on at Woolwich arsenal. The
shell were thrown against a structure spe-
cially erected for the experiments. When
the shells hit the structure they burst,
and the fluid spontaneously set fire in from
eleven to seventeen minutes. SO England
is experimenting on shells filled with
spontaneous fire fluid, with which she in
tends probably soon to burn New York or
Boston. Yes, experimenting with money
stolen from the workingmen Of Ireland
and England. What is the moral or legal
difference 1stween setting city on fire
with shell flied with this fluid and fred
from a 100 ton gun that costs the work
ingman $50, 900, or setting the same city
On fire by men armed with I" tin kettles :.''
All the usages of war prove that it would
be honorable to surround a city and
France lately. Iu that case inno-
What, then, is the moral or legal differ
ence between killing innocent women and
children with Krupp guns or killing then
with dynamite in "tin kettles?" Let tht
moralist and "honorable war; men an
swer. What is the moral or legal diff-r
ence between trained sappers and miner:
undermining London and destroyiu" it
and between thirty men going into the cit,
and surreptitiously blowing it up with
dynamite or setting it Oh fire? We ar'
next told that dynamitards are feuds be.
cause they would secretly destroy life anC
property by whOlesale-yes, by wholesale
Most certainly We would we are not in
the retail killing business. What is th,
moral and legal difference between des
trOying life and property by wholesale OF
by retail? If killing is to be done in the
cause of human liberty it is more humane
to do it quickly than to do it slowly b!
retail. The angel of God slew 1S5, 600 G
the Assyrians in one night. We are lex
told that one objection against dypamit,
is that some innocent lives would be lost
just SO. Well, were there 10 jnnoceu
lives lost while twelve monster war ship
were tombardiDg and setting Alexandri;
on fire to collect the interests of Englisi
bondholders? Were any innocent live
lost when the angel slew the Egyptians a
midnight? In all wars some innocent
people suffer-
A Peculiar Article In the " Home jour nai,
Tho Society Organ.
A sensation has just been raised il
Irish American circles by The publication
of an apology for dynamite as the leading
article OF the New York organ Of fashion
able society, the Home journal. The fol
lowing is the singular production
We may denounce dynamite with ri yht
eous indignation, but We must acknow led q
the revolution it is effectiDg in the arts o.
Offense and defense. As guupowder and
rifled cannon and railroads changed the
former methods of war, SO this new agent
has shifted again the balance of power
reducing still further the supremacy of
brute force and mere numbers Great
armies and vast cities are, indeed, source
OF weakness in dynamite warfare, furnish
ing, as they must, the most vulnerabI.
points of attack for its wholesale destruc
tiOn. A barren rock in the secret noun
talns of Switzerland, with its dynamite
laboratory and conveys by air or land may
set at naught all the standing armies o.
the proud German empire, and drop an
utilization upon any walled city by day OF
night. At this moment a single wayfarer
with dynamite in his pocket, throws The
cities of England into greater terror than
would an army of 100, 600 men landing a.
Dover, with only the ordinary weapons o.
guns and sabres. A handful of hunted
homeless Nihilists are able to terrorize al
the Russias, forcing its emperor to live ths
life of fugitive, aud making his very cor
onation problem of chance. Jupitc,
with his lightning was scar.ly more q
master of the ancient world than is the
mob with its bomb of d. ynamiue, the aveng
ing fate of modern monarchies.
At first glance the dynamite bomb seem.
an implement of fsnds, but a closer view