The Labor enquirer., 1883-06-23
DYNAMITE.
Professor Mezzeroff Discusses About
1tand Other Explosive
.r .~ Materials.

There has been great deal of discus
sion in the newspapers as to my nativity.
[ was born in New. York. Ny mother
was Highlander, my father was Rus
sian. and I am an American citizen. L
have diplomas from three colleges, and
have devoted my life to the study OF med
icine. When was boy l fought IN the
Crimean war, and I bear the scars OF five
wounds. The wholesale massacre dis
gusted me with autocratic rule. l deter
mined to devote my life to the welfare
and elevation of hum anity. l have kept
my word, and no man or woman or child
can to-day say that he or she has been
wronged or injured by me. l am going
to tell you some secret statistics which l
have. l belong to two secret societies
and get state secrets from Europe forty
eight hours after they have transpired.
Russia has 100000 men under arms to-
day, exclusive from the police, the paid
spies, and other civil supporters of the
government; Germany has 2,50O,OOO;
France has 100000; Austria 100000;
England has 100000, counting the militia;
Turkey half million; the rest of Europe
100000. In all there are over ten mil
lion soldiers who are supported by the
laboring men of the Old World. Yet,
when I propose to use bomb costing $2o
in place of a Crupp gun costing $l5O,OoO,
I am called fend. If we want to kill
each other, let us do it on business prin-
ciples Gunpowder kills at the rate of
1000 miles a minute, dynamite at 2OO,-
900. If you use my explosive, you can
defend yourself against the armies ofthe
word.
When l went to Boston the other day,
three detectives, one woman, followed
me and tried to find out where my college
is where l teach how explosives are COM
pounded, in order to put stop to my ca
reer. Now, 1 have the same right to ed
ucate men in chemistry as Professor
Chandler has, and l won't stop until ev-
cry workingman in Europe and America
knows how to use explosives against auto
cratic government and grasping monopo-
lies. | have the recipe for forty-two eX-
plosives in a burglar-proof safe, and,
should l die, they will be published to
the world in order that all may know how
to deliver themselves from tyrants and
those who wrong them. | can take tea
and similar articles of food from the fam
lily table and make explosives with them
more powerful than Italian gunpowder
the strongest gunpowder there is.
will show you some day what l can
do with ten pounds of pure tri-nitro-g y
cerine, of whose composition England
knows nothing, because the only men
there who knew about it were blown up
by it. l take it through the streets in
my pocket. carry it about in the horse
car.
Not long ago l was travelling with some
friend in car, and an old woman came
and sat down on the two bombs had
with me. A little good nitric and sulph-
uric acid, with pure glycerine such, as la
dies use, mixed in the proper proportion
and five or six pounds oft, such as could
easily be carried in the pocket, would de-
stroy the big postoffice down town. No
is necessary for tri- nitro-gl y
cerine. In the open air it will expand
to 300 times it's own size at the rate OF
100000 feet minute. You can learn to
make tri-nitro glycerine and ifyou carry
two or three pounds with you people
will respect you much more that If you
carry a pistol. But don't you use dY-
Mantle till g the government becomes
and you cannot obtain your
rights at the polls.
PToF. MEZzEROFF.