Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-06-15
FOREIGN TOPICS.

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The Dynamite >"arc About over New
Powers Given the Police Against the
tuu-iirntor>.
ireland still holds the foremost
place among tie topics Of the day.
While the story Of Tie first great
check uf til" dynamite war Is beng
told in the London and provincial
police courts the tragedy Of PHI" INK
Park Is having the finishing touches
put into il on the witness stand at
Dublin. Parliament has passed IN a
few hours a stringent lleaolIr'' r"Sll
lating the possession Of explosives.
This will strengthen the hands of the
police. who. without amy special pow
rr5, have. it i believed, already got
their hands upon the throat of the
dynamite conspiracy. lie increase
of their authority Will not. OF course.
put an end to con-piring, but it will
make action more difficult. The onu9
Of explanation now rests upon all per
sons upon whom or under whose con
troll dynamite or kindred agencies of
of destruction are found. Possession
without satisfactory cause Is punish
able. This, it seems to me, IS the
seyerest clause in the bill. In case
no criminal intent is established
against him the holder Of IA danger
ous explosive who cannot prove that
he has obtained it for some lawful
purpose, is rendered liable to ii years
penal servitude. Persons engaged in
malicious explosions likely to injure
life or property, even if they are un
successful in their diabolical work,
| are to be punished with transporta
ton for life. For attempts and con
spiracies" in the same direction the
penalty is 20 years penal servitude.
British subjects i'll foreign countries
are included in this clause. with a
view to cover the operations of some
of the agents Of ODonovan Rosa,
who. it is feared, is a far more intiu
entail person than he is believed to be
in New York, which has for 50 long
shrugged its shoulders at him. 1t is
quite open t. discussion whether he
is not guilty of the crime of ''levying
war; under the protection of Ameri
ca against a friendly power. Lon
don. during the past few days, has
had MANY earnest assurances that
America has no sympathy whatever
with the Irish advocates of violence;
though the Reputation by an Ameri-
can newspaper of the suggestion that
the active conspiracy is conducted
chiefly through Irish American agen-
cies raises grim smiles in this metrop-
oils. No better illustration of where
the money comes from" is shown than
in the utter failure to raise decent
sum for anything among the Irish at
home Even a national testimonial
to Mr.. Parnell, after a big demonstra
ton, starts with only a few pounds,
and stops there At the banquet OF
the Institution of Civil Engineers
held in the Town Hall, Kensington
Mr.. Minister Lowell, respond
ing to the toast of sour Guests
which was coupled with his name and
that of Sir Richard Cross, remarked
that though may not venture to al
lude to any delicate topics. l am sure
can say this, that no true American
any more than /, no American, any
more than any Englishman, believes
that assassination is war, or that dyna
mite is the raw material of politics. y
Upon all occasions of public excite
ment there is tendency to exagger-
ate, and for the sake of our common
humanity it is to be hoped that the
authorities and the press are giving
undue extension to the intended oper
atoms of the dynamite conspiracy
the chief agents of which in this
country it is believed the police have
succeeded in capturing. 1t is stated
that the government and police au-
thorities are possessed of the full par
ticrllars of the plot which had been
formed for the destruction of entire
districts of London. The idea was to
deposit nitro glycerine in various
quarters of the town, in coffee houses
hotels, obscure and private lodging
houses, and to explode the lot stimuli
taneously. "There was to be nc con
sideration given to nationality OF
creed in the matter" Irish as well
as English, French, Germans, Amer
leans, who might be living in the
localities selected for destruction were
to share in che results of the general
devastation. The explosion at the
Government buildings and the stimuli
taneous attempt on the Times office
were simply the preliminary tests of
a vast operation. Precautions had
been taken that contemplated nc
other failure like that in Printing
house square or ay-house Yard.
The work was to be efficiently done,
and Whitehead had enough material
lin course of transportation to Lon
don) at Birmingham to carry out all
ODonovan Rossa's threats, whether
they are vain boasts or founded upon
a real knowledge of the conspiracy.
1.-THE chief actors says the Times,
''would probably have got safely off,
while if any of the subordinate work
ers had been taken their confessions
would probably have been of no
avail" The successful carrying out
of the plot must have caused a great
destruction of both life and property.
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