Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-16
A QUESTION THE RATION MAY 81
CALLED UPON TO CONSIDER.

The dynamite excitement continues in
England, and it is not to be wondered at.
Dynamite can be made, sold and purchased
there only under carefully guarded licenses,
issued by q bureau that requires strict
guarantees of the legitimacy OF the use of
the explosive compound. These restric-
tions were lately so rigidly applied that in.
famous men who wished to use the article
to murder and destroy, found it exceed.
ingly difficult to procure it at all. But the
most wstchful care will not prevent all i'll
use of the mixture. Crime is cunning, and
oftener than otherwise thwarts the best
laid schemes to prevent its commission.
The bringing in of dynamite from abroad
is extremely hazardous, as it requires the
exercise of the greatest possible degree of
care in handling. The scoundrels desiring
it for their nefarious purposes were not
patriotic enough to assume these risks to
any great extent, and so they set up a se-
cret factory near Birmingham for the man.
0A6Sh0AC VI VIC hlOAC OOoblJ
by illicit means. This factory has been I'M.
earthed, and it is believed that others re-
main to be found. Some of the prisoners
now in custody as dynamite fends have
been, by circumstantial and direct testi.
mony, connected with much certainty with
this factory and with the secret, unex.
planned carriage in rubber bags of explosive
compounds into the very heart of
London. On Saturday we remarked
upon the effect of the dynamite
policy upon Irish politics, and then gave
expression to the thought that the situa-
tion might become such as to call for the
interposition OF our own Government in
the matter of muzzling the dynamite tends
in America, who are giving ma.
terial and moral support to ike crew
operating against, and within the limits of
a friendly nation. A renewed examina-
tion of the subject convinces US that this
is altogether likely to be brought about
that the United States Government, as
nation of humane people, will be called
upon, if these dynamite conspiracies con-
tinue-and we believe that they will-to
act in concert with other nations for the
adjustment of the International Code, or
the revision of extradition treaties, SO as
to cover the cases of the fiendish con-
spirators, who now make their residence in
America safe cover for the sending out
of explosives to be criminallY used in
other nations, and merely to advance such
atrocious ends. That such conspirators
are with us none will pretend to deny !;
that they are all In constant communica-
ton with the assassins on the other side
is equally certain; that they render them
material aid, they openly boast. 1t is not
surprising, therefore, that there should
exist, as there does among the English peo-
pie, much soreness over the fact that the
means to enable murderous assaults to be
madeupon their households should be open.
" solicited in America. It is no wonder
that "Head Center" Stephens and Mr..
Sullivan should become alarmed and de.
nouncs dynamite agents. They clearly
perceive that the diabolicsl practices will
work such revulsion of sentiment
as will place the Irish in England in i'm
minent danger. If lives ara lost by some
of these explosions we shall not be at all
surprised to see war of expulsion break
ont, and the Irish be driven from every
town in England at the point of the knife.
II is probable that just such climax is
desired By the dynamite conspirasors.