The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-19
suRDErrs.s BOMB.
Burlington Hawkeye.1

uan ShASo on. ana tne conversation drlfted into politics, " is the place for ODynamite Rosa and braves to come into. They could utilize their good s,rsng breath and work of their surplus dyami,e torpedoins oil wells
 And have the Roberts family sue them for infringement said the eros, passenger.
 Then. said the jester, 6 we could inst turn my good friend. P. (. Boyle. loose on the Roberts family. But, going back to dynamite. wha, are we going to do with those bomb ,hrowers.-
 "Wha. had you thought of doing with them: croaked the woman who talked bass, in tones of profound sarcasm.
 :" had thought of keeping out of their way. the jester replied. earnestly. -Bu, really. while all this dynamite business is a terrible thing. and while it is barbarous. inhuman. btu:al. and while our own cow a,dly o.asher-skites. like Jerry 0 Donovan. who is only called Rossa because i: isn't his name"
 !" 4 mos: excelien, Irish reason" said the fai passenger:
 While do no; believe this country should be an asylum for dynamite plot ,ers. continued the jester. any more than l thought twenty years ago. wheI we were in trouble. that English ports should be asylums for confederate pirates: while disapprove of all that sort of war fare. still can't condemn all these Irish men. nihilists. socialists and black-hand fellows unheard. They are mostly wrong. maybe. bu, they're no, ali and al,ogethet wrong. are they: These things wouldn, occur unless there were some little reason tor 1t. Every question has two sides. You go into court with the clearest case a man ever carried before jury. so clear that blind man can see that you are in the right, and sometimes the other man will win the case. And these terrible bomb throwers have something to say for themselves. You see. they are getting tired of being kins-riGden. One republic n the world, one land where the people can name their own rulers. Is a s,andina and terrible menace to every throne. These revolutlonists are poor, they are ignorant. but they are not 90 ignoran, as their fathers. They want 10 know why they are poo. and why William Is em- peror and Alexander Is car and Victona Is queen. We'll. we tell them. because their fathers were emperor and car and king. Well, the people begin 10 wonder. Is that any reason: Why were their fs,h. CTS kings rather than my father? As they trace the question further and further back they fail to find tha, the frs, king was born king. His people willingly ard gladly choose him for their king be- cause he was wiser and stronger and filter and braver than any other man in the land. God anointed him because he stood a head and shoulders above all his brethren. But the kings son wasn't nec- essarily kingly man. He might be weak. vicious and cowardly. Why. then, should he be king. And because a man is king. why should all his sons and brethren fa.ten on the public domain? There is no earthly reason for royal succession. There is no reason why one man should be king because his father was one. And these anarchists know that. They are beginning to see it. to think about it. and talk about. And when the people begin to think abou, things you can no, stop them. You can crush down open revolt and action by brute force. bu, you can't crush thought And whether they talk in the halls of the universities or around the tables of a beer hall. government can no, stop them. And they are ignorant and almost help less. They see that many things are wrong. that the rich are growing richer, while the poor are almost as poor as ever that one man wears a crown because he was born in palace, and another wears blouse because he was born in a hut: woman steals loaf of bread for her crying babies and she is put in prison the same night and her children go to the poor-house. Pnipps starves her children. steals the very roof over their heads. snasches the bread from their m ou,hs robs the alms-house to which they are sent. and 1, costs $ 900 and takes a year 70 bring him to trial. and he isn't brought 10 trial yet. The lit le rogue who runs a petty dollar policy-shop is indicted, while lay Gould gambles in stocks for millions and is respected. The prince is lounging Tn chair Of velvet that costs more th,n two years of my income, in room such as l have never seen and will never see and hear. as come wearily home from my days work. childish voice. shrilly calling through the dark shadows Even. ing papiz. Shine, mister " and see my white-faeed boy of seven years ragged and half fed, shivering in the black De oemoer night, with boot-black's box slung over his back, and the penny papers under his arm. And you say down with him. because he Is a nihilist. a socialist. or black hand And say you can't put me down while that bows voice rings in my ears ana his white hungry face haunts my eyes. There is eser so much that is foolish and wicked and brutal and wrong in the socialists movements, but do not believe they are altogether wrong. There is some right on their side. There is some reason for their dlseonten,. They are ignorant and often blind. and often duped by unprin- eipled leaders. but we can't overlook the fact that socialism wouldn't exist unless there were some reasons for it.
 The fat passenger looked aghast. We'll, he said. you ought to loin Herr Most. or the salvation army. or some of those fellows