New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-01

such magnitude anu ingenuity LII Univ
places. not far removed from one another and
in the heart of London, there were to be stimuli
taneOus explosions, each of so striking char
acter as TO produce feeling of panic and help
lessness In Trafalgar Square, the great Mel
son Monument 1870 feet high was to be shat
tered and the proud lions at its base were to
be blown into fragments. The aristocratlc
Club Land of the West End was to be startled
by ruin wrought in the elegant clubhouse OF
the Junior Carlton. The whole army of Lon
don police was to be deticd by double eX-
plosiOn at its own headquarters. So large and
so Sllilfu q plan of operations bctOkcns or
ganizaton and leadership on the part of the
panic-makcrs. London has reason, therefore,
to be more seriously alarmed than at any pre-
vious stage of this execrable war against civil
izaton Our special cable dispatches, however,
clearly indicate that there has been no panic,
that the public is conducting itself with COM
pOslIre and that the comments of the press are
studiously moderate in tone The panic makers
ought to perceive the futiity of attempting to
intimidatc London and to exhaust the patience
of the English people.
1t is a remarkable fact that while the Irish
cOnSpiratOrS are using the most dangerous eX-
plosives which modern science can provide,
they have found their new weapons both
clumsy and Intellectual. Modern communities
stand in wholesome dread of dynamite, yet out
side Russia very little mischief has been act
ually wrought By this new ammunition sup
piled to the disaficctcd classes. Irish mis-
crcants have repeatedly used these terrible
agents of destruction during tho last three
years, but not single life has been lost and the
damage to property has been inconsiderablc.
In majority of instances the train has been
laid but the explosion has not followed. There
seems to have been i'll the present instance two
explosions in ST. James Square and another Ill
Scotland Yaid, but second canister of dyna-
mite at the latter place was not exploded, and
as many as sixteen packages Of dynamite with
fuses were found in Trafalgar Square. Even
when the explosions have occurred the effects
are by no means so disastrous as might reason
ably be expected. Although cOnspiratorS have
been watching their chances month aitcr month
and industriOusly planting their dynaI.-tc car
tridgcs and fuses in Government Offices, under
ground railways, passenger stations and club
houses, the damage to property has not been
large and not Il single life has been lost II
they had been operating with gunpOwder they
would have caused greater loss of life and
property. All the Outragcs OF the dynamite
campaign put together do not make up one
ClcIkcnwcll.
The incliccncy Of dynamite in the hands of
clumsy. ignorant and cOwardly dc>pcradOcs Is
q most rcassurng fact 1t tends to di~pcl the
feeling of Insecurity in England and in other
communities mcnaccd with the plots of dis
affected classes. II dcprives these despicab!c
conspratols Of the chief end OF their miserable
cxistcncc-thc power of producing panic and
frightening the English people. London can
arm itself most effectively against such plots by
fcignng Indifference 90 them and maintaining
its present admirable domcanOr of compOsurc.
The absence of panic and excitement will con
vince the organizing spirits among the Irish
miscrcants that they cannot succeed in intmi-
dating Engishmcn. The stcadncSs Of the
London public and the moderation and good
sense of the press will reduce these outragcS, rs
stupid as they are infamous, to the level Of
individual malSnity.