The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-07
A DISCIPLE OF ROSSA-
Senator Foufke Receives Letter Indicating
the Presence of Local Dynamite Society.

Does Indianapolis harbor society of dynamite
conspirators9 Possibly. Some facetious citizen
of the Dreythaler school, no doubt, has adopted
a method of creating a local excitement by
agitating the foregoing question, and has ad-
dressed the following letter to Senator Foulke.
The missive was received by the senator from
Wayne yesterday, through the mails, and was,
in turn. shown to representative OF the Journal.
Senator Foulke is the author bin now before
the Senate prohibiting the manufacture or traffic
in dynamite or similar explosives for criminal
purposes, and the writer evidently seeks to en-
Tighten him on the subject The letter is as
follows:
''Citizen William D. Foulke-Being aware Of
the fact that there is a vast amount of ignorance
abroad among the servants of the people in re-
gard TO Socialism and the aims and methods of
the revolutionary Socialists or Anarchists, we
hereby place in your hands copy of the mani
festo of the international Working Peoples Asso-
citation, hoping that you may benefit by the pc
rusal thereof and be able to speak inteDigently
on the subject whenever occasion demands
1--WE understand that you are the author Of a
bill for the prevention of the manufacture and sale
of explosives for criminal purposes. We would
suggest to you that measures of that description
are waste of paper, as they will be utterly dis
regarded by plundered and oppressed people.
Furthermore, if you will consult the Constitu-
ton of the United States, you will observe that
the same guarantees the right to bear arms to
the people. Whether the arms consist of gun,
dagger, or dynamite bomb matters not. Is it
criminal for rich to murder his
ployes in mine factory by too hard toll,
starvation wages, poor machinery, insecure
buildings, improper ventilation, etcg Coroners
JurieS and q corrupt bench answer No.
Very WE'LL then it is also not criminal but
emlnenty fitting when an employee protects his
life and his earnings against the murderous rob
Der who wants to deprive him of both by blow
ing the legal thiefs brains out, or piercing his
heart with dagger, or sending him to hell per
dynamite.
I'm order to save the Commonwealth some
money, we suggest that you might vote against
the militia bills, as dozen men armed with
dynamite could annihilate the entire militia
force of the State of Indiana. By order of the
INDIANAPOLIS GROUP. l. w. A."
The handwriting is evidently that of for
eigner, for the letters are small and cramped,
having some of the characteristics of the German
letters. The copy of the manifesto referred to
purports to have been issued by the Pittsburg
congress of the international Working Peoples
Association. 1t is voluminous and ex-
haustive review Of the alleged impositions
to which the laboring classes are forced to sub
NIT, violently denouncing 1.-THE oppression of
labor by the capitalistic classes" and threaten
ing dire vengeance upon all the 'oppressors of
the world" The concluding paragraph reads as
follows 1.-THE day has come for solidarity. Join
our ranksl Let the drum beat defiantiy the roll
OF battle: Workmen of all lands unite! You
have nothing to lose but your chains; you have a
world to win!' Tremble! oppressors Of the
worldt Not far beyond your purblind sight
there dawns the scarlet and sable lights of the
Judgment day"