Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-28
SYMPATHY roR ENGLAND.

SYMPATHY FOR ENGLAND. |,
The resolution Ct the Unit.d States
enste d%enounctag the dynamite outrages
q England Is all we'll enough on general
hut there Is a good deal Of
sense in the remarks made by
Riddleborgot in opposition to its
While he does not in any
way justify the dynamite method, he ex-
his objection to airy resolution
hat might be distorted into tan expreu-
lion of sympathy, or eve common fell
with a country that knows moth
ing bat cruelty, and gives none OF her
the exercise Of that liberty that
we, on this side of the Atlsntic, believe
to belong to every people" He then
the conduct Of English judges
In violating the principles of law and
constitution and justice, and he begged
to BIO excused from expressing anyeympa-
thy for the blowing up of
the building in which the laws
were made to be administered by
such Judges. When the excitement sub
sides Senator Riddleberger's speech will
be considered pretty sound by the cool
headed people of this country. That the
dJ Mantle outrsges are contrary to ell
methods of civilized warfare none will
deny, and that the perpetrators will be
hunted down and punished Is the hope
and wish of nearly everybody. But as
for sympathy for Eugland's government,
that i, altogether another thing. What
sympathy, let as ask, is the English gov.
eminent entitled to from the United
States 1t is to be hoped that the gym
pathy of the Engllsh government for the
southern confederacy has not been for
gotten by our loyal senators. Have they
ell ,ced from their memory the English
raids upon our navy and COM
merce during the trying per.
Tod of the rebellion? Have they
overlooked the histori sal fact that Eng
land was compelled to pay, in the shape
of the Alabama claims, for the sympa.
thy, aid and comfort which she extended
to the southern confederacy2 Did she
not do all In her power to wipe the union
out of exlstence9 Had dynamite been
in common use then as 1t Is now we ven
ture to assert that southern agents would
have found their way from England into
the principal cities of the north and ex'
ploded dynamite right and left, destroy.
ing public buildings, and perhaps limo.
cent lives. Let us ask if such a pro.
gramme had been carried out, would
the English parliament have passed any
resolutions of sympathy, or aver OF in.
%dignation, sorrow or denunciation? VIZ
think not.
1t appears to us that we in this country
can afford to let England take care of he,
own affairs. The accounts of the recent
explosions have been purposeIy exsgger-
ated. This is shown by the comments Of
the conservative and independent press
of England. The Pail Mall Gazette mar
wells at the ''fright and furry" exhibited
by the morning papers when the damag,
from all the dynamite explosions In Lon
don will not amount to over loo, OO(
pounds sterling, and no loss of life ha,
been occasioned. The Gazette adds tina
the hanging of O'Donovan Rosa and the
making of the collection of a skirmishine
fund a criminal otfsnse will not stop the
outrages. 1t refers to the fact that they
cannot be stopped in Russia or Germany,
where a much greater vigilance is exercis.
ed than In England. 1t adviHes everybody
to keep cool, strengthen the police force,
sharpen the wits of the detectives, and
heavily punish assasslna and those who
aid them, and to make q discrimination
between social and political. reforms pv
legal agitations. Similar sentiments are
uttered by the st. James Gazette. II
would seem then that the American
house of lords has prrhaps been a little
too previous in including any expression
of sympathy for the English government
in its resolution denouncing the dynamite
outrages. Why has 1t not passed r%esolu-
tions of sympathy for the governments
of Russia and Germany, in which coun.
tries dynamite is being used ten times
oftener and with much more effect than
1t is In England. A local crime has been
committed In London, and let the local
authorities hunt down the perpetrators
and punish them. Resolutions by all
the national legislatures in the world will
not check the dynamite warfare.