Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-01-29
A Threatening Speech.

When the news of the London dy-
Mantle explosion reached Washington
it was the theme of conversation ev-
erywhere. The tenor of the conver-
sation was merely one of interest eX-
cept when the women and children
were referred to. Everybody con-
demned that, while the destruction of
property was only viewed with indiff-
erence.
The State Department, hav ing clos
er relations with foreign powers than
any other, was apparently all tor up
in its mind over the explosions. There
are many Englishmen among the at
taches of that arm of the public service
and those who are not English have
English manners and profess deep
sympathy for English institutions.
These attaches were thrown into a
genuine panic and the "blawsted
Irish" came in for no end of execra-
tion at their hands. The leading Off
Gals at once laid their heads together
and made rough draft or bill, max
ing the manufacture of dynamite for
other than business purposes a penal
offense, and sent the instrument post
haste to the Capital and placed it in
the hands of Senator Edmunds, who
introduced it in the Senate the mo-
ment the opportunity was offered. The
haste with which this was accomplish
ed and the body in which the bill was
introduced caused some amusement,as
the Senate is blamed with having q
strong affinity for the House of Lords.
A citizen of Washington, who is
known to be an extreme Socialist and
who is a member of the Society of So
cial Democrats, said this evening that
Senate and the United States Gov
ernment would do we'll to keep their
hand. out of this dynamite business,
both now and in the future.
''There is no proof as yet that these
dynamite outrages, as they are called,
are conceived in Am rica," said the A
narchist. 'and until there is the gov
ernment will merely provoke a very
large element of our citizenship by TAX
bill introduced by Mr.. Edmunds. We
whenever the United Sta tes Govern
then the war will extend from the mon-
archies of the Old World to the Capital
city of the New. Let that aristocratic
body known as the Senate and that IT,
tle-worshipping. exclusive body of off.
cials who head the State Department
have care for themselves. No power
can prevent the manufacture of dyna-
mite for one purpose any more than for
another, and it is far easier to deposit
it within the Capitol, or the State De-
partment, or the White House, than to
successfully spirit it through the line
of police which guards every entrance
to the Parliament House, or through
the walls and guarded gates of the old
Tower Of London, within which the
earth is rich with the blood of men, ,wo-
men and children who were executed
and assassinated by the ancestors of
the landed nobility who now have their
feet upon the necks of Ireland. I tell
you for publication in your journal and
as a warning to the government, that
the spirit of repression will be promptly
met by the spirit of aggression and that
this time, when hundreds of thousands
of honest working men and their famil-
les are at the point of starvation, Is not
a good nor safe time to show sympa-
thy for luxurious nobility who grind
their wealth from the poor of Great
Br itain and Ireland"
Schuyler Colfax left an estate valued
at $3.50, 900. The family mansion at
South Bend, together with half the res
idue. falls tn thn widow and tho root to