Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-26
THE DYNAMITE CAMPAIGN.

Not only all England, but all the civil
lied world, is stirred to the soul with in
dignation at the recent outrageous attempt
to destroy life and property in England.
The effort to justify these murderous as
saults by citing the wrongs of Ireland
serves only to withdraw from Ireland what
ever of sympathy her plants may have
awakened. There is no possible basis of
Justification for these diabolical schemes
and attempts TO intimidate q nation by in
jury TO few of her people, and fewer of
her public buildings, Those who conduct
these operations must have very narrow
conception OF English character, if they
suppose the British are to be frightened by
such means into temperine legislation for
Ireland, or in recognizing her independ-
ence. On the contrary, the patience of the
English will turn to fury, and revenge
will become the order of the day England
is still moffarchy; the power of the
crown is latent rather than departed, and it
is not at all without the range of possibility
that Ireland and the Irish may yet be
made to suffer in a manner few have anv
adequate idea of. 1t is a hardship that
punishment should be visited upon the
Irish people as a class for the acts of
few radicals, for we cannot believe that
the best Irish thought for moment gives
countenance TO these murderous schemes.
Nevertheless, unless speedily checked,
there is reason to believe guilty and inno-
cent alike will suffer The Irish conspira-
tors must not deceive themselves England
can put bayonet at every thEoat in Ire
land, and make the future OF that people
hundredfold more pitiable than
the present. Reforms are not worked
by assassination, and the use of dynamite
is more cowardly work than cold steel
thrust from behind. Reformation is not
accomplished by making war upon women
and children and the dynamite policy ex-
poses the innocent and helpless especially,
to death or mangling. 1t voices the
most brutal of sentiments, and is a
manifestation Of the most depraved of
human methods. There is every reason
to believe that these schemes to terrorize
London and English cities are, in
part, ooncocted in this country,
and we have something to answer
for in permitting, as we have, the
miserable cut-throats Of the O'Donovan
Rosa stripe to keep footing upon our
soil. This Is an asylum for the oppressed.
and a refuge for the down-trodden." The
conventional phrase is not mere platitude.
But coupled with this right of asylum Is
the obligation Of decent behavior. These
plotting assassins claim to he CARRYING on
n "war," on the ground that state of war
has for many years existed between Ireland
and England, and is still maintained.
FaIlaeious as this theory is-not to say
silly-it may be accepted for the purpose
of compelling these brutes to observance
of the laws of neutrality on the one hand.
and of the rules of warfare on the other.
The rasoally fellows who are capable OF
the acts Of which Rosa and his murderous
crew openly boast, will be ready, on the
slightest pretext, to attempt to dictate to
the American people how they shall
govern themselves, and to give point to
their decree by blowing up American
Government buildings and murder
ing American citizens. 1t was safe
enough to predict that the red
handed socialists of Chicago would
rejoice over the news from England. 1t
encourages them to make good their
threats against "the people who have
something" The duty before this country
is to make the United States too hot
to hold these beer-guzzling conspirators
and ..vagabond assassins. They are Yet
to be taught that liberty is not license, nor
the pulling down of others the means of
elevating the lowly; that society can be
assailed by too liberal exercise of the right
of free speech, and that to collect means
in this country to wage so-called dyna-
mite or other war against people with
whom we are at peace, is a crime of which
the United States has long been tolerant,
but cannot longer permit. We very much
mistake the trend of public opinion if it
will not crystalline into law deelarin
that we can do without the manufacture
OF dynamite for any purposes, and that its
production shall be deemed an act oil