Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-02

Yesterdays dynamite explosion in New York
city Will ST everyone thinking; and especially nay
we expect to ind editorial paragraphs IN the Lon
don newspapers OF the regulation length, one Inch
over a column without break, in which the able
editors in terms Of dgnified luke Will commend
the dynamite chJlice to our own liFs. Without
question the matter is coming home, and in its
broadest aspect. As TnE STAE has suggested, the
dynamite outbreaks In London only local symp-
toms OF Il broader and deeper evil. The radical
danger Il that theory shall spring up thft shall
defend the employment OF unlawful means 10 erect
social changes IN It Is excuSabe To terrOrze courts
and p1ramelts into justice it is for the same Tea
sons. proper for the oppressed generally and every
where 20 light their wrongs by committing crime.
II passion * to BE- substituted for law IL would be
advisable fog people who love quiet life to emgrate
10 the SOtdan and take up with the Mahdl rather
than TO remain In what has heretofore called itself
the civilized regions of the east.
Taking one consideration with another, this does
not appear to be good season for lecturers The
labOrers in the f.Id are plenty enough, but the
harvest is SAINT. IL will be remembered that one
of Mr.. Sdlas proposed dscouT5es for this city was
not given for want OF an adequate audience, and
ex-Seeretary schurZ had the same unpleasant ex-
perience in Jacksonville last Monday night. In the
frst instance heavy cold with pa infuI hoarseneSs
was the alleged cause OF the nOn-appearance OF the
speaker, and in the latter the trouble assigned
10 insufficient preliminary advertisement, but the
zeal reason in both cases is understood to be that
people 6tin turn out because they didn't want To-.
in other words, in spite OF an attempted revival OF
that method OF re aching the public, 1t looks very
much as though the day for platform lecturinS had
well nigh gone by. Curtain lectures will doubtless
be needed and delivered as usual
In common with most Englishmen Mr.. Gladstone
entertains profound admiration for George Wash
fa*fa ~
character among the moderns, published yester-
day. ranks Washington first among the iIlustr0uS
men who might be the theme OF a new Plutarch.
Mr. Gladstone even repro0ateS in mild way the
sighting manner in which his own c0untrymen
speak OF their greatest hero. We do, perhaps.
treat 1.-THE Immortal George at times with spice
or the national levty OF speech but under all such
liberties there IS an honest and permanent rever-
ence for Washington such as is felt for no other
man in history.
1t takes n twO-tO-One vote to pass anything In
the House today AMI it is more than two-to-one
that no bill pass under such circumstances. \
number Of bills will be urged for passage but the
House seems unwilling to accommodate itself or the
peoplein any way. shape or manner. "Can have
pass over your 1ine?" asked Artemus Ward Of
the ticket agent. NO. you can't was the curt
reply, and the genial Snowman retorted: "Ani do
you know why? Because your line Is 50 derned
The New York Herdtd expresses a widely felt
suspicion when IL observes that the Incoming adj
minstratiOn IS in" 1t is certainly true that Con-
greSs is WOrohippng the rising rather than the set
ting sun There is further talk of secluSion and
repose MI Cleyeland5 part and from this time on
hlsfnfiuenee wllb felt all important legislation
He has already met several OF the leaders of the
party and come to an understanding with them,
and during the coming week he Will meet many
more In New York city, whittier he goes tomorrow
One OF the serious dangers just now Is the ag-
grandiZing tendencies Of the Jones family. They
have just got their third representative into the
Senate. AT this rate no hostile legislation on the
Jones family Will soon be possible it viii bulldoze
Our politics; we shall find our public men knuck-
ling 10 the Jones vote, and the down-trodden
F3lth, Brown and Robinson factions will have to
IT &c dynamite TO get attention to their wrongs
The Union Square theater I'm New York has read
the signs OF the times, and has put down It's scale
OF admission One-Jhird. Managers may kick, but
war taxes az the bOx-office must come down.
Heber Newton is not a heretical name, but he Is
making lots OF trouble in church circles
The river and harbor bill IS stuck on a bar
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