Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
Detectives ON GUARD,
Anticipating Dynamite Plots and
Possible Explosions.
FREQUENT ASSAULTS IN COURT.
Sir William Gordon-Cumming to Be
rendered Banquet
THE DURHAM GOLFERS BOUND TO LOSE
tBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.

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majority of the Anarchists recently expelled
from France have arrived in London and
may be seen and heard nightly at a small
club off Tottenham court road, which is the
headquarters of the Reds in this country.
The Government, though appealed to BY
its own supporters in Parliament, made
no effort to prevent these revolutionary
gentry landing on these free shores, Home
Secretary Mathews protesting the utmost
confidence that they could be effectively
dealt with by the ordinary laws should they
attempt to translate words into deeds in
this country. Scotland yard would have
liked to keep them out of England, and
having been baked of its desire, is now
anxious to obtain some excuse for putting
them under lock and key.
The trial of the Walsall Anarchists af-
forded proof that agents provocateurs are no
longer a class peculiar to France, Germany
and other benighted foreign countries.
Americans may therefore, with reasonable
confidence, expect to hear soon of dynamite
plots and possibly of explosions in London.
This assurance is based upon information
derived from the same source that enabled
THE DISPATCH to predict the discovery of
the Walsall conspiracy.
Precautions Taken by Detectives.
Scotland Yard is already ostentatiously
'taking precautions" Extra guards have
been placed on all public buildings, admis-
sion of strangers to the Houses of Parlia-
ment is hedged round with greater restric-
tions than ever and the few discreet jour-
nalists who are admitted or manage to get
behind the scenes are 'treading up" the his
tory of the Irish-American series of dyna-
mite explosions, and studying the plans of
Government Offices and palaces.
The closing of the German frontier against
emigrants from Russia has hsd the effect of
greatly reducing the number of pauper
aliens arriving in this country. The favor
lite route has always been by way of Ham,
burg, the cost of transport from that port to
London being only 6 shillings per head.
Russian Hebrews desiring to get to this
country must in future take passage direct
from Russia to Rotterdam or some Baltic
port, and the cost will be nearly 20 times as
much as via Hamburg, which is a prohib-
itory sum to a majority of such would-be
emigrants.
Considered Pernicious Action.
The receiving agents in East London are
of opinion, however, that the decrease will
be only temporary, and that the ultimate
effect of Germany's action will be per-
nicious to this country, because the kind of
emigrant who has heretofore landed here
with few pounds in his pocket will spend
all his money on the way and arrive abso-
lutely destitute.
The Evening Nelrs and Post, Tory paper,
which has always given much attention to
this subject, announces to-day, as result of
inquiries made by its reporters, that the
United States will be the only gamer by
the closing of the German frontier. The
increased cost of getting to this country
will compel many emigrants intending to
push on to America to remain here.
As it is, many of those who start
out with the intention of crossing the
Atlantic alter their minds when they get
10 London, but these people figure in the
Government returns as having gone on to
America, SO that il is evident the influx of
aliens taking up permanent residence here
has been much larger than the Official rec
ords have indicated.
Altogether, the outlook is not pleasing to
Englishmen, and it fills the Eoening Neacs
and Post with gloomy forebodings
An Extra Long Easter Holiday.
Although scarcely any progress has been
made this week with public business, Par
Lament is to have longer Easter holiday
than usual, an arrangement which affords
further proof of the extreme reluctance of
the Government 90 take in nand the Irish
local government bill Mr. Gladstone has
been in his place every day this week, and
has virtually taken the leadership of the
House out of Balfour's hands.
For some reason best known to
himself the grand old man advocated lenient
treatment of the Cambrian railway di-
rectors who were brought to the bar Of the
II IF iocin
a man who gave evidence before the royal
commission, and the offenders were conse-
quently let off with an admonition from the
Speaker, instead of being sent to the clock
tower, as the Radicals eagerly desired and
urgently demanded.
That was Thursday night, and yesterday
afternoon the Radicals attended for the re-
Eumed consideration of the small holdings
bill in very sulky mood. But the grand
old man quickly put them into the beet Of
good humors by brilliant little speech. in
the course of which he covered Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain with ridicule, and left that
honorable renegade writhing with rage.
A Bill That Is Practically Useless.
1t has been pointed out in THE DISPATCH
that the bill in question, which seeks to re-
vive class Of small freeholders or yeomen
in the country, is practically useless, unless
land owners be compelled, where necessary,
TO sell the land required for division into |
small holdings. Mr.. Chamberlain yester- |
day spoke in favor of the insertion of COM |
pulsory clauses, but said he would not vote |
for them if the Government would not ac- |
cept them.
Mr.. Gladstone had no difficulty in demon
strating the contemplate position thus
taken by Chamberlain, and in contrasting
it with his former protestations of Liberal |
ism. The exquisite irony and scathing sar-
casm with which the grand old man be-
labored bis traitorous lieutenant has proba-
blv never been surpassed in the debating
annals of the House Of Commons. Cham /
berlain felt the chastisement the more
keenly because the Tories laughed at his
discontinue quite as loudly as the Lib
erals, and evidently enjoyed it as much.
Yet when the division took place he had to
90 into the same lobby with the men who
had Just been making merry at his expense,
with men whom he really despises, and
with men who actually detest him with an
abiding hatred.
Mr. Joseph ChamberlaIn's career during
the past six years would afford an instruc-
tive subject for a school book upon the dam
ger of reckless ambition. or it might fitting
Iv illustrate disquisition on the folly Of
not looking before one leaps.