New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-03
CASE OF RETRIBUTIvE JUSTICE.

One incident in the Partisan carnival of high
explosives is remembered as an example Of ex-
quisite retributive justice. During the time when
dynamite outrages were of daily occurrence.
when men, women and children were being
Slaughtered by the wholesale and the sight OF
a tin meat can or the crash caused by the break
ing of dish would empty cafe. so widespread
was the public apprehension. French poet.
recognized representative of anarchy. pro-
duced dainty piece OF verse. in which he in
simulated the gentle doctrine that II the prin-
ciples of anarchy were advanced the murder of
men, women ard children indiscriminately was
of no consequence. Almost the next bomb
ploded burst in the cafe where this gentle
lyrist NJ. Taillade, was slipping his absinthe and
distributed few pounds OF shingle nails some
what widely about his person. He was not
killed. but for weeks suffered the most excru-
ciatng agonies. with only his own philosophy
for solace. 1t was this epidemic of explosives
that brought about an international congress
and an agreement between nations. which
suited in the systematic hunting down and ex-
termination of the bomb thrower.
With the recent Russian outbreaks this form
of murder has again become common. It has
even penetrated beyond the limits OF the Mus
covite Empire. and the outrages that slew ths
Grand Duke Sergius and Won Plehve now
paralleIed by the recent attacks upon King Al
fonso in Paris and even more recently upon the
Sultan at Constantinople. This is Enthusiastically
the result Of example, and European concert
against this form of crime is not unlikely. After
ALL the dynamite outrage is usually unsuccessful.
despite the notable Russian exceptions. Innocent
men and women are always among the victims.
and not infrequenty the sole sufferers. Mon
archs who have been missed by Internal ma
chimes have. without exception. enjoyed period
Of popularity as a result. particularly If, like
the Sultan and young King Alfonso. they bore
their "ba ptsm of fire. with becoming courage.
Even the anarchists themselves usually depend
on the knife and the pistol rather than dynamite
for their more personal crimes. King Humbert
of Italy, the Empress OF Austria. Presidents
Carnot of France and Mckinley in this country
were slain by weapons rather than Internal ma
chimes. and Alexander II of Russia is the single
ruler of our OWN time who has been slain by
dynamite. -,
Behind European dynamite outrages the ~
onlened figure of anarchy always turks, ana the
fact that this form of criminal organization mas
never found either reason or opportunity lot
extensive activity in this country proDaoly ex-
plains the absence of the sort OF outrage that Is
so common in Europe. With rev eXceptiohS
the local internal machines have all oeen traced
to notoriety seeking cranks. have been or llttis
real dangerous potentiality and have occurred
almost without exception only when foreign us
patches stimulated the activity of some tnoivld-
nal crank The bomb political and the oomo
impersonal have no place in NeW-1ork dnndls'
and the bomb personal aimed not at represent
atfyes of government such. but employed 10
crafty personal grudges. is so rare as 10 excite
astonishment even in such instances as those
recently subjects of public discussion. Harmless
or deadly. the bomb is always the WORK OF d
coward or crank and such criminals are hap
PLY few in the tradition or history OF New horK
City