THE DYNAMITE POLICY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3158, 17 May 1883, Page 2

THE DYNAMITE POLICY.

The “San Francisco Bulletin thus refers to the dynamite outrages. The remarks are worthy of notice : —“ The conversion by dynamite is a failure. It does not advance a good cause a single step. On the contrary it is sure to bring on a reaction. No just cause needs the aid of dynamite to help it out. No doubt there are evils in Ireland which ought to have a speedy remedy. But an attempt to blow up Government buildings in London is not a remedy. Any low brute can use explosives, but he cannot bring about any substantial reform in that way. Of all people in the world the English are the last to be intimidated by explosives put under buildings or by a murder here and there. They are a slow people to initiate reforms, but they are swift sometimes to administer justice through the forms of law. The use of dynamite as a means of reform is only an appeal of cowardly brutes to other cowards. After the Czar had liberated millions of serfs, he was murdered on the streets. After Parliament had passed a law giving the largest protection to tenants in the matter of land" valuations, an attempt was made to blow up Government buildings in London. Nothing comes of these expedients, except that there is a loss of sympathy with a cause which, even by indirection, is associated with such expedients.”