WHAT BROUGHT DYNAMITE ?

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 7, 8 June 1883, Page 18

WHAT BROUGHT DYNAMITE ?

The kingdoms and empires of Europe are moving for the establishment of a force to be called « International Polici," tbe special duty of which is to be the discovery and extradition of conspirators and revolutionists. This is a pleasant imperial fancy ; but how long do they imagine the people * of any country would tolerate the presence in their midst of such denationalised spies and tools of foreign royalty ? If such a law were in operation, and one of its agents werf discovered m this country, say, the first and proper thing to do would be to bane the rascal on. the nearest lamp-post and then protest against his presence among a free people. 6 p The monarchies are bringing on their own guilty heads the dangers that now scare them on every hand. They must cure their own disease, which is too much power. By doing so, they will cure the people's, which is too little. King Canute may order back the tide of popular intelligence and freedom ; but the ro/ring and laugh! ing waves will swallow and drown him if he does not come down and retreat. »,d T th! C^ diti< ? °J ?i? iB F i n every countr y showa ttat the weak and the poor plead to deaf ears until they become terrible or the hearers become just. But there can be no permanent justice where B^^^"? l^*- Tbe " ruleo£ reason," so iL^Fi a^ tf 18 ine Z lfcably the rale also o£ force and me S£S taw SSJS ;£. the Btatne of > ÜBtice i 8 taken down ' «* n,Pn!l^5 c ,? Btboli f CI !r h ' the only P° wer that could bind all men and all classes together and control their greed, injustice and passion, was repudiated m Europe, then entered « the man on horseS . e fK nOn " Bpmtual World is the materialised and deducted r£l p??"!- 011 '? 6 of ma terialism and its deductions *¥^JX£E£ ftSK Zte MM '' *" *»*"■ VnnJ^c^ Bßß^ 8 bave °? Ce ag« in Packed from the fateful tree of £SS?2SJS^ 5* ye t fea - the A f ruit - has become a social Kwi g i 8??i 8 ?? Rusßl . a> Austria ' S P ain - Fran ce. Germany, and rtSJ^ir 8 ? I ™ ll £?* in T itb U8 ' a threat and a « c ° u *ge, lie the S2S P f A B'n8 'n Whete c . low lands are leffc drained and neglected, there will come malaria, as sure as death. Dynamite and fiiS?? 1 T ntl n C kindred wiU follow the undrained andneglecSfj^rtS rabeß - Coercion laws and bayonets can no more put it SaiSSSS? T C T thesmall.pox. "Bayonets think nowadays," SSSEfTn, It ie far truer of our day than of his, as witness the iSffi e Sff tnk - e Of the a*d the B pread of Nihil-S^iT-T^' Sdence is alwaya equalising things. The f^lnff I*l mt ? existence » a »d the bully who had with impunity ™X I ! SlOS 10 Were either not 80 Btron g or s° rfci«al with a SSS n n& BtoOd , agbaßt * He was scared ' like *c Imperial GovernESX* i/w Weak ? a ? Wlth fcbe P ißtol Wft s m strong as he. He. tasted at last some of the terror he had so long made others feel. xnfJ^i S ° ™ th tbe L ater deve l°P«»ents of science in the same field. Nitro-glycenne and dynamite do for disorganised, unarmed, and &T n^i? aßß^' Whafc the rev °l v er did for individuals : they make to fejT* ,1 ? ey equa ! iße * bing8 ' The Powerful royal ruffian has to face a foe that can strike as deadly a blow as he. Aristocrats and rulers must be made to fear something. If they dont fear the devil, they do fear the destruction of their wealth, w! n£ a 2 eOr ' . tbe V rßaf f v « When every serf and peasant can make one? dvnaaute > thls f ear will be ever before the eyes of the mighty * faJ?iSV wt def « ndin S dynamite ;we are simply regarding it as a fact that has emphasised its existence. We might as well shut our efan ™S? ?reß? reBe * 11 ? °L the plague ' and that no respectable physician ought to study the nature of the disease. We condemn clynaBtreet 3U aS W6 condemir fi g htin g wi th pistols in a bar-room or a «* v't: 11 We say is tbat if Governments grind the people, deprive them SpiKLriST* 88 P^^ 1 . "gltaUon for reform, scatter public £« ?t S ,l™\ h baT ? Qetß » imprison editors who dare to write what the KSwi ♦ Dk i. a ndl f ep tbe P e °P le ia a Btate of chl onic poverty and bondage to the aristocrats who make the Government, then dynamite will come as sure as malaria to the marshes.— Pilot. y*"*™"*