THE DYNAMITE MONTHLY.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 359, 23 May 1884, Page 5

THE DYNAMITE MONTHLY.

JUST ASTOUNDING MANIFESTO. A. correspondent of the ' Times ' supplies an account of a new periodi cal, the ♦ Dynamite Monthly ' th( organ of the dynamite party, publi shed in JS«\v York, tho first numbei of which whs issued last month : — "The editor, in his address to the reader, professes himself, a humble worker in the holy crusade againsi our ancient foe, that combination oi iniquities, that utter abomination, the British Empire. But the British Empire is strong, whereas Inland and her friends are weak. Th^re must be war with the old enemy but ib must be a ' scientific war,' the only war that can be waged with posibility of success. Scientific war consists in murdering as many Englishmen as possible by whatever means of destruction present themselves as most convenient, and in doing the utmost possible damage to English property. * "We believe,' the editor says, 'in dynamite.' And not only in dynamite, but in the more simple sulphur match, and, shocking though it seems to be to the superficial thinker in the bullet, whether from within or without the " ditch " and the knife at close quarters. But it is dynamite which is most to be relied upon.', A ' black list ' is given of persons who have made themselvQS particularly obnoxious to all true Irishmen.' It leads off with the informers at the Dublin murder trials. James Carey heads the list. He, the writer remarks, ' has passed to judgment. May the rest soon follow.' Then comes the name of a superintendent of police who was rewarded for his zeal ein bringing Irishmen to the gallows.' The jury that convicted Brady is next set down, together with the presiding Justice and the prosecutor for the Crown. The jurymen who hanged Poole follow. Then come the principal instruments in the murder of Patrick O'Donnell.' Finally, the writer adds, in mentionimg obnoxious persons, we should not forget Judge Lawson and the infamous Clifford Lloyd, and Win, E. Forster, who escaped for a time the judgment passed on him. Even that "grand old man," Gladstone, may be included. . A little further on iv the paper Lord Lansdowne is singled out for special attack in violeDt terms. Every man in the list is marked out for murder, and the 22,000 persons to whom copies of the ' Dynamite Monthly ' have been sent are appealed to for help in carrying out the diabolical plan. Ihe reader is told that the Emergency fund which Mr P. J. Sheridan first suggested is doing well, yet not so well as might be desired. Mr Ford, the treasurer, has some 27,000 dols. on hand, to be employed for^patriotic purposes. Now everybody knows, of course ( the correspondent adds), what all this wicked nonsense means. It is an appeal for dollars, or fractions of dollars, with murders and outrages promised as a reward if only the dollars are forthcoming. The men who make the appeal will keep their promise, for in no other way could the desired contributions be kept up. There must be outrages now and then, as proof that the money subscribed has not been wasted, and these are to be accepted as an earnest of the larger operations which are to follow. There have been very natural doubts raised as to the financial honesty with which the Emergency Fund has been managed and a letter from Mr Patrick Egan, late treasurer of the Irish National Land League, is quoted as evidence for the defence. This gives a new turn to a very old saw. It is an instance of the pot bearing its unbiassed testimony to the absolute whiteness of the kettle."