THE DYNAMITE POLICY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 135, 15 May 1883, Page 2

THE DYNAMITE POLICY.

The following remarks Irom the San Francisco Bulletin, coming as they do from a journal published m a Republican country, 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 about a re-action. JNo just cause needs thft aid of dynamite to help it out. No doubt there are evils m Ireland which ought to have a speedy remedy. But an attempt jto blow up Government buildings m London is not a remedy. Any low brute can use explosives, but he cannot bring about any substantial reform m that way. 01 all people m the world the English are the last to be intimidated by explosives put unfler buildings, or by a murder here and there. They are a slow people, to initiate reforms, but they are swift sqme^ times to administer justice through tlie forms of law. Tiffe use of dynamite as a means of reform is only an appeal of cowardly brutes to other cowards. After the Cgar had liberated millions of serfs, he was murdered on the streets, After Parliament had passed a law giving the largest protection to tenants m the

matter of land valuations, an attempt was made to blow up Government buiMings ia Lon'on. JNothing comes of these expedients, except that there is a losbs of sympathy with a cause which, even by indirection, is associated with such expedients."