Tuene are only two prominent topics in the papers before us, the supposed Dynamite Plot, and the Turkish question. As to the former, we may say with the S James's Gazette that there is some dit culty in avoiding the mistakes of either over-estimating or under-estimating the gravity of these plots." Scotland Yard evidently regarded the plot as a serious one, notwithstanding the character of the conspirators; and although Tyrian seems to have degenerated into a "loud-mouthed, drunken braggart," he is still the man who Manned the Phenix Park murders. The Jeading London dailies certainly believed inthe seriousness of the conspiracy. The Times says Whatever may be the decision on the ticular charges to be brought against P. J. Tyrian and the men passing under the nam of Tell, Wallace, and Haines, the fact will remain that, in the opinion of the English police and of their Continental colleagues, an elaborate dynamite plot for the destruction of concocted and all but matured under Trish-life and property in this kingdom has been American auspices and with Irish-American money. That is the really important point disclosed by the arrests. Unless the police have committed a succession of incredible blunders, and not only the - incriminating papers of which we hear, but the whole collection of materials and apparatus started for the manufacture of bombs whioh has been discovered near Antwerp, can be explained away, we are in the presence of a conspiracy of just the same type as that for which Dr. Gallagher and his accomplices were sentenced in 1883. The spirit which we were told had died out has not died out. 'The irreconcilables are irreconcilable still, and they still remain murderous enough in intent and strong complicated' and. costly conspiracy against enough in numbers to organise and pay for a Great Britain. The lessons to be drawn from the fact are plain enough, and the nation may be left to draw them for itself at a moment when John Daly is enjoying triumphal receptions from his fellow-countrymen.
The Standard says These arrests will serve to remind the public that Fenianism and Anarchism are ill active agencies. The one is twin sister tothe other. The Fenian is not merely a man who is an enemy of. Great Britain be-which he spoke rather freely of dastardly cause he"is a friend of Home Rule; ho is a schemes against Great Britain, The Anar-Fenian because he is an enemy of society. eliists throughout Europe seem to have had He is at war with civilisation quite as much information that dynamite operations were on as is the French, the Italian, or the Spanish foot, among the' victims of which they ex-Anarchist, or the Russian Nihilist. He wishes pected the Czar to'figure. to destroy the existing fabric of society, and But the whole business has been conducted. to make government impossible by terrorism. by such agents and in so incautious a way as, achieve this end he is prepared to sacri-to excite doubts of the reality of any fice any number of human lives, including dangerous intent. Had the men not been his own. It is fruitless to reason with sw arrested they would probably by this timehavo fanatics, and possible only to fight with been well on their way to New York. - How-them as with wild beasts. The dynamiter ever, the police must have information which represents a danger to civilisation, for science has not yet been divulged, and it is as well has given him weapons of terrible destruction. to wait for developments before pronouncing Bat the danger is not ce great, perhaps, as an opinion. The French police who probably it seems, In ingenuity and cunning the know all that is known at Scotland Yard ian Anarchist—call him what you will—pooh-pooh the idea that there was a. plot match for the trained intellects of the against the Czar. It is as well, however, that secret police. This has been proved again these raggart scoundrels have been laid by and again, and particularly so in the case of the heels, and the British police deserve credit, Irish-American conspiracies. The apostles for. their vigilance and energy. of destruction may win in the struggle here As regards Turkey, the difficulty, of and there; but, on the whole, taking a broad course, is the jealousy of the Powers, each view of Anarchist attempts during this century, they have been marced by failure. of whom is suspicious of the disinterested ness of the others, and so the half-mad The Daily News mentions the accepted Sultan continues his course of massacre, theory, and when united civilisation could, if it could Much of thesis conjectural at present. What only be got to unite, step in and say that is certain is that the four men have been these atrocities must cease, and definite, arrested, and that incriminatory papers, and still more incriminatory explosives and other efficient guarantees be gerst against their recrudescence. Our Government plant of Anarchical mirder, have been found Intheir possession. The police in this country knows perfectly well that it has no ulterior were well advised of the movements of the designs, it does not want even to take gang. They shadowed them from the moment another Cyprus; but the Continental of their leaving the United States to their Powers cannot be induced to believe in arrival in Europe and their dispersal to the our singleness of purpose,' and Continental several centres of their alleged plot. Tyrian papers declire that it is England and not was followed from Italy to Paris, to Antwerp, Turkey that is the common enemy, and and finally to Boulogne, where he was arrested that England is trying to'assume the role on Saturday. Bell, suspected of Leing his of Protector of Christians in the East. closest confederate, had already been taken in The Overland Mail says Glasgow. Haines and Wallace—otherwise The chief cause of this hideous situation is the notorious Dynamiter Kearney—were caught at Rotterdam at about the same time diplomacy—which is the negation of honest Tyrian. The London police were perfectly and candour and the nurse of suspicion, which well' aware of their concerted movements, employs as' the agent for making confusion and when the time came, gave the word worse confounded the Press—influenced by which brought them all into.the net. It prejudice, by passion and by corruption. is well done so far, but of course much yet Every word uttered by one diplomatist to an-remains to do. n, it is to be observed, other diplomatist is accepted as capable of a is wanted primarily for his alleged share double meaning or inspired by an arriere in the present plot, but his extradition may be demanded on other grounds. Had he pease. 'The outside public are misled by the lotions and the lies which proceed out of this fas many lives as hairs, they' might all be for-helical workshop, and thus statesmen and felt for his part in that foulest' crime of the nations are found looking askance at each century which took place in the Phw: nix Park other, doubting each other's intentions, and fourteen years ago. The evidence taken at endeavouring by counter-deceptions to get the trial of the Invincibles showed that he advantage over one another until at length was their leading spirit, and it was believed the common will is paralysed by common deceit, to have been completed' by his own avowals and suspicion. At this moment the Press all in the curious book to which we have referred over the Continent is practically unanimous elsewhere, But it is fair to say that the in propagating the idea that Great Britain is authenticity of the book has been disputed, anxious to intervene in the frightful imbroglio and that, while it bears his name on the title at Constantinople for the purpose of furthering page of the English edition, it is by some large schemes' of ambition. It seems useless thought to be a concoction by another hand. to protest that she does not wish to intervene In fact, there are said to be two Tynans in single-handed—it is obvious she could only the field—one a more pseudonym. The real do so if her Government and her people alt one unquestionably is now in the custody of went mad together—and that she has no the French police. designs beyond the protection of interests which are clearly defined and quite apparent The police came in fors good deal of praise, the surface, Apart from the natural though one Irish paper suggests that the jealousy among Continental peoples of the motive which influenced Scotland Yard was extraordinary success of this country in her that special posts of a semi-political char-world-wide schemes, there is little room acter have recently been abolished or were for doubt that a' hostile diplomacy is in danger of abolition. Many of the Con-propagating and fostering these suspicions tinental papers praise the organisation for purposes of its own. The object seems to and ability of the British detective service, be to isolate the perfidious Albion Is it and recognise the service it has just done possible that these tactics are really being to some extent favoured by insincerity or bl in averting an international danger. The ders in our own diplomacy? Is Lord Sah Overland "Mail, after mentioning the bury pursuing a candid policy, or is -he ex-arrests, says hibiting an undue suspicion of other Powers—That these ruffians were in Europe for some of Russia for instance—a suspicion which but a careful review of the facts and state-mischievous purpose can hardly be doubted, prevents any chance of an understanding and provokes unscrupulous retaliation? It does ments hitherto made public leads to the conclusion that their object was rather to create spoken anc erous polic yn our part might Seem to the outsider that " more frank, out ascare than todo anything very serious. It spoken and gonerouy policy on out part ight looks as if it were a bit of Irish bounce of the should not Lord Salisbury throw down his usual vulgar type, for which some American-cards on the table; define the limits of British Trish humourist have found the money. concession; and candidly declare the bounds Certainly if these criminal instigators hed any serious intentions they could not have select of British désinteresement? The motives of four policy in Eastern Europe are no longer more reckless and stupid instruments. Tyrian shat they were when Palmerston was at the spent most of his time and a good deal of Foreiga Office. Our interest in Constantinople money—the possession of which i is said has dwindled while other vital interests have astonishes his associates in the United Sates plomacy was brought down from being a up elsewhere. It is time that our for he has of late been in very abject cireumstances—in drinking hours, in the course of game of poker to a matter of sheer honest
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