Mr. A. M. Sullivan, writing to the American papers on
February 24th,—i.e., three weeks before the explosion at the Local Government Office,—delivers a very sensible homily on the impolicy as well as the wickedness of the so-called " dynamite " outrages. He insists on the utter baseness of the plans of universal murder, and he also explains their frightful cruelty to the Irish residents in English cities. These Irish are, he says, already losing all their work and earnings, in conse- quence of the explosions at the Mansion House and in Salford, and of the comments of the " dynamite " Press in America on these explosions ; so that these plots cost the Irish even more suffering than they cost the English. To these sensible and manly words, written last month, the attempt on the Local Government Office gives a completely new force, and we only trust that the Irish in America will profit by them, and instead of sending in more subscriptions to the weak and wicked men who advocate the use of dynamite, will take an early oppor- tunity of marking their disgust at their counsels in some very emphatic and intelligible form. The dynamite that only injures English buildings, wrecks Irish hopes far and wide.
