Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02

hands boldly, having wholesome fear of the
police and military, on account of the very
rough handling their predecessors in at
tempted riots have received from those limbs
of the law. With all their fear, however,
they have begun to talk of stealing march
on the military, making no secret of the
nodus oper0ndi. The armories of the diff
ferent regiments being neither fire proof nor
bullet proof, and for the most part merely
guarded by janitor, and sometimes not even
by that functionary, offer themselves as easy
prey to a concerted and we'll planned attack.
The instigators of the present agitation
have pointed this out more forcibly than the
public are pleased to hear, but the truth is
better told, even if told by an enemy. New
Workers are very slow to act; or rather I
should say those who hold the reins of gov
eminent in New York city will not act until
driven SO to do. The leading officers in
THE NATIONAL GUARD
have repeatedly called the attention of the
authorities to the unsafe condition of the
armories, but to no purpose. Year after
year has passed. The armories have never
been made the point of attack, so, being
blind to possibilities, those whose duty it is
to make proper provision for the citizen
soldiery have allowed matters to stand as
they are. The State government, however,
made one move this year in appropriating
100000 for the better equipment of the
military, it having been shown last summer,
when called upon to do duty away from
home, that they lacked many things to make
them ready for any emergency. This is
move in the right direction so, as far as
equipment and readiness for duty go, the
National Guard are prepared to meet what
ever foe they may be called upon to combat.
But of what use would they be, if their
rifles should be spirited away? That is just
the question that the Communists are pro-
pounding to the public. But they are too
hasty. Forewarned forearmed. The
followers of the red flag will
have to seek some other weak
point to attack, for their movements will be
SO closely watched in future, that any inten-
ton of the kind suggested will be known to
\ the police almost as soon as entertained. It
is very much doubted, notwithstanding all
the bluster that has been expended, if the
communists will venture to openly defy the
law. They will hold meetings and the
leaders will probably waste many night in
words, but talk that is so cheap never
amounts to anything, except to keep the
spokesman filed with ideas of their own self
Importance. That hints of riotous agitation
are not without their good results is very
evident. The people are kept alive to posi-
bilities, though they need not necessarily
dread them. The authorities are occasionally
reused to action. The sleepy policeman is
compelled for while to keep his eyes open:
and grand opportunity is given for those
who have pet schemes for the regulation of
society, to vent their ideas through the
medium of the press. The work done by
this last named class is merely visionary, but
pent up steam had better have some method
of escape, or the State would be called upon
to increase the boundaries of its lunatic
asylums.
| A PROMISING REFORT.
| The present excitement will not be barren
of good effect, if the commissioners of emil
grafton succeed in securing the passage of
the bill which they have recommended
to Congress, for its approval. In 1876 the
supreme court of the United States declared
the levying of "head money on the owners
of vessef for each alien landed at this port
to be unconstitutional, thus compelling the
State Legislature to furnish funds with
which to support the pauper emigrants seek
ing our shores, the greater number of whom
locate themselves in New York city. The
increase of shiftless persons DESTROYS of
riots, and chance to plumber in this city is
due largely to the settling of these paupers,
many of them ex-convicts, probably shipped
to this country with the blessing, s:good rid
dance of bad rubbish 10 regulate any fur
ther shipments of these unfortunates, the
bill referred to is aimed. Should it be
favorably acted upon, aliens will have to
undergo an inspection before being landed,
and those unable to support themselves by
honest labor. or who fail to prove ownership
of means ample for their support, will have
! to be returned to the port from whence they
came at the expense of the owner of the YES
sci in which they arrived. Many will sue
coed, no doubt, in evading this regulation,
but the bill provides, that if within sixty
days they shall need State assistance, they
shall even then be retransported as
above stated. This ought to have
very healthy effect on the masses,
| for the number of idle persons will be there
by lessened, and those willing to work will
be left untrammeled by dragging drones,
who eat up their substance, but add nothing
thereto. It is thought also that great ten
dency to
EM1GRATE TO THE WEST,
will follow the enactment of the law alluded
to. Each State is expected to have its
bureau of immigration, with agents in this
city, who will be enabled to give reliable in
formation Immediately to the new corners
thereby inducing removal at once to West
cru homes, and thus offering preventative
for forced idleness, which so many emigrants
have to submit to until what little they have
bearded together is spent, and starvation