The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-15
Last summers Riots and What
They Have Taught Us.

Last summers Riots and What
They Have Taught Us.
Every atfIiction Is said to confer Its
benefits sooner or later. "sWeet are the
uses Of adyersity" is an old prOverb' This
country was forewGrned last summer as
to the grave dangers which might come
suddenly upon it. Had the events Of last
July been foreshadowed in any newspa'
per Of the land in this month OF May,
thew would have been laughed at and
secuted from one end Of the country to
the other. And yet how sOon-in the
twipkIing Of an::eye, as it were-was the
whole sky overcast with clouds, and how
helpless we're the people Of every city In
the country for days together.
Those who belittle the present danger
underrals the power Of organization.
When armed men are meeting night al
ter night, and secretly drilling, and when
their leaders talk about property being
crime against nature, it is certainly time
for all citizens who have stake Of any
kind in society, TO look about 'nem' anu
10 make 1t their business to watch Tor any
symptoms that may dsyelOpe into COM
munism.
The city Of Wheeling Is as Tree IRON o,l
any faint oil this kind as any community
in the country. ihere Is no Guy ~
America oil So0oV inhabitants "neto raw
and order reign more supreme IMAM lu''
here. And Jet we know from eApsfience
that when other communities OeoOu'
infected with asplrit Oh RIO. anu ue,'tuO
ton, such as preVaiied ~ Fi's'u, ~, -a
July, our own doeS moi ESCAPE "Nse
the tremendous CROWDS ,na' IPpea'eu ~
suddenly and overwneimlnSS =" oui
streets and on our pubic square iOf &c.
eral nights last summer. ineie W
plenty OF material Tor innni'e ni'sntei
among US had start once oeen nAue :"
that direction. TWAS cnrreh. remark
at the time that numbers oipeop'e wnom
nobody knew had appeared suuueh''
among us.
There Is no.need for any ooay 10 DC
seriously disquieted by the communists
movements going on, In the clues OIL 'ne
country. We do not credit all we read IN
regard to these movements, but sui, 1t Is
Just as we'll not tc pooh'pooh them. Every
friend Of law and order should be Jealous
to use all his influence in the right difeo-
iiOn. tits we'll to let every man Ia
bic to 90 astray under excitement
understand just what Communism
means. II means riot, arson, murder
anarchy and chaos. 1t means the de-
struction Of society and civilization. II
means that everything that Is lieentiou'
and Internal in its nature will be let loose
in the land, just as 1t was during the last
days in the siege OF Paris, when the Com
mune poured oil on everything that
would burn, and deiaced and denied
everything that could not thus pe de-
stroyed.
A secret armed organization has no
business TO exist in land where every
mans wrongs can be righted peacefully
at law or through the ballot box. "hen
in country like this men meet at night
in oath bound secresy, with arms in their
hands, they eau be SET down as the Toes
Of society, and every good citizens hand
should be against them. Up at Fits
burgh there ia said TO be secret oath
bound organization OF this kind called
the "seven Archers." The precise
derivation or significance oil the
name is not explained, nor Is 1t
material. The expressed purpose oil the
association is TO reform society through
the ballot-bOx. The way in which II
goes about this important enterprise Is
peculiar. The candidate Tor admission
to the society is not argued with or in
structed. No tracts or pamphlets are
put into his hands. no speeches are made
to him, nor is he even asked il he can read
The requirements Of initiation are sim
pie. He is FIRST required to say that he
wishes to become member oil the
.'seyen ArcherS," apd il admitted will
obey the orders Of his superiors. Next
and finally, he is asked ii he has gun.
;..n",,;on ~ ,Ls committee. II not he ia
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