The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-13

KEARNEY.
His Arrest Generally Ap.
prOVed-The BEGINNING
OF the EnG.

New York, 12.-The Herald says of
Kearney: The arrest of this blatant
fOul-mOuthed incendiary at his breakfa
table, yesterday morning, attests the
vigor which has been infused into the ad-
ministration of justice in San Francisco
by the Citizens Protective Union, which
is the name assumed by the new vigilance
committee. In San Francisco a vig1-
lance committee, Wh4teYer title it may
deem it expedient t. take, Is q thing of
power.
Of Kalloch's proclamation, the Herald
says: Behind his cloud of buster, it was
| essy 10 see that the terrified Kalloch had
completely backed down, and that he
was trying to raise a tremendous dust to
cover his retrea His gTote que lies, his
air OF affrOntery, bis brazen danials that
the hoodlums had ever contemp slated any
violence, his ridiculous buucombe and
swagger, did not concesl the fact that
the hoodlums ba1 been forced by their
| fears tO,make "a change of base" and
that the sole anxiety of the cowsrdly
Kalloch was to get out of the dangerous
serape without confessing his consterna-
ton. He INDUCED in stall talk" because |
in this co1ntry speech is free, and he |
thought an air of bravadO would conceal |
the white feather.
Coming back 90 Kearney, thu Herald |
continues: His brGwling profanity has /
always been against law, but as he had |
never been hsuled up for indulging in
it, he thought it safe 10 do what he had
done hundreds of times before. he was
too ignorant to know that he was yio-
lating law and making himself liable to
arrest and punishment. The creation of
a new vigilance committee is at least q
guarantee that all legal measures against
vile hoodlum incendiaries will be
adopted and enforced up to the extreme ,
limit of the law. This is q good sign.
kearney's attempt to cover his COW {
ardice by impudent- and profane bra I
vado has taught him that there is a limit :
even to freedom of speech, which this
ignorant agitstor supposes from his ex-
Derience might safely pass all bounds of
lecency ana run riot in the widest e1-
RENE of profanity, blasphemy, obscenity I
md threats against the lives of citizens 7
whom he might choose to point out to
lis followers by Bame as objects of ven q
,eahce. We congratulate San Francisco L
N the vigor and good effects Of its new
-igilance committee.
The Herald, in another article on
Aearney, says: He has inflicted incalcul-
bic damage upon the state and city, but
10 class suffers more at his hands than |
he men whose we'll being he processes
D have so much at heart. Take for
Instance, only one branch Of business, 81
be building interest According to state
lents of leading architects of San Fran
isco, building enterprises which would
ave involved the expenditure ofmillions
{ dollars have been suspended because
{ the sand lot agitation. The result is |
nat carpenters, mssons and painters who
'ould be at work to-day at fair wages
re in an enforced condition OF idleness. -:
10 one, of course, would be insane h
neugh to put up buildings while howl
e mob is marching through the streets
to fire the city and reduce it
ashes.
w. G. b. Smart, of Boston, lectured p
ere before the Labor Lyceum last night =
] the impending crisis of our ciViliza- al
on, in which he said: The true socialist =
lould oppose the greenbaek party aRd
len like Kearney.
The HerdLd'S San Francisco special n
Lys: Regarding the arrest of Kearney,
j interested in San Francisco nay rest
:sured that the beginning Of the end has
)me.
San Francisco, II. = Everything is
cry quiet tonight There is q number :
: ordinary meetings of workingman's =
ard clubs at which the Citizens Pro-
ctive Union and the arrest of hearney =
ere VIGOROUSLY denounced. 1t is not I
orned that Kaarnoy attended any OF d
'elIi. Tie executive committee of the e.
Mon is id to have held meeting 81
Iring the day but nothing is known of 8
lie proceedings. a.
Chicago, II. -TTi6atne'S editorial: 3
ationce with Denis Kearney has ceased Il
, be a virtue on the part of decent people
f San Francisco, and the sand lot
was arrested on the charge of z
lisdemeanor based on his violent
arangue at meeting of workingmen
st Tuesday night. He was afterwards 7
,leased on bail. 1t is to be hoped on
le hearing of the case, Denis will be q
,tired to the privacy of an apartment IN q
le San Francisco jail. @;