The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-11
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ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO
An Insulting Proclamation by
KaIlOck-AIs is Peace Ola
The Pacific.

Z. an Insulting Proclamation b.
1t KaIlOck-AIs IS Peace On
/ The Pacific.
Is San Francitco, 9.-Mayor Ralloch ha
?, issued a proclamation which will
published IN the morning papers 8
is follows:
1 deem it my duty to the city owe
whose welfare l have been called to pre-
side, and to the public at large, which
being UNANIMOUSLY deceived by incendiar.
misrepresentation as to our situation, Il
declare in the most emphatic and publi
manner that there Is not aud never ha
been the slightest reason to apprehenC
any distur bance, riot or lawlessness. l
trouble comes to US it will not come from
them. The most inexcussble and out
7 | rageOus means are being used by de-
, signing men to goad them into riotous
. demonstrations, but they will fail. They
ara as they have proved themselves 10 be
under the most trying prOvocation, the
lawabiding and peace preserving portion
If our population. l say to the " GRID for
them that they will so continue and l
further declare, however people abroad
may be imposed upon, that the people
OF this city see through all the trans
parent humbuggery of military inter-
ference, police increase and inhammatory
circulars, and will wait their constitu-
tional day of Judgment to peaceably but
effectively consign their authors to the
political infamy and oblivion which they
most r chlY deserve.
1. S. KALLoCH, mayor.
New York, 1O.-The California dele
cation in Congress held a consultation
last night for the purpoLe of deciding
whether they had better communicate
with the President in regard to the present
condition of affairs in San Francisco.
There was very little support of the
| theory that the United States could inter
fere with troops, upon the ground Of
duty to afford protection to Chinese under
our treaty obligations. 1t was decided to
let the matter of calling on the President
go for the present
The San says another danger signal is
hung out at San Francisco in the revival
of the vigilance committee. True, the |
organization does not take It's old name.
preferring to be known as the Citizens |
Protective Union. True, also, its mem |
bers have not as yet hanged anybody, or |
supplanted the lawful authorities, but it |
Is a vigilance committee none the less.
The Tribune has nothing on the San |
Francisco manifesto, but in another
article says: The more we look into the |
California troubles the slighter appears |
to be The excuse for the alarming devel- |
opment of Kearneyism The real cause |
of the disturbance Is found in the reck-
less and speudthrift habit of the people |
who have run the career of speculation |
and extravaganza, and, having reached |
the unavoidable period Of collapse, find
it hard now to be saving and indus
trious. They lay their embarrassments,
now TO eXactIng corporations, and now
to competing Chinese. But there is no
proof that corporations are earning any
thing more than the legitimate profit on
their operations, while they are certainly
enabling the people to make money if
they choose to work; and as for Chinese
competition, it is formidable to sand lots,
not because the Celestials are cheap, but
because they are steady and reliable.
"Chinese cheap labor" is de-
fusion. 1t seems TO be imag-
med that the ''moon-eyed leper"
works for a few cents day and lives on
rice. On the contrary, he obtains fair
wages. shout as high as those ordinary
laborers and servants Of the east, and he
lays up money. When the agitators
have driven him out of the state, they
will no! be improved by the operation,
and In the end they will be glad to take
the pay On which John Chinaman
thrives.
The Herald says: Chinese servants are
in demand in New York. Poor Kear-
ney. Is this what ''the Chinese must go"
policy results in to Celestials.
San Francisco, 10.-The Call, this |
morning, without any direct reference TO
the proclamation of the vigilance COM
mittee, dissuades the community from |
any violent measures, rs unnecessary to
either party.
The Chronicle strongly commends the
YlgIlant organization, and intimates that |
the first blow should be struck at the |
leaders of the agitators, and not the rank
and file.
The ALta scouts at the necessity of the |
concentration of troops here, holding that |
the vigilance committee is amply able to |
cope with the sand lot, and concludes; |
Let US have peace, and we mean to have |
it, inside the law if we can, outside if we |
must. 1t also denounces the mayors |
proclamation as an insult to the people.
Chicago, 10.-InteT-O ced7l'S editorial !: |
Dispatches from San Francisco announce |
that The substantial portion of the COM
munity, representing the solid business
interests and industrial classes, have re-
VOTED against the domination of Denis
Kearney and kindred spirits of the sand
lots. These gentry, who have counseled
violence, and who, while carefully hold
ing themselves aloof, have directed the
organization of armed bodies among
their followers, are now confronted by q
counter that evidently will
| fight if fighting is necessary. The terror
ism that has been attempted In San
Francisco manifestly will not be tsmely
| tolerated. The experience of the sub
slant al part of the community in Kidding
| the city, by means of the historic vigl-
| lance committee, of the rule of rattian-
ism, has not been forgotten. When
threatened with violence and incendiarlsm
the community knows how to defend
| itself. Such, manifestly, i the signifcs-
ton of the organization of the Cltizens'
Pro. ective Union. That it will have the
effect, by the very fact of its existence, to
insure public peace, seems most probable.
That it will proceed TO any initiative
measures, such as forcing keaTney to
quit California, which is intimated, may
be set down as highly improbable. But
a few days more must develop the out
come of the situation, which can hardly
longer be maintained as at present
New York, 10.-The EUening Tete-
gram, commenting on the manifestoes,
says: Now, at length, San Francisco S
society perceives that a community is an
organization of which one member eau
not suffer without affiiction to all the rest.
The effects of its hoodlumism have come
home TO roost. The cowardice of lis re-
epectsbility has brought dishcnOr upon
, American civilization.
The Post thinks it is plainly only az
: other way ofsaying that neither now mol
for twenty-five years have the local otficer
elected in San Francisco been what they
should be. If these officers had been o.
were now what they should be thert
would have been no need for either {
vigilance committee or protective
union. Society may be defended in 1850
as it was in 1856, by an expedient whost
illegality may be excused by its necessity
But the expedient must always be pro
nounced to be deplorable one. that set
, outside OF acts independently of law.
The Commercial says all this mean
one thing, and one thing only, and tina
! is a fixed resolution to put down hood
. lumism and Kesrneyism, by any mean
it may be found necessary to employ
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