The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-11
TELEGRAPHIC
ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO
An Insulting Proclamation by
2aEIOch-AIl is Peace On
The Pacific.


+ The Pacific.
IS San FranciJco, 9.-Mayor Kalloch hi
r, issued a proclamation which will
published in the morning papers s
is follows:
1 deem it my duty to the city ovt
whose welfare have been called to pr
side, and to the public at large, which
being UNANIMOUSLY deceived by incendiar
misrepresentation as to our situation,
declare in the most emphatic and publ
manner that there IS not aud never b.
been the slightest reason to apprehen
any disturbance, riot or lawlessness. ]
trouble comes to US it will not come fror
them. The most inexcuszble and out
7 rageOus means are being used by de
, signing men to goad them into riOtou
3 | demonstrations, but they will fail. The,
ara as they have proved themselves 10 b
under the most trying proVocation, thu
lawabiding and peace preserving portion
Cf our population. say to the " orld TO
them that they will so continue and
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 bu;
effectively consign their authors to the
political infamy and oblivion which they
most 7. chilly deserve.
l. S. KALLoCH, mayor.
New York, 1O.-The California dele
cation in Congress held consultation
last night for the purpose of deciding
whether they had better communicate
with the President in regard to the present
| condition of affairs Ia 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 lis old name
preferriDg 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 spendthrift 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,
no! because the Celestials are cheap, but
because they are steady and reliable.
"Chinese cheap labor" is a de-
fusion. 1t seems TO be imag-
ined that the ''moon-eyed leper"
works for a few cents day and lives on
rice. Ga 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 soon find that their own condition
will not be improved by the operation,
and IN the end they will be glad to take
the pay On which John Chinamsn
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
vlgllant organization, and intimates that
the first blow should be struck at the
leaders of the agitators, and not the rank
and file.
The Altd 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;
ct US have peace, and we mean to have
1t, inside the law if we can, outside If we
must. 1t also denounces the mayors
proclamation as an insult TO the people.
Chicago, 10.-Ilter- Oceans 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 a
reorganization 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 vigil
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 signiics-
ton of the organization OF the Citizens
Protective Union. That it will have the
effect, by the very fact Of its existence, tc
insure public peace, seems most probable
That it will proceed TO any initiative
measures, such as forcing hearney t.
quit California, which Is intimated, may
be set down as highly improbable. Bu
few days more must develop the out
come Of the situation, which can hardly
longer be maintained as at present
New York, 10.-The EUeni7lg Tete
gram, commenting on the manifestoes
says: Now, at length, San francisco
society perceives that a community is al
organization of which one member car
not suffer without affiiction to all the rest
The effects of its hoodlumism have com
home TO roost. The cowardice of is r5
z epectsbility has brought dishcnOr upoi
o ! American civilization
The Post thinks it is plainly only ar
: other way ofsaying that neither now nc
for twenty-five years bavethe local officer
elected in San Francisco been what the
should be. If these officers had been {
were now what they should be thel
would have bsen no need for either
vigilance committee or q protectiv
union. Society may be defended In 1885,
as it was in 1856, by an expedient who:
illegality may be excused by its necessity
But the eXpedient must always be pr
nounced to be deplOrable one, that Sc
, outside or acts Independently of law.
The Commercial says sill this meal
one thing, and one thing only, aud thi
; is a fixed resolution to put down hoo
= lumism and Kesrneyism, by any meal
it may be found necessary to employ
California is scared. There is no long
~ a question about it, Capital Is beiT
n withd avn, the mining interest has begI
tn contra in New York and a pener