The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-28
TELEGRAPHIC
CALIFORNIA.
How the Situation is Viewed
in the East,

in the East.
New York, 27.-The Herald says:
The news from San Francisco for the last
three days has an ugly and threatening
look. The alarm of the best classes OF
citizens is attesied by the fact that they
have held secret meeting to discuss the
expediency Of organizing a vigilance
| committee. The phrase, "yigilance
COMMITTEES" hiss memorable significance
IN the history Of San Francisco. We
would fam hope there is no necessity for
q vigilance committee now, although the
municipal government, is again con-
trolled by the scum of the population.
The situation of California was very diff
ferent then from what it is at present.
San Francisco was then separated by q
journey Of months from federal succor or
support, and only deperate local remedies
could be applied to the deperate local dis
ease. If federal assistance should be ne
cessary It is within comparatively easy
reach since the completion of the Pacific |
railroads. Citizens are justified in being |
law unto themselves" only in the /
absence of other means of redress Still, |
we must not hastily condemn the confer
ence to consider whether a vigilance
committee is not again necessary. The
brutal sand lot agitators are acting under
color of law. They made the conquest
Of the city government at the last cleo
lion, and a reckless Board of Health has
decided the Chinese quarter nuisance.
This is, of course, a dishonest abuse Of
power.
The Tribune says There would be
title reason to fear violence of kearney
lubs in San Francisco if there were any
onfdence in the municipal authorities
The men who are talking about the !
uilottine and torch do not belong to The |
working class; they are men who Will !
Ot work; who clamor at the doors of the -
ldustrous for a hot meal, and then as .
emble at the sand lots to demand the u
angling of those who fed them; who y
ann the Cinnamon because he demands u
.bor by working too cheap. ETC.; damn y
le capitalist because he degTades the l.
.borer by expecting him to work at all.
hey are loathesOmo parasites who live
pom the real working man, but unfor-
Inately Workingmen were deluded into
lining hands with them last year, and y
1t enIy adopting their crazy constitution, al
1t entrusting the preservation of the 81
lblic peace to their candidates for office | IL
he consequences may easily become IL
ssstrous. An attack upon capital p
'uld only have one result, and that m
as come even sooner than any l
,dy anticipated. Money is leaving b
e state. While the rest OF the country lie
in the flush of prosperity, trade brisk, W
sges rising and every mill busy, the al
reefs of San Francisco are crowded with "
business enterprises of all ID
nds are checked, rich men are moving q
way and taking their money with them. u
ne hoodlum has not yet learned what 70 q
G rest of the world has known for ages, CT
at capital is timid and when it is ni
pressed it runs away. a great part of g
3 wealth which has sustained the in te
lstTy OF California has already come u
OK, and even the poor are drawing CO
cir money out of savings banks. The qe
pletion will go on while Kesrneyism is y
lowed to make laws and to rule decent u
There is already talk of ne
Viving The old vigilant committee. hs
as such Il desperate and 0J
expedient would be in the IN
y, which is certainly old enough and III
III organized enough TO govern itself by w
gal methods, it would not be at all on
rprising to find substantial citizens I'll
proving the scheme if the excuses of
} sand lot ruffiAns are carried much
-ther; but We believe there is simpler
cans of restoring order. Kearney and
followers have obtained their power
" by the coWardice of the more re- oc
ectable classes. They would soon be
t down if the true workingmen and ca
nest people Of other occupations would W
nd loyalty and bravely together
pecting demagoguism and insisting yo
on equal Justice for all. There are not sp
,l-Tpo- avid of r11rrnlg on6 / IL
on the part of San Fran kI
ncisco citizens, which we trust will be
nerally initiated. tol
San Francisco, 27.-Last night was u
ceptionally quiet. Workingmen held
meetings except a few minor ward ma
ID gatherings as is customary, and the ST
pers this morning are almost bare nj
news in connection with the agitation, We
hough Astounding in editorials on the OF
beet, the general tenor of which is
pressive of confidence in the preserVs- sci
n of peace. u
Chicago, 27.-The I1lter-O Ocean edi- at
-ial, after fully reviewing matters in
n Francisco, says, the people in San Al
ancisco are reported as very much gu
cited. If there is q conflict at sll it is DO
ely in the present state of public feel vo
: to be serious one; but some years M
0 citizens of San Francisco organized co
clear the local atmosphere and sue re
,ded so well that they msy safely be Of
trusted with the management at present
,uble. In case of q serious outbreak
vernment would order out the militia
d possibly the President might order
lited States troops TO protect the Chi Fl
Sc against a law-defying mob. While ia
3 people of California are uncOmpTo- re
smgly hostile to Chinese immigration, Pi
is not fair to conclude that they will
courage or sustain the action limited at co
Kearney. The questions now claim W
2 consideration in California demand al
e best thoughts of her wisest men, and of
ey cannot be settled in day, nor by ST
Y gang of hOt-heads. Behind those of 70
ecial significance TO California, are b.
hers in which the people of the whole G
untry have direct interest, and be- j
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