The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-03
A vER1rABLg PIRED.


H., who talks SO gIibly in our tele-
graphic columns. this morning, aboni
the murd erous business in which he
is engaged. Grove is making infer
nal machines Win which to blow up
English ships. He Is an Irishman
and, with others Of bis countrymen,
lakes this method of fighting the
English because Of their alleged op
pressions of bis country. He boast
that those associated with him have
already DESTROYED government prog
'erty worth ESQ, 900, 900, and says they
are bent on continuing their nefari.
GUS work until they bring England
ito terms" He admits that limo
cent people will have to be killed, and
speaks of the affair as coolIy as il be
were talking about a trap to catch
mice, or an invention for the destrue-
ton of vermin. Back of this muir.
derous rascal are the sgitator O'Don-
oVsn Rosa, and and few other self
appointed leaders, who should be
made to keep him com papy in what
ever punishment is inflicted. They
are conspiring against the lives of
American citizens, and even
if their intended victims we're
not Americans. humanity would
demand the interference of the
public authority to restrain such
men. America is a broad country,
but it is too narrow TO supply homes
to these murderous foreigners who
come here to put their he!lish plans
into operation. AttorEey.General
Mac Vesgh also takes this view Of the
case. and says be will find law for
the Groves harmless, when,
ever be can discover them. Ifthere
is no statute in the books to apply to
such case, there is at least an un-|
written law, law that every honest
man feels IN his own breast, that will
assert itself with righteous effect upon
I'll persons found conspiring against
he lives and property of the iuuo-
cent. Ireland may have cause for
complaint; she undoubtedly has,
md America is full OF sympathy TOR
ler and her cause. But the Grove aud
Rosa mode of combating the evil
not such as will be approved by the |
lonest but doWn-trodden Irishmen
himself. Nor will any true Ameri-
an, whatever may De his feelings to
7aEd Great Britain, sanction or sp.
'lsud the wicked, the heinous scheme
Or fighting the alleged oppressor of
be Irish. II the Grove sentinen.
preads to any considerable extent.
would be an easy method 20
rganize a know.nothing party
nat would make the for
ign socialists, nihilists, communists
nd agitators hide from the wrath oil
1e American multitude, and there
fter steer clear OF our shores. The
suggests tn at il Rus
ia wants the would-be ASSASSIN Of the
Ear, who arrived at New York last
Teek, Sue can have him. It is hoped
nat Russia does want the fellow and
ill ask for his surrender. Il is time
n example was made. 1t is time
lat steps we're taken to inform the
lack hearted and bloody handed rev
Iutionists and asasssins OF the old
'orld, that America must not be
lade rendezvous for them; that
ley need not come here expecting
money and protection
lille they are concocting schemes
revolution murder and
illsge. The United States
ave the ability for producing ell the
,gues they require. The nation has
o occasion for going abroad for
nmsn material of this character. 6
nd if we cannot shut out the
rDonOVan Rossas, the Hartmanns
nd the Groves, without also exoiud.
lg the honest but down-trodden poor
the east, then let our ports be-
Iosed against immigration ano the
ountry live and grow within herself.
he arrest of the Peoria villain will
robably occasion howl of prosecu-
on on the part OF his associates in
rime, bat it will be a hewl that can
nd an echo in few American hearts.
there were no law for his punish
lent popular sentiment would de.
Isre in favor of swinging him to q
3legraph pole; bat if there be law.
len the popular voice is in favor of /