The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-03
WHAT HALsrEAD HAS TO SAY.


Mr.. Murat Halstead, of the CONNER
cial- Gazette editorially commented on
the situation Monday morning as fol.
lows:
"The reign of terror. The character of
the rioters on Saturday night had mani
festly changed, and changed, as is the
inevitable result of laWlessness, for the
worst. The first night the fore
most men IN the expression of the
violent indignation that prevailed were
workingmen, and the statements
that were made of the public wrongs
possessed q rude eloquence and even
pathos that commanded at once sympa-
thy and respect. The second night the
element of civil disorder which has
been threatening in the great cities for
some time appeared and We had some
thing that closely TesembIed the Paris
Commune, and the application OF pe.ro
leum 70 the court house was like
the burning of the Tuilleries. If
the first nights rioting could have end
ed with the hanging of half dozen of
the clear cases of murderers confined in
the jail, we should have had peace Sat
urd&y night, and the court house would
have been saved. The jail was desper-
ately defended to the last moment, after
it had been assailed for hours and the
mob had been hammerIng at the
cells of the murdereFs. The lament
able bloodshed that followed was the re-
suit OF lack of organization on both
sides. II the mob had been Or
ganiZed the murderers could have been
captured without the loss Of life II
the forces of order had been under com
petent direction from the first the public
s.-H.N -
without serious bloodshed. Mistake
followed mistake. The Music
hall meeting was a mistake and il was
a mistake that the law and order ele-
ment did not see the danger and prevent
the demonstration that became disaster.
The whole city well know how to find
the responsibility tor the great calamity
that has befallen this communicative
responsibility for the rampancy of crime,
the shame of the bunko business, the
congestion of murder, but the city must
not be allowed to perish TO cure the dis
ease. The barn must not be harmed TO
drive away the rats. Although the con
Migration of the court house look s
much like that very thing.
The court house Is gone, but the muir
derers are not. The hideoUs little muir
derer, BeTner, Is secluded in the peni-
Tertiary, while the ambnlances run
bloody to the hospitals What awful
slble solution. It is that the observa-
ton of the law must be insisted upon
and It's protection involved for all II
is poor folly to go on talking of taking
out and hanging the murderers. II
that could have happened informlly, SO
10 speak, Friday night, the righteous
wrath OF honest men at the mal-ad.
ministration of justice might have
accounted for it and there would have
been public sense of good thing done
But the same is changed There is but
one safety. 1t rs not a question of muir,
| derers now. 1t Is question OF sell
preservation. The murderers Will all be
hanged, never fear that There will be
abundant hanging. That is as inevitable
as the movements of the seasons. The
monkeyin at criminal trials is over fol
many a year. When the new court house
rises from the ashes there will be better
| atmosphere in it until the people again
forget themselves. Let us have organ
Ration.
Let the authorities come together
under the solemnitIes of the hour and
do their whole duty. There is a dozen
men in town who, If they had been in
| full command from the first of the seri
Gus trouble, could haye saved every
thing. There are old soldiers here. Tit
mob IS always terror, horror, a mad.
ness. II means massacre. The BLOOD
of the innocent flows in streams
where the guilty shed but {
drop. If a drop, it meani
destruction That men destroy thei
own, the desolation of the homes of thu
| poor widows and orphans; the terrible
taxation for no good returns-and jus
tice at all but ruin and misery. Why
should there be enmity toward the youni
men of military companies? They havl
! to obey orders. They are not Willingly
opposed in conflict to honest men
They are our kindred and oul
own flesh and blood, and they are EN-
ployed to protect men possessed of {
desperate and destructive spirit from
] themselves. We must have order
We cannot afford to lose tn
productive workipgmen, the tru
laboring men. The least of all, to max
the city a social chaos, and wilderness
| Of ruins.