St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-02
REsPoNsIBILIrY FOB THE RIOT.

In the various estimates of the outbreak
in Cincinnati there are many which prove
that an election is pending. There is, es-
pecially among the Republican newspapers,
an effort to palliate the outrage and make it
some other than the monstrous and bloody
riot that it really is. They tell us that it was
the perversion of justice by the jury that re-
fused to hang boy of seventeen years of
age. They say it is the fault of the judicial
system, that it is the fault of the militia, in
fine it is the fault of
everything except of the mob that
has carried on the attack and that has
brought such woe and shame upon one of
the oldest and most respected cities of the
country. There is a general election ap-
preaching and there is desire on the part of
the papers referred to to hurt nobody's feel
ings. They desire to assign the blame to
things, to systems, to something which has
no vote.
While it may be granted that the
inception was due to indignation over the
failure of a jury to administer justice, they
wholly omit the condemnation of the real
NaooO Vi ehC CAICHolOu VI OuIDlCdh III thC
pitiful reason that they fear the truth may
damage party prospects. The reading of the
names of thekilled and wounded throws
vast light on the character of
the riot and the composition of the mob.
Ten-twelfths of them are of the class known
as socialists, which means that they are COM
munists. The outset of the emeute may have
owed its principal cause to the indignation
of citizens at what they honestly believed to
be an outrage on justice, but if such be the
fact the continuation of the outbreak had no
point in common with its beginning. The
moment it was apparent that there
was disorder-that there was OPP
portunity for robbery, destruction
and murder, the communistic elements
swarmed to the front. The condition of the
city was one in which they found themselves
at home. For years the socialists of Chicago,
Cincinnati, and other large cities have threat
ened just such visitations. A thousand times
have they boldly announced that they in
tended to turn the streets of the great cities
into channels flowing with the blood of men
who have the temerity to save their earnings
and live upon their accumulations. If further
proof were needed that the work in
Cincinnati is that of communists, it can be
found in the assertions of Schwab, of
New York, and other leaders in the socialistic
agitation. He asserts positively that it is the
movement of labor against capital. He pal
liates it, he excuses it, he announces that it
is but the beginning of a movement of flame
and blood which is to inundate the cities of
the east.
Did any one hear of communard in this
country before it fell into the possession of
the pestiferous party now in power,
with its teachings of ''higher law?'
Was such thing as communism, with its
bloody hand, and its murderous intent known
in this country anterior to the seizure of the
government by the party now in possession
of it? No. Communism, dynamiters, social
ism in its avowed phases Of robbery and as
sassination have all come into existence I'M
der Republicanism and have been fostered
by it. until now, when they have reached di-
mansions which threaten another struggle as
deadly as that of 1861, to free ourselves from
this new tyranny. Every man who is a
communist and in favor of cutting the Threats
of capitalists and of open robbery and univer-
sal sack and devastation as means of equal
izing social conditions, is Republican and
votes blindly at the behest of his party.
These men have been fostered into their
present growth by the patronage and the
teachings of the Republican party, and it is
to that party that we owe the very monopolies
against which these rascals have taken up
arms, and those class distinctions
which these wretches say they
are aiming to obliterate. There
is a species of savage satisfaction in
this condition of things in the fact that the
Republican element, whose latitude of opin-
ion and action has given these assassins ex-
istence and growth, is the element which has
created the very monopolies and swollen
corporations against which these marauders
are whetting their knives and lighting their
torches for purposes Of incendiarism.
1t will be a fatal mistake if the people of
this country try to pass off this outbreak as a
mere local occurrence, having no other
purpose than an endeavor to
correct the verdict of a corrupt jury.
The Berner trial is simply the occasion of
an outbreak of socialism and not at all its
cause If is to be feared that it is not the last
of it. The old simplicity of the country has
disappeared, the land is full of the gsoueaug
riches fellows who have grown wealthy from
shoddy contracts, from shares in the credit
mobilier rascality, from the theft of the public
domain, from the tinkerings of the govern
ment in finance, from redundant taxation,
and from thousand other sources which
would not have had an existence had not the
present dominant party come into power.
The remedy for this state of things should
be at the ballot box; but the Louisiana re-
turning board, the ELECTORAL commission and
nation may be robbed of its rights, and that
dependence on the ballot box is not an as
sured remedy. There is reason to believe
that the remedy against encrouching social
ism must be more severe than can be ap-
piled through the medium of votes. The
Republicans were instrumental in securing
the freedom of the African slaves, but they
have given us socialism which is a tyranny
infinitely more detestable and injurious than
African slavery. The first step to the remov.
al of the sociaistic evil is the removal of the
element which has invited its presence and
fostered its growth.
CURRENT COMMENT.
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