Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-02-18
THE ASSASsIN'S AIMING.

THE aSSASSIN'S AnmlNG.
Ii is now definitely known that the
| years of wild mouthings and frenzied
| howlings of socialists and anarchists
| have crystalized into organization.
! The revelations made by Philadel.
| phia paper, one of the staff of which
became a member of the organization
| for the purpose of exposure, are start
ling In Chicago Buffalo, New York,
San Francisco and Pittsburg the de-
siructionists have armed bodies now
drilling, and supplied with dynamite
bombs and other means of terrorism.
The proclamation of " Revolution" is
given in full aud is bloody enough to
| satisfy the most morbid radical among
the socialists. In brief, it is proposed
at a given hour, not later than three
years, and possibly within week from
this date, to rise and kill and burn
promiscuously. The conspiraors
count upon large numbers of unem,
ployed workmen joining their ranks,
so soon as the first blow is struck, and
probably This is n safe speculation.
They will certainly be recruited by he
| criminal classes, Tor the hope of plum
der will be sufficient inducement for
| them. The scheme is to Kill off Gov
ernors, Presidents and officials gener.
ally; to blow up and blot out rich men
and destroy their property; 10 seize
upon the goods of every one who has
something, and make a grand divide
among those who have nothing; to
declare the obligation to pay void, and
10 quarter those having. no houses in
the homes of those who have. 1t is
distinctly stated that prime purpose
is to destroy all existing forms of Gov
eminent, and substitute the rule of the
.Socialistic Army, with its headquarters
in Fifty. first street, New York.
1t passes comprehension that in
country so favored as the United States
OF America, such schemes ofruin and
mad rule can find supporters. But
they have probably between three and
four hundred thousand adherents, with
a capacity to mass between sixty and
seventy Thousand of them under arms.
Of course, Id crush such mob, will
not be a herculean task to fifty hive
millions of people, but to restore the
country to its normal condition, after
such shock, will be IL serious and
most weighty task 1t is difficult to
forecast The injury to the land, II once
these murderous foreign gangs attempt
to carry out their mad conspiracy
against the best and happiest con-
| ditons under which men dwell in any
nation under the sun. Heretofore we
have reposed trust in the conservatism
and patriotic spirit of the American
npnnip and xyb Ia xra ct; II finn. n boca
elements of safety and liberty, we
note the fact that not a few naliye-horn
Americans have been drawn into these
anarchical schemes of murder and
mob confiscallon. 1t is, after all, best
that the conflict came now; indeed, we
entertain the sincere hope that the
anarchists will strike now and not
wait tor The three years limit. They
will be the more easily and speedily
| handled, and the country sooner freed
OF The vermln. When they undertake
to break up the best and freest Gov
ernment OF any age, and 10 undermine
| the broadcast, most humane and per-
feet scheme Of human freedom and
! liberty u conscience ever known to
man, they will be gr ound to dust.
| There will be such dealing with them
as Will make the world shudder We
do not indulge in fanciful specuiations
when we anticipate the rise of counter
| organizations in support of law and
defense of republican forms and insti-
tutions of our fathers, who may in the
white heat OF their stern revenge, them
selves go to extremes and visit upon
innocent foreigners punishment for
| the sins OF the scum OF Europe, that
has hoated to our shores TO poison the
atmosphere of free country We
fear this. There are grave reasons for
the fear. A patient people, once
aroused are apt to become terrible in
their wrath The only possible way
to avert the danger is for the Govern
ment to take notice of threats and not
await overt acts. Ii the anarchists
! strickland we estimate their foolhard.
! mess at measurement that will lead
| them TO do so-thelr suppression will
be followed by narrowing of liber-
ties that have been seized upon as a
| license to DESTROY the system under
which liberty is guaranteed. In that
crcumscriblng we shall all suffer
some restrictions, and out of this agi
I tsatiV'f II - Hipb1tlt VII III lSS u
party, demanding stronger govern
ment, which may be taken to mean
demand for more centralized power,
less responsible to the people for the
right of exercise than now. Such con.
temptation Is by no means pleasant to
those who believe IN The American
system, but It's realization. let us re.
member, Is not at all impossible. If
the Republic has the strength and de.
termination to prove very early to
these plotters against peace, homes and
prosperity that 1t wears mail beneath
its glove of silk, there may be an end
of these fellows in the very birth
throes of their raid upon property.
But If we temporize with them, and
fear to trench upon the right TO assem-.
BILE and OF free speech, we shall prob.
ably have 10 gather the harvest with
the bayoneIs OF "a citizen soldiery, and
to bind the sheayes with enactments
never contemplated in the scheme of
the Republic, and not consistent with