Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1885-12-18
EASTERN PRESS COMMENTS
ON the Lately Discovered Dynam-
tie Plot mt san francisco.

PHILADELPHIA, December 1.-THE
League says: IAN four OF the dynam-
tiers arrested in San Francisco prove to
be foreigners who have lived but a short
time in the country. Finding the land
of the free extremely free, they immedi-
ately resolved that sonle other foreigners
of longer standing as Americans, and of
much better morality, would have to go;
and of snch is the dynamiting crusade
in the United States"
The Times says: at will be observed
that the names of the men arrested are
not of American or English ma
tionality. All belong to the
German speaking race. Their schemes
are in no sense the product OF our insti-
buttons, of which they evidently have
no understanding. They represent q
large class of wrongly educated oilers,
produced by the peculiar systems of
government and training in continental
Europe. They are a pestilent class on
whom American workmen would do well
to turn the cold shoulder. People like
these San Francisco dynamiters are in
finitely more dangerous to American in
dusiry than all the cheap labor ever i'm
ported. The pity is that there is no way
by which such dangerous fools can be
excluded from the country"
The New York Commercial says:
1.-THE blood-curdling news from San
Francisco does not appear to have had
H. fh Fria nf
dom" in this city, except in Socialistic
dens. The Commercial thinks there
was hearty satisfaction all over the
country at the tidings OF the discovery
of this nefarious plot to murder prom.
inent citizens of San Francisco.
In its leader, the Tribune, referring to
the reported discovery of the plot to
assassinate prominent citizens OF Cali.
fornia, says; "rhe story would
be less explicable and still more
surprising ii we did not know
that a premium has been put upon all
sorts of crankiness of late in San Fran
cisco by the implied Endorsement OF it
involved in the election of O'Donnell as
Coroner OF this city. As to the men
under arrest, they seem to be Germans
imbued with socialism. The list OF citi-
zsns prescribed by their society is, how
ever, enough to prove the utter unreason
and evilness of their plans, for, while
some of their intended victims have
been pronounced in their views on the
Chinese question, the majority are SIM
ply substantial citizens who have been
largely instrumental in bringing up
the State. Senator Leland Stanford
~ IS
doomed, because they are railroad men,
and partly because they object to letting
men like O'Donnell manage their bust
ness for them.
The Sun says editorially of the San
Francisco dynamite story; ut must be
A hoax. or else the ultra Socialists are
thugs and enemies of mankind, whom
society must drive out like venomous
beasts"
THE GRAND JURY TO ACT.
SAN Francisco, December Ibis.
trict Attorney Wilson will present the
entire matter of the dynamite plot to
the grand Jury and an effort will be
made to indict others known to Lave
been concerned in the affair besides the
prisoners, on charges OF conspiracy.
The grand jury Will meet tomorrow
afternoon and consider the facts brought
forward.
WHAT STANFORD THINKS.
WASHINGTON, December l7.-Senator
Leland Stanford stated to-day that he
knew of the existence of a band OF COM
munsts IN San Francisco, but he was
not at all afraid of them. With stout
walking stick he would not hesitate to
go anywhere about San Francisco at any
time of the night or day.
News of being one OF the condemned
amused Congressman Morrow, who does
not believe the Socialists in San Fran.
cisco have the courage to do what they
seem to have been studying theoreti-
eally. He believes they, like great
mauy other harmless terrorists, are more
deliberative than executive.