The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-10
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
THE TRIUMPH OF LAW AND or
DER

THE TRIUMPH OF LAW AND Or
DER.
The whole country is rejoicing over
the fact that the Chicago anarchists
are TO be hanged. The conviction and
execution of these outlaws will be the
greatest triumph which law and order
ever achieved in America over an-
archy aud communism. Three years ago
the popularity which Dennis Kearney
achieved while flaming through the
country preaching anarchy ard
communism alarmed the American
people as to the psrmanency Of our in
stitutions. But Kearney was driven
into obgcuri'y, end whenever he at
tempts 10 make his appearance again
before the public he is exec ated and
hoOted down by those he deluded and
who once applaudsd his u'terauces.
The late riots originating in the labor
troubles gave the anarchists pretext
for the necessity of enforcing their
damnable teachings, and in Chicago
they made the first at empt to pre-
cipitate the country into bloody
war. The ignominious failure
aud the certain execution OF
the outlaws is a proclamation
10 the world that In America ansrch-
isis and communicates must surely
die, and that our institutions cannot
be shaken by lazy vsgabonds who
hope to profit by substituting anarchy
Tor law. The very speeches which the
condemned Chicago anarchists mEde
on Thursday last in vindication OF
themselves, prove most Conclusively
that the sentence is righteous one,
and that they ought to be hanged as
murderers and ouilawr. They inau-
gurAted the riot, either directly or
indirectly, which eliminated in the
death of seven persons and the wound
ing OF many more. After careful
examination OF all the facts, the YER
dict Of the jury is that for crimes so
benious and cowardly they ought to
die. The public sentiment of the
country, with singular upauimity, in
dorses the verdict. All such mis-
creants will hereafter be promptly ar
raigned and speedily executed. These
doomed acoundrels came TO this coun-
try constituting liberty to mean license
and deliberately set to work
10 make other men earn the bread
they ats. A man with that idea in
his heart can be put to no better use
than TO be hanged. Government, If
1t means anything, means punishment
Tor everything proposed by the an
archisis. Our institutions offer 10
every man an honest working chance
to better his condition, to 90 forward
from dependence 10 independence.
But the anarchists rail sgainst capital,
against the rich and against the law
and precipitate murierous revolu-
ton to destroy the Institutions which
protect property. The fact that near
ly every large fortune in this country
has been accumulated by men who
began life that compelled the earning
Of each days bread beforeit WIS eaten
proves that our laws and customs
are moulded in kindness to
labor. If some men have
gone on from the necessity Of daily
wsge eSrniug toll to the ownership OF
great wealth, 1t is evidsnt all men
have also chance, by thrift and tenn
perance, TO achieve the same wealth.
The anarchists take the position that
all lich men are robbsrs and therefore
upiustly rich and ought to be forced to
disgoTge. But these outlaws forget that
they are unjus'ly poor because they
refuse to work and economics as did
the men whose wealth they propose
to appropriate. When the Chicsgo
GU laws are seen dangling from the
gallows the whole county will breathe
freer and deeper. Their conviction
has strengthened our institutions as
did the civil war between the States,
az il is notice served on vagabonds
that the penalty for a war on society,
law and order is death.