The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-26
MUZZLE THEM.

J. P. Ducey, of Chicago, is either
working a pig bluff, or he is bidding for
a position on the scafold with his
brother Anarchists who are soon to go
to another world by the rope route.
The Socialists held meeting in Chicago
on Sunday afternoon, when Ducey was
the chief orator" and in the course of
his speech sex ms to have denounced
everything that suggested law and
order. Ee insOlently attacked judge
Gary, before whom the Anarchists
were tried, and said that eff Jesus
Christ we're brought before Judge
Gary he would be convicted, Just as
were those other ChrIsts now in JAIL"
AS matter Of course this sacriIegious
outburst was appIauded by the mob
present. Then Ducey went a little
further, and declared that 1.-The present
course of this government must be
stopped, if We have to take it. by the
throat and choke out its foul life."
Freedom of speech is something
that the people are loath to see
abridged, and the republican masses
will prOpably never assent to measures
for closing the mouths of men who de-
sire to harangue those who will listen
70 them but in the light OF the recent
rspid growth and intensified bitterness
of the doctrines of anarchism in this
country, the question may be asked if
j. would not be safer and better to muz-
zle such men as Ducey, or punish them
severely for their revolutionary utter
ances, as q warning to others, and es-
pecially to the ignorant and foolhardy
who are so easily excited and led into
wrong-doing. 1t is frequently the talk
that does the mischief. In December
seven men are to be hung in Chicago,
for the murders committed in the Hay-
market riot It is doubtful if either of
these seven were directly guilty of kill
ing anybody. Their own hands are not
dyed in blood, but their tongues
are reeking. The doomed men
did the talking and writing. They ex-
cited and melted the rabble to do the
murders. Parsons and his worthy pals
would not go out on the street and
shoot down policemen; they are too
cunning for that, and too cowardly;
but they would hsrangue the ignorant
and thoughtless, and teach the latter
that they have been griev Jusly
wronged and should revenge themselves
by killing the representatives of the
power and authority which had done
them injury. If it had not been for the
sanguinary speeches and incendiary
teachings of the condemned Anarchists
no bombs would have be- ! exploded at
the Haymarket.
II Ducey shall be allowed to continue
his revolutionary utterances, another
Hsymarket affair Will certainly be the
result. To avoid that, would it not be
wise to check him before he has had
time to bring his ignorant dupes up to
the poiRt where they can do murder?
As to Ducey himself, he is assuredly
running along the course which ter
inmates on the scsffold. 1t would be
mercy to him to stop him now, before
the attempt is made Ito choke out the
foul life" Of the government. We are
inclined to believe the man is an arrant
coward, as well as a knave. Like Herr
Most, who is doing pennance on Black
Wells Island, New York, Ducey would
probably run at the first appearance of
danger. Brave men, who are honest in
their utterances and ready to face the
consequences of their teachings, do not,
as q rule, boast Of what they propose to
say and do. They do not, as he did,
threaten to do so and so ''in front OF
gattling gun, and with a rope around
his neck" A policeman's uniform is
bristIing all over with terrors TO such
braggarts as be. He is brave with his
mouth, but should be punished for his
cowardice.