Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-07
AN ALARMED JURY.

AN ALARMED JURY.
The report of the United States Grand
Jury at Seattle is altogether remarkable
document. The jury asserts upon its
official oath that il has evidence of a
regularly organized body OF men with
headquarters in San Francisco, the pur-
poses and aims of which are to burn.
pillase and destroy This body has
branches, says the jury, extending iuris-
diction throughout the country so that the
whole land is affected by it. It's prin-
ciples, if we can dignity crime by such
word, arc essentially Anarchist, and its
ultimate hope is to overthrow the Govern
ment, and set up in its stead the rule of
human passion and desire, under the
sounding title of "The Socialistic Com
nlonwealth.' It's first purpose is to secure
the control Of the KNIGHTS of Labor, and
assuming that the jury has not been led
astray in its conclusions, and that it has
discovered something more than mares
nest, this fact verifes our prediction that
the Knights Of Labor preserved in the
purity Of its origin is the foe 10 socialism
and communism and like isms, and has
done more than any other influence to
withdraw the workingmen from the net
the Anarchists were weaving about them.
The revelations Of the Jury show that
these schemers were proceeding with
devi.ish cunning. They engaged first to
incitc the people TO discomfort on the
slightest pretext, and thus enkindle a
spirit of INSTRUMENTATION The anti-Chi-
nese sentiment was first seized upon as
means, and has been worked for about all
II Is worth for the purposes of the An
arehis,s The main body of the traitors
WAS caretul to conceal from the subordinate
branches the full purposes of the organiza-
tion-;hey must be brought by degrees to
the full conception of the plan. So, too.
the warkingmen's societies were made TO
contribute, but innocendy, to the ute
rior purposes of the conspirators.
TIE Jury asserts that this dead
ly influence underlaid all the
riotcus proceedings and disturbances at
Seattle and Olympia during last winter
AMI this spring The executive center,
which is located in San Francisco, has
guided the workings of the scheme by
secret circulars of instructions to trusted
em'ssaries; but the masses of the discon-
tented hay. been kept in ignorance of the
real Purposes of the organization. We
can well understand how this can be done;
history furnishes parallels of such schem-
ing, and instances are not few of like
subtle plots and policies. When they have
once attained sufficient strength, the pur-
pose IS to burn all books in which are kept
the evidences Of title to property In this
way they hope to break down all owner
ship in property, and destroy all personal
rights in possessions, and for all branches
Of government substitute public function
aries who will direct all things necessary
to the operation of industries, and the
merger OF citizen and State. The head of
the organization, says the jury, is actively
at work at this time, in instructing the
delu led victims of the society in the use
OF dynamite and other explosives, how TO
seize afmories and military stores, and how
to imHgison and destroy men Of influence
AM OF property. It is further charged that
thu Pacific coast has been settled upon as
theii,st place to inaugurate the great work
of reforming society by blotting it out and
substituting in its place the rule of the
Individual, each according to his own de-
sire. The Grand Jury charges that one
Sigismand Danielwitz is the chief Secre-
tary, from whose office at rs Mont
gomery street, San Francisco, are sent out
the ineendiary instructions. The Grand
Jurors protest that they are farmers and
laborias men, and that they have hearty
sympathy with working men in all that
is r.sht and for their good and that of the
country. They appeal to their fellow
la2orers TO take warning, and not he de-
laded by the Communists, and, in closing.
reasseTt their solemn belief that there is
on fsot a deep-laid scheme to over
throw The republic and to set up the
red Tag for that of the Union.
We must assume that body of Ameri-
can citizens impaneled in a Court and
acting under the solemnity of oath and
the wasch and ward of Federal tribunal,
would lie extremely careful of utterance,
and be cautious to make no charges that
could not be morally substantiated, even if
legal certainty of their verify could not
be given. Yetwe must believe that the
jury il question has overestimated the
danger ahead from Communistic and
Anarchist associations in this country.
We do not know what evidence the jury
hal of the alleged facts; certainly it was
sufficient to impress it profoundly, but we