Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-23
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NHIUHbU HVIHIu
Who fears an anarchist?

/ NHiChkO IcIhu.
Who fears an anarchist
This exclamation Of the states attor.
ney, uttered incidentally upon the tria
Of the conspirators OF the hay.market,
produced a demonstration In the court.
room which the Judge felt IT his business
to suppress. It was an exclamation OF
approval, and II had Just grounds for the
confidence IL implied In the supremacy OF
| the law and the subordination thereto of
the vast majority of the people.
The conspirators brought to the bar OF
justice may escape the gallows; they may
even go scot free yet there is reason for
the confident exclamation of Mr.. Grim
nell. The extent OF the anarchistic
rami1cation In Chicago has been un-
covered, and 1t is found to be
neither widespread nor alarming. 1t
was not respectable, either In the charac-
ter of It's development or their numb er.
With the exception OF the bomb thrower
for 1t is improbable, Notwithstanding
the testimony Of Gilman, that the actual
manipulation of that missile was brought
into couIt--all who were mischievous
and menaclng In local organization to
produce chaos were arralgned at the bar
In this case. The heavy hand of the law
was laid upon every one of them. Some
outspoken advocates they had, some Sc
cret sympathy Of the constitutionally per-
verse in character might have been felt
for them, but the great mass of the peo-
pie In Chicago, as in the country, never
for a moment gave them countenance, or
had anything but unsparing denunciation
for their wild teaching and their diaboli-
cal acts. Some who foollshly listened to
their indictments to murder have been
cured. They discover the real character
of the rascally coterle: Reckless
but cowardly, preaching abnegation
and practicing selhshness, denouncing
capital in the hope of money profit,
they were the cankers Of calm world and
a long peace, II they were to go forth
tomorrow they would not dare raise
their voices where once they roared, and
no following that may be classed as a real
menace Is again attainable. The long,
tolerance they enjoyed through what is 7
now seen to be mistaken policy will
never again be permitted, and men who,
when arraigned for the consequences OF
their preachments, pleaded that they
mant nothing thereby are not of the stun
to gain disciples either at midnight or In
open day.
III Is not, however, In the numerical
paucity of the anarchists or in the craven
spirit OF their leaders that future i'm
munity from their Vaccinations is as
sured The safety lies in the great body
OF the people, who, whatever their sta.
tionsor their employment, however keen
even the discomfort OF some OF them
with existing social conditions, are vet
loyal 10 the law as made, and will seek
no change save by orderly processes.
Safety lies, furthermore, in the almost
universal recognition OF the sanctity OF
human life. Mr. Grinnell spoke for the
people confident in their own strength.
1t is not a blind confidence. 1t must
recognize certain potency of mischief
In the use of dynamite by poor, deluded
fools. 1t will guard against possibilities
oil murder. But the public is not afraid,
no one is afraid, of the anarchists.