Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-21
HERR LIEBNICHT.

The world stands agog at the positive
statement of Herr Liebnicht, of Ger
many-now a visitor in the United States
that he looked into the cases of the
Chicago Anarchists and they are-the
Anarchists, not the cases-not guilty of
throwing bombs or melting riot. What
asses the court, counsel and jury in these
cases must be! What asses the Ameri-
can people must be, not to have seen this
before Herr Liebnicht came among us !!
Herr Liebnicht is a member of the Ger
man Reichstag or congress, and
is noted as a great Socialist leader
in Germany, and he addressed
gathering Of Germans yesterday iii New
York, who doubtless could not wait to
hear him by the shores of the beautiful
Rhine, for divers reasons, but who. in
this great land of the free, can talk all
kinds Of treason and riot, and infict on
the peaceable and long-suffering inhab-
itants of this land, the spleen generated
by centuries of degradation and oppres
sion in their native country, seeking to
dump here the hatred and filth they
dared not dump in Germany. How is it
that all these Socialists, Anarchists and
other cutthroats of that kin have, all of
them German names? Can it be a
scheme of Bismarck's to get even with
America, because when he tried
to chase the good American hog
across the Rhine, the hog turned
and chased him back to Berlin?
1t occurs to common everyday Ameri-
can to the manor born, to ask, What has
this country done or said to Germany or
her people that they should come here
and try to corrupt law-abiding men with
their cowardly teachings of dynamite
throwing? Why do the Germans, more
than any other class of people, prate of
socialism, anarchy, ruin and the over
throw of the law in one breath, and in
the next grab glass of beer and Justify
shout the praises of the "Faderland?"
Why do they turn to kiss the rod that
smote them in Germany, and come
here TO inaugurate a plan of action
which will end in greater punish
ment than they ever knew in Ger
many? These questions will obtrude
themselves on the average citizen, and
they have never been answered yet. The
German citizen has been honored and
enriched in this land more than his
brother of any other nationality, and yet
all this incipient murder and revolution |
originates with the men of that nation.
Frank Pixley, Of San Francisco, the great |
know-nothing of the Pacific slope, has
drawn on his devoted head the hatred of |
every foreign-born citizen in the land by |
his wild utterances against their fight for |
power and place, but this brassy gall of !
Herr Liebnicht gives good reason for
drawing the line somewhere, and the
people draw it at anarchy and
its teachers, and Herr Liebnicht
should be sat down on just as
heavily and expeditiously as those he
tries to cover, and all of them thus be
given to know that this country is no
place for the propagation of their cursed
doctrines. How long would an American
Congressman preach such damnable stuff
in the halls of Berlin? Just long enough
to state his case, and then he would be
snatched bald-headed and thrown into
dungeon where he could do no harm, and
that is just what must yet be done here,
if the country is ever to be freed from
such an incubus as the present crowd of
Anarchists and their abettors present.