The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30

listening to all the horrors Of the laboring
classes which Mr.. McCulloch describes in
the cant language which Anarchists and So
cial reformers SO glibly use, and to say that
the 'groans and miseries" of the working
classes moved these people to throw the dyna-
mite bomb in blind effort to relieve their
which would be simply foolish were it not
dangerous in the mouth of man of standing
and influence. Everybody knows it is moth
ing of the sort that moved them. The whole
lot of them are imported scoundrels, naturally
at war with civilized society; men who
have never done an honest days work in
their lives, but who are parasites
and leeches by nature and preference.
They are the scum and offscouring Of the
countries they came from, and they have
never altered their characters or purposes
since coming to the United States. Not one
of them ever came TO this country to better
his condition by honest work, either of the
hand or the head. They came here to live by
agitation, as they had lived abroad, and to
profit by the disorder and anarchy they could
introduce into an otherwise reasonably con-
tented population.
1t is all very well to preach the gospel of
gush, and to talk of a nation being great in
the proportion that it is forgiving. 1t is all
very well to repeat the words Of Jesus on the
cross, and to wrench them so as to apply to
murderous dogs who seek to overturn organ
lied society, and whose hands are red with
But neither divine nor human govern
ment is based on any such mockery
of principle, or any such perversion Of virtue.
No government is made great by forgiving
criminals, and Almighty God does not forgive
rebels in arms against his laws. It may we'll
be conceded that there is much that needs re-
adjustment in social and economic conditions,
but these readjustments will not come and
are not to come through reign Of dynamite
inaugurateG by nest of murderous wretches,
nor by public teachers, and preachers, and the
newspaper press giving currency to false and
unsound theories, however beautiful end
touching they may be made to appear in a
dress Of flowers and poetry.
We quite agree with Mr. McCulloch that
the remedy for what there is wrong is to be
found in education and in the slow processes of
evolution by which higher civilization must
ever be advanced But relying upon this as
the fundamental remedy, we also believe that
the strong arm Of the law must meet with its
most vigorous power those who would over
turn these orderly processes and substitute
for them murder and arson, the revolver
and the dynamite bomb. The best
remedy for nobocratic spirit is the common
school and an open Bible but when a mob is
tearing down houses and numbering people we
do not 60 to them with the multiplication ia
BILE and the Sermon on the Mount. We also
believe that Mr. McCulloch is very much in
error in his statement that any considerable
per cent of honorable workingmen stand
with him on the side of the condemned An
archists. The expressions that have been
made against their just condemnation have
been very few, and they have come almost
uniformly from that class of professional
'workingmen" who have been for years. and
are still, the bane Of true and honest labor,
and who aye, for the most part, heartily de-
spised and rejected by the vast majority Of
the class for which they impudently assumed
to speak. American labor does not believe
dynamite and murder, mobocracy and arson
the weapons with which will be reached just,
or any, solution of the problems affecting their
welfare.