The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-08-05

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nails to raise alarm through harping on
the theme anarchy is laughable for
its absurdity though becoming tiresome
for its pertinacity. They pretend the
democratic party, or rather the demo-
cratic papers of the state, are intent upon
forming an alliance with the anarchists
for the purpose of securing temporary
political gain. The proposition is too
silly to demand discussion or contra
diction. There are great many papers
in the state which seem to exist with the
minimum amount of brain requisite for
physical activity, but even these would
laugh at proposition to ally party with
a half dozen anarchists in the hope of
securing a victory. The republican
papers have hoped for more through
'sanarchy," than had entered the mind
of the most visionary and enthusiastic
democrat. The characteristic lack of
independent thought on the part of the
provincial press and the willingness to
walk abjectly in the line blazed out by
some city daily, fully account for any
position taken by the average local
paper. It's views are ordinarily the
merest dripping of thoughts conceived
in the brains of others. 1t always ac-
cepts its tallow dip and has just mind
enough to keep in the procession and
follow the band. No one can long be
angry at its idiotic vaporings though a
feeling of irritation may sometime pro-
woke hasty kick.
The worthy and digniied Green Bay
Advocate has heard this dreadful charge
of alliance until it has grown giddy with
| the refrain and took the words for the
| truth. In the name of Justice who is
urging the riot issue2 Governor Rusk
did simple duty promptly, for which he
received the commentator of democrat
and republican alike and at once it was
determined to re.elect him on the riot
issue. The most fulsome praise was
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! sycophantic press the fullest opportunity
to pour forth It's ibations, the riot was
| magnifed into most formidable insur-
rection. Laborers were transformed
into anarchists of the most bloody type
and intent upon reveling in destruction.
When the press saw fit to criticise the
action of the troops a, Bay View there
was a howl of anarchy raised which is
yet reverberating through the local
| papers of the back country towns.
The democratic press of the country
does not approve of riot or bloodshed
and hates an anarchist with as discrimin-
| ating, if not as demonstrative, dislike
| as the republican press. Speaking for
itself, The Pilot would rather see Rusk
elected on the riot issue than defeated
| as the enemy of anarchists and socialists.
No doubt, every democratic paper in the
state feels likewise. But this is no reason
| why it should not insist that the shooting
at Bay View was uniustifable and that a
trial for murder was demanded by the
circumstances. Thepapers which glorify
Rusk for the Bay View massacre are not
| only injuring him but libeling humanity.
Does the democratic party seek an ALI
ance with anarchists because it fails to
use the fawning voice of adulation in
calling the murder of school. boy the
suppression of a mob of anarchists?
| Does it seek an alliance with the anar-
chists because it thinks the laborer has a
| right to be heard and refuses to consider
anarchist and "laborer" as Synonymous
expressions?
The good Advocate had no occasion to
whip itself into such febrile condition
of alarm. If it judges the purpose of
the democratic party from the infor-
nation it derives from republican sources
then indeed will it ever live in distrust.
There is vast difference in denouncing
murder committed under executive au-
thority and approving of anarchy; just
as there is wide difference between a
socialist and laborer.
The Pilot has had particular mention
for "bad eminence" in attempting to
bring about the 'unholy" alliance. The
Pilot would not give snap of the finger
for any democratic victory in the state,
| not won on the line of democratic prin-
ciple, and it would rather see the state
eternally republican than democratic
with the understanding that anarchist
notions may prevail. But these senti-
ments do not necessitate hostility to the
laborer, worship of any man, or glori-
fication of the Bay View murder.