The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-07-22
Organized LawIessness Must Go.

The Chicago district assembly of the
Knighs of Labor has adopted new rules
expelling all anarchists and denounclng
Anarchism In all its ways in a refreshing
ly vigorous and plain spoken manner.
This is what the Knights of Labor all over
the country ought to do. and what they
will have to do sooner OF later if they do
not want to put themselves in the attitude
Of hostility to American civilIz .tion; for
that is what any kind of tolerant relations
with anarchism means. Here in New York
the Central Labor Union, said to be
composed of or controlled by foreigners.
lew of whom can speak English and most
OF whom are aliens, is making trouble for
the workingmen who do not repudiate its
misrepresentation demonstrations. This
Central Labor union has undertaken to
denounce court and jury for doing their
sworn duty under the laws of this land,
and is endeavOring to ruin a business
man whose sole offence is that being
called as witness, he told the truth The
laws declare boycotting criminal. The
Central Labor union villIfies the laws, and
in effect declares its intention TO make
war upon all who administer or seek their
protection.
When body of unnaturalized foreign
against American law and order, threaten
ing with the boycott all who dare to resist
the boycott and ali this avowedIy in the
line OF policy whose ultimate object is
70 upset our entire system of civilization
and substitute for it wild beast anarchy,
It is time to speak plainly about the I'M
dertaking. The men-foreign ruf1ians
every one OF them, beyond doubt-Rho
fred on the American flag at Chicago tn
Il
This Is the kind of people
who before they have been month in the
country want TO overturn the government,
and when they find the laws II the way
begin to Shrek out abuse OF our courts,
our juries, our Legislators. our public opIn-
ion; in short, everything that initiates
Agalnsg the ILLUSION of anarchist doctrines
and that binders The free use OF bOycottiDg
and bomb-throwIng. The plain truth is
that these people have not the remotest
idea of freedom, What they ask for is the
most Gbominable, brutal kind of slavery
conceivable. Nor have they any moral
sense. They hate law as the professional
criminal hates IL. But they must be
taught that the American people make
and keep, and insist on others keeping,
their own laws, and that they do NOT
mean to hand over the Government to
foreign cranks, who know nothing OF
Democratic principles, and whose iRDo-
rance and vicious tendencies make them
the poorest Kind of material for American
citizenship.
Is may as we'll be understood first as
last that whoever undertakes IN this coun-
Try to defy the laws and to overthrow
American Institutions gill come TO grief.
II does not matter how the attempt is
made. 1t will fail. No imported an
archist, however fresh, can supplant the
American people in running the goYeEn-
ment. No such body of foreigners can
establish an opposition to our laws
either, or undertake 70 pun
ish our Judges and jurors, OF
bully or blOckmail witnesses. The boy.
colt is an odiOus, lawless, wholly IN
American practice. Il is q towards and
bully's weapon base agency whereby
sturdy iosfers may wresk sneaking VEN
geance upon poor wome3.- L sbor-Aner-
icon labor, that's TO say-caBot afford to
ally itself with those who resort 70 50 con-
temptible practic. Public opinion,
which is eoVerIgn in the United States,
VIII not counteneBce any such proceed
ing. The Chicago knights Of Labor have
had the sense to realize this fact, and have
cut loose from the anarchists and their
works. We hope that the New York Ia
Dor organic ttIcns, and those of all the rest
Of the country, Will promptly follow suit,
and 50 convince the foreign mischief
makers that If they are not prepared so
accept American governmental theories
they had better return whence they came.
IN. 7. Herald.