The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-13
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Their Treatment,

New York Star; violence Is an enemy "
industry, and labor can not live by the
sword.
Philadelphia Pres: The country OBJ
serves with undisguised satisfaction that
Chicago has converted the red flag oil go
Cialism into door mat,
Cleveland Leader! The American PEG;
pie sincerely trust that some hanging Will
be done in ChiCogo before many days
strictly Judicial hanging
New York Herald: Chicago is about to
take of her gloves, and we remind her
that there are times when mercy to the
guilty is cruelty to theinnocent'
German Tribune: We ask; is the spirit
Of the anarchist not the same as that OF the
boycotter? Where 10 the difference be-
tween anaTChism and boycottism
Cincinnati Enquirer: The workingmen
OF America will uphold Congress in q law
with special reference to Herr Most and
his handful OF wild-eyed lunatics'
New York Graphic: The Chicsgo au'
thorities would do we'll to put the an
archists on a diet Of dynamite for the next
six months, 1t would be heroic treat
ment, but effective.
Kansas City Times: A bomb thrown UNI
der the feet Of the editor Of the Chicago
Arbeiter Zsilung would be placed where II
would do the most good. We offer this
rs a suggestion.
Pittsburgh Dispatch; No punishment
can be too severe for those who attempt to
introduce riot, arson and bloodahed into
the current wages dispute, They are enc
mics Of labor aud law alike
New York World: For once there
Ia complete and thorough unaRimity on
the part Of the press OF the United States,
Il ia agreed from Maine to California that
1.-THE anarchist must be suppressed. Let
the good work proceed.
Indianapolis Journal: Let the seyerest
penalty Of the law be brought to bear upon
them lot there be no straining OF points
to save their neUks from the gallows,
whittier they should be sent as quickly as
the working Of the law will permit"
New York Tribune; The need Of placing
greater restriction upon immigration to
the United States is likely to become a
more important question now than ever
before, In view Of the fact that the dis.
turbanCes In Chicago and Milwaukee
were due wholly or chiefly to foreigners
Louisville COurier.JOurndl: Spies and
bis gang OF Anarchists arrested at Chicago
are loud In their declarations that they be.
lleve not in law, and oppose all laws. All
right. II there are no laws In Illinois
under which Spies and his gang can be
properly punished, string them up with
out law.
New York Mail and Erpress; These men
who tried to set agoing riot which might
have destroyed Chicago and brought on
another financial disaster involving mill
lions OF innocent and peaceful American
laborers in distress, have no sympathy
with the ideas through which Americans
have made this country what 1t Is.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Tho blood.
thirsty Spies said that he is opposed to
all laws" II that poor debased wretch
had some OF his own medicine administer!
ed to him he would be more disposed to
have the laws upheld and enforced.
indianapolis Me,rS: Cincinnati does not
do these things 80 well as Chicago. AT
the first fear Of trouble the former cries
for the militia, and four regiments are &C.
Cordingly dispatched as a measure OF the
size OF the need. 1t were far better for
Cincinnati 10 be able 10 rely upon the
ordinary guardians OF the peace-poliCe.
men.
New York Times: No doubt the work
men on strike in Chicago mean what they
say in denounCing the rullians who have
used the name OF labor" as pretext for
murder. They would prove their sincerity
still more completely II they were to
abandon, for the present, their demand
for change in their hours OF work.
New York Star: Considerations Of hu:
manity Join with Commendable civic
pride to forbid too ready resort to mill.
tary power in dealing with mobs; and II
MIR. Harrison succeeds through the police
In accomplishing the restoration Of public
order and safety in Chicago, he will win
a reputation Of which he and his city may
well be proud.
st. Louis Republican: Further legisla.
ton to deal with the evil as 1t already
exists in the United States Is not neCes.
sary. The murder laws are amply suili.
Gent, and II they were enforced such
men as Most In New York, Spies In
Chicago, or the Anarchist editors and
speakers Of st. Louis and Cincinnati
would be legally sent to the gallows
whenever a murder is committed by their
advice.
Minneapolis Tribune: The murderen
Of the red flag variety who have been ar.
rested In Chicago will invoke the aid Of
the law and endeavor to secure the ser.
vices Of able lawyers to save their dirty
necks. And yet a few days ago they were
bowling "No law, no God, no masters--no
nothing The law will be exCusable In
treating them without ceremony and
hanging them at the earliest convenient
moment,