Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-07-17
THE ANARCHISTS TRIAL.

The vindictive and cold blooded cruelty
OF the miscreants in Chicago, who threw,
Or were responsible Tor the throwing OF
the deadly missile which resulted in the
death OF seven people and the wounding
of sixty others, in arranging for the act,
rs described by one OF them in his testi
mony given yesterday in that city, reads
more like Il chapter from one OF Jules
Nerne's books, than like the history OF
an act done in this enlightened age and
country. One Gottfried Waller, a Swiss
cabinet maker, and member OF the or
der up to four months ago, told in detail
, the horrible plot, whereby indiscriminate
shooting and killing OF the police was to
take place if they intefered to enforce
law and order at certain meetings. He
told positively who were present when
the plot was arranged and who had the
bombs and gave one to him. In dozen
parts OF the city they were ordered 10
shoot the police or throw bombs at them
ii they attempted to disperse the meet
ings, and that wholesale slaughter did
not occur on the night OF the Haymarket
explosion seems, in the light OF Waller's
statement, to be miracle. The only
cause for this bloody procedure seems to
be desire on the part OF tile bomb
throwers to frighten the police and thus
keep them in terror OF its repition. How
signally it failed, let the heroic action OF
that brave band OF men on that iated
night testify. Chicago has been cursed
for years with the worst elements OF the
criminal classes, and owing to the fact
that she has the lake contingent OF some
eight thousand idle and homeless sailors
to shelter every winter, she is saddled
with force from which the criminal
classes are readily recruited and kept
filed to overhowing. To meet this alarm
ing opposition to life and the pursuit OF
business, the city has very full police
department, but unfortunately, like many
other metropolitan cities, the department
is used for political purposes, thus greatly
impairing its services, Now, however,
when all them are marked for extinction
by the hand OF the cowardly assassin it
is proof OF their courage and ability that
they faced death like men, in the dis
charge OF their duty, and that this last
cause of terror TO her people is stricken
on the hip and rendered harmless. The
swift trial and punishment OF the men
who led in this murderous onslaught,
and all those who aided and abetted
them, is IL crying necessity, and the peo-
Pile OF all communities will not rest in
peace or security until it is proven by the
swift hanging OF these wretches, that
such acts cannot occur in America and
their perpetrators live to laugh at them
In the present unsettled condition OF the
labor market, and with the excitable ma
lures OF thousands oi workingmen who
believe they are wfonged, miscarriage
oi justice in these cases would lead them
to acts, the probable results OF which
appals the mind, and tends TO interfere
-sseriapslS %th, that feeling . q safety
which is always part OF good govern
ment. While it is commendable to foster
healthy opposition to the extortions Of
capital, and to enact laws for the better
.ment OF the laborng classes, all such
can be accomplished within the strict