New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-22
eve It has come to pretty state when man gets the
bounce from his own establishment"
TIRTUE UNREDARDED.
sUrFER1NGs OF THE INNOCENT IN TIMES OF
TROUBLE
rome Edfror or The rrto"ne.

rome Edffor OF Thc Trt0Hne.
Sir: That tragic and deplorablo occurrence nj
Birmingham the other day suggests an old ouesuoh'
Why It that It invariably the innocent bystander
and harmless spectator" that are killed and vohfued
on such occasions They are always the ones that
suffer. Let your memory back over all the RIOTS
mob outbreaks and street fights that you can remember
and you will find that It IS the "unofendng passerpy'
and the peaceabe stranger that get hurt 1t Is he
old story Even the in a moro or less distant
building attending to his business and utterly Oh
lvious Of the trouble, IS pretty apt TO be winged Dy
stray bullet or battered by wandering brcEbat
Since the Birmingham trouble We read much ahVlco
as 10 the proper action such occasions, ana the
burden of It Is TO keep away, II you find yourself In
the neghborhood 10 leave the run In the hght oi
the evidence It is hard to see how this moral can NC
drawn Had you been at home there is no PROOF ,hat
you would not have been bombarded, and II you had
been leaving the vicinity 1t is quite certain that you
would have been shot through the back with heavy
gun-no envable position to be placed in. The true
lesson TO be drawn from the Alabama incident Is this
Take twohanded club and wade into the thckest OF
the fray
1t seems to make but little difference what sort OF
fight 1t is-the unfortunate bystander and ilstarreo
spectator always the that have to bear the
brunt Of the battle Two paving stone layers get INTO
a dispute and fall to beaborins each other over tho
head with their hsmmes The war goes on merniy
TIL pretty OF the hammers Lies OF Is hahoie
and strikes the innocent bystsnder In tho right eye
chances of and catches the harmless spectator under
the ear and both of them are carried away IN al
ambulance while the pavement artists return " uloi
work invigorated and refreshed.
a great mob gathers account OF some LABOR
trouble or something of that kind. There are several
thousand desperate and pitched battle Is fousht
with the militia After the smoke is waited away IL
takes half an hour gather up and remove the dead
and wounded spectators and byStanders VINO lo Oh
the scene OF the conflict while the neighbong streets
are covered with the PROSTATE paSseFDy, ahu the us
abled stranger hobbies away through the outskirts,
Even in WhOopIng Man City, that prosperous Ter
of that useful and ornamental article Oh wearing ap
parel known as the wcepin" is universal, Inc same
state Of things prevails The Hon. Mr.. McBrar, Mayor
of WhOOpinC Man. enters the Golden Lsrlat saiooh
in Quest Of Poker Smith. who has been dropping thc
remark about the city that the Mayor deals DraSc
MAYOR speaks to him with his revolver WHOM Is %
heavy Galore Smith replies with hls, OF equal
callbre The Mayor re1olns. Smith IS rcady WIN WIN
his answer The controversy is kept up tDl inc
chambers empty, when they shake hands ana re-
tire and we ind that again our old friends have sur
fered and Il IS the bystandcr and spectator on WhoI
the efficient coroners jury return verdlcts In one case
OF death from exposure" and In the other Oh Sclue
IL self-defence.' A..
SO IL is and continues 10 be everywhere the inno-
cent and gulleess bystander, the harmless ana coil
cstory spectator the unOfending and pacific passer-
by and the peaceabe and innocent stranger fal by INC
vaysde wherever there IS trouble IL seems 10 each
IL that If We must riot the only safe way Is 10
take a paving block in each hand Jump INTO the
tbickest of H. and as pound the enemys head take
our observations. Thus out OF llis nettIe GdleSI
We pluck the flower safety T. H. -
York. Dec. l., 1855.