Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-08


Fortunately within tho memory Of
persons now living thcrc have been m
norc thua three great riots In this coun.
try Tho first was tho draft riot IN New
York city. which began July 10, 1883.
and lasted three days. The second was
that " 1871, in Pittsburg, beginning in
strike Of railroad employees The
third Is that ut Homestead, IA. 4 pc
culiar fact about those riots Is that they
nh occurred in the month Of July. The
Paris Bsstilc was also captured and
tacl;od by a mob July H. 1853.
In the Pittsburg riot Of 1877 neither
the civil authorities nor the state militia
were able to copc with the mob Tho
state troops after being ATTACHED took
refuge In railroad rounihouse, 10
which tho rioters set fire aud attempted
TO burn the men alive, 4 number Of
members Of the national guard wcro
killed. Il was not till the United States
regular soldier. were sent to Fitis!urg
TINT the rioting stopped. It may DO OH.
served in passing that this riot cost tho
state Of Pennsylvania $4,000. which
was collected of Allegheny county.
But an awful riot, Ike those Of Paris
in horror, vsis tho affair Of July. 1863,
in Now York There negroes were
caught In the street whcroyor found and
killed without mercy In some cases
they werc tied too lamppost and burned
alive. The superintendent OF police was
attacked and beaten nearly 10 death.
Colonel O'Bricn, brave man, who
sought 10 use his authority 10 stop TIA,
insane frenzy. WIS knocked down and
kicked TO death In tho streets. For
hours his dead body was kicked about
the streets and insultod by the mob.
All this is recalled In n vivid and
striking letter by Joseph Howard in tle
New York Recorder. He himself WINS a
reporter for Tho Times, which the mob
called an abolition paper. and he was
caught and nearly killed, only escaping
with his life whom brave reporter
named Cohen. on the New York Ex.
press, took oil his own Express badge
aud pinned It on Towards coat, thus
cheating tho mob for tho time. This
was uring momentary lull after a
passl fire company had turned their
hose on the mob aud driven them back.
Tho drcmtn picked mp Howard and
quickly took him TO thoir engine house,
which was attacked and stoned till every
window was wrecked. The mob would
have done murder only that some build.
ings near by were fired, and that drow
tho sttentionof these furies for the time,
and Howard escaped. While they had
him they dragged him up aisl down the
streets by tho hair and stoned him. OF
the scene BIO writes;
| WA there In pursuance Of myduty. and
| while looking az u burning building noticed
that a gang Of halt grown boys were annoying
an old man " ho came down tho Gvrnuc
| Nory naturally and very foolIshly | intcrlored
wheroupun, without seconds purloyng! one
| cut my Tip open with brass kuucklus while the
otlrrs robbed my IN leo than II tnkcl totoli H.
| Then, raising a Dry, they attracted the attcn.
ton ~ the crowd, no member of whom know
or had ever heard Of me, but all recognized me
as u victim ard fcll upon me with brutality
| Of violence eau never forget. For at least
| ten minutes was thor playthlng, rolled In
tho dirt, kicked, cul'd, maulld and hauled
| hat gone, glnHol lost, clothes torn, covered
with blood. a miserable remnant Of. 90 Ia
| speak, humanity,
On tho whole, It ia not much wonder
that Joe Howard has white hair. lie
attributes the spread Of frenzy to a
"fow malignnncies." W act on the
Others like laughing gas. There are al.
was in these great crowds, too, those
whose sole design IS robbery, and these
stir up all the racket they can. Mr.
Howard says;
Mon who have never seen a riot know moth.
| Ing of IT,
Men who simply read Of tho scenes Of horror
| In Puuusy lynula dOut apr, ciuto the hlther
| verge NJ the terror that exists there. Men
| who have uuvtr faced "a mob can have no idea
Of what that Situation means. lluwau'nltuFo
| "a transformed into that ~ boasts. Tho milk
Of human klndnoss ls ourdlod md turned tu
sall, huurriF VI purros0 become. 81 hlnoly In.
stlnCG fUruclty, ha.Uallti, dl lhoucsty and huI.
| tally ~ hnud 10 hand, seeking Tor pley, a..
gnrliosH OF rae, ung on condition, S0,Alug
| uuNlf lchNnu hrt thU strong ulm NJ % Un'
icrmincd !lN can stop Il, and tho time To end
| u 10 In ile leg.arlur.
What lnny s'rm cruelty Is kindness
| What may seem measures Of hardness Rrg
tho best possible policy,
Vhsr shonli bo no tompor'znr with rluiora
no angling With armcd mscryagts; o,rTy yio.
| lltur fhulld he hrquglt-anl, II necessary,
hmusht With armed f1rDo-ilta tho c1uttoo
and be- dealt with by The Lew. Tho people of
| New Nur. have faced ID ouUn mud NAV hayn tl
meet ID netln. There should loo mo- umnteut
pniiuo work about d.. " tho local police f4l
the state militia is thrrc 20 tan back upon. nuI
| II the state militia 10 unable 60 cupD With Che
MOO ter 'he United state governments duty
! Is ~ CLEAR rl the anu Of day.
| And tlils is common sonan.
Everybody was thankful whom at last
| Cyrus field was rolca-ed from his spf,
feringa by death During the CLOSING
| ,,.utlta Of IHs bFn thnv t-rrt tarrII,it