Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-26
WHAT IHE NEWSPAPERS SAY.


WAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAY.
Edmoriat Comments on the shooting Of
mr.. FrloK-The Work of n Pestilent
Alisa--Too Many BurEman's from
Europe.
Philadelphia Times Independently: 1t
was not an American who did this thing
RIO was an alien 20 our whole system Of lio-
erty and order And il is quite time for
all Americans to take pause and consider
90 what this foreign system OF sociahsuc
madness, Of armed revolt and or govern
ment by committees inevitably leads. It
leads TO murder and 10 anarchy.
SEQ York Press Republican,: The
good namC of American labor cannot be
stained by the deed of a foreign frantic
anarchist Everything indicates that Mr..
Frick's assailant IS g protested and mallg-
nant enemy of government anu social
order He is evidently one OF a small out
dangerous class of individuals whose COM
biued ignorance, viclousness ana lanall-
cism, make them a menace TO pUoAc Sc
curily.
Neir York Advertiser independently
This Guiteauish act was the direct result
of the teaching that a man who has wealth.
or who represents wealth, and who does
not divide it with the feeO.e-mindod, the
improvident and the vicious, is an enemy
OF society. This miserable alien assassin
claims that be represents no organization
OF labor; butbe is the legitimate 0utgroWtn
of disorder and the attempt now going on
at Homestead % substitute the naLural law
of supply ana demand with brutal force
AMI mob violence
Pi04dslDhf1 Record DEM: Ifit should
prove % have been the result or q c0nsp,ra-
ey. the whole machinery OF criminal Justice
should be brOgrht 90 bear 20 eNtlrpate the
ronspirat0rs, roots and branch. There can
be no tolerance for revolutionary ouIcasJs
whose remedy for what they conceive 10 ue
Injustice IS murder MaQmen or this stamp
should be Judged by their own code. They
are not insane persons; they are monsters
enemies of their lGud-WhOm 10 rs not
safe 10 let live after the fashion Of other
men 10 a free country.
Nue Toyt Herald Independent. As 20
the policy Of the course adopted oy MI
Prick in the controversy with the employees
Of the Carnegie Company public sentiment
has differed But there is and can be no
tack made upon him yesterday. This VIII
be condemned by every labor organization
in the country as emphatCaly as by every
other law-abidiug class In the community.
That is the sentiment OF every true friend
Of the caRse Of labor, as 10 is the sentiment
Of the eutire nation.
Nst York TIMES .RepubhcauI. As the
rlne OF Guiteau was produced by the po-
riCal excitement eDgeucered az the time
BIZ causes with which be had no direct con-
.ectiou. so In this case the attempted as
sassiuati0n was caused by the excitement
of the labor contest into which laWless
violence had already entered. To may oe
said that the strikers were no more reSpOu-
sible for such a result than Mr. brick nlm-
self or the PlnkertOu agency, OUt 10 rs those
who have actually resOrted % laWleSS Nlo-
lence rather than those who may DE- said 10
have provoked it who viii oe most likely 10
zoe held to account
Ecr YORK. World .Democra0 There
can be- nothing but condemnation for sucn
dastardly deed, but 10 viii probably be
the misfortune of the locked-Out wOrKuen
TO suffer because of To, innocent as they are
either of inspiring 10 or sympatniz.ug WIN
10. Mr.. Tricks attitude toward ms Tor
mer employees has been harsh and uucOm-
~
precepts of Mr.. Carnegie. But violence
toward him is at once the most lneXcus-
able and most hopeless OF remedies. No
body but a crank would have applied 10.
Nobody but a wretch would apprOvelN
Ciuciuncti Enquirer .Dem); Tt is our
firm conviction, and we believe careful IN
vestigatiOn will clearly show, that there
was not the laintest alliance between this
miserable assassin and the organized labor
VOWED I'm Gle Carnegie strikes. Inat
JJr hgt. TOO much 40 stake 20 encourage
a horror OF this kind. To viii be tne nrst
10 deploro to, as 10 would have been the hrst
TO repel 10. Our laCorers are not Anarch-
lists, and are not Nihilists, and this would
be assassin seems 20 have been both. HIS
individual passion had been aroused 40 the
quarrel, aud he had acted for himself.
Philadelphia Press Republican,. II rs
an honor 70 the American name that the
wOuld-be-assassin is not AN American. lie
is one of that pesti,gut brood or alien an
archists 70 whom our shores have been TOO
freely opened. I'm their bloody bomb
throwing at Chicago, In their revolution
AIRY utterances at New York, ln their wan
ton and riOtOus savagery at Homestead
and in this COWardIy end craven attack,
they have taught as the stupendOus folly
of which we have been guilty IN taking
these vipers TO our bosom. III the display
Of their venOmOus fangs snail now inspire
us TO vigorous and effective action for flu
ture security NJ viii not be I'M vain. TO is
gratifying To- believe that the strikers az
Homestead are in no way directly connect
ed with this dastar5ly act.
Nor T0rt Recorder .Repl The shoot
ING OF Mr. Prick is the direct result of the
effect of indamm3tOrv utteranCeS OF GER
\tain newspapers, blinded By the vision OF
Temporary gain, upon the eXCitabic temper
ament Of that vicious auarCblstic element
which finds its way into this country
through comparatively unrestricted lmml-
grafton ~ an object lesson were needed
of me evils which must result from COM
bination of these two dangerous causes IT
As hers Afforded If evidence were needed
that the teaching OF anarchy in any form
should be prohibited in America aud that
immigration should be restricted, III is here
furnished. That the strikers at Home
stead had anything 90 do with the at
tempted murder of Mr.. Prick we do not
believe The American w0rkingmau does
not resort 70 the methods OF the coward
and the assassin 90 redress his wrongs,
however gfiey0us they may appear 20 him.
Louisville Courier Journal DEM -There
is no place M America for assasslns, and
every cause is injured, is diScredlted when
force is resorted 90, 10 sustain DC.
no American workman, no organization
Of American labor resorts 70 assassination,
The attack of Mr. FriCk was the work of
one man, and can not be laid at the door Of
the Homestead laborers.