Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-25
THE PRESS OF ONE OPINION.
A Menace to Public Security.

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A Menace to Public Security.
New York Press.l
It is with feeling or general relief tina
the public learns that the man who yester
day attempted to assassinate Mr.. H. z
Frick fs not q Homestead striker or even al
American workingman. The good name o
| American labor cannot be stained by tn,
deed OF q frantic foreign Anarchist. Every
thing indicates that Mr.. Fricks assailan
is professed and malignant enemy of gov
ernment and social order. He is evidently
one of q small, but dangerous class OF indi
viduals whose combined ignorance, vicious
ness and fanaticism make them q menace Il
public security. Nothing could be more un-
American than the teachings and practices
of these savage pests from abroad. The
theories they advocate are squarely op
posed to the welfare and real independence
of American labor: and the workingmen of
ssrat. sssr
resolute condemnation of anarchism
whether in word or deed. Justice and the
interests OF society demand that the would
law.
Lawlessness Leads to Assassination.
Phladelphfa Times
Lawlessness-the violent Interference
with the rights of others, in liberty, in prop.
erty, in life-has had its natural outcome in
assassination. The labor leaders at Home
stead and Pittsburg will eagerly denounce
the shooting Of Mr.. Frick, and it is not
doubted that they sincerely regret, at this
moment, the mad act of n irresponsible
follower; nevertheless they will be unable
to separate it, in the public mind, from the
anarchistic doctrines they have been pro-
claiming and the riotous revolt against law
and safety that they have encouraged or de-
ehaeE tbis thine Vas w. not an n american NV VINO did
system of liberty and order. And it is quite
time for all Americans to take pause and
consider to what this foreign system of So
cialistic madness, of armed revolt and OF
government by committees inevitably leads.
1t leads to murder and anarchy.
Compared With Guiteau's Crime.
New York Tirles.]
As the crime of Guiteau was produced by
the political excitement engendered at the
time by causes with which he had no direct
connection, SO in this case the attempted
assassination was caused by the excitement
of the labor contest into which lawless vio-
lence had already entered. 1t may be said
that the strikers were no more responsible
for such a result than Mr.. Frick himself or
the Pinkerton agency, but it Is those who
have actually resorted to lawless violence,
rather than those who may be said to have
provoked it, who will be most likely to be
held to account. 1t will not be just TO hold
the workingmen responsible for the act of a
crack-brafned "crank," }" but "bloody instruc-
tions" are dangerous to those who impart
them.
sympathy of tho Whole Country.
New York Trioune.]
The murderous assault upon MI. Frick, of
the Carnegie Company, was the work OF a
man who is fool and fend. 1t may, of
course, be said that every criminal act is in
trinsically foolish, but in this instance the
folly is SO stupendous and glaring as to
seize the first place in every mind and sug-
gest the first comment. This was the deed
of an individual, not inspired or even con-
ceived OF, we hope, by any other. But it
was done by an individual whose lawless
passion was in some measure shared by
many, who thus contributed, without delib-
GRAFTON, and yet appreciably, to the act. It
is horrible demonstration of the conse-
quences which may flow from wilful defiance
of the law. What the ultimate effect of this
assault may be upon the questions involved
at Homestead it is too soon to estimate. But
the heart OF the whole country will go out in
to Mr.. Frick and in utter abhor-
renee of the dastardly attempt to kill him.
A Public Calamity.
Cincinnati Enquirer.I
The attempted assassination Of Mr.. Frick
happily unsuccessful, as our latest advices
run-is an event which attains to the pro-
portions of a public calamity. It's effects
must inevitably be wide-reaching; and
here is demanded of the whole country the
coolest Judgment and the most careful dis
lest those effects shall tend to
rreparable mischief. Our laborers are not
and are not Nihil1sts and this
" 1ould-be assassin seems to have been both.
His individual passion had been aroused at
;he quarrel, and he had acted for himself.
tut such as all lands have to meet. 1t Is
we'll to meet them ,coolly, intelligently, and
With the most careful consideration.
Not an American WorkIngmap,
Sew York Recorder.1
The American workingman does not re-
;ort to the methods of the coward and the
assassin to redress his wrongs, however
yrievous they may appear to him. He
znows that he is citizen OF the Republic,
nd as such is the equal, under the Constf- |
ution, of every other citizen. That is the |
esson in which he is cradled; that is the |
,roudest boast of his manhood. 1t is his |
'irthright to fight for his own, but he fights |
penly and fairly. Moreover, nothing could |
more seriously injure the cause of the |
strikers than the tragedy of yes |
erday. The deed is so abhorrent to the |
eople of this country that it must cost |
hose in whose interest it was intended |
ONE sympathy, no matter how innocent |
hey themselves may be of the crime. The
cry fact that the incentive for the at
empted assassination grew out of the
homestead troubles and that the victim of |
he assassin was the acknowledged head of
he, opposition to the Homestead strikers,
ill tell against the latter and in favor OF
he former. The leaders of the Homestead
rorkmen knew all this before the shooting
ccurred and they would have been sheer
nbeciles to have encouraged or even coun-
the action of the would-be MUIR
erer. There is no line of reason consistent |
18th selfinterest, to say nothing of Amer
IAN manhood, whereby the Homestead
trikers can be connected directly with this
fair.
Society's Duty Is Plain.
ew York Advertiser
The vile wretch with the distorted brain,
no attempted to right the grievances of
onest workingmen by resort to assassina-
on, did not know. perhaps, that the death
Mr.. Frick could not in any way settle the
contest between Capital and
abor. He did not care to enter into the
gic of the case. He had been taught to re-
lrd q rich man as his enemy and the enemy
all who toll. The duty OF organized So
ETY. is plain. 1t must be prepared for ready
sfense against the miserable, ill-begotten,