The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-08

send thirty uniformed officers, armed |
with revolvers, from Salt Lake, the ri |
lies to be furnished by you-you could
procure them at the military acad-
sny yes.y
Hold on a moment" owned thesec-
rotary, giving his idle ear to the gov
ernor. The governor authorizes me to
say that If it is thought necessary he
can send up two companies of infantry,
uniformed and equipped"
The interview was closed with the
understanding that the mayor of Og-
den would report in detail as soon as
he was released from a caucus that
was then in progress.
THE MILITIA.
Trouble appeared to be brewing when
Governor West again summoned a mes
senger and directed him to speed with
all haste to the adjutant general and
officers of the two companies-the Den
halter Rifles and Norden company-and
notify them to report to them at the
Earliest practicable moment
There is no official information" said
the executive, replying to a question
from the war correspondent Every
myself upon but one thing-that this
army shall not be dumped within the
confines of this territory. It's a strug-
gle with us to provide for our own un-
employed and to permit the unloading
OF this vast army upon us would be
simply suicidal. We have decided that
1T is our duty to see that no
traveller passes our doors without hand
ing him crust of bread with which to
stay the ravages of hunger, but they
must not be unIoaded upon us
A COUNCIL OF WAR.
Meanwhile the courier was delivering
his orders to the various officers in
command of the territorial militia, and
shortly after 6 o'clock they were gath
cred before the executive. The situa-
ton was again reviewed, the threaten
i ing calamity weighed, and Department
Order No. l posted.
1t required the officers to put their
companies in readiness to move at a
signal from the governor. The same
order was posted by Mayor Baskin. and
the city'S boys in blue were ready to
march at the drop of a hat
| Following this was a telephone mes
sage from Mayor Brough, OF Ogden, in
dicating to the governor that his forces
were prepared to move so that at that
hour the territory was in a position, on
! few hours notice, to concentrate three
companies of infantry, one of cavalry
and two batteries at the port of entry.
IGOVERNOR WEST ADDRESSES
THE POLICE.
This done, the executive sat down to
await reply from the Southern Pa
cific officials, interrupted now and then
by fresh message from some patriotic
locality offering its cooperation in the
ievent of an emergency. 1t was while
Projecting on the situation, and the
trouble it might precipitate, that at
$3.50 thirty policemen, in full uniform,
HEADED by Marshal Pratt and Captain
Donovan, and under the immediate
n If OYi11 u
ed to his office. The platoon drew up
lin front of the building and the gov
Iernor came out on the sidewalk and
made a brief address, in which he re-
lferred to the condition of affairs here
the injustice of having the poor OF
lother communities unloaded here, and
the necessity for preserving peace and
Iorder, and maintaining the dignity OF
the law at all hazards.
You are all familiar with the con-
ldition of affairs here" said his excel
llency. I'VE, in common with other sec
Itions Of the country are passing
through period of depression. Oul
burden has been heavy and our people
have done nobly in looking after theil
own poor and distressed. All that could
be done had been done, but that wa:
inadequate to the needs. Now, wher
ISuch conditions preYal, 1t WOulu be Tx
greatest injustice to have other com
munities burden us still further will
their unemployed. We believe in char
Iity, but charity begins at home. More
than that, there is menace in TIT
news that this army of unem
ployed is coming here, and w
propose that if they do come, law ant
order shall prevail 1t will be you
: duty as officers to protect our people
to protect them from disturbance o
: life or property. An emergency, appar
: ic no
we should be prepared to meet 1t. l
. thousands come into this comlaunit
: without means and without supplies
: we will do what we can for them, blu
| we make the same demand of then
that we do of our own people-tha
I they be law-abiding and orderly. de
l sire and intend to be, prepared for Il
danger which threatens US, and thereb
to escape any vioience, ana we vAle=
r your assistance to that end
At the conclusion of the governor
/ address the posse countermArch9d I
e the city hail. where they held them
/ selves in readiness to move at the rim
of the telephone bell.
SECRETARY RICHARDS VIEWS.
: I'VE have no doubt" remarked Secre
: itary Richards at a later hour in tn
| evening. but that in the army ar
) some deserving Workmen, but it Woul
|. the preponderating mass of undeserV
1 ing Again we have learned that /
: the army is a vast number of Grim
u mails, men who have been outlaWed b
l the very class whom they pretend
y represent, and who will hesitate at tn
:, preparation of no offense that lies bt
q tween them and their greed. But fC
: convenience let's admit that they al
i all deserving what a problem, what
e danger must confront the municipalit.
: the county, the territory or state upO
: which they are vomited. Conjecture,
n YOU can. that awful ride to which the
e have been subjected. Transported, liz
y so many of lower creation, in box car
II Whirled up and down through the eve
$ changing horrors of an ever-changir
climate that begins with their apprOac
q to the Sierras. Think of their Scant
c apparel, their scanty food. Do you in
u agine that any man could go throug
e that olio of torture and preserve h
n respect for the law if he ever had an
e And the awful deduction is that Whe
L they shall have reached a Stoppir
u place where the sun shines that The
m will make one tumultuous leap for Ii
Oh erty. I'd rather StarVe to death in tn
or territory than longer endure the il
-n iprisonment Of that box car no matt
III to what paradise it may ultimate
OIL lead shieks the army and if permi
s. ted the entire mass would pour in Ill
+. an avalanche upon US. This is the ay
full probability before which we ha'
20 recoiled and, in my judgment, to pc
+ nit them to land or to invade our te
* ritory would be like counting unkea
IS of, unparalleled despair and distres
r, The men who compose the army a
desperate Why, the experience tn
cd have undergone in the past five da
would drive the average man insane
c THE CLOUDS STILL LOWER.
pc The muttering clouds of war grf