The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-13

ton toward the Southern Pacific and
the industrial Army" The Republican
argues:
The right of an American citizen to
go anywhere or to remain in any place
ne may please cannot be questioned,
except 1t be in connection with the vio-
latlon or contemplated violation of
some law. Therefore the Utah judges
nave exceeded their authority In order
/ lng the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany to take the California members
OF the so-called industrial army out of
the territory.
We do not understand that either the
Governor or the judges attempted, in
anything they said or did, to question
the right of an American citizen s.to go
anywhere or to remain in any place,
except it be in connection with the vio-
lation or contemplated violation of law
The Southern Pacific in dumping upon
Utah soil an organized body of desti-
tute men, contemplating the invasion
Of the District of Columbia for the pur-
pose Of intimidating the government
into acquiescence with their notions
and desires. violated or contemplated
the violation of the laws of this terri
tory, and of the rights of its citizens.
The situation was we'll put by the
citizens of Reno, Nevada, where a
crowd was gathering to join the IN
dustrials" from California. They thus
resolved, taking steps to enforce what
they had decided upon:
Resolved That the congregation of
large bodies of men organized with the
express purpose of intimida ting the
legislative branch of our Govern
ment is a menace to the nation at
large; that while we recognize the
hardShips which the unemployed of the
land are at present subjected to, yet we
mold that tn plans and methods of the
Industrial army are not, in our judg-
ment, likely to lessen these hardships.
Ihat the encouragement, active and
passive, which has in most commune
ties been extended to those Organiza-
tons is a makeshift whereby RESPONSE
blllty is merely evaded for the moment
by shifting it to some other shoulders,
and results in adding to the danger.
That in our judgment it is the duty
emergency in its incipiency instead of
passing it along in an aggravated form
to neighboring community
That we propose now to discharge
our duty as a community by stopping
the further congregation of the So
called Industrial Army at this town;
that to this end we propose abiding by
legal process if sufficient, but we prom
Use ID find means efficient for the pur-
pose of putting a final ending to these
paradeS here now and for all time.
CITIZENS COMMITTEE OF RENO.
We believe every community has the
right to protect itself against just such
a danger as menaced the city of Og-
den last Sunday. The right of citizens,
rich or poor, to go where they please
if they do not violate law, does not
include the right to combine in such
numbers and in such manner as to be-
come menace to the public peace, and
to compel the providing of money and
provisions for their benefit through fear
of what they might do if their de-
mands are resisted.
But the position taken by some of
our contemporaries on this question is
based on a misconception of the facts.
The Governor and the Judges did not
take the ground that the IN
dustrials" had no right in com
mon with others because they
were tramps. Nor We're any steps4aken
ito hinder their going on their way. The
situation was this:
The Southern Pacific railway, in de-
.fiance of the Governors proclamation,
brought into this territory an army Of
.paupers and deposited them here with
out means of support or of pursuing
their journey. The railway companies
whose roads run eastward refused to
convey them. One road absolutely, be-
cause the men were paupers and it was
unlawful to take them into Colorado,
the other unless full fares were paid
for their passage.
The Governor and the judges there
fore held the Southern Pacific company
responsible for the wrong, and de-
manded that the army should be taken
back whence they came. No attempt
was made to prevent the men going
eastward. They were tdvised by the
Governor not to attempt marching on
foot But that was merely good coun-
sci. because of the SHOWS blythe way,
and the bEtzzards they might meet, and
the general impracticability of the plan.
But when they started out no attempt
was made to intercept them. On the
contrary. the militia were authorized
to escort them to the eastern line of the
territory.
1t is as well to be accurate. 1t Will
serve the Republicans no good purpose
to misrepresent this matter, either by
colored dispatches or arguments that
place it in a false light. The Herald
believed from the first and so stated,
that the men would not go back if the
railroad would take them, and could
not be prevented from going forward.
And we suggested that the cheapest and
easiest way out of the difficulty was to
aid their departure for the East But
we did not think the Governor could
properly be a party to such assistance.
We learn that Judge Zane was of
this opinion and that while, as stated
in The Herald, he was fully of the