The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-16
ORGANIZED LAWLEssNEss.

1OuI morning contemporary ADVISES
the discharge of the men charged with
stealing a locomotive, cars and other
property in the hands of the court and
defying its officers until they had to
yield to superior force.
Moral: If you want to rob and
plumber don't go alone. Steal a scrub
horse worth $40 and get several years
in the penitentiary. But organize a
gang, call it an army, terrorize the peo-
pie along the line of march into sup
plying you with provisions, steal tens
OF thousands worth of property belong
ing to some wicked corporation, defy
the officers of the law till the militia
are called out at the cost of thousands
of dollars, then malign and villify
every official who tries to do his duty
and then go scot free?
DO we want to give law abiding Utah
such reputation abroad?
CITIZEN.
The foregoing letter needs no reply.
The statement of the question brings
its own answer. 1t is both strange
and lamentable that any of the journals
OF this country apologize for, plead the
cause of, or attempt to palliate the law
lessness which is breaking out where
ever the so-called army" or any of it's
cohorts meets with opposition or fails
to obtain all it demands.
1t ought to be known throughout the
land that the incendiaries who are
breaking the law in Utah are not its
bona f1de residents. They are chiefly
persons who have come here from
other places and who now want to
move on. They think they will be fed
and carried on their way to the east,
and that by force of numbers they will
be able to compel people by the way to
feed them and the railroads to carry
them
1t is a movement that ought to be
discouraged, and when newspapers join
with the unthinking portions of the
public in sympathizing with such a
craze, and in semi-justifcation of the
violation of law, it is mark of ex-
IRENE folly or innate viciousness of
disposition.
We find in the Davenport. Iowa,
Democrat the report of a discourse de-
livered by Rev. A NJ. Judy of the
Unitarian church at that place, in
which there are some pointed remarks
on this subject. We make from it the
following extracts:
The communities through which they
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or method. 1t would be startling in
justice for the government of this civ
TO act as if the people of the city be-
lleVed in paper money. There is not a
beggars' minority of the city that
would vote that the United States gov
eminent should supply indefinite sums
OF money, without interest, for munich
pal and county Improvements, which is
the sum and substance of Coxey's de-
mdnd The majorit. of the people of
this city do not believe that the gov
eminent can make something out of
nothing-even if that something be
called money-and it would be in the
highest degree unfair for our city
oHlclals to use public funds to further
a political policy which the people have
not approved and would not approve.
t'or desire You to remember ALWAYS
that this Coxey business is a, party
OF carrying a party measure, and to aid
1t with public funds is to use those
funds to advance that measure.
Here is an aspect of this Coxey bust
ness which should be searched to the
bottom, for here, if 1 am not badly
mistaken is a demand which is radi-
cally revolutionary. Never before in
me Ihe history OF this country has any
pohtlcal party levied forced tribute
on the country in order to carry its
point. Heretofore political parties have
raised the means they needed from con-
tributlons given without a shadow of
compulsion. Coxey is raising his means
by menace. When an army of a
thousand Coxayites starts across the
state OF Iowa there are not enough of
their sympathizers in the cities and
counties through which they pass to
contrloute TO their necessities. These
necessities, therefore, must be admins
tered to. if the men are kept together
by people who in no wise symDathize
with their political aims or their poIifi-
cal method P0-i'i7
If man believes in these poIiticaI
aims and their political method LEI him
help support them. Until the country
mas mad time to pronounce more de-
clslVely on the constitutionality of
their proceedings this is a nrivf1aoa
which can not he withheld from tbei,.
sympathizers. But do not, if vou can
help 1t, allow any one, out Of mere fin
to contribute to their support. F,1n
glddlness, excitement, sensation are as
here as they would be in
the face of any other invasion of orr
vested rights
And let no one contribute to the sun
port OF this army from false impulse
OF humanity. These men. to use NO
harsher term, have been guiltv of q
rash venture. Because they happen tn
be congregated into troops there is no
reason for treating them differently
from what you would treat a man who
attempts a rash venture on his indi-
vidual responsibility
So long as these men are fed and
their passage made easy, so long will
they be convinced that they are doing
right. If you do not believe they are
doing right you ought not to act in
a way to lead them to suppose you so
believe. You have no right to nislead
them, to allure them, to deceive them
even though an impulse of humanity
be at the bottom of your action. And
If you individually have no right to put
in. the wrong in this matter.
neither have country, state, or city
officers a right to put the community
which they represent in a wrong light
by supporting these men out Of the
public treasury.
But it will be urged that these men
must be fed and transported in order
to protect the city from violence. Ali
There is the plea against which 1 wish
the chief force of this sermon to be
directed. If the princinla of aidiro