The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-04-11
PROVO CITY. APRIL II. 1884
REVOLUTIONARY CONDITIONS.


oue elements of revolution are rife in
the land today. 1t Is high time fol
the conservative masses of the law and
order people in society to become
alarmed and to set about the task Of
devising ways and means to avert the
threat of anarchy. From several
points of the compass armies of the
workless people are marching upon
Washington to present what they term
living petition to the government for
work. This constitutes a touching as
well as threatening picture Of misery.
1t won't do to say these men are
tramps, lawless and conscienceless
rogues. In their ranks are many
steady going, honest and industrious
mechanics who are idle for no fault OF
of their own. They would gladly work
but there is no work for them. For
nearly three years panic has existed.
Mills are closed down and the rule of
reduction has broadly prevailed. They
see no hope in the future save in the
Immediate interposition of the govern
ment. All is peaceful now. They
seek peacefully and without blow or
boasting, but firmly, to have their dis
tresses relieved. After these condi
tions have existed few months longer
and they are plnched a little more
cruelty by the times prevailing, they
will get mad The blood idea will
grow and their peaceful efforts will be
abandoned. Then God save the great
republic, the pride of the liberty loving
of the world.
We have had strikes, lock-outs, riots
and disorders all over the land. Only
little while since the great works Of
the Carnegies saw the death dealing
Winchesters at work, the miners in
Tennessee at war with the state author
tiles, and within a week or ten days
9he corke workers in eastern Pennsyl-
vanIa were busy shooting each other
down like dogs. In Chicago one hund-
red thousand men are to be locked out.
There are twenty thousand idle men
in New York alone-and all other
American cities have proportionate
number of idle and desperate men.
There are nine hundred thousand men
enlisted in the industrial armies. These
men come from fighting progenitors.
They are good soldiers, brave men.
They are not of the scum of the earth,
They are patriotic men who, while
they love their country, also love theiI
wives and children. When these now
peaceful but misguided soldiers become
angry, blood will flow. Then comes
the very opportunity SO long waited
for by the anarchists, the nihilists, the
socialists, the communists, and the
restless of the world. They will pour
into the country like vultures hasten
ing to the feast furnished by the dead
republic. 1t will then be too late to
adopt peaceful reformation to paciiy
the distressed but infamed masses.
The small division of the army now
at Ogden are peaceful. But the terri
bic hardships through which they have
already passed, does not dismay them.
and it is but the indication true and
unmistakable of the terrible earnest
ness of the men in the task, insane as
it is, upon which they have entered.
Do not tell us that there is no danger
in this exhibition of their steadfast-
ness and declared purposes. Their
uncomplaining endurance but pro-
claim their fOThtude and determine.
tion to work a change, We have a
vast number in Utah who sympathize
with them, and we fear that many of
the men in the militia could not be re-
lied upon to shoot into the bosoms of
their distressed brother working-men
if it ever became necessary to do SO.
1t will take the wariest and wisest |
measures to contend with them, Gov
ernor West will do all in his power as
a man and as the governor of this ter
ritory to preserve Utah from harm.
But the fact is that down deep in his
great big, warm and loving heart there
is profound sympathy for the cause of
the commonweal. No human gentle
man who studies the distresses of the
people, can fail to pity and sympathise.
This is not circumstance which would
add strength TO the law were such q
conflict as the one expected actually to
1ccur.oThe generous policy OF forbear
a1ce the is one indicated now. In our
it is the only one. Should |
lch war once begin, we must stand
or the law, but would there be enough
# us TO win the battleP We doubt il