The record-union., 1895-01-15
THE PACK IN FULL CRY.

THE PACK IN FULL CRY.
The scheme of the San Francisco Er-
GmjRer and some other sensational met
ropolitan journals to work the people of
San Francisco into frenzy over the al
legged outrage by the United States Dis
trict Attorney is likely to fall into de-
served contempt, for the truth invariably
puts error to flight.
1t turns out that the attorney has pro-
ceeded in the case in which Agitator
Roberts seeks the arrest of c.. P. Hunt
ington for an alleged misdemeanor, pre-
cisey as is and has been the practice in
the Federal Department of Justice these
many, many years, and that it has not
departed from it one jot or title. More
over, 1t appears that this practice is justi-
fed by reason and right, and that in
Roberts case nothing was shown why it
should be departed from.
Here, now, is an instance in which the
anarchistic agitators; the short-haired
women and the long-haired men; the
itician; the sensat ional and the black
mailing press join in chorus and howl
because there is not discrimination
against Mr.. Huntingdon
If now, the complaint filed had beeu
against train-interruptor, strike-leader
and boycott-promoter Roberts. and At
torney knight had violated the old and
sound practice of his office and have per-
emptorily issued warrant with hot dis
elimination against Roberts, how the
heavens would have shaken and the hoI-
low globe resounded with the lamenta-
tiOns by the lawless and sensational crew
about there being one law for the poor
man and another for the rich. How the
very bowels of the earth would have
fellows in their protestations that Mr..
Knight had acted without inquiry into
the facts. and without referring to his
principal at the head of the Federal De-
partment of Justice.
How true it is that it makes mighty
difference whose OK is gored, and which
is the gorer. We apprehend that if Mr..
Huntington is guilty of any misde-
meanor he is TO be readily found, and
that not even warrant will be necessary
to bring him into court. He has not
lived, man and boy, all these years in
the land of his birth and to venerable
age, to run from any charge train wreck
ing crews may lay at his door. He is
well enough known in California to
command respect for his word, and to
make it as good as his bond. If he has
violated the laws of his country, by all
means let him answer for it; indeed, he
is the very last man on earth to ask for
in his behalf if he has transgressed its
penal clauses.
But as for these yawping agitators in
San francisco, who mouth at the man
they despise because he has made a suc-
cess in life and they have not, they are ac-
complishing but one thing, and that is
the blacking of the California eye.
For it is not to be concealed that these
hot and nasty demonstrations, these
stilted assumptions of virtue, this as
seyerating roaring, Il am holier than
thou''; this lying declaration that CaIifor-
MIA is rotten to the core. that there is no
good within her ribs, and that the chief
industrial factor in her economy, thai
which has put her to the front by fifty
years in the competitive race OF States, is
her bane and her curse; that she is, in
deed, throttled by her sponsor anc
crushed by the very agency which de-
pends for life upon her prosperity ant
Independence; this eternal, mean anC
contemplate bowling on the part Of SaI
Francisco agitators, and this meaner as
sailing by press that has not even the
virtue of the decency that bushes for it!
yileness and ilI-conceaIs its lust to be pros
tituted-as for all these, they will ac
complish nothing moro than to make
thinking men condole with the objects
of their malice, and doubt true reform
when il does present itself.