New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-06

Commenting editorially on the news
report that the Austrian government
would demand indemnity from the Unl-
ted States for the killing Of the Hazel
ton strikers, the Minneapolis Times says:
g The notion seems to have been enter
tanned in some quarters that Austria will
demand damages Of our government for
the killing Of the Hungarian miners in
the Hazelton riot. The idea appears to
have originated with the London and
New York papers. It is claimed that
the United States have admitted the
principle OF liability in the case Of the
Italians in the New Orleans riots and in |
that of Chinese at Various points. The
cases, however, are not ut all parallel. |
The Italians and Chinese were the vic
Tins of American mobs, whereas the
Hungarians slain at Hazelton were
themselves the mob, and those who
killed them were not rioters, but officers
of the law, who were upholding and de-
Tending the law. -.
This is the American statement of the
case, so that the former instances of the
loss of life during the riots furnish no
precedent for indemnity in this case.
Certain Austrian citizens while engaged
in an unlawful assemblage, after being
repeatedly warned by a law official of
the state, were shot and killed because,
instead of obeying the law, they persist
ed in their unlawful methods.
,, The fact that they were unarmed and
had committed no overt act beyond
forming into large body and marching
along the public highway, makes no diff
ference; speculation as to their intentions
is useless; they had been warned not to
engage IN the march and they disobeyed
the command thus given under the au-
thority of the law and when ordered to
disperse they persisted iD disobeying.
1t seems probable that the officers acted
with unnecessary severity; that some of
them were shot while attempting to es-
cape, but that does not do away with the
fact that they were outlaws, and as such
entitled to no more consideration. The
time was one of great excitement. The
authorities recognized the danger of
such assemblages of discontinued men,
and their marching upon the public
highway, and prohibited them. The law
is made to be respected and obeyed. There
was right and reason for it in this instance.
It was one of the cases where an ounce
of prevention is worth pound of cure.
The Hupgarians were killed, not by riot
ers, but by officers of the law defending
and upholding the law.
In the case of the Italians at New Or
leans, the men while under the protec-
ton of the law were taken ont and
hanged by mob, and it was because the
proper law officers Gld not restrain and
dispense the mob that we were bound in
honor to pay an indemnity. At Haze
ton the mob was restrained and dis
persed. I. appears that an unnecessary
number of the men were killed; al
though that is fact that is yet to lie
ascertaiped. There is no probability,
therefore, that Austria will place her
self in the absurd attitude of demanding
damages for the acts of sworn officers of
justice in endesvoring to maintain or
der and to disperse an unlawful assem-
blage. She certainly will have no case,
and such a demand would receive no
consideration at our hands. -
Clearly our first duty is to uphold our
laws and preserve peace and order
among our people, and the people of all
other nations coming here must lie
made to understand that this will be
done, Austria has thus far given no in
dlcation of a purpose to demand indem-
nifty, and is not likely to do so. She
recognizes that her subjects here are
bound to respect and obey our laws.
When Prof. Andree departed in his
balloon from Spitzbergen two months
ago he thought it possible to reach and
cross the pole in three or four days. Six
ty days have passed and no trace of him
has been obtained. His balloon was
large object, but no one has caught a
glimpse Of it. Not one Of his carrier
pigeons has returned. He may have
sealed messages in bottles ard sent them