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shooting Of Miners.
The action Of the posse seems to have
been criminaIly precipitate. York
Herald.
The sheriff and his deputies appear to
have been demoralized by fear.-boston
Transcript. W."
It Il awful. A tremendous necessity
must be shown for such nurderous or
der.-Pittsbnrg Post.
Sheriff Martin has inaugurated all the
horrors Of martial law without any OF is
excuses.--B Boston Traveller.
The circumstan noes did not justify the
Wholesale slaughter. The shooting was
cowardly.-B Birmingham (Ala) News.
It is an unnecessary slaughter. 1t is
most deplorable blunder. Even the state
ment Of the sheriff does not excuse it,
Louisville Post.
Back of it all is damnabIe system
whereby the courts, through unconstitu-
tional injunctions, become the opprcssors
of the weak.-Omaha World-Herald.
The appalling tragedy was the logical
outgrowth of conditions which have been
tolerated in some OF our mining regions
for some years Observation-Disclosures Times.
The case is one that calls for rigid cx-
animation and IL the sheriff exceeded bis
authority he should be dealt with in
summary manner.-Albany Evening Jour
nal.
Everything points TO the suspicion that
Sheriff Martin lost both head and heart
and ordered the destruction of life when
no real necessity for it had arisen.--De-
troit News.
1t is the worst exhibition of race ha-
tired and diabolical fury Of an armed
force, vented on an unarmed procession,
that ever occurred in our coursry.-Chat-
tanooga Times.
Assuming that the facts were as they
have been reported, the sheriff and ms
deputies were utterly incompetent and
guilty OF cowardly and criminally care
less conduct.-Buffalo Courier-Record.
Killed officially and shot in the back.
Does anything appear in the story Of this
tragedy to give the slightest provocation
for this horrible blunder, this terrible
crime, this official murder?-Toledo Bee.
The shooting of unarmed men on slight
revocation, for merely insisting upon
marching peaceably along public high
way, is very serious matter and may
cad to the gravest consequesces.-Minne
apolis Times.
There is no room for acts like this in
the United States. There is no place in
a republic of freemen for the punish
ment of an unascertained intention, which
is the ultimate goal of government by in
junction.-St. Paul Globe.
When sheriffs posse can fire into a
crowd of several hundred Pennsylvania
miners without hitting an American, the
public ought to secure a fair idea OF enc
of the prime causes Of labor troubles in
that State.-Washingto Post.
If the sherif's statement is true, and
we do not see that it is credibly contra
dicted, his firing upon the mob seems to
have been necessity to save his own life
and the lives Of others summoned to main
tain the law.-Philadelphia Times.
Forgetfulness Of the real character OF
our citizen-soldiers is at the bottom of the
hesitancy and delay about calling out 1.-The
troops" that is continually leading to just
such deplorable results as this Hazleton
slaughter.-Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
Those men in Pennsylvania who were
marching had a right to that highway.
They were injuring no ones property.
The sheriff who ordered the deputies to
fire on this unarmed crowd of men SIM
ply ordered them to commit MURDER
Peoria Herald.
This outrage should nerve every Ameri-
can heart to support by all legal methods
the suppression of this iniquity OF govern
ment by injunction. This un-American,
uncivilized, un-Christian system must so
il the liberties secured for us by our fore
fathers are to be Observation-Disclosures
lis Sentinel.
The system which has collected bodies
of ignorant and excitable workers and
brought them by inadequate wages into a
state OF evaporation needs reformation.
But this country will not be worth lv-
ing in if the fiat of. an excited mob can
override the commands of the legal au-
thorities without suffering for it.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
Even the dastardly and cowardly shcr-
if who ordered his posse to fire upon
those defenseess men admits that they
had committed no overt acts of lawless-
ness. He is murderer, and his men
are nufderers, and each of them should
be tried and punished for the commission
of the highest crime known to the law
Kansas City Times.
If the sheriff was indiscreet, If ne fred
into the crowd without due provoca ton.
the demand for his punishment will be
summary. II, on the other hand. it be
found that he acted strictly within the
lines Of his duty, he will not lack in pub
lie commentator and support. Mean
time legislators, mine operators, and min
ers will grow more thoughtful.-Macon
Telegraph.
1t Is questionable whether under the
law the attempt to interfere with the
peaceable marching of the strikers on
the highway was not of itself breach OF
the law. 1t is the duty of the sheriff and
all peace officers to protect the lives and
property Of citizens. 1t is their duty to
maintain law and order and prevent law
less trespass upon private premises. 1t
is neither their duty nor their right to
modest people passing over the public high
ways even though they may be suspected
of unlawful intcnt.-Omaha Bee.
It is a noticeable fact that the men who
set themselves up in this matter to defy
the constituted authorities were foreign
ers and the names of those who were
killed and wounded show the same fact.
1t will be well worth the while of the
authorities in making the investigation,
which must necessarily be had, to inquire
how far the trouble which has cumi-
mated 50 terribly was due to the large adj
mixture of the foreign element among