The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-15
THE WORST OF 1T.

Net even in the killing OF a score of
innocent men do we find the worst, be-
cause the most dangerous and far
reaching consequences OF the. murder of
strikers in Pennsylvania. That is bad
enough in all conscience, a frightful
sacrifice of human life to stupidity and
to arrogant greed. There is something
worse than even that however. This
is the stimulus which such a happen
ing gives to the growth Of anarchy in
an environment otherwise unsuited to
it.
The American atmosphere has never
been favora BILE to the development OF
misrule. Our freedom from petty ty-
ranny, and the power which each man
felt to reside within his own hands of
finding equal justice and redress of
grievances before the law, have made
him the laws upholder and defender.
When, therefore, blatant agitators talk
ed to him, in the language of an old and
despotic civilization, about his oppres-
sion and urged him to seek a remedy
in violence, he has turned a deaf ear
to them. Whatever there is in this
country. or has been up to this time
of love for the red flag, of hatred for
a government of law, has been found
mostly among aliens who came to us
from races and countries that knew not
the meaning of liberty Anarchy has
had but a slow and puny growth on
American soil, and it is exotic and not
indigenous.
The guns of the sheriff's deputies at
Hazleton have watered with blood a
soil from which will spring up here
after, from which there has indeed al
ready sprouted the deadly night shade
of anarchy. This incident has shaken
the faith of men loyal to their govern
ment and its institutions in their own
beliefs and in their own future. We do
not refer to the yaporing demagogues
who are already making speeches about
q revolution and the burning of pal
aces and the murder of rich men at the
rate of at least one millionaire per diem.
All this is the mere rot and rant of the
agitator, who is also a coward When
you hear man brag about his readi-
kill somebody, you know that he is the
man whose coat tails would stand out
straight behind him if he were brought
where he could see actual danger with
a telescope When we hear stuff like
the famous longing Of Gov. Waite to
ride in blood UP to his horses bride,
or like what some of the agitators are
talking now, we know that the sole
purpose is to make political capital, ard
that the speaker is either insane or a
criminal The pity of it is that where
as such violent utterances have fallen
in the past upon deaf ears. where the
laboring man has let them pass by him
with smile, because he knew better.
| where the working people have stood
for law and order because they knew
that the law was their best friend. we
have now a shaken confidence and an
| uncertain outlook.
The last refuge of law and order in
any community is its judicial system
If there be not justice in the courts.
| where shall it be found? Now. the
common people of this country know
that it was because the federal courts
| extended unwarrantably an abused
power of injunction that it was made
possible for these unofending miners to
be shot to pieces in Pennsylvania. This
appeals to them and disturbs the foun-
dations of their faith more than all the
harangues Of all the anarchists on the