The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-30


Mob Violence In san Francisco.
Violent as were the passions excited
10y the recent steel strike. il is 10 be
remembered with satisfaction that
none Of the disorders connected with
IL were marked with bIoodshed Even
OF McKeesport. where the greatest
danger of riot existed from the begin
ming to the end OF the movement. the
worst that can be said is that it was
the scene Of one or two brutal beatings.
We are sorry to learn from our news
dispatches today that different condi-
tipns are presented in connection with
the current strike Of the transfers and
IunSshuremen in san Francisco. Ac-
,ordIng TO our advices. on Sunday
morning an hour after midnight a mob
81 two hundred strikers attacked with
firearms party Of four special police
men as the latter were on their way
home. The fire was returned and seven
persons were wounded, one Of whom
probably will die Among the bystand-
ers who happened 10 be hit was a non
union workman. Him the police tried
To- induce the night hackmen stationed
IL the neighborhood to carry To- the
hospital. but none of them would do
SO. as he was non union "a mauifes-
tation of heartIess brutality almost in
conceivable
IL viii be noticed that the assault
was made upon officers Of the law.
who We're not engaged at the time in
any active duty, but were returning
from place Of amusement 10 their
lodging places without thought of IN
teTfering with anybody. Such a de-
tiauCe Of authority would not be toIer-
ated I'm any Eastern city and, We
should think, would not be in san
Francisco. II is unpleasant to admit
it, but it is a fact that there is q wide
spread spirit Of lawIessness in nearly
all Of our great city communities which
cannot be regarded as otherwise than
a very dangerous sign.
The history of the past decade is re-
plete with instances Of outbreaks men
acing 10 law and order, in large cen
tres Of population and elsewhere. The
/ Chicago riots OF 1891 are fresh in mem
ory as an Illustration OF urban dis0r-
p
country was shocked To see the State
capital Of Kentucky in the hands Of
an armed horde of drunken and blood
thirsty bandits, brought there to cover
the murder OF the legal Governor Of the
Commonwealth and TO protect his muir
GeTlTs when the deed should be accom-
pHshed.
All such things tend to general con-
tempt for all authority and the insti-
tutious Of society-iu fact. make for
anarchy. They have been looked upon
with too much indifference in the past.
For obvious reasons they cannot be 50
treated in the future if the Republic
is TO stand. our citizenship is not what
il was fifty years ago. For half a cen
tury-or AT least ever since the civil
war-we have been importing the most
turbulent elements Of population from
the Old World, and they swarm in our
great towns. Government. whether
. general or local. should take this fact
/ into consideration, and realize that dis
order must be put down with a strong
hand. That such a course viii b. ef-
. feCtive and command the respect Of
wOUld-be lawbTcakers is shown in the
case Of New York City, where there
has not been a serious outbreak since
the Orange riot of 1870 the reason be-
ing that the criminal and Iawless class
es Of the metropolis know that riot
means the immediate appearance Of
troops who viii shoot 10 kill