The San Francisco call., 1901-10-02
FASTENING TO THE END.

" ESTERDAY The Call had again to record an
affray caused by an assault upon a worIngman
Il in the peaceabe pursuit of his work This time
the assaulted man had not only weapon but the
courage to il, and it not he who suffered
most from the aray. The affair." however, is deplor-
able Here are two more men seriously wounded as
result Of the attacks and assaults which are now becom
ing frequent in the city The controversy is clearly
approaching the inevitable Climax and if there be not
vigorous enforcement of the law and an arrest of the
lawless shall very soon have serious rioting in
which many lives will be lost
The who now seeking to terrorize the peace
able workingmen of the city growing bolder and
are relying more and more constantly upon the sup
port given them by the Examiner and its allies. The
indictments to riot which that paper has been publish
ing increase in herceness and in falseness Over and
again these misunderstanding inciters to strife call
upon worldngmen to resist the police and the law
The effect of their appeals to the violent and the
lawless is only too apparent. We are passing from
the period of assaults committed by scattered gangs
10 dangerous afrays in which large numbers take
part Lawlessness is clearly upon the verge of an
open outburst. and yet the yellow journal and its
special commissioners continue to vify the police
the city government, the merchants, and in fact,
every law-abidng element of the community
In of the inlammatory articles published in the
Examiner of yesterday and written by one of its
special commissioners it was sad There is secret
body of wealthy men unknown to the constitution
and above the law who have full power over an armed
force of about 1880 men-a far-sized army.
This army holds the city, No man is safe from it.
By night and day attacks are made upon peaceable
citizens; unofending wayfarers shot down in
the public streets Never did the tyrants
of Greece, never did the despots of the medieval
cities, did the Gar of Russia dare to deal with
their subjects So"
Statements of that kind wild and silly as they are
have yet potent influence when addressed TO men
already nhamed against the law and ready to strike
at any point where they believe there is chance to
inhct injury without getting hurt themselves. The
appeals may not be deliberately designed as ncite
ents riot, but they unquestionaby have that ten
dency. They poured out day after day as incen-
tives to action the part of all who are opposed
to the law, who antagonistic to the police and
who would turn the city over to riot and pillage if
they dared to do it.
In the face of the repeated assaults and affrays the
supporters of the lawess elements have the eronterv
TO assert that the city would be peaceabe were it not
for the police They declare that the city government
and the business responsible for all the blood
that has been shed in the attacks that have
been made since the disturbances began The object
OF all these falsehoods and ISLANDERS is to hold the law
ful authorities OF the municipality up to the scorn of
the violent and the vicious.
1t was just such fasehoods directed by the Exam
liner day after day against Mckinley that led to his
assassination. From equal causes there will follow
equal effects We have had assaults and affrays Are
we now 10 have assassnaons and riots as result of
the teaching of the Examiner and its allies?
To the Mayor as the chief magistrate OF the city
the people look in this emergency. 1t devolves upon
him to protect the workingnen of the city from the
strikers who assail them, and to SO strengthen the
police that the lawless assal it with mpunity.