Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-28

happened there and whether 1t can now
merit these approving epithets. A rep
utable and thrifty mechanic. who had
bought lot and put house upon 1t,
living in 1t with wife and children,
was set upon by mob of boys and
their elders on the street of a Sunday
morning, who pelted him with stones,
beat him with fists and cried out that
'she had insulted the f1ag;" which cry
grew into a shout that she had torn 1t
down." all this ending in a boisterous
threat that he must leave the town,
which they proceeded to put into exc
cution in their brutal way.
The crowd had grown to large pro.
portions, and increased still more by
the church members at the close OF
their services. Could not these have
demanded the ceasing of such violation
of the holy Sabbath day" and this ille-
gay way of taking the law into their
own hands?
And where were the police meantime?
Or has the little town been so peaceful
hitherto that this arm of the law had
not been provided for the quelling OF
such disturbances?
OF what avail the church services and
the Sunday school lesson If such things
are allowed to greet their children on
the street, uncondemned? This teach
ing by example, which is SO much more
The occasion for this lawless out
break was found to lie in the fact that
the man, wrought upon, no doubt, by
the grievances OF his class, In poor
wages and other wrongs, had said qui-
city and without temper to street audi
ences that ''ours is not free country,
and that 1.-THE flag does not now stand
for freedom; which statements are
held, and uttered through pen and by
tongue, by our observant and courage
Gus thinkers; and which this mob was
proving true beyond dispute!
1t may be that the rabble with their
abettors had dared this step from the
immunity which such acts had met IN
our own leading city, where those who
speak in harmony with the estapnsheo
order. the Salvation army, ETC., are al
lowed to cumber the business streets;
and where only the social patriotic re-
former is forbidden, the burden of
whose talk Is to urge 1.-THE Golden
Rule!" If this is done by some speak
ers rather vehemently how can one
marvel, where the iron of injusticeshas
entered the soul and body of such?
How can humane bystander fail in
hearty sympathy with the sufferers
under our heartless industrial system?
How can he and she refrain from ac-
tive protest--which Is surely the out
growth of a truly righteous indigna-
tion?" One can condemn the system
which allows and upholds such injus-
tices as now prevail, while holding the
individuals who practice these to be
themselves victims of 1.-THE system
as are all of us to more or less de-
gree, under the necessities of food
and shelter and of dependence upon
self seeking corporations for these.
1t is we'll to remember-to the credit
of those who must ''cry aloud and
spare not"--what writer OF sweet ma
ture and fine insight has declared, that
"there is no such exercise Cor tonio)
for the moral nature as good, stout
protest against iniquity;' which pro-
test will save one from the charge by
our unimpeachable philosopher Elmer
son, of being "a mush Of concessions"
1t is comforting to know that the
brave and able editors of the Monrovia
News have saved themselves and their
town from the wholesale Endorsement
of this disgrace: and we must assume
that the loyal woman's club will do
the same, as in harmony with their
high sivic ideals and their most cred
itab BILE traditions.