Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-07
PAVING THE PENALTY.

PAYING THE PENALTY.
 No man out of work would find a job at mass-meeting of the unem- ployed. Such meetings are not held to enable men to get work, but to err able socialist and anarchist orators to arouse class hatred and preach the gospel of a class war
 Saturdays meeting at Union Square was organized for no other purpose. It began in a plan to intim- idate the city government and ended logically in the attempt of an addle- brained immigrant sweatshop worker to destroy platoon of police with a bomb, in the crazy belief that their destruction would in some way right his wrongs and better the condition of his feIlow-workers.
 All this might have been expected, and the fact that the bomb exploded prematurely takes none of the re sponsbflity from those persons still living whose brain Intentionally or not guided the trembling hand of Sc liz Silverstein It was none of their fanit that the Union Square demon stratson did not turn out to be anoth- CT Haymarket massacre.
 The meeting itself was held in de fiance of law. Circulars were distrib- uted calling upon tens of thousands of workmen who martyred them selves to the bangs of hunger" to come out from their dark and stuffy tenement holes and to a risky war" The east side was told that "the po- lice dare not and cannot suppress this.'' When the police undertook to suppress it, wild-voiced orators began at once to infiame the passions of the
 
 mob to the challenge. We will fight until we die" It is not strange that the hand of one poor deluded anar- chist was finally strengthened and he gained courage to light the fuse of the bomb that he had carefully pre- r,arad for inc occasion
 The Selig sflversteins are part of the penalty that American society is compelled to pay for its failure to en- force law, administer justice and re spect the principles of constitutional government. It permits revolutionary anarehism and socialism openly to ad. vocate murder and bloodshed. It ap- .pIauds demagogues and demagogy in every attack they make upon the in, stitutions of government It permits every incendlary appeal to the pas sions of the weak, the ignorant and the unbalanced, and then professes to be astounded by the consequences oi its own folly.
 While depIoring the work of reFe- IutIonary anarchists and socialists, il assists them in their mischief-making task. It elects scoundrels to public office in the full knowledge that they are seoundrels and will betray their trust at the first opportunity. It tol- crates one sort of justice for the weak and another for the strong. It allows Crokers and Murphys to appoint judges. It permits an E. H. Harri- man to loot a railroad and Thomas P. Ryan to wreck a great traction system without fear of criminal pun ishment. Thus an ignorant. deluded Selig Silverstein easily comes to be Heve that the government is actually the tool of the captalistic classes and that there can be no relief for such as he except through blood.
 We are a great people. We can achieve great things. But we cannot repeal the Law of Compensation. When we incite Predatory Poverty on the one hand and protect Predatory PIutocracy on the other, we are bound to pay the penalty for the misdeeds of both,--New York World