The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-13
RED TRAIL OF ANARCHY.
Has Been Glazed by Nitrogiycerin for
the Past Half-century.
lCh.cago Record-Iiera'd )

The red trail of anarchy has been b AGED
by .pent-up nitioslyCerin for the last half
century. While the scorners of law and
order have not disda'ned to U.s. bu.le.
and dirk. il is the bomb that appeals
strongest to them. Just as the dea0Is
missiles were thrown in New York and
Teiuride. SO time and again the disci-
Dies of political chaos have preferred the
attack
Chicago's bloody Haymarket riot Of
MAY l. 1886. rema rs the pre-cminent H.
lustrntlon of the Mountaineering method
OF warfare. No anarchistic assault in The
entire history of the world stands ont
IN such awful relief. Rulers killed by
bombs IN MANY instances were victims
OF personal vengeance. Al the Hayma; =
ket riot the bomb was cast at no per-
son or individual representative. hut at
American institutions and principles
me oonb has been especially active in
f.ussia Since 1866. when an attempt was
tlrst made on the life of Car Alexander
H.. there has been a vigorous though
Intermittent use Of the sphere explosive.
no iess than SIX chiefs of police in the
serves or cars have been shattered into
eternity Almost a score OF provincial
governors in various parts of Russia Ia, .
perlehed by bombs in the last tweJ.tv
In the United States the mixed or dvna-
mite form of the bomb has been used
IN capital and labor contests Al the
mining town Of Cripple Creek hundreds
OF thousands OF dollars worth of property
ana many lives have been sacrificed bv
the use of this dreadful engine of de-
sFuction Governor Frank Steunenbers
OF Idaho was blown TO pieces through
TINS agency while entering his own house
December 30. 1905. Nonunion miners have
heard the deadly sizze only too late
time after time. Spain and other coun-
tries have had cause to remember the
bomb and its thrower
Seven policemen were killed and sixty
injured in the Haymarket riot. Some Of
these casualties were the result of pistol
firing. but the majority came through the
hurling or bomb out of the dark on the
east side of Desplaines street. near RAN
dolph street at the compulsory close of
an anarchiStic mass meeting.
AT this meeting 1000 persons had gath
cred. Mayor Harrison mingled in the
crowd TO make sure whether or not in
cendiary speeches were made August
Spies spoke mildly. Then Albert r. Par
sons followed. also keeping within proper
bounds. At 10 o'clockk Samuel Fielden
mounted the truck rostrum. and in a few
minutes was counseing bloodshed and
riot. Plain clothes policemen carried the
word TO Inspector Bonfield. Mavor Har-
rison had gone home convinced there
would be no trouble.
Inspector Bonfield marched his men
into DesDlaines street and halted at the
truck The crowd was commanded in
the name of the state to disperse. Fielden
got down off the truck. As he did the
bomb was thrown and fell between two
companies of police For a moment they
were demoraliZed. The mob followed up
the bomb with pistol volleys. The police
recovered. charged the rioters and cleared
the street. Adolph Fischer. George Eneel.
Spies and Parsons were hanged for the
crime Louis Lingg committed suicide.
Death sentence was committed in the
case of Samuel Fielden and Michael
Schwab to Imprisonment for life
Who threw the bomb was never posi-
lively proved though there is every rea-
son TO believe that IL was thrown by
Schnaubelt who was twice arrested and
twice let go. and who then completely
disappeared. The wioew of Parsons in
public addresses even at this day still
insists that no one knows who the real
miscreant was
The trouble between the miners of Grip
pie Creek and Occur d'Alene and their
employers led up to a wholesale use of
bomb and dynamite. Governor Steunen-
berg because OF his strong stand on the
side of law and order. antagonized MANY
Of the more aggressive of the men engaged
in the struggle. After number of men
had been killed and much property dy