The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-30
Monday, March 30, 1908.
NEW YoRK's DEMONSTRATION,


 There are disturbing features con nected with the revolutionary out break in the great city of New York Saturday. The vast crowd was in a menacing condition of mind, a bomb was exploded. men of education and influence were in the mix up and the portion of the city affected was for the time being under military control. The ordinary peaceful measures of governmental control were held in de. f1ance and the spirit manifested was that of anarchy. This was all thrown on llfes canvas, not in some western mining camp, where the point of view is often turbulent, but in the richest and handsomest and most pretentious of American cities, where if the best virtues of American citizenship arc not to be sought and the highest res pect for the law of the land discover ed, new view of free institutions must be admitted and laboriously worked out
 The cause of the outbreak touches the heart of every sensitive man and woman, namely distress which spells hunger, crime and destitution. There are thousands in that great city who are out of work through no fault of their own Mingling with them are many others who are not workers in the conventional sense, and whose business it is to interpret idleness for political purposes and to incite the masses to demonstration which shall give additional color to their schemes of political regeneration. Some of them are ignorant. though the pos sessors of a fluent tongue. Others are vicious and bent upon mischief. Still others, and these are the dangerous leaders of the mob, are we'll horn. favored by fortune so far as the needs of life are concerned, added students of human misery and human distress, who would lift the burden created out of the weakness of human nature from the shoulders of the unfortunate by ways and means manufactured out of their sentimental vanity. It is of no consequence whatever what these men call themselves whether they hide behind the gospel of socialism or the doctrine of anarchy. they are dan gerous members of society. Trading upon the constitutional privilege of free speech their object Is to disturb and destroy, not to educate and uplift. The season of employment is a soil in which they SOW the seeds of unrest. The season of employment is soil in which their seed refuses to take root. They deny the companionship of the man who fashions and losses the bomb, but he stands nevertheless con spicuously out as the best creation of their philosophy; he is the incarnation of the views which find their musical expression best in the revolutionary hymn of the emotional French.
 The two men most conspicuous in Saturdays outbreak. aside from the miserable bomb throNers. were Rob ert Hunter and Morris Hillquit, two settlement workers. who have lacked the intellectual boise to properly translate into practical effort the needs of the unfortunate. the down trodden and the weak There Is a difference, however. to be noted in their behavior. Both counselled the 1 mass meeting in Union Square, but Mr. Hillauit withdrew from it and did what he could to postpone it when he learned that the police authorities had wisely declined | to issue permit, anticipating riotous conduct as a result of inflammatory Bpeeches and disturbing harangues. l MT. Hunter ignored the attitude of the far-seeing police department and 1 blatantly stood upon his assumed | rights to speak freely when and | where he pleased. When the police i put an end to his misconduct he ioin ed with others in singing the revolu- tionary song of the French. He then and there revealed himself as he has never done before. The country now knows him, not as 3 philosopher and 1 human philanthropist working for he betterment of the submerged. but ! the violator of the law. an avowed I sneiny of society as 1t is organ anized in he United States of North America. His place is in the United States of south America where revolutions are plotted before breakfast only to ac- during the day There is no Ise praying about the sublimity of his