The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-03

business honor is once left out of the
question.
THE LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE.
The horrible hand of the dynamiter
has been upraised in Los Angeles,
touching off the fuse that sent destruc-
ton to property of the value of half
million dollars and death to the
dearer lives of twenty innocent men.
In the annals of crime in America
there is no chapter to parallel this
butchery. unless 1t be the Occur
d'Alene plot as to which Harry Or
chard testified. In the twinkling
of an eye, without .provocation and
without Justification, the deed of the
unseen assassin hurled score of
souls into Eternity, the souls of men
who We're earning their bread in the
sweat of their brows. men who had
done no wrong whatsoever.
This latest appearance of the hideous
head of anarchy is a reproach to the
nation in which we live. Though it
took place on the soil of our country,
such an outrage is un-American. be-
longing to the despot- ridden kingdoms
and empires of other lands, where
liberty is but dream of the visionary
and democracy an insane hope In a
nation of free people there is no place
for the bomb of the butcher of men.
c,,cb Z, coloeeal c,-i,,,a &c that ~ yoc
| Angeles is repugnant TO the very spirit
of our institutions, and the whole coun-
/ try will suffer II the dynamlters are
not swiftly brought 10 the bar of JUS
| tice and melted out the most awful
penalty which the law can impose.
4 1t is most unfortunate that two Of
! the management of the Los Angeles
| Times. the plant of which was de-
| stroyed and of which the dead men
4 were employees, should lay sthe re-
| sponsibility for this wholesaleernurde
at the door of organized labor. For
many years, the Times has stood out
union labor and bitterly antagonizing
union labor on all occasions. There
have not been lacking, however, evil
dences of the fact that the local typo
graphical union was peaceful in It's
attitude and not strife-stirring. There
has been no trouble between the local
union and the Times and II is said on
good authority that when the Times
was hard up for men the local union
permitted its members to go into the
Times office and help to tide over the
difficulties until the shortage of non
union help was relieved.
There is no shred of proof that or
ganized labor had any connection with
4 the matter, but the allegation of the
owners Of the paper that organized
4 labor Is responsible ought to be In
4 vestigated, The local union Should
4 take every effective step to clear it.
J self Of this suspicion, which, whatever
/ the facts be undoubtedly exists. This
i duty of clearing up the matter is not
| simply a local duty, for 1t is to tht
| interest of the cause of organized
Il lhuOE seNerSWHcTe4 tildl II DC uoHc. \
has been but five years since the as
4 sassination by bomb of Governor
/ Steurenherg. of Idaho. 1t viii be re
I membered that he incurred the i'll
viii of tho Western Federation o
4 Miners by invoking Federal aid in tn,
strike Of the union miners at Coeu
4, dAleue, thereby protecting non-unio,
labor I was charged on trial tina
i the Federation OF Miners was respm
sible for the murder, and Harry Or
i chard so testified on the witness stand
but the verdict of the jury in all TIL
cases was an acquittal for the officer
Of the Federation. who We're charge
with this criminal Responsibilities. De
/ spite the verdict. some suspicion still
! rests on organized labor, and tn
parallalisrn oil this case with that a
Los Angeles in many respects vii
i cause credence in some quarters to b
r given 10 the charges made by tn
owners of the Times.
o The representatives and members c
I the labor union in Los Angeles shout
give every possible assistance to tn
e officers who will prosecute the cas-,
d and should lend every effort towar
a arriyinF AT the truth on the matte
n II the guilty parties are apprehende
IS and found 10 be anarchistIc hends. M
i connected with any labor organlza
IS tion in any way, not only viii tn
n majesty of the law be sustained. bl