The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-10-20
DEADLY DYNAMITE


Destroys the Building Of the Los An
geles, Calf, Times and Kills and
Injuries Many Of Its Employees.
To THE EDITOR OF The JOURNAL: l
am sending you two copies of the Los
Angeles Times, just to show you what
man can do under such circumstances.
When read in my morning paper of the
destruction of the Times building and
everything contained therein re-
marked to Mrs. Conant, what paper shall
l take now that the Times is wiped out
Of existence? but imagine my surprise
when l returned home at noon and found
the Times in my yard the same as though
nothing had happened, except only that
it was little smaller. Five hours after
that explosion my paper was on its way
to Santa Barbara. l have taken the
paper % years. FRANK A. CoNANT.
Santa Barbara, Calf, Oct. 8. 1910.
The Times of Saturday morning, Oct.
1st, says:
Many lives were jeopardized and half
million dollars worth of property was
sacrificed on the altar of hatred Of the
labor unions at l o'clock this morning,
when the plant of the Los Angeles Times
was blown up and burned, following NUNS
erous threats by the laborites.
1t reeked little to the man who placed
the bombs which wrecked splendid
newspaper plant that 100 men were at
work on the various floors, busily en-
gagged in getting out the great news
paper. That the instant that the bombs
were exploded their lives were in peril;
that as result of the hellish work lives
were probably lost and other lives
precious to wives, children and relatives
were in deadly peril.
The bombs were planted by expert
enced hands. They did the work for
which they were intended, at least tenn
porarily, to cripple great newspaper.
! Attempt was also made to blow up the
building in which The Times had sup
Elementary plant, and the residence of
the manager, Harrison Gray Otis. The
Labor Unions have been endeavoring for
years by boycotts and otherwise tc
destroy The Times, and while it is not
credible that any organization as an or
ganization is responsible for this crime
against life and property, it is without
doubt due to the teachings and printed
words of such men as Gompers, who has
aroused in the hearts of his followers a
contempt for law and order. The dead
cannot be restored, the loss of $500, 900
of property is only partially covered by
insurance, but The Times still lives. In
the issue of Oct. end it says, editorially:
| The Times is not destroyed, nor will
its publication be even seriously hindered.
The Times does not consist of presses,
or type, or machinery, or stone and NOR
tar. 1t does not consist even of the
dauntless men whose thoughts appear
daily in its columns The Times is an
incorporeal entity. 1t is an embodiment
of the intelligence, the fearlessness, the
progress, the indomitable energy of the
community in which it is published and
of whose life it is part. During all the
years of its existence there has been no
good cause that has called in vain for it's
assistance and no wrong that has lacked
its resistance. Its phenomenal success
in a business way has been the offspring
of the public confidence in the integrity,
the truthfulness, the devotion to the
public interest of those who have con-
Quoted it and inspired-and who will con-
tinue to conduct and inspire-its edito-
rial utterances.
The devils in human form, who MUIR
dered and manned the men employed in
its news and mechanical departments,
will not escape. Ropes are dangling for
them and prison doors are yawning for
them. The eyes of sleepless vigilance
are upon each and all of them. With all
their cunning, traces of their work are
picked up every hour. There is no quar-
ter of the earth to which they can flee,
where they will not be followed and from
which they will not be returned
| The estimate which the merchants,
manufacturers and business men and non
union workers of Los Angeles have of
The Times has been evidenced by the
offers OF assistance it has received.
Money, credit, free occupancy of build
1ngs, services of writer's and tenders of
assistance In various forms have been
presented in unstlnted measure The
Times Will be hereafter even more pros
porous and influential than before. It's
greatest if not its only loss will be ire
parable, for it consists Of the loss of the
brave, faithful men whose dead bodies
lie under or by it's ruins, or who with
burned and broken forms are moaning
upon hospital cots.
Though the dynamiters escape human
justice, yet the righteous wrath of God
will overtake them When they drink
the blood of their victims will be in their
cup. When they would sleep the shrieks
of the murdered ones will be in their