Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
The Stalking Horse of Anarchy.

Outraces attributed to sympathiZers
with Sacco and Nanzetti have been
committed in New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore. In each case bombs
have been exploded, fortunately With
out taking any lives and causing but
slight damage to property. The coin
cidence of these eXplos ons. several
days before the date of the execution
Of the condemned men, indicates
pre-arranged program of terrorism on
the part of the anarchists who are
using the SaccoVanzetti case for
propaganda of violence.
That these acts of violence Vill not
change the course of events is
assured. The Governor of Massa-
chusetts will not yield from his
decision that in his judgment the men
have been gwen a fair trial and that
he believes them to be guilty of the
crimes for which they are sentenced
to die next week. The Fecatal courts
will not lend a more willing ear To
appeals for delay and review. 1t is
hopeless proceeding, and. furthermore.
IT is not sincerely designed to aid the
cause of the prisoners who are now
awaiting death. 1t is merely a seizure
of the occasion for renewal f the
manifestations of incendiarism and
wholesale assault upon society that
are part of the radical program of
operations
At a meeting held in this city last
night, called in the interest of Sacco
and Nanzetti, speeches were made at
lacking the Constitution of the United
States in terms which. if the country
were at war with a foreign enemy,
would justify prosecution. Men Of
some eminence gave expression to
sentiments which mark them as
hostile to the system of government
perhaps unth.nkingly fomentiny the
anarchistic spirit that prevails among
small section of the people Of
America. Upon them and others of
for the outrarcs that have already
been committed and those which. it
Is to be feared, will be perpetratei
elsewhere before the Sacco-Vanzet.i
reaction has subsidized.
There is an issue in this matter
far more important than that of the
fate of the two men who have now,
after a most exhaustive trial and
series of appeals and executive 'eview,
been condemned for murder. That is
whether the orderly processes of law
In this country are to be permitted to
follow their course or are to be set
aside by radical partisanship and re-
placed by clamor and threats of
violence. Are the courts 5r the mobs
to rule?
Even as the smoke of the bombs
exploded in the New York subways
was drifting through the streets an
influential newspaper of that city was
printing an earnest appeal to the
Governor of Massachusetts to grant a
communication of sentence to Sacco and
Vanzetti AS an act Of wise mercy
out of respect for a very important
part of the opinion of mankind"
Those acts of senseless terrorism
utterly negatiyed this plea. Thny
demonstrated that whatever doubt
may exist on the part of a section
of the American public regarding the
guilt of the condemned men is dis.
counted and discredited by the de-
termination of very small portion
of the public to use the case as a
means of advancing the cause of
enarchism in America.
The so,called friends of Sacco and
Eanzetti" are in truth not their
friends, but the enemies of society.
Their demonstrations their bombs, are
designed not TO save those wretched
men from death, but to destroy the
structure of government. To heed
them, in fear of heavier assaults.
would be TO surrender the safeguards
against anarchy.