Show WESTERN DYNAMITERS The news from Denver in regard to the doings of dynamiters is not such as to give great assurance of a peaceful solution solu-tion of labor troubles between employers and employes Several tempts have been made to blow up trains on the Denver Den-ver and Rio Grande and it was only good fortune that saved them Telegrams of yesterday state that the residents in the western part of Denver were aroused at an early hour yesterday morning by severe explosions and on investigation it turned out that a barn belonging to a millowner had been blown up The reason rea-son for charging the crime to dynamiters is that some months ago the owner of the barn discharged some hands from the mill as they demanded an increase of wages and the demand was refused Explosions and the destruction of life and property arc but a poor way to settle differences between laborers and capitalists capital-ists Workmen have their rights and so have employers It is doubtful whether such outrages as the ones which have just occurred in Denver always proceed in the first instance from the discharged workmen as in all places of any considerable size there are plenty of idle vagabonds who aro always ready and anxious to do anything except work and in times of trouble these men come to the front and in a great measure direct the discontent of the workmen and often lead them into excesses They do this by stirring up the worst feelings in man and tell long tales of how they themselves have suffered but they have resolved to suffer no longer They play the part of the fox to the geese The great strike of 1877 with its attendant train of pillage and outrage was in great part owing to the machnations of this idle and vicious element of society The miners and railroad hands had their grievances but when they laid down their tools and refused to work at the cut wages they were asked to take they did not dream of the wild saturnalia satur-nalia which was to follow their action That was the work of just such men as are today using dynamite in Denver and along the track of the Denver Rio Grande Railway Their theory of righting right-ing wrongs they have derived from the Socialists of Germany the Nihilists Nihil-ists of Russia the Communards of France and the Dynamiters of Ireland It is a theory which teaches that all things are wrong in this world and they N > p > can only be righted by committing greater wrongs It is pessimism put in practice Yon Hartmann thinks and argues that all things are arranged for the worst In this world and that there is nothing good or pleasant in it and at the same time enjoys life in Berlin and is I happy with his wife and children The Berlin disciple of Schopenhauer is a theoretical I the-oretical pessimist while the disciples of Von Hartmann are pratical pessimists and demons incarnate They teach that those who belong to the welltodo class are their enemies and that all civil governments gov-ernments are but engines with which to oppress the poor that the rich may live off them and that these evils can and should be corrccted by spreading terror I and destruction The views of the German Ger-man Socialists may not be so extreme and I presented but the I radical as those just j above presentation is none too extreme for the views of the Nihilists j Communards and Dynamiters The I offenses of such as these are new to the catalogue of crime and inmost in-most codes there is no adequate provision for their punishment The plottings and doings of such men should be punished as among the most heinous of crimes for in the death and destruction they spread all alike suffer the young and the old the innocent and guilty As yet we have I had no experience of such things in I Utah and it is to be hoped we never may have but if riot shall ever run rampant in Utah as it has in some places there should be no hesitation on the part of the authorities to crush it out cost what it may In such cases there should be no dalliance |