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Show BLOWING UP OF THE TIMES. That was an outrageous act, the blowing up of the Times building in Los Angeles at an early hour this morning, when a large force of men were at work in the mechanical department of the paper. It is too early to fix responsibility, and to offer insinuations as to the guilty parties would be unjustifiable, but we hope the crime will be traced to its source and the fiends incarnate made to realize the enormity of their brutally murderous acts which have left women and children without the aid and comforting strength of those on whom they have leaned. The "Black Hand," that murderous crew from out of a land of feuds and vendettas, never conceived of a more cowardly, treacherous, treach-erous, sneaking, blood-stained villainy than that perpetrated upon the Times in Los Angeles, and it i3 a national disgrace that organized or-ganized assassination, not less terrible than that afflicting the countries coun-tries where the banditti are the outgrowth of oppression and lowered civilization, should, in this country of widest liberty and greatest opportunity, attempt to crush and crucify those who stand in the way of the murderers. The average American has too fine a sense of right and wrong to remain silent while these foul deeds are being perpetrated and, if we mistake not the sentiment of our people, the protest which this diabolical crime calls forth, will be quieted only by the ferreting out and punishing of every one in any manner a party to the outrage. These hellhounds of anarchy have no place in our civilization. |