Show CONCERNING ClXiIFOKSlA Kearney md Kalloch Critt cised Vigilance Committee Com-mittee Approved New York nThe Times says Kal loch who was elected by men of the sand lots vcheaenty declares that no violence ia t i bo feared from those who are usually cesscd as Kearneyite and that the vague mnnuatons and open charges cmtain in th j address of the Citizens Protect ve Union are fuse and slanderous Thus the issue between the chief municipal officer of ban Francisco and the substantial and peaceful citizens I is clearly drawn Kail chs sympathies are avowedly with the creatures who counsel the hanging of prominent bud ness men and the institution of a reign of Lynch law This complicates the difficulties diffi-culties of tho situation and mcreues the risk of a iolent colluioi The Herald says The truth is that the preparations tar putting down thee disturbers are so efficient and the order loving citizens of San Francisco are so determined that intending rioters arc cowed and forced by their fears to disavow dis-avow their incendiary tircat Their cowardice makes them pose in the ridic ulcus altitude martyrs and injured supporters sup-porters of peace and order III vouch to the world f < r them says the virtuous Kalloch that they will so continue Sinoo LIIOY have so far sobered bv their fears they contemplate nothing more horrible than to try their political luck again in the next election we are justified jus-tified in concluding that use crisis is past and that there will bo no disturbance of the peace in San Francisco There will continue to be a great deal of swagger and bravado for demagogues know that speech is free in this country so long as it i does not lead to violent action No doubt somo means will be found through the courts or otherwise to annul the action of the Board of Health declaring Chinatown B nuisance There are nearly two weeks before the date fired for abating the nuisance and the resources of law must be > equal to such occasion Wo are glad that tho trouble is likely to end without a resort to extreme measures I The World says Kearney and Kal loch it seems hare gone about as far as tho decent people of San Francisco will permit them to go The Citizens Protective Pro-tective Union or today seems to be very much like the vigilance coommittee of early days of California and there are men who were inadvertently permitted to survive the searching grand inmost the first vigilance committee of San Francisco who can tell Mr Kearney that ho will find the vigilance committee in that city to be the mot serious and business liko body a body which does not seek for any votes and upon which therefore the eloquence Kearney cannot can-not havo the slightest effect No doubt decent citizens of San Francisco are much to blame for permitting the election elec-tion of a man like Kalloch to the mayoralty mayor-alty They havo already paid for that error in the disgrace which Kalloch has brought upon the city and they are evidently evi-dently not disposed to pay any more for it either in purse or in person For this they can hardly be blamed They have waited until the breach of the peace was seriously threatened and until the broach of the peace had been encouraged by the mayor of the city They have now given warning without bloater that the peace must be kept even though the constituted authorities refuse to keep it Kallochs proclamation which is published today is on the other hand an evident peace of bluster It is safe enough since there is no intention on the part of anybody to prevent Kalloch and Kearney from saying say-ing whatever they like It is not in the least likely however that after the warning warn-ing they have received either of them or any of their confederates will take any practical stops towards abating tho imiainccof Chinatown by means of mobs hoodlums today The Times alleges that the renson for removing the arms from some of the San Francisco armories was distrust of the militia Various conciliatory excuses for this act and for other acts putting the militia under surveillance hap been given but the foal reason unquestionably is fear either that tho disarmed troops would side with the rioters or else that somehow the rioters would get possession of their arms and equipments Iho local militia are thus in part distrusted dis-trusted by the authorities whom they are bound to uphold and the people whom they are bound to protect Tho same lesson wss taught in the railroad riots of 1877 The Times argues from thu unreliability un-reliability of our national militia in emergencies taking all the precautions of selection and inculcating in-culcating all posible lesons of simple soldierly obedience it is yet clear that our militia troops arc liable to be swayed by local or temporary excitement excite-ment and pay not always bo willing to fire upon kinsmen and neighbors with whom thoy sympathies It is beyond question in > t today there is everywhere a feeling of greater confidence in the triumph of law and order in San Francisco Fran-cisco from the knowledge that detachments detach-ments of the army are there The Commercial Bulletin declares the growth of the communistic element in California is due to the indifference of the better class of the community to evil In its incipient stages with half the energy merchants and buinoss men are exhibiting now to suppress them the sand lot statesmen could never have made such headway We have a striking strik-ing proof of their ability to put down tho dangerous element when they so determine deter-mine in the result of the election at Oakland Oak-land on Tuesday Let men of property and capital ana friends of social order perform their full duty as citizens on nil proper occasions and no such quasreign of terror as now impends in bai Fran cisco would be possible |