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Show THE TRIBUNE COMMUNIST. The editor of the Salt Lake Tribune IB reported to be an ultra communist, who sympathizes with and excuses, il ho fails to applaud, tho worst excesses of this order that may be indulged J in during the struggles ol its members for the establishment of their impracticable im-practicable ideas. The recent labor strike afforded the radical editor an opportunity to air his leveling sentiments senti-ments in some slight degree, and he wrote glibly in favor of the "equal distribution of God's bounties," adding: ad-ding: Our social system is a chaos occoas-ing occoas-ing warfare relentless competition the strong killing the weaker. A few have siczed mora than Jtheir share, and ball' tho population tuflor from their rapacity. rapac-ity. This was exactly the theory on which the Paris commune founded their, infamous campaign in 1871, that vsm relentlessly orushed out by M. Thiers. The awful scenes of that campaign may have passed out of the memory ot Borne of our readers, but will be recalled by the following interesting summary of the communis tio outrages at I'aris by a recent writer: Tho city had hardly been evacuated by the (iermans before tho worst elements of the rari population camo to the front. They swarnisd itito the centra of the city from their hiding places in tho batig-noiles, batig-noiles, the Faubourg tan Antoioo, and the quarries of iluottnatro, demanding bread, money, and the punishment ot tho aristocrats. In tbeir speech this is a general term, meaning all decent people peo-ple who live genteely on the nie.ms tooy hare accumulated by lives of hone.-t industry. Their ranks wore recruited from the prisons, from iho lar-houses, and tho haunts of crime. Having esLab-liBheda esLab-liBheda mockery ot.a government at the Hotel tie ViUe, they closed the Rates of 1 ar ie .re fused to allow the army to cater, and doclarcd themselves thu ru'ors if franco. missions were organised to hunt up suspected porjone, to administer justice on the sxi, to shoot, to hanr and put to doathat will. The ordinary tonns of justice wore dUnenfed with as to , tardy in their movement. Kespeotable, citizons were dragged from their dwel Mors, subjected to a low interrogatories by a gang of sans culottes, pronounce J guilty, whether the evidence was exculpatory excul-patory or not, placed again t a wall, and then shot down. This dono, the same ceremony was performed eliewhero with , the same accompaniment. The arch- j bishop of Paris, Monsinor Darboy, was seized and held as a hostage at licit only, ! at lat, to bo foully murdered. Not a citizen eminent for public or private virtua whoso life was not in d-vng r fr m fromtbe?e sanguinary destuls of mob rule. Base men halo no'.hirg so much jis superior excellence When, afier a rrvstanco of two months thoy found that Marshal ifaeAIahon with his army 'ju,jxj strong, was too formidable to hi any further opposed, they mado a latt desperate desper-ate stand behind barricades in the principal prin-cipal streets. When lh';se tk-lenses were no longer Enable, they determined to involve Fans in their own ruin. Tln-y set on ilro tho palaco of the TuUerks, the Palais de Justice, the Uotol de Vitle' tho Louvre, and other public buiidimr-j the ornament and glory of Paris, m-t.-r-pieces of architecture, rich in association of historical fame, and cor-laining trea-una trea-una fart that could never bo rep;avd Nothing was sacred in their eye. Kvun the r puleonic column in the Place V-n-dome, covered with sculptured bas-reliefs of tho martial glories of France, they love od to tho ground. All lint wai re-lined, re-lined, monumental asd grand wm odious to them, lor, like tho Goths and VandaU, they warred on civilisation, ihe roagmlUent range of the Tullories whs burned to tho ground, the Louvre narrowly escapiftjr a liko fute. The Hotel do Villo, which has coit millions, and was one of tho finest cdilice in Europo, became- a mas3 of smoking i ruins. A littlo longer and nil tho Eacrtd . edilices would have boon given up to tho jflamea, and Paris itself might bavu ceased to ezist. Trains of powder woro found luirl nrnt- nnt-.l to blow up tho city and leave it a wreck. Novor in tho worst times no, not even in tho bloody revoluiion of 1779, did such iiends arise to d'dgraco tho human Bhapo they wore, and to dishonor the name of man. These infuriated demons wore fougbt by tho French army under the conduct of Thiers, Gambella, and tho republican leudurs as tho enemies of France, liborty, and Chr'stian prin-cip'es. prin-cip'es. Thoy wore tbo legitimato successors suc-cessors of Itobospiorro, Danton and Marat, and tho men who during the re;gn of terror covered France w th havoc and massacre Foiled hero, their uim is now to repeat tbo same scenes iu republican America, and on the ruins ol our institutions to erect their own arbitrary arbi-trary rule, with tho guillotine as tho instrument in-strument of their vwigeanco. Let tlx savairo barbarities, tho inc ndiarism. and the licentiousness of tho communist! of 17fc'J and 171 in Franco warn all Americans of the fato reserved for this now happy country should it fall into tbo hands of the same cluas of men. Leaving the Tribune editor to define his exact position in J rogvird to tho thnories and acts i of the Paris commune, wo should i say that the spirit exhibited and the recommeudations brought forward by him in regard to this community, show that he is marching in the very direction in Utah that the leaders of the Paris commune traveled, up to the point when they were able to declare their actual intentions and enforce them in plunder, rapine and oioou. xne inuune commnjust recommends re-commends that congress shall disfranchise dis-franchise the people of Utah. What would follow? The Tribune communist commun-ist would be the ruler in Utah. We can faintly imagine the scenes that would be enacted here in that caso, il the language of the communist editor furnishes any index to his feelings. Only yesterday he took Chief Justice Schaefler severely to task for a simple act of humanity in changing the place of confinement of an old, sick man to more comfortable quarters than he was occupying. This is the true spirit displayed by the infamous Paris commune in dealing with the venerable archbishop o! that city: It matters not with tho Tribune communist that Dr. Clinton has only been indictod by u grand jury, and that American law holds him inno cent until ho is convicted, this communist com-munist scourge not only condems the order of the judge that alleviates his misery, but adds to his malicious utterances the functions of prosecut iug attorney and jury. Jeter Clinton knows more of the guilt? secrets of tbo church than any man out-sido out-sido of tho ii nt presidency. For nearly a scoro of years ho has boen enlrusteJ with the important duty of arranging the details of every midnight assassination, every raid upon tho property of obnoxious obnoxi-ous individuals, every assault upon thcii persons and liberties. Is it not almost timo for all decent persona in this city, to repudiate the communistic editor of the Tribune: If by one supreme effort, tho men who have allowed this newspaper incubus in-cubus to throttle them and nearly crush out their manhood, could now throw him off, they would gain self-respect self-respect and the community might recover much of its old prosperity and the confidence of the outside world, which that sheet has done its best tc unsettle and destroy. r |