Show THE SAN FRANCISCO STRIFE V t most serious situation confronts the iho people of San Francisco Several lives haY have been taken in the rioting over oer the street railway strike and un unless unless less prompt repressive measures are arc adopted more lives will be sacrificed The Th only people killed or seriously inJured In Injured injured up to yesterday iy wore strikers or orth orUi th Ui thir ir it sympathizers They were shot H u n by b strikebreakers taken into San Francisco by the street railway com company company pany The wonder is that more people were not killed for according to the reports the men who manned manne the tho cars were all armed with revolvers and fired valley olley after volley volle into the ranks ranks of the i mob lob I Nobody seriously serious I disputes the right of the company to protest protect t Its Us property The mob hurled stones and bricks at atthe atthe atthe the cars and endeavored in every way to impede their progress The police seemed to be utterly powerless to pre prevent prevent vent ent the demonstration At the same time it is to be doubted if it was necessary necessary sary san for the carmen to do the shooting they did Not one of them was badly hurt and they could undoubtedly have hae protected themselves without the shed shedding shedding shedding ding of blood The cause of or neither the company c nor the strikers was advanced by b Tuesdays s proceedings It is a great grent a very er great pity pit that the Francisco city government is not In the hands of officials in whom the public reposes confidence Mayor Ia or Is under indictment for hood bood ling and is shortly to be tried There Is a very ery general Impression that his conviction Is Thus the city starts under a bad handicap sympathies are with the union which fact Is not to his hia discredit The dis dt discreditable creditable thing is the cloud under which he stands Peace committees were at work yesterday yes es endeavoring to bring about an early earl settlement of the strike It is to tobe tobe tobe be sincerely sincere hoped that they will be le successful sr l for the state of anarchy un under under under der which San Francisco labored Tues Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday day could not Ions long be endured And itis It Itis itis is to be e hoped too that the s sympathizers mpa of the strikers and the strikers themselves will refrain from further acts of ot violence They Tho gain nothing by them On the other hand they the Ine Inevitably Inevitably lose The action of the union carmen in Salt alt Lake during the brief trouble here was as altogether commendable They The took no part in the demonstrations and their voices were always alwa s raised for peace So they won wOl the sympathy of the thc public The San Francisco carmen cannen tan inn also win that sympathy if they the will show themselves o be cit citizens citizens citizens And every strikebreaker who ho fired one revolver shot unnecessarily should be prosecuted to the uttermost limit of the law |