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Show THE SHOOTING OF FKICK. A fool whose brain is diseased and reason unbalanced goes from New York to Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and shoots Manager Fkick of the Car-negie Car-negie works. He has no cause for it e.xecpt that Fkick had been prominent iuthe recent labor troubles at Homestead and thus brought himself to the attention of this murderous monomaniac. Society has a risrht, and indeed a duty, to rid itself of that sort of lunatics, but what sense is there in speculating upon the effect that Bergman's Berg-man's bullets may have upon the labor question? Wc do not believe any American workman in his normal senses would counsel coun-sel assassination ns a means of settling strikes. The Associated press, ever anxious to dish up blood curdling sensations, tried at first to connect this idiot with Herr Most' 8 anarchist sheet and then with some club that hires out members to kill capitalists. capital-ists. Even were that true it could not be charged to the account of the Homestead strikers any more than the assassination of President Gakfield by Guiteau could be charged to the account of the stalwarts at the time. lhe trouble in the Carnegie work is serious seri-ous enough without complicating it any more. It is unfortunate that at a time of intense excitement a madman should appear on the scene and shoot the central figure in the dispute, but madmen always do appear at a time of excitement, and the incident should have no significance outside of its individual individ-ual aspect. Bergman may deserve the straight jacket on the gibbet but it isn't fair to cast odium upon the strikers on his account. |
