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Show THE SITUATION in San Francisco now is a sad commentary on the superiority of western institutions. When a city - one of the wealthiest and most important in America, is found in such a condition it must be conceded that the evil is deeply rooted. From every section of the country come comments on the murder of De Young; and though all journals deprecate the assassination, the universal verdict seems to be that such things are but the necessary out growth of a state of society which practically knows no law. Among other direct uterances the New York World speaks in this way of the occurrence: "For a long time De Young's newspaper was the organ of Kearney and his confederates, and did all the mischief in its power to the honest industries and the legislative interests of California. Finally De Young made a murderous attack upon the father of the man who has now murdered him, apparently because the elder Kalloch had been victorious in a contest of ???. De Young took a pistol and has perished by the pistol. He invited the fate which has beaten him. His own justification of his own unsuccessful attempt to murder the elder Kalloch is quite as complete a justification on precisely the same ground for the successful attempt of the younger Kalloch to murder De Young. If the vendetta were to be waged to the extermination of both families, there will very likely be little to regret. |