| Show GOOD TO LEAVE ALONE in the convention at st louis this week there were a number of extremely radical utterances by some of the speakers ap eakers there is nothing remarkable about that of course for it was known that among the leaders who gathered ther esome are ultra radicals B but t a notable feature of the proceedings was the fact that the radical utterances te rances were cheered to the echo while the more conservative espres were received in some instances at least with positive disapproval I 1 this means it if it means anything that there is a very large element of the laboring classes that believes a policy of moderation is too slow or too weak to attain their purposes they want something that seems beyond reach in that way it may be urged that the man who thinks he can incite the laboring classes by inviting them to deeds of violence and make them look upon the chicago anarchists as martyrs has a poor opinion of the honor morality or patriotism of those working people it may be pointed out also that while there were martyrs at the haymarket riot in chicago they were the officers whose lives were sacrificed in defense of law and order and not mit the followers of the red flag who met their fate on the scaffold but the fact that E V debs and those of his style of leadership can get men to endorse their sentiments shows that among the trades union representatives there is a class which is deservedly held in poor estimation and which regards murderous methods as proper to redress grievances so far as utah people are concerned their experience and their opportunity of observation should impress upon them a strong lesson in this matter the exercise of sympathy in word and deed may be and ought to be given full play wherever there are subjects subject the abhorrence of anything tending to injustice and oppression should be encouraged but any tendency to resort to immoderate unlawful means to attain an end should be decried there should be in these valleys no thought or word of sympathy for a movement which looks to violent revolution as a possible resort to attain its ends the constitution and the government should be maintained in the letter and spirit of the great charter of human liberty the cause that sets itself up by unlawful violence must end as it began those who rely on the sword fall by the sword the agitation to change procedure or even to remedy evils in this land by a revolution contrary to the spirit of the american constitution is a thing to leave alone by the people of these mountains except in the way of their determined opposition if any of them fancy they have cause of complaint they can afford to do right themselves and trust in god to accord them justice and to deal mercifully with those who are in error and darkness |
