| Show WILL THERE BE AN UPRISING is a question that is agitating the public mind Is the country in danger from an anarchist uprising TP this une uneasy aay Is of welt an eyl evidence dence that the nation is not entirely safe 8 afe from such an appalling ordeal the popular anxiety to have the condemned chicago men executed is but a manifestation of the sense of danger it is imagined imig ined that an appeal to the lears fears of the th lawless element will act as a deterrent this may prove to be a mistaken estimate of their character j doubtless it would at least fall fail to ap ply to many of them this is indicated by the tae attitude of A R parsons who spurns the idea of any tender to him bun of clemency to save him irom from the tie gallows of absolute freedom he would preter prefer to die than ban accept of a compromise in the shape of a commutation of sentence tren men of his bis stamp more or less numerous among his bis class do rot bot value their klives sufficiently to deter them from putting t their air theories into operation when opportunity port unity alty presents that thi the execution of the anarchists will paralyze the anarchist archaist fraternity at large laie is exceedingly doubtful that it would be more likely to stimulate them to diabolic activity is much more probable there appears to be no small degree of apprehension that tae execution of the seven condemned m mn men n will cause a uprising in chicago many influential people of that city cita are said to be looking toward tle the event j with dread that the feeling of f insecurity is shared to bome extent by the powers that be is more than probable it is noticeable in this connection that at the time the executions are to take place providing they are to be consummated a national drill of all the available troops of the united states army will be in progress at chicago the selection of that city for a national military encampment may possibly have been accidentally coincidental with the executions cut cat ions but bat the general belief is directly to the contrary it is viewed as a measure of safety lor for the a oppression signoff ol 01 any outbreak that may occur upon this point the following clis dispatch patch from washington lately appeared in a leading philadelphia paper an astonishing rumor comes here from chicago sources that the national drilli drill arranged to take place in that city next monta has a deeper purpose than a mere amere competition at arms it to is well known that citizens at chicago have bare feared from the time of the announcement no of the sentence of death of the anarchists that the exe execution cation of the ath penalty would be a signal or a revengeful outbreak 11 should this opinion be confirmed as it a fact by placing its correctness beyond question it will certainly give the ground for an increased estimate of their own po er and im it will be taken as a very marked acknowledgment of the potency of the communistic fraternity as it would be no ordinary element cleme ag of danger within a state that chat under a side pretext to the concentration tra tion at the th point of anticipated peril of all the available military force of the nation the question then presents itself la in case the anticipated uprising does not materialize is danger from an outbreak removed the answer must be that it it ex existed up to and at the time of ahe he execution it will still exist that chica was competent to be bean an exciting cause up to that point operates subsequently la 12 the firme same capacity from motives of revenge corn com coined with the common one of spoliation and plunder reasoning Reason ine along upon this line I 1 it must be held that whatever preventive precautions were nee needed dedin in the first place would be continuously requisite their original purpose not having been dissipated let us look however at the anarchist question as a whole it if tile the condemned men are executed that event would appear to constitute chicago the central point of danger if on the other hand band the aval available lable troops are concentrated there the peril is distributed to other large cities offles known to be anarchist hotbeds for the reason that from them would be withdrawn whatever of a as national tio us I 1 military force might be essential in an emergency to restrain or suppress similar outbreaks this idea seems all the more forcible when it is remembered that sympathy for the condemned men and the desire for vengeance on their account are not confined to chicago they are as deep and broad in other places as there the fact should not oe lost sight of either that the vengeful tactics of the anarchist are an not unlike those of the indian in one particular his retaliatory to instinct does not necessarily ao manre confine its operations to those who are the actual perpetrators of eny any real or imaginary wrong any bloated bondholder capitalist monopolist or public official is esteemed proper prey if the available army tomes forces are to oe be concentrated at chicago ostensibly to engage in a national drill but in reality as a safety precaution geould should the anarchists break out elsewhere they could not be satel safely transported to the scenes of coull conflict 11 ct as that would leave the queen city exposed and the opportunity for destruction to there be opened taking to in the whole situation it must mu at be admitted that if chicago is in danger from a violent outbreak from the cause under consideration then so is the country at large that the atmosphere mo sphere is not free from peril can be seen at a glance the presence of so se much smoke in the air to is an indication ot of the existence exis teace of fire the I 1 h sin ic expressed may be looked up upon ft speculative ideas lu i it tolu ture possibilities and th the us associated with them aro are lg ge eue r ay iy bof of f that nature it will be abse red ed however that the thread of rea i runs through the speculative thag glit jere ife are not inclined to be so pessimistic as to feel auy any degree decree ot 01 dainty that the execution of the con coa deigned chicago men will cause an immediate outbreak eab eak that there will be in the future f ture of the country however an uprising of the sinister ee ment chica has been of late years gw dwelling elling in numbers and strength appears but a question ot of time they represent a poisonous ingredient in the blood of the social body there being no known process of expunging it from the system an eruption is almost a foregone conclusion the question is an important and in we me past our views in relation to it have been more or less frequently and plainly expressed |
