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Show I REV0LDT10XAKY CONDITIONS. All of the most active and dangerous danger-ous elements of revolution are rife in the land today. It high time for the conservative masses of the law and order people in society to become alarmed and to eet about the task of devising ways and means to avert the threat of anarchy. From several points of the compass armies ot the worklesa people are marching upon Washington to present what they term a living petition to the government for work. This constitutes a touching a3 well aB a threatening picture of misery. It wont do to say thes8 men are tramps, lawless and consciencelees rogues. In their ranks are many eteady-oing, honest and industrious mechanics who are idle lor no fault of of their own. They would gladly work but there is no work for them. For nearly three years a panic has existed. Mills are closed down and the rule of reduction has broadly prevailed. They see no hope in the future save in the immediate interposition of the govern, ment. All is peaceful now. They seek peacefully and without blow or boasting, but firmly, to have their distresses dis-tresses relieved. After these condi tions have existed a few months longer and they are pinched a little more cruelly by the times prevailing, they will eet mad The blood idea will grow and their peaceful efforts will be abandoned. Then God save the great republic, the pride of the liberty loving of the world. We have had strikes, lock-outs, riots , ana aisoraers ail over trie land. Only a little while since the great works of the Carnegies saw the death-dealing Winchesters at wr.rk, the miners in Tennessee at war with the state authorities, author-ities, and within a week or ten days ihe corke workers in eaetern Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania were busy shooting each other down like dogs. In Chicago one hundred hund-red thousand men are to be locked out. There are twenty thousand idle men in New York alone and all other American- cities have proportionate number of idle and desperate men. .. There axe nine hundred thousand men enliBted in the industrial armies. These men come from fighting progenitors. The j are good soldiers, brave men. They are not of the scum of the earth, They are patriotic men who, while they lore their country, also love theii wives and children. When these now peaceful but misguided Boldiera become angry, blood will flow. Then comes the very opportunity so long waited for bv the anarchists, the n'hilistB, tLe socialists, the communists, and the restless of the world. They will pour into the country like Tultures hastening hasten-ing to the feast furnished by the dead republic. It will then be too late to adopt peaceful reformation to pach'y the distressed but inflamed masses. The email division of the army now at Ogdec are peaceful. But the terrible terri-ble hardships through which they have already passed, does not dismay them, and it is but the indication true and unmistakable of the terrible earnestness earnest-ness of the men in the task, insane aB it is, npon which they have entered. Do not tell us that there is no danger in this exhibition of their eteadfast-nesB eteadfast-nesB and declared purposes. Their uncomplaining endurance but pro claim their fortitude and determination determina-tion to work a change. We have a vast number in Utah who sympathize with them, and we fear that many of the men in the militia could not be relied re-lied upon to shoot into the bosoms of their distressed brother working-men if it ever became necessary to do so. It will take the wariest and wisest measures to contend with them, Governor Gov-ernor West will do all in his power as a man and as the governor of this territory ter-ritory to preserve Utah from harm. But the fact is that dcwn deep in his great big, warm and lovin heart thi-re is proiound oympainy ior the cause of the commonweal. No human gentleman gentle-man who studies the distresses of the people, can fail to pity and sympathise. This is not a circumstance which would aid strength to the law were such a cjnflict as the one expected actually to ojeur.oThe generous policy oi forbear aicethois one indicated now. In our judgment it is the only one. Should B ich a war once begin, we must stand for the law, but would there be enough of us to win the battle? We doubt it |