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Show A FOREIGN DEVIL. The assassination of a blameless man like ex-Governor ex-Governor Steunenberg is so utterly un-American that all people recoil before it. It is a notice that the methods of the canaille of Europe have been introduced into our country, and that the perpetrators were not born on American soil. The native-born American may in a quarrel, quar-rel, in the heat of passion take human life, but he is never an assassin. If nothing else were left to restrain, his own self-respect would resent res-ent the thought of such an act. This land is open to the foreign-born. More than a million aliens came into our country last year, The most of them were worthy men and women and most of them are worthy men and women and are most welcome. But the methods of the canaiile are also imported. The death of Frank Steunenberg was probably due to a society that insults our free institutions in that cowardly way. Probably the real assassins drew lots with a hundred more to determine who should be delegated to do the sinister work and are no more guilty than a hundred others. The effort should not only be to apprehend the real murderers, but to discover the gang, for not one of them is fit to breathe the pure air of this country, coun-try, and there is no safety for honest and true men while they are out of prison. They are of the same school of the men who were a terror to the state of Pennsylvania so long. Pennsylvania dealt with her thugs, so should Idaho, so should Utah, so should every state in which one of the accursed gang lifts his crest, until the last one of them is disposed of. |