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Show il San Francisco's Clear Duly. iH San Francisco is in a fix sure enough. Ex- H Mayor Schmitz from tho county jail advertises H himself a candidate for re-election as Mayor, ana H Abe Ruof, under a keeper, Is still permitted to re- IfH ceive friends, and those friends are the scurvy pol- H iticians with whom he associated and whom he H used when ho was robbing the city, and the infor- H enco Is, he is laying his plans to again restore H the rule of the robbers. jH This makes the alternative plain. If the de- IH cent people of that city do not arouse themselves, H put aside their local, petty differences and unite H to redeem their city, they will find that there H are things worse than earthquake and firo, for they have reached a point where they cannot ad- vance any moro without outside help and men with money will not loan it to be used in. the up- building of a city when known thieves and hold- ups nro in central. It only required about half a dozen resolute men to redeem the city in 185C. True, there was no such thieving element to oust as there is there now, but tho present disease would yield to the Same treatment that wrought H the cure in 185G. iAnd it would not have to be administered In quite such heroic doses ns it was then. If Abe Ruef and ex-Mayor Schmitz and about twenty moro could be placed on a steamer sailing south or west or north, and given instructions that If they, returned within three years they would certainly be hanged, they would bo liable to keep 0 away and the air of the city would be wonderfully wonder-fully cleared. Then if a hundred of them were each to name the officers to be olocted, put the names in the same hat, then count them and nominate the men for tho various offices who had received the highest votes, and then go to work to see that they wore elected, their troubles would be over the day after oleotlon. It is quite possible possi-ble that they would And it necessary to banish a full hundred. They would have to have an organization to-do to-do this, an organization that the hundreds of toughs and thieves that infest the city would understand un-derstand from the first that they would have to answer to if their acts made it necessary. It is the easiest, quickest way to establish order, when affairs become intolerable. There is many a ruffian who in tho face of apparent ap-parent danger can still hold his front and make his bluffs. But let such an one know that he I being watched and that at any moment he is liable to be brought befpre a cqurt .from which i there is no appeal, and which suffers no delays in the execution of its decrees, and such a ruffian becomes discreet. It may be asked if this is not an appeal to mob law. The answer is, no, it is all appeal in favor of he people's rule without &Q -technicalities that hedge courts about. There is another feature to it. In time of war many thing3 are justified as a military necessity. Thore are necessities, ne-cessities, sometimes, in time of peace, where for self-preservation society is forced to enforce its primitive Inherent rights. San Francisco Is in a crisis of that kind right- now. S This reminds us that what underlies the great trouble in San Francisco is a .matter of deep concernment con-cernment to all this country. The Labor Unions combined to elect Schmitz Mayor. He was nqt fitted for the place. He was not onough practice in the business of the city to make a competent mayor. The success at the election drew to tho winning side the toughs, the heelers, the would-be thieves. The leader of all was a blatherskite lawyer and natural thief, Abe Ruef. He was a stronger man, intellectually, then Schmltei and he easily moulded the Mayor to his ways. Of course he had plastic material to work upon. By this time the Labor Unions had become a mighty trust in San Francisco. The bad men in the organization organiza-tion had gravitated to the front and they were already al-ready agrqsjlve when when the earthquake and lire gave thorn their opportunity. They immediately raised wasWashortened hours. The yowners of property who had to employ help ceased to be the masters of their own affairs. They not only raised wages and shortened hours, but they put sentries over their own men to see that they performed per-formed only about one-half the work that an energetic ener-getic and honest man would. It is safe to say that under this rule they drew from the crippled men of San Francisco who were seeking to restore re-store their places of business $3 for every ?2 that they earned. And if any man rebelled against this rule and sought to hire men outside the unions, his life and the lives of the men thus employed were put in jeopardy. In the meantime there was wholesale looting in every department of the city, the' chief manipulator manipu-lator being Abe Ruof. And while tho looting has been checked, affairs in other respects are not in much better condition. If the true men of San Francisco do not waive all other differences and band together and vote together, the toughs under the much blaspheme hajjilartie of labor will carry tho city again on election day. The same programme is being prepared for tho State of Nevada. Nevada has no militia and is but sparsely settled. This St. John who was to have lectured here on Tuesday night, was tho head and front of the organization that held Goldfleid in a state closely bordering upon anarchy for months last autumn and winter. The organization known as tho I. W.. W. which ho fathers is simply "a stand and deliver" game. Tho purpose is to make the mine owners divide with the miners; to make the mistress of tho house divide with tho servant girl. They care nothing for the laws of tho state, nothing for the rights of property. With them liberty means nothing but unbridled llcenso, and they stand ready to enforce their edicts with all kinds of terrorism up to dynamite. Thi is the situation which is thickening over all our.weatarn state today. It. is a situation that will have to be faced. The result will be one of iH three things. Property owners will manage their 'H own property, or permit the men who dictate how H work shall bo done to handle it for them so H .-..long as any property lasts, or the work of the ,H country will in groat part be closed down and properf owners will wait until this organization of hold-ups will have to find some other field to VH operate in or starve. -H |