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Show ' Human Fungus THIS case of the -wretch Hillstrom is really , a notice served upon the people and the - peace officers of this whole country to keep in J mind that "eternal vigilance is the price 'of lib- ierty," and the call to every man who loves order or-der and believes in law, to he on the alert. i When arrested, the first letter Hillstrom wrote was to that Haywood who was tried for wholesale whole-sale murders in Idaho, who was necessarily ' cleared because the evidence against him was the unsupported testimony of a self-confessed assas-( assas-( sin, but who at the same time was convicted in ' the thought of every man familiar with what had t been going on for years in Colorado and which t culminated in the assassination of Governor Steuenberg of Idaho. Haywood was quiet for a year or two after his neck escaped the noose in Idaho and then commenced to preach anarchy. Why he is permitted to continue that work is a , . mystery. It would be entirely legal to arrest him on a charge of conspiracy to anarchise the "United '" States, make our country as much worse than Mexico as our people are stronger of brain and determination than Mexicans, and easy to convict him. Were he and a few others like him silenced or sent to the rock pile, it would have a soothing sooth-ing effect upon the whole band of slimy and i skulking blatherskites who, stealing the holy ', name of honest labor for a text, preach contempt for righteous laws and hurl anathemas at needed i order. ' This case of Hillstrom accentuates the need of I our people to put forth moreexertions to throttle I" " T;liIsmena'ce"tiratls"liangrng"o-VeT"oTn:laTidarrd i converting weak-minded men and women to the f . belief that they are entitled to comforts that they f never earned, and to the belief that a government jjf which permits some men who are rich to retain their wealth while so many are poor, is unjust. Our state of Utah should move in this matter. i u There are several of these miscreants in this city, I -' If the police cannot be made to act, the sheriff should be on the alert and when one of these T creatures starts a harangue against order and law, call him down; when a band of them halt 1 before a business house to intimidate decent peo- f pie from entering, disperse them; if in private they preach their treason, haul them up and make F them show why they should not bo punished as t vagrants. . :, They, like wolves at night, make such a noise I as to carry the idea that the woods are full of I them, but a little sunlight of justice shining down ; . upon them would show them but as a few-vagrant k coyotes that who, when left to themselves can fill the night with howls, but skulk shambling away under the light of the dawn. 1 It is a shame that such creatures should be if permitted to vitiate weak brains and make de- cent people apprehensive of possible coming trouble. |
