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Show THE EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK Let us hope the bomb explosion in fronl of the .1. I'. Morgan and company building in Nc York City, which hjlled persons and injured 200, will be found to have been caused by an accidenl It dors net seem possible t" one living in Ogden thai men deliberately delib-erately work ; making n huge bomb and then bo place the death dealing instrument as to murder men, women and children they have never met and for whom thej could h no hatt ed Bui there are conspirators in the larger cities who stop ;ii nt ti in cr i" further their anschistic policies. The grcal majority of them arc men wh. have come to America from 'ho hopeless masses of Europe In their na-tive na-tive lands they have experienced oppression and there their minds have hern filled with evil designs. Arriving in this country, thov fail tu realise thjey have come under hew environment in which they mn reap as they bow, with opportunities only limited t. the energy and resolve of th.- indiv idual. To ihis source much of the dyna-1 miring of "the pasi has been traced and, if tins is a bomb crime; wed prediet that the prepetrator will !. found tu be one of thai '-lass Occurring on the day before the nation-wide observance of "Con-d stitution day," the outr;. drives home a pn-at lesson m the necessity! of having our unassimilated population understand more full two undisputahle facts: One is that there must he law and otfdci in this country, The other is that there i no injustice in the United States which H cannot be corrcoiod by the people. With ample voice tu he heard and respected, public opinion need' hut condemn almsrs to have those abuses ended, What more can the disgruutled and the dissatisfied ask for" What more Bhould they expect ? H Whenever the bomb is employed notice is served that men have ; lost faith in themselves and have "-eased to feel they have an appeal capable f reaching tin- intelligence of an enlightened people, or the H sold of a nation founded on justice. H When Governor ('ox as in ( ';d n on Wednesday, two detective H rode on the running hoard of the automobile in which ho was con-H con-H veyed to the Alhnmhra and in the car behind was a newspaper friend H who supervised nil tin; arrantr-ments and insisted on certain precftU- tions. Up to the time James A. Garfield was assassinated, our prom- j H inent men felt fro.- to gn any place in this country without extraordi nary safeguards. Then came the shooting of .McKinley at the Buffalo H exposition, and later the attack on Roosevelt in the campaign of 1912 B Now. no man ever aspiring to tin- presidency as a nominee of on H of the big parties is deemed to In- safe from the dagger. th pistol H or the bomb in the hands of those who think in the terms of anarchy, W and the unidentified mus1 be kept hack to ward off tragedy W It i6 difficult for the balanced man to understand the bottl) H I thrower, who, impelled by a real or imaginary grievance, seeks to cripple the most kindly hand ever extended to him, and to destroy an W institution which offers him more than any other human agency or Hl government ever offered to human kind. |