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Show BLOWING UP OF STOCK EXCHANGE Rival hatreds in the eirrle ol labor union., in N w York t'ity is said to have been the cause of the disastrous wplosion in Wall Street last Septem jber which killed forty persons and injured in-jured 160 more. That is the subsiante of a sensaiionJ printed by the Evening World of New I York. The story presents an Improbable Improb-able side. Why men With only a labor grudge against their fellow workers should enter inio a conspiracy to blow , hundreds of men to untimely deaths is I not clear to the average mind w hich irecoils from the thought of deliberate i murder. But in .m' organisation, high or low . 'embracing men of different tempera ments, offenses against society may be, lexpected In these days of abnormal conditions, men are doinc the unex- peeled, the unlooked for. There la hys Iteria. Minds have been unbalanced, and agitators arc seeing "red." Take for instance the last election. There were labor leaders so carried away with their own theories tb thought it possible to organize an In 1 dependent party and sweep the nation, and yet they did not alu a single candidate of any description any place In th- United States, and the Repub llcan party Is estimated to have ou the nation by seven million votes. Men are not thinking along sane lines. The old guide posts have been removed and people are going astray The most Improbable things are being accepted and acted on. It may require two or three years, or even more, to bring the people back! to the rational. There has been too i much mental strain, due to the fact that the war created a new world ol thought and supplied unending excitement. |