| Show I ARRESTING THE LEADERS I The telegraph brings news that the Sheriff of Sweetwater county has arrested some twentytwo of the rioters who were engaged in the massacre of Chinamen at Rock Springs The charges against the prisoners are those of murder arson rioting and robbery things of which some one was certainly guilty If these men who have been arrested by the Sheriff of Sweetwater county are the guilty parties par-ties it is to be hoped that they maybe may-be convicted of their crimes and i that they may pay the penalty of those I crimes The Territory of Wyoming can I not afford to have it said of her that murder mur-der and arson within her confines can go unpunished Vhile she owes a duty to I herself in this respect slip also owes protection to all people within her borders bor-ders no matter what their race no matter mat-ter what their color no matter how unpopular un-popular they may be It is to be hoped that the rioters of Rock Springs may be brought to justice in the interests of the law of civilization and humanityfor if the Rock Spring rioters may go unwhipped of justice it will be an invitation and a I license to mobs everywhere If men may murder and burn and plunder in I Wyoming Because they do not likea certain cer-tain class of laborers why may not the Anarchists and Socialists of the eastern I cities raise tho red flag and murder and burn with impunity The Anarchists I and Socialists complain of the employer I and would kill him and all who belong to his class while the men at Rock Springs complain of the employed the class for whom they pretend so much sympathy Lawlessness has come to dictate the law and mens baser passions pas-sions assume to decide all things The Rock Springs massacre is a terrible and horrible thing of itself but it has a great importance as showing the state of mind and feeling with hundreds of thousands Within a fortnight the country has viewed with alarm the demonstrations of the Knights of Labor on the Wabash system sys-tem and it is not at all improbable that had the Wyoming massacre not occurred there would have been serious trouble Qn the Wabash but the deplorable massacre mas-sacre at Rock Springs has given a check to the headlong tendencies of n Any of the laboring classes toward anarchy And it is well that the check has come The massacre at Rock Springs has its lesson and if it can but teach employers and employed that they are mutually dependent the one upon the othor and that each has its rights which the other is bound to respect the country may safely hope to see no more uch outrages as that at Rock Springs a week ago und to see a better and more considerate and conciliatory feeling grow up between labor and I I capital |
