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Show WHOLESALE ASSASSINATION. A telegram from San Francisco tells of the discovery of an association there M hose purpose is wholesale assassination. The names of many prominent men appear ap-pear upon the- prospective list of the society, including Senators and Congressmen, Congress-men, Judges and Governors. All these men were to be killed on "general principles" prin-ciples" because they were obnoxious to the ultra-Socialists of San Francisco. A notable fact in connection with this society is that the four men who were arrested in Montgomery avenue are all Germans, and are members of the' Anti-Cooley Anti-Cooley League. In the rooms of the four men arrested were found a complete com-plete labratory and everything essential to the manufacture of dynamite. The society seems to have been prepared to carry on the business of assassination, and it is likely that operations MTould have been begun in a short while. It is generally gen-erally supposed that in Europe the Socialists Social-ists and Nihilists M'age war only on kings and the tyrannical system of government which everywhere prevails on the Continent, Conti-nent, but in America they are found waging wag-ing war on society at large. . Why shoujd it e so? In Europe they are supposed to cany' on their agitation and warfare for the purpose of compelling a recog nition of political rights. In America political rights are the common inheritance inherit-ance of the citizen, and the foreigner may make himself an American citizen on very easy terms, .n America they war upon society in contradistinction to government. gov-ernment. Their propaganda is in every M-ay destructive and in no M;ay constructive.- Their methods are far worse than the methods.of the vigilantes, for the vigilantes gave a M-arning toheir intended victims. mat there are many evils in society and that many wrongs exist, is confessed by all, but the Socialists and Nihilists propose to destroy human life to right these wrongs. They may destroy life, but that will not cure the evils which exist ex-ist in society. To make the State the guardian of the lives and property of the citizens M'ould be but to invite evils of another kind. The MTongs of society are as old as sin itself, and they will exist so long as society itself .shall be. These! evils may be palliated to a very considerable consider-able extent, but they will never be completely com-pletely eradicated. But the methods of the San Francisco society, whatever may be their M'rongs, are the methods of the murderer, and those M'ho employ them should be treated as the common enemy of mankind. - - - " : |