SOCIALISTIC RIOTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 7 August 1886, Page 2

SOCIALISTIC RIOTS.

A cprresnondent. writing to the Truth Seeker on the subjects of thejkte Socialisticriots in Chicago"and<|Hwhere in America, points out that tho police of the city mimed, "charged.admass meeting from which no riot promised to spring/' "It is n6t,".thßi:writer continues," ore* tended that at Milwaukee-a single one of these ferociouß rioters were shot.'■! Ont of the five victims; one Was a school boy armed only with .his boftks. jtanther was an aged cripple.who wasJeediog fowls;: _The- other? •,Had no weapons. None of the' heroes who shot them ware s injured iu the affray. This is sttangr, but something stratlgeris behind. I have observed that iu inch cases neither.soldiers nor rioters; ever get hurt. It Is always .innocent pebpleV- "> Can you for-: give a sceptic- suggesting, as the reason that there are never any %i soldiers and innooeat people there ? Tho jftlwanke* affair was a cold-blooded-massacre., The, St Louis tragedy,, a, few "weeks .earlier, was »"cold-blooded massacre. '.Similar, : •atrocities are wmnutfed at ovory strike,. for no other purposeifJiHa to intimidate . .thepeople. .AtChicago the police'.ad- .. yanced with drawn •■, revolvers, .crying;.-. .'shoot '.Thisiirastjhe.peoplo '•• were not which the Constitution flaygjjjrhavfl & . .right to do, and tlws;hougEMey would : : . •my the being shot-.at- by '•• doingalttle shooting,"-' 'With.regard 'to •'-. the useordynamite t|is; ; wni»r remarks-: . -"You say; eysa in war ootiatloa should use such horrible-murderous weapons as dynamite bomb».."'.THe Austrian Qrfcrnment thinks differently. So the Jepitliets,'.-■'■' barbaroßS,' ! '' i' owwlj.,' etc.;. now applied", to'dynamite applied to.gunjJo^der.. r init« (jay. -Yet gtiupowder ftperiied«d J sp'e«s and ewords ■ with the pfridoiical.-result #iat,.war is far less e«M(Binaiy;=,now|'thatt formerly. And dynamite wiil:&r|edeit,.witathe - result, I hope, of an end to waraltogether. •;• '-"•■"•''