ABSTRACT
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE derive from peoples who on other continents have warred against each other. Yet here they have been mainly peaceful. This nation is diverse and energetic and from the beginning has trusted its citizens with guns. Its peoples are restless, they are ambitious, and the social system draws upon cupidity. Yet out of such unpromising materials have grown wealth, serenity, and placid suburbs. This sleepy surface, however, has frequently been broken by sudden convulsions, strikes, riots, and armed skirmishes. This is the story of a sudden flash of bloodshed that erupted near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, at about 3:46 on the hot afternoon of September 10, 1897. Nineteen men died and at least thirty-nine were wounded. The date was, to the day, seventy-four years before the riot at Attica prison.
