Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-08-01


Order Restored.
As predicted last week the great STRIKE
has come to an end without repetition o.
the bloody scenes of the beginning. There
is still some disturbance on several routes
of travel, but nothing of any serious ma
ture.
The strike on the New York Central
amounted to little, there being only day
or two that the Albany demonstration was
serious in results. The prompt action Of
the authorities and the general good sense
of the workmen enabled most of the mill
tia to 90 to their homes at the close of the
week
In Chicago and San Francisco the "dan-
gerous classes" made an effort to have
things their own way and on Thursday a
dozen or twenty men were killed in
Chicago in riots with the police and troops,
The mayor was not efficient but notwith-
standing his course, there was no great
difficulty in preventing much loss of life
or property. The Chicago people in fact
seem 10 be most disturbed because the OPP
portunty to kill off a lot of wretches who
improved the strike rs an occasion for riot,
was not more thoroughly improved
The San Francisco hoodlums of course
abused the Chinese as much as they were
able The disturbances were short-lived,
however, and quiet soon restored to the
entire city.
Gov. Hartranft of Pennsylvania on his
return took a large body of troops and
opened the Pennsylvania Central ut once.
A body of United States troops arrested
fifty srokers at Johns town who had been
stoning the train the troops were in. These
rioters will soon be tried. The strikes
among the coal mines still continue and
will probably be the longest lived fall.
A noticeable feature of all this :" re-
bellion" is that United States troops have
a pretty clear course given them wherever
they appear. The foolish policy adopted
in the last Congress of weakening the
army has thus had very enlightening
commentary upon it. Still the army has
been employed in doing just the sort OF
thing that there has been So much howl |
about during the last half dozen years-il |
has been " bolsterng up state govern
ments," and it would have been rather in
tereslng if Zepp, the Martinsburg striker,
had insisted that lie was governor of
West Virginia." and sent word to the
president that if lie would withdraw those
troops he would show he needed no asss-
lance in dealing with Mr.. Matthews who
was laboring under the delusion that he
was governor.
The most contemplate exhibition made
during the strike was that by Gov. Blue
Jeans Williams of Indiana. Instead of
asking the president for troops being one
of the " Tilden elected but Hayes counted
in kind-he tried to have the Secretary
of War send him help: of course he
didn't get it, being too ignorant or bigoted
to call for it in the way provided by the
Constitution.
The strikers lose by their proceedings of
course. Nobody gains anything exccp
the loafers who joined the mob for pur-
poses of robbery, unless what the country
has learned is to be taken into account |
Perhaps the school is not dearer than that |
Of experience always is. Folks now real
lie the changed conditions of American
social life and can take measures that will
be of value in dealing with that changed
condition.
And with this lesson well improved there
will be hereafter quick dealing with rotous
characters. There will be too more active
opposition to that pandering to depraved
minds and appetites which prepares the
way for the still worse teaching of com
munists and protested enemies of law and
order.