The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-26
Baltimore and Pittsburg in
the Hands Of the Mob.
Numbers Killed and WOunded---
Troops Called out in 4 States.
The Mob Outnumbers the
Military.
Runs on the Banks in st. Louis
and Chicago.

A CHEERFUL STATE OF AFFAIRS
AS we have all along foretold, the
United States is repeating.th expert
ence of England. In 1921, when Eng
land, in obediance to the selfish clam
ors Of the capitalists, proceeded to
force contraction of the currency and
specie resumption, the property of the
people shrank fifty per cent in value;
great suffering fell on the laboring
population, riots broke out in the large
cities and a standing army had to be
raised to COMPEL the people to starve
quietly. We have already experien-
ced the shrinkage of values and the
suffering of the laboring population.
we now have the riots and the blood
sheds and the troops shooting down
the people.
We hope the good sense of the peo-
pie will arrest this great danger; but
if the idle populations of the cities
should as a rule, take part in these
outbreaks, our institutions will be
subjected to terrible strain,-a strain
more severe than even that of the civil
war. EVERY DROP OF BLOOD THAT IS
SHED AND EVERY LIFE THAT IS TAX
EN-, ARE LEGITIMATELY CHARGEABLK
TO THAT SELFISH POLICY WHICH HAS
SET THE RIGHTS OF MONEY ABOVE THE
HAPPINESS OF MAN.
The following extracts give gen.
eral outline of the disturbance
On July 18th. the governor of West
Virginia called upon the president of
the United States for troops to sup
press an outbreak on the lines of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad; where
upon the president issued his procla-
nation, calling upon the rioters to dis
perse, and ordered troops to the scene
ofactiOn.
PITTsBURG, Pa, July 2O.-At twelve
o'clock last night Sheriff Fife, in compli-
, ance with request from the railroad off,
Gals, visited the strikers at Twenty eighth
street and ordered them to disperse. This
they refused to do. The sheriff remained
!, there until after three o'clock this morn
|
informed that trains should not go out il
they could prevent it, and that they did
! not care for any posse he could muster nor
, for any troops that could be brought out
Finding the strikers were not disposed
! to yield obedience to civil authority, the
n railroad officers decided to call upon the
E military. The following dispatches were
at once forwarded to Lieut.. Gov. Latta and
u Secretary Quay:
e PrrTsBpRG, July 10, 1S77-To Hon. Jno.
4 Latta, Lieut.. Gov. of Penna: have for
warded the following despatch to his ex-
> cellency Gov. Hartranft, at Harrisburg.
It Learning that he Is absent from the State,
: forward it also to you, for such action al
you deem your duty and power to render.
I, Sheriff of Allegheny County.
n The following is the dispatch above al
luded to-
2 Pittsburgh, July 10. 1SH.-To Hon.
+. John F. Hartranft, Governor Of Pennsyl-
e vania: A tumult, riot and mob exist on
the Pennsylvania railroad at East Liberty
" in the twelfth ward of Pittsburgh. Large
lr assemblages of people are upon the rail-
road and the movement Of freight trains
either east or west is prevented by intimi
d dation or violence, molesting and obstruct
II ing the engineers and other EN-
: Dloyees of the railroad il
= the discharge of their duties
n AS the sheriff Of the county. have en-
e, deavored to suppress the riot, but hav'
n not adequate means at my command to d.
so. and therefore request you to exercis'
a your authority in calling out the militi'
Sc to suppress the same.
IT, (Signedl T. 81. FIFE,
- Sheriff Of fsAlleghany County.
of =. -.
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