The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-26

resistance had been threatened; yet che
governor masged there an army Of 1000
or 5000 men; Thousands more were under
arms in reserve; and even the naval re-
serve was held waiting orders for the
squadron to proceed to the lake and
make naval demonstration at Buffalo,
When the troops arrived what did they
doP Did they aid the civil authorities
in making arrests or in executing process
Of any characterH No, they were there
as an army. All civil processes were
utterly set aside and ignored; and that
which any private citizen must have re-
sorted to legal proceedings to accomplish,
the state sent an army to perform for the
railroad companies.
In Idaho, too, the state and the federal
troops took the place Of the laws instead
of coming to their assistance. And so it
has been everywhere. Troops have not
in a single strike been called out to help
execute legal process, but always as the
armed servants Of employers, to overawe
the worklngmen by threatened battle or
by actual fusllades, until It has become
perfectly understood that a strike by the
employees Of any great, rich corporation
will be frustrated by the military Vio-
lenCe Of the state, or, II the employer
needs it, by the standing army Of the ma
tion. Who that knows aught Of Constltu-
tlonal law needs to be told that in every
one Of these instances the use Of military
forces as substitutes for the civil laws
and civil processes was lsgrant, trea-
Ionable usurpatiOn? Turn again to the
declaration of independence and read the
of one of the kIng's,usurpa-
ions:
He has affected to render the military lnde-
Dendent OF, and superior TO, the civil power!
9lartertng large bodies Of armed troops among
Isl; protesting them, by q mock trial, from
punishment for any murder which they should
'OAAAhAg VA bARO AhAfSOAelsugO VA ehsoO SbssbO1s
The national guard at Buffalo wsntonly
hot and killed boy. Warrants were
ssued by q civil magistrate for the arrest
II the murdersrs; and it was openly de-
dared that national gusrdsmen are not
to the civil courts for mur-
lers committed as sOldiersl Has any
one yet heard that these military assas-
,ins-the members Of this superior order
Of privileged murderers-have been
made to answer for their crlmeH Were
they even tried, convicted and sentenced
10 death like mere ordinary willful MUIR
1erers, who doubts for a moment that
they would be Immediately psrdoned at
the instance Of those who had the murder
donep
Has it not been proposed to keep up
regular army in Pennsylvania for the ex-
press purpose Of putting down strikers
without resortlng to mere "due process
Of laWH" Has not General Snowdon, of
Pennsylvania declared, that discontsnted
poverty must be pacI6sd, not by appeas-
ing its hunger, but by bringing armies
against 1T Has not the press teemed
with echoes Of this suggestionH And Is
not this now clearly demonstrated to be
the policy henceforth to be pursuedS
Might not the wage-worker Of America
repeat the complaint Of their forefathers
when they declared of their king:
He has Rbdicated government here by declar-
ing US out Of his protection, and Waging war
against us2
But-"stlll there's more to follow"
Aroused by the events of the past three
the labor organizations have re-