The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-08-12
GENERAL FRICK.
Why are not he and His Co-Pirates
Indicted?


THR GUILTY LET ALONE THE
COUNTRY is RULED 81 MONEY BAGS.
Senator Wilkinson Call of Florida
has recently made the fullest argument
on the subject He said:
To-day, Mr.. President, we witness a
scene upon the banks of the Mononga-
hela River, in the State of Pennsylva-
MIA, which is we'll calculated to excite
the gravest apprehensions. AS the
curtain is lifted, we behold a standing
army, we behold trained troops armed
and EQUIPPED with the most approved
munitions of war, and vessels of war
prepared and arranged for hostile pur-
poses, and without the authority either
of the Uuited States or of the State of
Pennsylvania.
Upon the other side are citizens Of
the United States to the number of
several thousand, skilled men, laborers,
capable men, valuable and necessary
part of the people and of our industrial
economy. Behind them is an organ
ization probably of million men,
sympathizing with them in their feel
ings, having common aim with them,
associated for the purpose of protecting
their interests and obtaining a proper
compensation for their labor. They are
prepared to resist the approach Of this
hostile array and hostiities become
fragrant.
The one party attacks the other, and
death ersues. All this in a government
of the people. deriving its powers from
the contest of the governed Observing
this great public opinion and how
widely it may extend, how dangerous it
Is to the preservation Of property, as
well as to the continuance OF peaceful
relations amongst our people, is it not
proper that some method should be
provided by which peace and content
ment shall be resorted to the people
Who S it that under our form OF
institutions has the power to levy an
army, to provide navy, to organizs a
vessel with the munitions of war; and
and where is the authority to be found
for either a state or a citizen of the
United States to make hostile array OF
armed men, organized as "troops," for
the purpose of asserting his rights
whether it be proper conception or a
wrongful one Of his personal rights and
interests =?
Mr.. President, we have some light
upon that subject, and it is somewhat
singular that, instead Of assisting these
workmen, these citizens Of the United
States, in resisting TROOPS" hostile
army, a fleet of ships of war, are to be
suppressed by a military force under
the authority of the State. without
even judicial inquiry as to the guilt
of the persons who levied this standing
army and marched in hostile array to
attack them. There is authority for the
opinion that man has right to resist
a standing army under the command OF
an individual marching through the
country and forcibly exercising power
and authority.
Where then comes the authority of
Gen. Frick or the Carnegie corporation
to levy war by raising and keeping
TROOPS and ships Of war, and using
them to make war for the remedy of a
grievance 4? Why is it that while these
poor men and laborers are assailed with
the power of the State, the persons who
have provided them with munitions
of war without the sanction or author
ity of the State or of the United States
have no mention made of them and DC
indictment or prosecution of them Ii
is not because there is no warrant or
precedent in the construction Of oul
law of treason by the highest tribunal
known to our lEws.
What is levying war? 1t is the
gathering together of men, even with
out arms, for the purpose of remedy
ing their own grievances forcibly. L
must be under our Constitution an or
Sanization of men if not with arms il
their hands, with arms at hand, or il
process Of obtaining them for the pur-
pose Of subverting the authority Of thu
Government, not permanently, no
altogether, but for that particular pur-
pose, remedying their grievance: what
ever it may be.
The Constitution goes further. |
gives us some idea Of what is meant b,
the levying of war. 1t says that "Con
gress shall have power to rise and sup