Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-11
RIGHTS OF LABOR.
AS Stated by the Chief Justice
of Pennsylvania.
ALSO THE RIGHTS OF EMPLOYERS

Allegheny County Grand Jury Charged as
to the Homestead Treason Cases-A
Presentation That viii Not Make O'Don-
nell, McLuckie, and Others More Com
fortsble-The Charge Very Much Against
the Strilsers-Treason Defined So as to
Cover Their Alleged Proceedings-Two
Roads to Take.
PITTsBURCs, Oct. 1.-THE unusual spectacle
of the chief justice of the supreme court
of the state sitting as a judge in the court of
oyer and terminer of a county in the state was
witnessed by large crowd in the criminal
court room yesterday when Chief Justice
Paxson charged the grand jury as to what
constitutes treason Upon the bench sat
the chief justice, Judges Stowe, McClung,
Porter and Kennedy, while in the clerk S
portion sat Judge Stagle. The room was
crowded almost to suffocation. When
court opened Judge Kennedy turned to the
grand jury and said that charges OF
treason having been made against certain
persons, it seemed meet for the county
court to request the highest judicial Off
Ger of the state TO deliver the charge.
The Celebrated Advisory Board.
The justice then detailed the facts of the
Homestead lockout, and after laying down
contract in regard to wages that he shall
pay or receive, proceeded as follows regard
ing the Homestead advisory board: at is
alleged that the advisory committee did
more than induce others not to accept en-
ployment from the company; that it al
lowed no persons to enter the mills of the
Carnegie Steel company, and even permit
ted no strangers to enter the town of Home
stead without its consent; that it arranged
consisting of three divisions, with comman-
ders, captains, etc, the captains to report
to the division commanders. and the latter
to report to the advisory committee"
Not Struggle for " Living"
Referring to the mob at the mill Judge
PaXson said: I'VE can have some SYM
patty with a mob driven to desperation, as
in the days IF the French revolution, but
we can have none for men receiving excep-
tiOnally high wages in resisting the law
and resorting to violence and bloodshed in
the assertion of imaginary rights, and en-
failing such a vast expense upon the tax
payers of the commonwealth. 1t is not an
outcry for bread to feed the furnishing lips,
resulting in sudden outrage with good
provocation, it was deliberate attempt by
men without authority to control others in
the enjoyment of their rights The exist
ence of such a state of things in a govern
ment of law indicates weak spot. 1t is
not in the law itself; that is sufficient for
the preservation of order.
Plea for Enforcement of Law.
"All that is needed is its proper enforce
ment. To accomplish this it is only neces-
sary that every one connected with its adj
ministration should do his duty. This duty
is as solemn and imperative with a jury in
the box as it is with the judge upon the
bench. l am glad to be able to say, re-
suit of my experience in the criminal
hat \ tr,
falter in the performance of n duty, when
that duty has been clearly and fairly pre-
sented to them. If jurors fail in this re-
spect the courts can accomplish nothing,
and the result is anarchy. 1t is much to be
feared that there is a diseased state of pub
lie opinion growing up with regard to dis
turbances of this nature, and an erroneous
view of the law bearing upon these ques-
tions has found lodgment in the public
mind.