The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-04

Paramount IN IVcFythlug-IuuOrcnt
People Made to Suffer 70, One Company.
Fault
c%scaqo Trisvas
There is probably mo uso kicktn'
about it," Us the man said when tho
clergyman WIS trying To reconcile him
to the death Of his vile, but 1t IL 4 very
interesting and not altogether inspiring
circumstance that Mr.. Eugene V. Debs
WHO, few Days ago, was no bigger
than Il man's hand on tho odgU Of the
intcrminable horizon Of tho vast no.
whero Just beyond tho Chicago city
limits. from which tho uobodics keep
coming up red-Lcadel and noisy-a.
this moment ovcrshndowB tho entire
continent OF all the portents that
have worried the soothsayGrs from the
moment OF Grover Cieyeland's election
until now, beginning with tho ubscura-
ton OF the wGsteriIg gun by Sylvester
Pennoyev's lifted ears, and continuing
through the lRmentation OF dwelling,
the warwhoops OF Waite, and the
auarchism Of Altgell. down to
the confinement Of tho caatankc5ous
Coxcy for not Keeping off tho grass,
Dcbs Is the most sudden and the most
bewildcring A week ago to-day, out.
side the particular labor organization
whose emotions he has been go dill.
gently Churn!ng by word OF mouth and
printed page, Debs vas hardly known
To-day his monosyllublc surnumH Is
popping all over the country with
the frequency, tho spiIcfulness. the
cxasporat!ug emphasis and general
popularity OF tho tirecCacGGr OF
the ecason in tho hands OF tho small
boy Of tho period. No single mouosyl-
liable in the whole range OF patyronym.
les ever rosO suddcnlylrom meaningless
insigniGcance to such a sky rocket
height OF embla2onrH Not to know
Debs, or know about him to-day, Is to
DO clustered. secluded, remote from
tho haunts Of men. separated from the
intellectual movement OF tho age out
of touch with the thought and progress
Of tho time.
For Dcbs stands directly In front Of
everything. Aud Debs says to every.
thing that Is III motion anywhere
everything upon tho movement Of
which the activity, the health, the hap.
piness, the sHs.eRanee, tho comfort Of
tho whole continent dcpenls-"Stop"
And to great extent-to very alarm.
ing oxteut when anything or anybody
besides Debs Is taken into the account
it docs stop-hus stopped. stopped to
SEQ what Debs is going TO do next Be-
tween Chicago and the Paciuc Coast
largo consignmcnts Of freight bound
either way. upon tho delivery OF which
Consignors and consignees depends for
tho fultilment OF contracts and tho
transaction Of business, are at dead
stHndstill. threatening loss and
failure to merchants and shippers, and
misery and distress to those dependent
upon them. On nearly oil the lines OF
transportation centring at Chicago
there is the same condition Of things,
and il the Debs domination continues
1t will presently prevail all over the
country. On passenger trains waiting
Mt railroad stations in California aud
Oregon, or stalled on desert plains In
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado or
Wyoming, are men and women held in
painful suspense from waiting friends,
perhaps from dying hcdsides, powerless
10 m0Yo and possibly threatened with
starvation from tho exhaustion Of II
limited supply Of provisions. Tho great
city Of Chicago is In many directions
cut of from communication with the
adjacent region and its SOURCES Of sup.
ply. And this. will presently be the
condition in all tho great cities if Debs
continues dominant.
Naturally tho question arises, What
is tho matter with Debs that he should
play Joshua to tho business OF the
country and compel everything to
stand still? How have the merchants
and traders, commercial men, freight
ers and shippers, farmers aud Inanutac.
tuters, producers and consumers, OF
Tended him, that he should play such
havoc with their interests and intlict
such enormous injury upon thelnP
What have tho railway passengers done
that they should be subjected to such
wanton delays and brutal treatment?
And what complaint has Debs TO make
against tho United States government
than no should not permit its mails to
DO transported? The answer of DChs
Is that a car manufacturing rear Chi
cago has cut down the wages Of its en-
pIoyes, and tho employees, unwilling TO
submit to tho reduction, have quit
work; whereupoH the company has
stopped manufacturing and closed its
works. And Dcbs proposes 10 stop all
railway traiua in this country until tho
company seta It's former employees at
worl; again Il. tho old rates Of wages. 1t
is very doubtful ii Dybs himself had
puv definite idea how ho eau compel tho
Pullman company to start up its works
il il is not 90 disposed; and 1t Is very
certain that hundreds Of thousands OF
cItizcna who have no responsibility for
the Pullman shutdown do not like to
be held by the throat by DObs ne part
Of plan to bring tho offending CON-
vany TO terms. Nor arc they any more
,1isposrd to take kindly to tho conti-
ueptnl control Of Dcbg, upon tho othOr
theory, now current, that Debs, having
lust perfected the machinery OF his
new labor union, desires 20 test il and
make au exhibition Of his power.
Meantime the logic Of the situation
oliors only two alternative, which must
be apparent to tho most unrclIoctlvc
and passiouatp OF Ills followers. II he
succeeds in hls present purpose, wo
have no further use for national. state
az municipal governments. Tho Rail-
wav union ls tho government, and poba
absolute dictator. II no tnils-well,
then he follows Martin Irous into
loaicr's obscnrity, or Coxcy into pcni.
Tertiary, aud tho causc Of organized
labor gets another setback at the hands
OF biz blatant dcmasosuea aud Ignorant