Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-11
JUDGE GROSSCUp'S CHARGE
HE DEFINES THE LAW AND Ex-
PLAISs VIOLATIONS OF IT.
The Transportation of the NAIL and
Interstate Commerce Partieu-
Iarly DweIt upon--Grand Jury
Work VIII Last for Days.
Continued From first rase.

has undertaken TO pass upon by mere
technicalltiss was evinced at the outset
BY the brusqueness with which IT swept
aside the plea Of privacy and privilege
which the Western Union Telegraph
company with due regard for the pri-
vacy Of the messages Of its clients
was forced TO put In when the jury
called for the messages from President
Debs TO the members Of his order which
had been transmitted over Its lines.
The court held that public safety to be
paramount to private right and so or
dered that the dispatches be pro-
duced.
That II is the intention OF the gov
eminent not be too long about the
work on hand was shown from the
fact that the footsteps OF the telegraph
official who brought the dispatches had
scarcely ceased to echo along the cor
ridors leading TO the grand jury room
when that body filed into Judge Gross
cups court and announced that Il had
found a true bin Of Indictment. Pend
ing the arrests OF the person thus put
under the ban Of the law. his name
remained locked In the breast OF the
lord high eVecutioner. and the public
was allowed to draw its own conciu-
sIons from all the premises and such
preliminary data as It had at hand.
Deb- 10 be Arrested.
That President Debs was the man
none doubted. and subsequent devei-
opments Justified the surmise. Touch
Ing the outlook for the future outside
Of Chicago 1t may be said that today's
dispatches were almost uniform in
tenor TO the effect that normal condl-
lions had already been restored. or
that they were rapidly approaching
that state. and there seems no reason
at this writing 10 suppose that the
progress toward a complete resump-
ton Of trade and traiHc Will meet with
any serious check as the coming days
shall succeed each other. In other
words. It does nos seem possible with
all the forces OF law and order as
now nrrayed. with their leader put to
his defense and the bar Of justice. with
thelr ranks beginning to be depleted
by assertions. and with the strain
which they have already endured that
the American Railway union can rally
Us forces for a struggle which must
needs be long and diseouragIng at
best
Apparently, therefore. their only hope
Of final triumph lies IN the aid which
they hope to get from union labor out
side Of their organization. AZ this ls
being written the order for an masses
OF labor In Chicago 20 20 on strike to-
morrow morning D. being promulgated
and It Is expected that the
request or Grand Master work.
man Sovereign " the Knights Of
Labor calling ON an members 10 strike
and all who sympathIze with the Pull
man strikers all over the
country to come out with them.
Is expected 90 follow quickly How
geneFally these orders will De obeyed
is predetermined. To a good extent
their effect has already been discounted :.
by tho stAgnatlon OF business. and It
rs known that some % the longest
headed OF the labor leaders themselves
believe that action has been postponed
Zoo long % Dee fully effective. Al sun
sch tomorrow this nation ~ni probably
know whether tho situation Is one OF
crisis or collapse.