The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-11
STORIES OF THE STRIKE.
DebS Warned by His Physician That
He Must Stop.

He Was Treated in New York for Dip
somania - Is He Responsible
Party P-What Pullman Porters Have
to Say of the situation-Negroes in
the Strike.
A New York dispatch, dated July s,
and published in the Philadelphia Record,
says:
at has just become known that Eugene
V. Debs, the leader of the strike and
president of the American Railway
Union, may not be responsible for his
acts. AT any rate, the physician, who,
two years ago, treated him for dipso-
mania, seems to think he cannot be
trusted, for on Thursday night he sent
this telegram to Debs' home in Terre
Haute;
AS your friend and physician 1 implore
you to stop where you are. The condition OF
your nervous system and the great strain
upon il makes you irresponsible for your own
orders. Yours in friendship, T. S. r.
II. S. r." is DIR. Thomas S. Robertson
of Is East Twentieth street, to whom in
April, 1892, Debs came in the last stages
of alcoholic suffering. He bore a letter
from Col Robert G.. Ingersoll, a friend of
Debs, and found him almost robbed of in
tellect and will by his alcoholic excuses.
He treatedIDebs for neurasthenia and
dipsomania, and after long and severe
treatment Debs improved. He went back
TO Terre Haute, and since then has not
seen DR.. Robertson, nor has he written
TO him except once, when in February,
1898, he sent note OF thanks for his
treatment. Col lngersoll, who met Debs
not long ago while on a lecturing tour.
also wrote DR.. Robertson Of his patients
improved condition.
DIR. Robertson was seen at his Office to-
day. When asked about the telegram he
! said: a took such an interest in Debs and
in his young wife, as well as in the disas-
! ter that he seemed TO be holding over the
nations head, that my conscience COM
PEELED me 10 telegraph him. l wired to
his home in Terre Haute, hoping that his
wife would receive the telegram first and
open it. Then she would certainly try to
! influence him TO stop.
SAYS DRINK RUINED HIS MIND.
tHe is magnificent fellow affable.
| bright and affectionate to his wife when
he is sober-and she is charming young
woman and completely devoted to her
husband. When Debs came to me he was
a physical and mental wreck He had
stepped himself in drink But he had
been brilliant young man and used
every effort to save him and succeeded
but no man who has been shattered as he
has can endure such strain as he is now
putting upon himself.
If he does not desist the only result
can be that after causing iucalculable
misery and bloodshed he will fail. and
then, 10 drown his failure, he will 20 off
on terrible spree, and-well-he will be
a ruined man.
Mr.. Debs has not answered my tele-
gram, and fear he is offended by it. but
II was sent in true friendship. | don't
know whether he is sound mentally or not
His published letters seem like those of
sane man, but of one thing | am conf
dent--for his own sake and the peoples
Eugene v Debs should not be trusted
with the responsibilities he now has"
THE PULLMAN PORTERs' SAY.
stalwart, coal-black negro of about
%, with less retreating forehead tnan
the average Of his race. and general ap-
pearance OF honesty and intelligence I'M
dertakes TO give the impression that Mr..
Pullman's Palace Car Company is a hard
master and that the Pullman porter's lot
IS far from happy. says the New York
Press This is what he says, in his own
language, with the exception that "A con
sonant mas been restored here and there.
Hard times, DO sou say, boss You'd
think 80 II you knew how we live We
don't know how we DO IL ourselves Most
OF us on straight sleeping ears get go a
month. The pay for 4 porter on BUFFET
car Is generally 30. because be has more
responsibility. On runs where the tips are