The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-12
IE STRIKE SITUATION.
ICE REIGNS IN CHICAGO AND
COURTS TAKE HOLD.
Vigorous Prosecution Against Violators
of Law Will be Instituted at Once in
United States Courts - The
Federal Grand Jury AL
ready at Work.

ready at work.
CHICAGO, July 1O.-Slowly but
steadily, calmly and certainly, before
the supreme power of a great nation
throughout that wide stretch of its
domain where evil disposed persons
are taking advantage of an unexcep
tional industrial condition to incite
) violence and bloodshed, the federal
government is moving to the accom-
plishment of that for which its pow
ers were delegated to it by the people.
the preservation of order and the
safety of life and property. At Chi
cago, in conjunction with the state
and the Municipality it has already
brought peace out of the condition OF
war which prevailed last week. At
San Francisco, Sacramento and va
rious points in Colorado and Wash
ington, where the unruly are crying
havoc, it Is let loose the dogs of war
in token of its intention to have peace,
even if it has to fight for it.
In this city the militia arm having
accomplished it's purpose, the judicial
arm today took up the course of it's
duties, which include the fixing upon
the guilty parties the measure of their
s crime and the fitting of the punish
ment thereto. The first step in this
procedure was the assembling of the
federal grand jury and the delivery of
the charge to it by Judge Grosscup,
in cheese dispatches.
That it is the intention of the ma
tional authorities not to be turned
aside from an exhaustive inquiry into
the questions which it has undertaken
to pass upon by mere technicalities,
was evinced at the outset by the
brusqueness which it swept aside the
plea of privacy and privilege which
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany, with due regard for the privacy
of the messages of it's 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 it's line.
The court held that public safety was
paramount to private right and 30
ordered that the dispatches be pro-
duced.
That it Is the intention of the gov.
eminent not to be too long about the
work in hand was shown from the
fact that the footsteps of the telegraph
official who brought the dispatches
had scarcely ceased to echo along the
corridors leading to the grand jury
when that body filed into Judge Cross
cups court and announcer that it had
found true bill of indictment. Pend
ing the arrest of the person thus put
lnder the ban of the law, his name
emained locked in the breast of the
{ord high executioner and the public
twas allowed to draw its own conclu.
Mons from all the premises and such
Preliminary data rs it had at hand.
That" President Debs was the man
none doubted and subsequent develop.
ments justified the surmise.
Touching the outlook for the future
outside of Chicago, it may be said
that today's dispatches were almost
uniform in tenor to the effect that
normal conditions had already been
restored or that they were rapidly APP.
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no reason ut this writing to suppose
that the progress toward complete
resumption Of trade and traffic will
meet with any serious check as the
coming days shall succeed such others.
In other words 1t does not seem
possible with the forces of law and
order as now arrayed, their leader
put his his own defense at the bar of
Justice, with their ranks beginning to
be depleted by assertions, and with
the strain which the have already en-
dured, that the American Railway
Union can rally its force for struggle
which must needs be long aud din.
couraging at best.
Apparently, therefore, their only
hope of final triumph lies in the aid
which they hope to get from union
labor outside of their organization. As
this is being written the order for all
masses of labor in Chicago to go on
strike tomorrow morning is being
promulgated, and it is expected that
Grand Master Workman Sovereign of
the Knights of Labor will call on all
mem bers to strike, all who sympa-
thize with the Pullman strikers all
over the country to come out with
them is expected to follow quickly.
How generally these orders will be
obeyed is problematical. To a good
extent their effect has been already
discounted by the stagnation of bust
ness, and it is known that some of the
longest headed of the labor leaders
believe that action has been post
poned too long to be fully effective.
At sunset tomorrow this nation will
probably know whether the situation
is one of a crisis or collapse.