St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-09

company is the most ill-advised. reck-
less and insane ore ever undertaken by
organized labor. 1t is foreOrdained to
defeat, for the reason that the basic
conditions on which success could be
possible are non-eXistent.- York
Recorder.
Years ago. when H. E. Sargent
was general manager Of he Northern
Pacific, the road operated its own sleep
ers. but afterwards went back to the
Pullman. IL MIR. Sargen It's wise policy
had been continued the Northern Pa
clfic would be all right now.-Fargo
Forum.
Who is running this country? Presi-
dent Cleveland or president" Debs,
congress or Debs, the judicial courts or
Debs? is the American republic to fall,
and All autocracy take its place? In a
large portion of the country it is the
actual state of affairs. = Dubuque
Herald.
1t is we'll for workingmen III mills
ana shops and business places to view
the situation in the light of their own
Interests. They cannot help but see
that Dictator Debs is using them as the
instruments of his ambitioI-tlIat he is
their enemy and the enemy of all the
peoDle.-l4a Crosse Chronicle.
1t would be possible on one side TO
represent the strike as all attempt 10
confscate the capital engaged and force
It's owners TO Work for nothing and on
the other to force labor below a living
wage. The truth, as usual, lies be-
! tween and it leaves the strike without
leg to stand n.-PhiladeIpha Press.
The public might De inclined TO favor
the Pullman strikers, with the dispute
| confined to its proper sphere, but it can
nave no sympathy with the men WHO,
without grievance of their own,
I undertook to tie up the railroads. stop
travel, and obStruct business in order
to force the denial OF the legal rights of
the Pullman Ompany.-Pittsburg Dis,
patch.
When Mr.. DebS undertakes to bloch
| the wheels OF commerce ne ASSUMES {
liability that is criminal When he vio<
lateS the law and reSiSts the decretai
utterance OF our judicial tribunal he liz
vites condign punishment. When liz
| threatens civil war in case his Iawless-
! ness is taken into question he aD-
pfoaches treason. - Council Bluffs
Globe.
Debs' system of depreciation is dI-
| rected at millions of working people
| having nothing whatever to do directly
| OF indirectly with the Pullman or other
| va POAoI4Obos pCODlC VI
the entire country are today the victims
OF Debs. He could not infiict more
grlevOus injury upon them by any other
mode OF violence which would not be
met with Chicago Herald.
After President Debs has played the
autocrat to the detriment of the great
mass OF the 65,000.000 of the American
people FOR few days longer it VIII prob
ably Uccnr to somebody that the Amer
lean public have some rights legal and
otherwise that even President Debs may
be compelled to respect. For the pres
ent, however, he seems to be above law
aud the public interests and to cOmport
himself like very tyrant.-Phiiadel-
phia Times.
Our New Autocrat-His name is Debs
and he halls from rerre Haute Few
men, practically none in free countries,
nave ever claimed the power he is now
exercising. He not only presumeS 10
say III what sort of cars the American
people shall Tide, but be in effect for
bids them to travel at all. Organized
labor never sanctioned SO foolish and
wicked an attack on society anu liberty
as DebS' boy cUtt.-lndianapoiis News.
American people are fair. They SYM
pathiZe with woFkmen when wages are
low. They would aid them to better
wages. But they cannot consent to the
general stoppage Of railroad traffic and
the loss OF many millions of dollars be
cause one demagogue out in Chicago is
not blessed with ordinary common sense.
The action OF President DebS is auto
cratic. There is nothing American
about it.-Pniladelphia Inquirer.
This is test of strength belwe ell the
American Railway union and the roads.
The union has the right to make the
test. The roads have the right 10 resist.
There Is III it no contest between labor
and capital. Or between producing
classes and the money power. Produc-
ing and allied classes are the chief suf-
feIers from the stoppage Of tranSpOrta-
ton. The money power will draw in
terest on its bonds just the same.-St.
Louis Republic
When body of men come lid and de-
mand that the whole system of railroad
management shall be overruled; that
the wheels shall not turn around; that
the cars shall stand idle upon the
tracks; that the fires shall go out in the
engines, merely as matter Of sym.
pathy and as a means of forcing a great
company to pay their men higher
wages, it is preposterouS. 1t is revolu-
tlonary, and there is no other language
IN which to express it.-Clevelaud Plain
Dealer.
If the glory that Debs covets ruins
farmers, shippers and merchants, causes
incalcuiable injury To the whole travel
ing public aud peculiar distress to deli
cate women and children. wipes out the
savings of industry and eventually
Staryes the immediate agents of his am
bition, so much the worse for all these.
but so much the better for Debs. From
insufferable tyranny like this the hon.
est workingmen of the United States
will sooner or later free themselves.
The present boycott ought to be the be-
ginning of the end.-New York Trib-
une.