The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-07-19
GENERAL STRIKE TIC BE ORDERED,
Oebs and his AsfOciutcs Arrested.

SITUATION is ONE OF CRISIS OR
CoLLAspE-PAssENGER TRAIN
MovlNG WITH New CREws-PRo-
TEcTIoN FROM STATE AND FED
ERAL TRoops HAS Done MUCH
TO RESTORE BUSINESS TO ITs Nor
NAL CoNDITIoN--WEsTERN UNION
OFFICE FORCED TO PRoDUCEDEB's
DISPATCHES UNDER THREATS OF
IMPRISONMENT OF THE MANAaER-
TROUBLE FEARED To-MoRRow.
Chicago, July 10.-Tho day has
boon quietor than yesterday and
the railroads seom to be in bctter
shape than at any timo since the
strike became general. To-mor-
row is, however, looked forward to
with some apprehension of trouble.
Slowly but steadily, calmly and
certainly as BELTS tho supreme
power of a great nation throughout
all that wide stretch of it's domain
whore civil-disposod persons are
taking advantage of an exception
al industrial condition to incite
violence and bloodshed, tho Feder-
al government is working to the
accomplishment Of that for which
Its power was delegated to in by
the preservation of ordcr and tho
safety of life and property. At
Chicago, in conjunction with the
State and tho municipality, 1T has
already brought peace out of tho
condition of war which prevailed
last week. at San Francisco, Sa.
cramcnto, Los Angeles and various
points in Colorado and Washing.
ton whore tho unruly are creating
havoc, it has let loose the dogs ol
war in token of it's intention to
havo peace even If it has to fight
for it.
In this city, tho military army
having accomplished it's purpose
the judicial army to-day took III
the orderly course of it's duties
which include the fixing upon the
guilty parties the measure of theil
crimo and the fitting punishment
thereto. The first step in this pro-
cedure was the Assem- bling of the
Federal grand jury and the delive-
ry of the charge to it by Judge
Grosscup not to DO turned aside
from an exhaustive enquiry into
tho questions which it has under
taken to pass upon by mere tech
nicallties. The effectiveness of
tho charge was evinced at tho out
sot by the brusqueness with which
it swept aside tho plca of privacy
and privilege which the Western
Union Telegraph Company, with q
due regard for the privacy of tho
messages Of it's clients, was forced
to put in when tho jury called for
the messages from President Debs
to the members of his order which
had been transmitted over it's limos.
The court held that public safety
was paramount to private right
and so ordered that tho dispatches
be produced.
That it is the intention of the
government not to be too long
about the work in hand was shown
from the fact that footsteps of the
telegraph officials who brought
the dispatches had scarcely ceased
to echo along the corridor leading
to the grand jury room when that
body filed into Judge Grosscup's +
SN1ti Nll't OilllotlllCc(l CllNU IL llN(l
found a true bill of Indictment
PENDING the arrest of the por.
son thus put under the ban of the
law. his name remained locked il
the breast of the lord high execution
cr and the public was allowed tc
draw It's own conclusions from al
the premises and such preliminar,
data as it had at hand. That
President Debs was the man, none
doubted, and subsequent develop.
ments justified the surmisc.
Touching the outlook for the
future, outside of Chicago, it may
be said that to-day's dispatches
were almost uniform in tenor tc
the effect that normal conditions
had already been restored or that
they were rapidly approaching
that state, and there seems ne
reason at this writing to suDpOs