The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-11
PRESIDENT DEBs TALKS.
Says Capital Looks on Labor as IL Did
on slavery.

Says Capital Looks on Labor as IL Did
slavery.
CHICAGO, July 9.-President Debs OF
the A. r. L. when seen by an Associated
Press reporter tonight said: I'VE are
stronger than ever. Nothing can break
our forces but usurpation and tyranny.
am threatened with arrest. What for?
For organizing labor We say to capital,
here is our labor and these are our terms.
This is Iegal-this is the spirit of the age.
Mr. Havemeyer organizes a sugar trust
and says TO the public here is my sugar.
and these are my terms. He has polluted
the national legislature. 1 have acted
honorably and committed no crime. The
United States authorities are bringing
themselves into contempt by their
wanton violation Of law and the consti-
tuition.
1.-The common people are beginning to
understand this. Capital insists upon
looking on labor as it did on slavery
that it has no right like capital to exact
or ask for terms. The principle of slav-
cry is what capital is now insisting on.
/ want 10 call the attention of the people
of this country to this. The Pullman
strike while the acute. is not the under
lying cause of this trouble. The people of
this country are paying over $5,OO0,OOO
day in interest. This is depriVing pro-
ductive industry of its profits and is
piling up money in the money centers.
What old England failed to do with sol
diers in the eighteenth century she is do
ing now with the gold standard. over
5000, O00,0 900 each year goes there to pay
interest.
I'VE are not responsible for the law
less element and loss Of property. Not
even disciplined armies have ever been
able to prevent this element from rising.
We ask the public TO be patient while
labor stands with its back at the door
that leads 10 serfdom. and says to its
oppressors, Thus far and no farther. 1t
is better To lose a little than more in the
end. and with it constitutional liberty"
Chairman J. NJ. Egan of the Assocla-
ton of railway general managers, when
asked tonight by the Associated Press
for an official statement of the condition
Of the roads represented in the associa-
ton, said:
with the exception of two or three
minor instances there has been no trOu-
BILE or disturbance reported today. All
the lines have run their regular through
passenger and mail trains and number
of the lines resumed their suburban
trains. All Of the lines commenced work
in their freight yards and many freight
trains were run in and out of the city.
The Union stock yards company is clear
ing its tracks of wreckage and repair
ing damage done during the
past week. Tt expect to COM
mence operations tomorrow tuesday
morning. The total number Of trains
moved today is equal to the total num-
Der moved during the past four days. 1t
is true that the trains have been guard
ed to prevent their being molested. but
the action of the military toward the
mobs and rioters during the past two
days has had a most salutary effect.
The presidents proclamation, together
with Gen. Miles's orders, have produced
excellent results. All the lines of rail-
way expect To show far better results
tomorrow. The men who have replaced
the strikers are good practical men, and
are satisfactory to the lines that have
employed them"