The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-25
GORMAN-DEBS.

A few days ago the corporation press
was hysterical over the sight of man
calling on his fellow-laborers to strike
in aid Of the struggling slaves of Pull
man. He was denounced as a dictator. u
traitor, an anarchist, a murderer. He is
arrested and consigned to Jail in default
of bail, which is clearly excessive. and
therefore unconstitutional Today a man
stands in the senate of the United States
and says that the country shall have the
tariff bill he made, with all its atrocities,
or keep the Mckinley bill with its great
er atrocities He was elected to repre-
sent party which is solemnly pledged to
redress the very wrongs which he contin-
ues. His party colleagues desire to redress
those wrongs. He knows that the vast
majority of the people are opposed to
those wrongs. He stands there as the
representative of concentrated capital ana
says: Il rule you. Take what l give or
nothing. There is nothing to arbftrate
My will is supreme. Retain the right
to rob the people to the sugar trust, the
whisky trust, the iron and coal combines.
and sle rest, or leave that right with all
the trusts as Mckinley fixed it,
Which one of the two is more danger
Gus to the country. German or Debs g?
Which is the more dangerous to the liber-
ties of the people, the organized capital
which stands behind German or the or
ganized labor that stands behind Debs?
Which is striking the more deadly blow
at popular government? Which is the
more defiant toward the will Of the peo-
pie? Which is worse, the power that
makes bad laws or the power that at
tempts to protect itself in the absence
of any lawful remedy? And be it re-
membered also that the very trusts which
Mr.. German represents are violators of
the same law that Debs is charged with
violating Their lawlessness is notorious.
but the judicial power has not found it
convenient to prosecute them. These
law breakers, by their senate representa-
tives, hold the country by the throat and
demand its pocketbook, while Debs goes
to jail And the democratic party-the
party of the wage-earners-is asked to
submit to this dictator and indorse his
infamous concessions to lawless corpora
tions. We cannot believe it will do SO.
We cannot believe that the representa-
tives of the people will ever accept such
degradation for themselves and their
party. We cannot believe that the party
will ever consent to such dictatorship
Steamer rates to Europe were never so
low. A Chicago paper said last week
that now it is possible to go from New
York to Liverpool, Queenstown or Lon
don for $40 on two great lines This. of
course, is a steerage rate, there being
no cut in first-class cabin rates. One
line offers to deposit the passenger in
Paris for $1S and the other line will do
the same for SIPS. Alien custom is bid
for from New York to Turin at s2S. and
the railroads are offering through tickets
from Chicago to Turin, Italy, for $39
Never before have rates been so low, and
it is small wonder that the thrifty for
eigner flocks to take advantage Of the
conditions of the present time. 1t is pre-
dicted that the collapse of strikes viii
precipitate a rush abroad Of men who
have gone out and can not get back.
The New York Sun disposes Of com
pulsory arbitration by asserting that il
is unconstitutional That objection is
made to every beneficial reform proposed
in this country, but somehow or other
u-ban tba reform and the constitution get