The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-13
STRIKE COMMENT.

The people of this country want peace,
but they want peace with honor, and with
the privilege accorded, to- every man to at
tend to his own business, without dicta-
ton from the K. of L., the A. r. U.-or
the whole alphabet for that matter.-St.
Louis GlObe-DemOcrat.
This country contains an overwhelming
majority of able-bodied men who intend to
preserve it intact for themselves and their
posteritv. The theory that members of la
Dor organizations can subvert the govern
ment by committing suicide is simply FAN
tastic.-New York Tribune.
ANY questions between Mr.. Pullman and
his workmen, or rather between the Pull
man Car Company and their workmen.
has become of secondary importance. The
question is whether we are TO nave the
rule of law or the rule of the mob in this
country.-Louisville Commercial.
No one will gain by the strike, but 1T will
be enormously expensive for many persons,
and it occurs to us that the poor man will
be called upon TO pay, in one way and an
other, the great portion of the cost. On the
whole, we cannot think that Debs is a true
friend to the workingmen of the United
States.-Cincinnati Tribune.
Under the pressure of hard times, when
but few can get work at any price, when
every man that can get work needs the
money that he earns to save his family
lTOlH olSltCoS NhCAN NOS
great as obedience to the crazy strike de-
creas that have been issued.-Chicago Her
aid.
1t has turned out just as was predicted.
1t has been demonstrated that public traf-
fc cannot be suspended by the mman of
an individual or organization, for the rea-
son that it is a public necessity. The peo-
pie are supreme in this country, and the
Constitution is adequate at all times TO
the protection of their rights.-kansas City
Star.
1t has been a bad thing for labor organi-
cations and for the country, and the reck-
less performance of Debs should be the
means of bringing public sentiment back
to a clear apprehension and firm support of
the doctrine that no man or combination
of men must be allowed to violate law in
order to gain any end whatever.-New York
Times.
The workingmen have been wise in de-
serting Debs and Sovereign. Their bitter
experience will not be a wholly barren
one if they make the desertion final, and
so recast their organizations as to render
il hereafter impossible for crack-brained,
selfish and designing demagogues to in
volye them in such a war with the pub
lic.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
There never was a more certain boomer
| ang than a sympathetic strike at the pres
| ent time. The severest force of such a
weapon will be felt by those who employ
it. The Chicago strike was doomed TO de-
feat from the moment that it became iden-
tilted with violence, disorder and defiance
of law. Reasonable workingmen will keep
clear of it.-New York World.
While they Ghe Debs people, are driving
at the foundations Of society itself they
must not hypocritiaally talk of arbitra-
ton. Let them ground arms first. Arbi-
tration belongs to peace and law; they have
chosen war. and the law is silent in war.
Without peace and order We have no gov
eminent no country, and DebS and his
kind have struck az our c~ountry.-Boston
Transcript.
How silly it is of the Incorporate labor
leaders TO say that the press of the coun-
try is arrayed against the people and IA
vors the corporations. OF all the institu-
tons in the country the press is most de-
pendent for it's support on the people. and
il caters TO their tastes and their desires.
IL takes no stock in demagogues, however,
and we suppoSe that is where il Offends
| the loud-mouthed orators who pother about
the subserViency of the newspapers to cor
porate capitalization Herald.
How far do the people Of the United
States propose to countenance war upor
themselves-that is 10 say, upon the gen
eral government? 1t is a melancholy exhi.
bition, indeed. that is this day set up be,
fore the nations of the earth at Chicago
thousands Of rioters obstructing the mails
of the United states and destroying the
commerce between the States and doing the
work of anarchy. And THESE d~estroyers
propose no remedy. They have not a sug-
savagery.7Cincinnati Commercial Gazette