The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-11
Bitter Protest by President Debs, Who
Violently Denounced the Seizure of
His Papers as an Outrage.
JUDGE GROSSCUP'S CHARGE
Strong but Impartial Sta tement
of the Laws i'm the Case.
What Constitutes Insurrection and Con-
spiracy-Rights of Employees and
Leaders of Labor Organizations.

CHICAGO, July 10.-Slowly but steadily
calmly and certainly, BELTS the supreme
power of a great nation throughout all that
wide stretch of its domain where evil dis
posed persons are taking advantage of an
exceptional industrial condition to incite
violence and bloodshed, the federal govern
ment is moving TO the accomplishment of
that for which it's powers were delegated
to it by the people, the preservation of or
der and the safety of life and property. AT
Chicago, in conjunction with the State and
municipality, it has already brought peace
out of the condition of lawlessness which
prevailed last week. At San Francisco, Sac
ramento, Los Angeles and various points
in Colorado and Washington, where the un-
ruly are crying havoc, it has let loose the
dogs of war in token of its intention TO
have peace, even if it has to fight for it,
In this city. the military arm having ac-
complished its purpose, the judicial arm to-
day took up the orderly course of its duties,
which include the fixing upon the guilty
parties the measure of their crime and the
fitting of the punishments thereto. The first
step in this procedure was the assemblage
of the federal grand jury and t..e deliv-
cry of the charge to ii by Judge Grosscup.
as set forth in extenso elsewhere i'm these
dispatches. That it is the intention of the
national authorities not to be turned aside
from an exhaustive inquiry into the ques-
tions which 1t has undertaken to pass upon
by mere technicalties was evinced at the
outset by the brusqueness with which Ii
swept aside the plea of privacy and privi-
lege which the Western Union Telegraph
Company with due regard for the privacy
of the messages of its clients, forced
to put in when the jury caned for the mes
sages from President Debs to the members
of his order which had been transmitted
over its lines. The court held that public
safety was paramount to private rights and
so ordered that the dispatches be pro-
duced. That it is the intention of the gov
ernment not to be too long about the work
in hand was shown from the fact that the
footsteps of the telegraph officials who had
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 court and announced that
it had found a true bill of inuctment.
Pending the arrest of the person thus put
under the ban of law, his name remained
unrevealed, and the public was allowed to
draw its own conclusions from all the prem
ises and such preliminary data as it had
none doubted and subsequent developments
justified the belief
Touching the outlook for the future,
outside of Chicago, it may be said that to-
days dispatches almost uniform in
tender to the effect that normal conditions
had already been restored or that they
were rapidly approaching that state, and
there seems no reason at this writing 10
suppose that the progress toward COM
plete resumption of trade and traffic will
meet with any serious check as the COM
ing days shall succeed each other. In other
words, il does not seem possible with all
the forces OF law and order as now arrayed,
with it's leader put to his own defense at
the bar of justice, with its ranks begin
ming to be depleted by desertions and with
the strain it has already endured that the
American Railway Union can rally its
forces for a struggle which must needs be
long and discouraging at best. Apparently,
therefore, its only hope of final triumph
lies in aid which il hopes 70 get from
union labor outside of its organization. AS
this is being written the order for all
classes of labor in Chicago to go on strike
tomorrow morning is being promulgated,
and ii is expected that that of General Mas
ter Workman Sovereign, of the Knights of
Labor, calling on all members TO strike
and all who sympathize with the Pullman
strikers all over the country to come out
with them is expected 10 follow quickly.
How generally these orders will be obeyed
is problematical. To a great extent their
effect has been already discounted by
the stagnation of business, and 1t is known
that some of the longest headed of the
labor leaders themselves believe that ac-
ton has been postponed too long to be ef-
fectiVe.