The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-07-11
THE IMPROVEMENT CONTINUES.
The Great Strike Gradually
Wearing Itself Out.
EVeryshing Seems to be Peaceful at Chi
oago-The judicial Authorities Have
Now Taken the Matter Up-President
Debs Has Been Arrested-There Is stiIl
Probability OF u General Strike In
Chicago-The Situation at Other Places.

CHICAGO. July 10.-Slowly, but stead
n.y. calmly aud certainly, as BELTS the
supre me power Of reat nation. through
out all that wido stretch of lis domain
where evil disposed persons are taking
advantage OF an exceptional industrial
condition to incite violence and blood
shed, the Federal Government is work.
ing for the accomplishment of that for
which its power was delegated to it-for
the preservation OF order and tho safety
OF life and property.
AT Chicago, in conjunction with the
State and the municipality, it already
has brought peace out of condition of
war which prevailed last week. At San
Francisco. Sacramento, Los Angeles and
various other points in Colorado and
Washington where the unruly were
creating havoc, 1t has let loose the dogs
of war in token Of its intention to have
! peace, even il it has to fight for it.
| The judicial Authorities Now at Work.
| ln this city, the military army having
accomp lishtd Its purpose, the judicial
| army to- day took up the orderly course
| OF Its duties, which include the fixing
| upon the guilty pafties the measure Of
their crime and the fitting OF the
punishmeDts thereto. The first step IN
this procedure was the assembly OF the
Federal grand jury and the delivery OF
the charge 10 il by Judge Grosscup not
to DO turned aside from an exhaustive
inquiry into the questions which it has
under AIKEN to pass upon by nero techni-
calities.
! The eifec tiveness of tho charge was
evirced at tho outset by the brusque-
ness with which it swept aside tho plea
| of privacy and privilege which the
| Western Union Telegraph Company,
with duo regard for inc privacy OF the
messages Of its clients, was torccd to
put in when tho jury called for the
message from President BIS to the
mem bers of hii oTccr, which had been
transmitted over its lines. The court
hel4 that public safety was paramount
10 private right, and so ordered that tho
dispatches be produced
The Grand Jury's Quick Work.
That it is the intention of the Govern.
mont not to be TOO long about the work
in hand was shown from tho fact that
the footsteps OF tho telegraph official
who brought the dispatches had scarcely
ceased to echo along the corridor leading
to tho grand jury room when that body
filed into Judge Grosscup's court and
announced that it had found true bill
of Indictment Pending the arrest of
the person thus put under tho ban OF
the law his name remained locked in
tho breast Of the lord high executioner,
and the public was allowed to draw its
own conclusions from all the premises
and such preliminary data as it had at
hand. That President Debs wa, the
man none doubted, and subsequent de-
velopments justified the surmise.
The Outlook for ILL Future
Touching the outlook for the future,
outside of Chicago, it may BIO said that
to days dispatches were almost uniform
in tenor to the effect that normal con-
ditions had already been restored or
that they were rapidly approaching that
state, and there seems no reason to sup
pose that the progress toward com
plete resumption of trado and traffic
Will meet with any serious check as the
coming days shall succeed each other
In other words, it does not seem DOS
sible with all the forces of law and
order as now arrsyed, with their leader
put to his own defense at the bar of
justice, with their ranks beginning to
be depleted by assertions and with the
| strain which they have already endured,
that the American Railway Union can
rally its forces for struggle which
must needs be long and discouraging at
tho least Apparently, therefore, their
only hore lies in the aid which they
hope to get from union labor outside OF
their organization
Trying to Induce Outsiders to Strike
AS this is being written the order Tor
all classes OF labor in Chicago to go on
strike tomorrow is being promulgated
and 1t is expected that that Of Grand
master Workman Sovereign, of the
knights Of Labor, calling on all mem
| bers to strike and all who sympathiZe
with the Pullman strikers all over the
country to come out with them will
follow quickly. How generally these
| orders will be obeyed is problematicai
to good extent. Their elect has been
already discounted by tho stagnati IN
of business and it is known that some
Of the longest holders Of the labor
leaders believe the &C tion has been post.
poned too long to be- effective.
The plan of the leaders for to morrow
is to call out first all organized labor in
Chicago, and then TO proceed from town
to town until the entire country Is
paralyzad or Pullman gives in. Tho
immediate effect on Chicago, II all
trades obey the order to strike. will be
to throw from SO, 900 to 100, OCO persons
out Of employing mt
At sunset to morrow the nation will
probably know whether the situation is
one of crisis or collapse.
| MAY DECLARE GENERAL STRIKE
IL This Is Done IL VIII Involve About
100000 Men.
CHICAGO, July lo.-The committee