The record-union., 1894-08-01
SHARP, DECISIVE, LOYAL.
The Eastern Press Spoke Out Very
Plainly.
Further Quotations From the Leading
Papers of the United States
on the Strike.
New York Advertiser

\ New YORK AuNeTlls0T.l
Calmly and thoughtfully." to quote
his own expression, Dictator Debs sa
1.-THE first shot fired by the regular sol
diers at the mobs here will be the signal
| for civil war;" Just as calmly and
thoughtfully' we remark that Debs has
got his mighty mind more hopelessly
! tied up than he has succeeded in doing
with any OF the railroads ne is attacking.
NOT A DEAD LETTER.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin,
Local self-government, Of which
Anarchist Altgeld pretends TO be
champion, is fine thing. But when
| local strike results in national disorder,
1 the National Government will demon
strate that it is not dead letter.
| THE WAR IS OVER.
Springfield Union.
ssThe war is over" and we are certain
! that the Union has nowhere more stanch
defenders to-day than in the Southern
/ States.
IT CAME FROM THE SOUTH.
Philadelphia Press.
1t is gratifying and significant that
resolution OF this character Endorsement
OF the Presidents use of troopsI should
come from a Southern Democrat and be
sustained by the entire Southern vote.
THE OLD ROMAN PRECEDENT.
IRichmond Dispatch.I
The people of the United States would
rather follow the old Roman precedent
and appoint dictator in times OF peril to
the States than to countenance such law
less proceedings and such disregard of
! the rights of property-owners and such
contempt for human life and human COM
| fort as have marked the conduct of the
] Chicago rioters.
UNFIT FOR PLACE.
boston Journal.
The fact is that Altgeld and Waite are
| about as little fit to be intrusted with eX-
ecutive authority as Debs himself They
are arrant demagogues who owe their
| positions to their skill IN catering to the
| Iawless classes III the community, ana
whose sympathies are with the forces OF
| misrue rather than with those that make
! for peace and order.
THAT IMPUDENT LETTER.
Newark Advertiser.]
At the time Altgeld, the anarchist Gov
ernor of Illinois,, was sending his impu-
dent letter to President Cleveland, the
strikers in Chicago were setting fire TO
| buildings, throwing trains of the track.
blockading the business of the country,
placing themselves in opposition to the
Federal troops and preparing.to go to any
extreme of violence and rioting.
ANARCHY AND POPUL1SM.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Life, liberty and The pursuit of happi-
ness would be sore traits If the Govern
nent of the United States had no right 10
enforce the Federal Statutes, and was
| compelled to defer to the caprice of such
demagogues as Governors AltgeId OF Lii
/ nois. Waite of Colorado and Pennoyer of
| Oregon Anarchy but carries further
along the crusade against property begun
by Populism.
HEDGING.
[St Paul Globe.l
Debs' address shows that he is begin
ming to discover that the Government of
the United States is big institution after
ali. He appears to be hedging against
the punishment the courts have in store
for hinl. But the punishment will come
right along in due process OF law.
SHOT TO DEATH.
[Iowa State Register.l
The anarchistic and States rights Gov
ernors of Illinois, Missouri and Colorado
entered vigorous protests against the
right of President Cleveland to call the
regular army into service to protect the
lives and property of the people during
the strike. but they receive very little en-
couragement from even the citizens of
their own States. The always wrong
and destructive heresy of States rights
was shot to death on the battlefields
of the war OF the Rebellion, and it
will be shot to death every time it APP
peals to arms, as long as the people are
true to the principles of the fathers of the
| Republic and the safety of the greatest
and most intelligent nation that the world
has ever known.
CERTAINLY HE HAS.
New York Times
Has not a man who desires to work in
the place abandoned by striker lust as
much title to protection in his liberty as
| a citizen as the man who hired to take
any other vacant place? Has not a man
whose workmen have left his service just
as much right TO employ others in their
places and to be protected in the posses
sion of his property and the peaceable
conduct of his business as anyone has to
employ force OF new men and be pro-
tected in the conduct Of a business which
/ he has just established?
NOT A PARTICLE.
New York Times.
| Is an attack upon person and property
any less crime If committed by a body
OF strikers or in the name of organized
labor than if committed under any other
circumstances?
WISER THAN THEIR LEADERS.
Louisville Courier-JournalJ
The workingmen of the country have
been wiser than their leaders. Swept off
! their feet by the first impulse to right a
grievance for brothers in labor, caioled
out of their sober senses by the famboy-
ant rhetoric OF such men as Debs and
| Howard and Sovereign, they rushed pell-
nell and inconsiderately into an under
taking too gigantic for them. At first
they carried things with high hand.
Once into it. and fiattered by the shock
their sudden assault had given the busi-
ness Of the country, they were easily in
duced to believe that this movement was
the iood-tide of opportunity for settling
all the old grudges against capital, for
bringing all the corporations to their
! knees. for setting up once and for all the