The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-25
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
HOW 1T SAVES THE WORKING
MAN.
How it will Save Him.

HOW II Will Save Him.
If the wOrkingmen of the United
States did not possess the right of suf-
lrage their condition today would be
most desperate. They would be de-
prlved of every human right, and re-
duced to absolute slavery, as they
were in the old Roman days. The
same court which held, thirty years
ago, that black man had no rights
which white man was bound to re-
spect, would hold today that a poor
man had no rights that a rich man
was bound to respect.
But there comes, with saving
grace, the sober second-thought that
the poor, despised laborers are the
majority of the people; that in this
country the majority rules; and that
the labOrers show disposition to
unite at tue ballot box and vote as
one man. Your gatling guns can
sweep away thousands of them: stary-
alton may sweep thousands more: but
the reSiduum remains; with deadly
nate In their hearts: so deadly that it
burns up old party prejudices, and
they move forward to take possession
OF the government.
What an awful prospect for the
plundererS and their tools. They see
1t coming like an advancing doom
terrible as an army with banners.
And they make ready to hedge,-to
Il nn1,T 4
talk pretty. Here is specimens:
CHICAGO, July l3.-Judge Grosscup
delivered a supplementary charge to
the United States grand jury this
morning, calling attention to the
statements made public that the real
cOnspirators against the United
States government in the matter of
mail service were men higher in the
railroad service than mere employees
NO man is above the law" said the
Judge in opening his supplementary
charge. The line of criminality is not
drawn between classes, but between
those who violate the law and those
who do not. 1t is your duty to investi-
gate all matters connected with this
difficulty which are presented in tan
glble shape. If YOU find that two or
more men, no matter wh0t their positions,
either for the purpose Of creating public
syn1pothy or for ony other pupose, wrong
fully agreed between themselves that
they would have United States mail
trains stopped. and did act in that di-
rection, then they are guilty Of con-
spiracy. if they agreed that they
would discharge men who otherwise
would not be discharged and thus de-
lay mail trains, they are guilty of con-
spiracy: if they agreed to not employ
men, but would allow mail trains to
stand still, they are guilty of conspir-
acy. unless the employment of men
would endanger the lives of those
men or endanger the public inter
eStS.'
The court told the grand jury it was
the duty and pleasure Of the district
attorney to present any tangible evi-
dence of this nature.
We also read as follows:
CHICAGO. July lit is reported
that when the federal grand jury con-
cludes its investigation of the Ameri-
can Railway union it will begin an in
quiry into the policy and methods of
the General Managers association.
Among the leaders of the working
men the charge has been made openly
and repeatedly that the obstruction
of the United States mails and the in
terruption of Interstate COM
merce was due quite as much
to the general managers as to
the railway union. 1t has been alleged
that the general managers agreed
among themselves that no trains
should be run on any of the roads I'M
til all had gained their points in the
dispute with the men. This was done.
it is charged, to hold back such com
panies as showed an inclination to
treat with their employees and bring
about resumption of traffic on their
own lines. 1t is asserted by the men
that they can prove that telegrams
were sent out from the general man
ayers association ordering certain
railroad lines to send out no trains un-
til designated scheme had been ac-
cOmplished. All this. the men insist,
is as clear a case Of conspiracy on the
part Of the general managers as the
acts of DebS and his associates and
renders them indictable for conspr-
acy. Judge GrOSScup said when QueS-
toned on the subject:
Il have no doubt that when the
grand jury shall have finished the
particular matter it is now investi-
eating it will turn its attention to
others who may have violated the law.
1t will widen the scope of it's in
quiry SO as to include all persons who
may have interfered with or ObStruct-
ed interstate commerce or the United
States mails in any way or by any
means"
In California another court has tax
en- the same position, and calls on the
grand jury to indict the great railroad
managers. "What is sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander" Let
the law apply equally to all, rich and
poor. That is good American doc
trine. Id,
Well Done