The herald., 1894-07-14
DEPEW's OPINION.
The Postprandial Orators Views on thu

The Postprandial Orators Views on tho
Strike.
LONDON, July 13.-Chsuncey M.Depew,
at the request of that paper, has favor.
ed the Times with the following state
ment by cable as to the causes and
meaning of the labor troubles in the
United States. The Times granted the
Associated Press correspondent permis-
sion to cable the interview to the United
States:
The labor troubles in the United
States are due to the long continued in
dustral depression, and the strike WAS
caused by the ambitious efforts of Mr..
DeDe, president of the A. r, u, to alb
sorb all organizations of railway en-
ployees into one. The success of this
disorder and delay in euppressing it,
were owing to the heretofore underlined
boundary between State and federal au-
thority.
In the depressed financial and indus.
| trial situation the Populist party found
! its opportunity, or rather the situation
created the party. The idea which it's
| members gather from its teachings is
that liberty means the right to violate
law and stop or seize railroads and in
dustriss, providing the law-breaksrs are
poor and sufficiently strong to defeat or
overawe the ordinary peace establish.
ment of q community. In the states
where this party is in power strikes,
lockouts, boycotts and suppression Ui
railway traffic receive direct assistance
or passive permission from the authori-
ties.
Mr.. Debs was for many years a high
and popular officer OF tine Brotherhood
OF Locomotive Firemen and the editor OF
the Labor magazine, of advanced
socialistic and somewhat anarchistic
views. He conceived the idea Of break
ing up the existing organizations and
gathering the railway world into bis
order. His scheme was attractive. The
order was to control the railways and
cosrce their managers.
Debs made his first appeal to the
switchmen and selected the Great
Northern for his attack. This line had
been built paralleling the Northern Pa
cific, enforced the latter into bank
ruptcy and could not afford tie-up.
After few days the manager of the line
surrendered. Debs' victory surprised
himself by its completeness and far
reaching consequences. East OF Chi
settled states the old organizations stood
firm against him. He must again dem
onstrate his power. Finding no griev-
ancs on any railway, he chose to make
his fight upon the trouble between the
Pullman Car com pany and the mechan.
les in its shops over the construction OF
some hundreds OF cars for various
Tailwayn.
| Debs ordered boycott OF the Pullman
cars, and on the refusal of the railways
to break their contracts with the Pull.
man company and inflict namelesa
cruelties upon their passengers, he or.
dered their lines closed. The strike
reached its ridiculous stage when the
governor OF California requested q
permit from the strike leader &c
visit his capital, which was contempt.
ously refused. After President Cleve-
lands proclaim alton it required few
days Tor the general public and the
strike leaders tU grasp the idea that the
president was in earnest and the army
and navy in motion, when this gigantic
conspiracy collapsed ss suddenly as il
had organized.
The losses occasioned by the strike
are numerous but it is destined. te
prove OF great benefit to the country
The national idea has been strengthen
ed and brosdened. Safe anchorage wal
found for persons and property.
ii o0s Of the hopeful features Of the sit