The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-05

evening to lay in supplies for her
family for the National Holiday +,
found that the national calamity had
come right home to her door. She
found the hand of the man, Debs, in
her pocket, stealing from her the
hard earned wages of her husband,
c~urtailing the few comforts that her
children enjoy in this trying season i.
II she could have thought that this
assault upon rights to live and to get
some moderate advantages was the re-
suit of a struggle of some downtrod-
den men to wiring q livelihood from
tyrannical employers, her sympathies
might have led her toput up with her
own loss for the sake of the good to
Others. But when she knows that the
banded strikers of the western rail-
ways have no complaint or color of
complaint against thenscompanies,
when she knows that the strike is the
result of a preposterous effort to
| dictate to the rail WAYS In the manage
ment of their business, when she
| realizes above all that the thing which
it is sought to compel the companies
to do is an absolute impossibility al
most as much so as the total stoppage
of their traffic-the eastern working
mans wife must regard with peculiar
bitterness the men who are %infiicting
such wantop injury upon her and
hers. She must wonder, too, what
government amounts to in this
try, if it does not stop and does not
punish such colossal crimes.
The railroad companies should
never yield one hair in this fight.
They need not. They have almost
the whole country with them alre ady,
and q day or two more of deadlock
and short supplies will bring even the
new-fangIed, white-ribboned anar-
chists of Chicago to their side.
As for the State governments, it is
hard TO expect much in a region
where Waite and Altgeid hold sway.
But the Federal government has
stretched forth its arm, and it will
neutrality-suspicious. the standard of
rebellion and anarchy which has been
unfurled by Debs and his associates.
There can be no doubt as to the duty
of the government. This is not d ease
where the local peace and order OF
one State is involved. The whole
country is the sufferer from the re-
volt, and for the protection OF Massa-
chusetts, New York and Pennsylvania
as we'll as Illinois or Colorado, the
National courts, and the National
military force should be actively EN-
ployed.
Let US have peace if we can. If the
misguided men will lease to hinder
the efforts of the railroads to restore
the movement of commerce, by all
means abandon them to their deadly
right of sullen idleness. And when
they come around to a better sense,
leu us 10 NlIdU VIC Cdt1 W III z
back into the ranks of useful, toiling
citizenship. But if violence is to be
the rule, if they raise the arm of
physical force to prevent other men
from doing the duty that they nave
repudiated, then let there be no weak
ness. In that hour, the strikers be-
come far worse rebels and traitors
than any who ever followed the stand
ards of the Confederacy. Let them
be treated with the same uncompro-
missing severity. Let them feel the
full strength of the Government they
have outraged, and let their blood be
upon their own heads.
If we are not to disintegrate into
chaos, we must show that az an Or
ganized people we have the cour-
age and the power to punish and
destroy all elements that tend to
overthrow social order and National
DAace.