Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-09

| Itniiy W VIC iudoiiity VI Tie COulpdu-
les to fill the places of the men who
had quit their employ. there can be nc
doubt; but that at any time these dis
turbances assumed proportions too
large for the State to deal with, we
deny. In the cold light of history the
Judges hysteria will be compelled to
| give place to facts. It is but fair to
say that Mr.. Debs denies that he ever
sent any telegram to any one to save
his money and buy gun, and posi-.
bly, Mr.. Debs is quite as capable OF
telling the truth as railroad attorneys
or managers. Mr.. Debs claims tina,
he never ordered a strike. and never
advised the commission of an unlaw-
full act.
1t might be just as well to hear the
evidence before indulging in connip.
ton fits. The regular train the Judge
mentions, it seems to US, refers to the
time Of running and not to their make
up.
| The government has nothing to do
with the number or kind of cars in a
train. 1t may consist of five or fifty.
1t may consist of box cars, or Pull
mans; it is only interested in their run
ming regularly. 1t was never intend
ed that the government should interest
itself in anything but the mail cars,
and then only to the extent of seeing
that they reached their destination on
time and in safety. The idea that the
government has any other right or
| duty in connection with mail train,
is simply absurd. The whole thing
was originated for the purpose of get
ting the general government to assume
the place of the railroads in their
quarrel with their men,
We would remind the Judge that
the railroad managers are not nearly
so much excited as he seems to be.
| Back of it all looms up a big suit for
| damages against the State of Illinois
and other States. If the strikers are
to be believed, the companies expect
to work off on the States a great many
superannuated box cars and decayed
| fats at figure that will be comfort
ing; and that the leaders of the riots
that destroyed the property in many
Instances were Pinkertons in the en-
ploy of the companies. The truth is,
there has been systematic magnify
| ing of the present troubles on the part
of the companies with a view to the
enlargement of the powers of the
Federal court. The Federal Judge is
not responsible to the people, neither
is the United States Marshal Or the
United States attorney. Politically
there can be no day of reckoning with
the people for them. They are prac-
tically Irresponsible, and there is
nothing SO favored by our great ag-
gregations of capital as irresponsible
power, and nothing so much feared as
as the power Of the people. May the
day come when the hand of the people
can be placed directly upon the politi-
cal neck of the Federal Judge!
What interest the people of this
country would take in pamphlet set
ting forth the number of relatives of
the Federal judiciary in the employ of
the corporations! How absorbed they
would be in its contents, if it should
state how many blocks of gilt edged
stock was now being carried for some
of these men.
In conclusion, we affirm that the
fountain cannot arise higher than it's
source; that in a popular government
the people should have their servants
at their fingers ends; that if from them
all power must emanate, they should
be intrusted with its exercise-that
they are to be trusted with the man
agement of their own affairs. We
further affirm that there was no dis
turbance any where in this Union dur
ing the strike that was beyond the
control of the local authorities; that
they did secure order when appealed
to; and there was an unblushing at
tempt on the part of the transportation
companies to substitute Federal for To-
cal control. We say that Governors
Altgeld, Hogg and Stone were right in
their protest against the Executive of
the Nation sending troops into their
states without authority of law and
against their protest; that pretended
violations of our postal and interstate
commerce laws were used as a means
to coerce railroad employees into COM
pliance with the demands of their en-
ployers. We can see nothing Demo
cratic in the tory theory of govern
ment. We believe no greater crime
against civil liberty can be committed
than some of the acts of our Federal
courts and the President.
-Four Big Successes.