The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-07-19
SLOWLY BUT SURELY.
The Governments Ponderous
Machinery in Motion.
LAW AND ORDER VS.. ANARCHY.

Justice Is Aroused. and the Courts Have
Begun to Indict and Arrest the Of
fenders-NormaI Conditions Already
About Restored.
CHICAGO, July 11.-Slowly but stead
lily, calmly and certainly, as BELTS the
supreme power of great nation through
out all the wide stretch of its domain
where evil-disposed persons are taking
advantage of the exceptional industrial
condition to incite violence and blood
shed, the Federal government is moving
to the accomplishment of that for which
its powers were delegated to it by the
people, the preservation of order and the
safety of life and property. At Chicago,
in connection with the State and munic-
: ipality, it has already brought peace out
of the condition of war which prevailed
last week. At San Francisco, Sacra-
mento and various points in Colorado
and Washington, where the unruly are
creating havoc, it has let loose the dogs
of war in token of its intention to have
peace, even if it has to fight for it. In
this city the military arm has accom-
plished its purpose the judicial arm has
taken up the orderly course of its duties,
which include the fixing upon the guilty
parties the measure of their crime and
the fitting of the punishments thereto.
I The first step in this procedure was the
J assembling OF the Federal grand jury
and the delivery of charge to it by
Judge GrOsscup.
| That it is the intention of the national
authorities not to be turned aside from
an exhaustive inquiry into the questions
which it has undertaken to pass upon
by mere technicaiities was evinced at
the outset by the brusqueness by which
it swept aside the plea of privacy and
privilege which the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, with due regard for
the privacy of the messages of its clients,
was forced to put in, when the jury called
for the messages from President Debs to
the members of his order which had
been transmitted over it's lines. The
court held that public safety was para
mount to private right, and so ordered
that the dispatches be produced. That
it is the intention of the government not
to be too long about the work in hand
was shown by the fact that the footsteps
of the telegraph official who brought the
dispatches had scarcely ceased to echo
along the corridors leading. TO tho sis...-.s-
Jury room when the body filed into
court and announced it had found true
bill Of indictment. Pending the arrest
OF the persons thus put under indict-
ment, the public was allowed to draw
all it's conclusions from the premises and
such preliminary data as it had at hand.
That President Debbs was the man none
doubted, and subsequent developments
justified the surmise.
Touching the outlook for the future
outside OF Chicago, it may be said that
to-day's dispatches were almost uniform
in tenor to the effect that normal condl-
tions had already been restored, or that
they were rapidly approaching that state,
and there seems to be no reason at THIS
writing to suppose that the progress to-
wards complete resumption of trade
and traffic will meet with any serious
check as the coming days shall succeed
each other. In other words, 1T does not
seem possible, with all the forces OF law
and order, as now arrayed, with their
leader put to his own defense at the bar
of Justice; with their ranks beginning to
be depleted by assertions, and with the
strain which they have already enuureu'
that the American Railway Union can
rally its forces for struggle which must
needs be long and discouraging at best.
Apparently, therefore, their only hope
of final triumph lies in aid which they
hope to get from union labor outside OF
their organization. AS this is being
written, the order for all classes OF labor
in Chicago to 60 on strike tomorrow
morning is being promulgated, and it is
said that that of Grand Master Work
man Sovereign of the Knights OF Labor,
calling on all members to strike and all
who sympathize with Pullman strikers
all over the country to come out with
them, is expected to follow quickly:
How generally the order will be obeyed
is problematical. To great extent the
effect has already been discounted by the
stagnation of business, and it is known
that some of the longest heads among
the labor leaders believe the action has
been postponed too long to be effective.
At sunset the nation will probably know
whether the situation is one OF crisis or
collapse,