The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-07-12

Different Points.
CHICAGO, July 11.-SlOwly but stead
lily, calmly and certainly, as BELTS the
supreme power Of agreat nation through
out all that wide stretch of its domain
where evil disposed persons are taking
advantage of an exceptional condition
to incite violence and bloodshed, the
federal government is moving to the &C
compHShment of that for which it's
powers were delegated to the people,
the preservation of order and the safety
OF life and property. At Chicago, in
conjunction with the state and munici-
pality, it has already brought peace out
of the condition of war which prevailed
last week. AT San Francisco, Sacra-
mento, Los Angeles and various points
In Colorado and Washington, where the
unruly are causing havoc, it has let slip
the dogs of war in token of its inten-
ton to have peace, even if it has to fight
for it. In this city the military arm
having accomplished its purpose the
Judicial arm has taken up the orderly
course of its duties which include the
filming upon the guilty parties the meas
ure Of their crime and the fitting of the
punishments thereto.
The first step in this procedure was
the assembling of the federal grand
jury and the delivery of the charge to it
by Judge Grosscup as set forth by the
national authorities, who are not to be
turned aside from an exhaustive inquiry
into the questions which it has under
taken to pass upon by mere technicalit-
les. This was evinced at the outset by
the brusqueness with which it swept
aside the plea of privacy and privilege
which the Western Union Telegraph
company, with a due regard for the
privacy OF the messages Of its clients,
was forced to put i'll when the jury
called for the messages from President
Debs to the members of his order which
had been transmitted over its lines.
The court held that public safety was
paramount to private right and so
ordered that the dispatches be produced.
That it is the intention of the govern
ment not to be too long about the work
in hand, was shown from the fact that
the footsteps Of the telegraph official, who
brought the dispatches. had scarcely
ceased to echo along the corridor leading
to the grand jury room when that body
filed INTO Judge Grosscup's court and
announced that ii had found true bill
of Indictment.
Pending the arrest of the person thus
put under the ban of the law, his name
remained locked in the breast of the
Lord high executioner and the public
was allowed to draw its own conclusions
from all the premises and such prelim-
mary data as it had at hand That
President Debs 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 the
dispatches are almost uniform in tenor
to the effect that normal conditions have
already been restored, or that they are
rapidly approaching that state, and
there seems no reason at this writing to
suppose that the progress toward a COM
plete 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 posi-
bic, with all the forces OF law and
order as now aTrayed; with their leader
put to his own defence at the bar Of
justice: with their ranks beginning to
be depleted by assertions, and with the
strain which they have already endured,
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 the aid which
they hope to get from union labor out
side OF the organization.
The order for all classes of labor in
Chicago to go on strike has been pro-
mulgated and that of Grand Master
Workman Sovereign of the K. Of
L. calling on all members to strike
and all who sympathize with the
Pullman strikers all over the country to
come out with them followed quickly
How generally these orders will be
obeyed is problematical. To a good ex-
tent their effect has been already dis
counted by the stagnation of business,
and it is known that some of the longest
headed of the labor leaders themselves
believe that action has been postponed
too long to he fully effective
At sunset tonight this nation will
probably know whether the situation is
one of crisis or collapse.