The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-11

supreme power of great nation
throughout all that wide stretch of its
domain evil-disposed persons are taking
advantage of an exceptional Industrial
condition to incite violence and solood-
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 the municipality, it has al
ready brought peace out of the condi-
ton of war which prevailed last week.
AT San Francisco, Sacramento, Los
Angeles and various points in Colorado
and Washington, where the unruly are
crying 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 having
accomplished its purpose, the judicial
arm took up the orderly course
Of its duties. which include the
liking upon the guilty parties the
measure of their crime and the fitting
Of the punishmentS thereto.
The first step in this procedure was
jury and the delivery of a charge to it
by Judge Grosscup, as set forth in
eXtenSo elsewhere in these dispatches
That it is the intention of the national
authorities not TO be turned aside from
an exhaustive enquiry into the ques-
lions which it has undertaken to pass
upon by mere technicalities, was eync-
ed at the outset by the brusqueness by
which it swept aside the plea of privacy
and privilege which the Western Union
Telegraph company, with due regard
for the privacy of the messages of it's
clients, was forced to put in when the
jury called for the messages from
President Debs to the members of his
ordH' 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 government not to be too long
about the work in hand, was shown
from the fact that the footstep of the
telegraph official who brought the dis
patches had scarcely ceased to re-echo
along the corridor leading to the grand
jury room when that body filed into the
court and announced that it had found
ture bill of Indictment. Pending the
arrest of the person thus put under
indictment, his name remained locked
| in the breast of the lord eXecutioner and
the public was allowed to draw all it's
conclusions fiom the premises and such
preliminary data as it had at hand
That President Debs was the man
none doubted, and subsequent develop
ments justified the surmise.
Touching the outlook for the future
| outside of Chicago, it may be said that
| today's dispatches We're almost uniform
| in tenor to the effect that normal condi-
tons had already been restored, or that
| they were rapidly approaching that
state and there seems no reason, at this
writing, to suppose that the progress
| toward a complete resumption of trade
and traffic will meet with any serious
| check as the coming days shall sue
| coed each other. In other words it does
| not seem possible, with all the forces
| Of law and order as now arrayed, 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 it's forces for a
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 go on strike tomor-
row morning is being promulgated, and
! it is said that that of Grand Master
Workman Sovereign Of the Knights of
Labor calling on all members to strike
and all who sympa thize with the Pull
man strikers all over the country to
come out with them. is expected to fol-
low quickly. How generally the orders
| will be obeyed is problematical. To a
great extent their effect has been al
ready discounted by the stagnation OF
business and it is known that some of
the longest heads of the labor leaders
believe that the action has been post
poned too long to be effective.
| AT sunset, the nation will probably
know whether the situation is one OF
| crisis or collapse