The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-07-18
BILL APPS LETTER;
Tho Georgia Philosopher Talks About tho
Chicago Trouble.
atlanta Constitution.

1 came up the road from Atlanta
yesterday with Captain Dick Hargis,
the tall, sycamore of Nancy's Greek.
Captain Dick is one of the genial con-
ductors of the State road, and as he
took seat behind me I said: "What
is the matter with you Are you not
conducting this train 2" s'No," said
he "I'ye strickland I'm still strik-
ing-striking for home. This is my
off day. I am glad I don't live up
yonder among those strikers. [ tell
you what, major, if this government
is saved from ruin it will be saved by
the people of the South. Our native
born population has got respect for
law and order and fair dealing, but
them fellows up there haven't got a
bit. Their motto is rule or ruin I;
give us what we demand, or we will
take it. AS fast as one strike is set
tied there is another on hand, and it is
running the country"
A couple of Michiganders asked
Captain Dick if he thought the big
strike would get down here in Geor-
gia. s'No," said he, eve Southerners
have done had our big strike and got
enough of it." 'sWhen was that 2"
they asked. "About thirty years
ago, said Dick. 'sIt was an awful
big strike and lasted four years, and
we got licked. The Yanks hired
about 1000, 900 Of foreigners to put US
down, and they did it, and they and
their sort are now trying their hand
on the people who hired them. That's
what's S the matter" One Of the gen
tlemen ventured to ask him what our
people thought of Coxey and Kelly
and their armies. ooh, we don't care
anything.about theD,," said the Cap
tain. "They are part Of the same
crowd that the North inherited from
Che war. They came down here at
the tail end of Sherman's army and
plundered all this beautiful country,
and never left pig to squeal nor a
chicken to crow. They liked the
business then and they like it yet. !
see that Coxey cost our government
$80, 900 while he was in Washington,
but there's no telling how much they
cost the country they passed through.
Before the war we would have called
them vagrants, but some Northern
preachers and editors sympathise with
them and say ie is only sign Of lis-
content. That's what's the matter
discontented because I've got some-
thing that I worked for, and they
want it, and I won't give it to them.
The Yanks taught them that itwas no
crime to rob US, and now they are rob
bing them. You know that Solomon
OF somebody said if a man sows wind
he will raise crop If whiriwind. No.,
gentlemen, as sure as you are born the
Southswill have to save this country
from anarchy, and she can do.it. We
didn't have but about half million
Of fighting men in the other big strike,
and we Killed more than that and put
800, goo on the pension list, and then
it took million more to whip US, and
SO you can imagine what we can do
now since we have raised another
CROP" And Captain Dick gritted his
Confederate teeth and rolled his big
Confederate eyes all around in their
sockets.
Well, we have been amazed at this
last big strike and we did ,sympathize
with the railroads and the people who
suffered, but We didn't feelvery much
concerned until the embargo on our
watermelons reached us. It is Just as
Powderly said in his speech last Tues
day in New York: "Every strike
against railroads is strike against the
whole country. Our railroads are so
essentially connected with the life Of
the nation that when you stop one of
these great arteries you stop the flow
of the nations life-blood. Person
ally, I do not believe in strikes. /
have always advised against them"
Good for Powderly. But this new
leader, Debs, has the instinct of
brute. He would see thousands of
workmen thrown out of employment
and their families suffering for bread,
and commerce paralyzed just to grati-
fy his own ambition. And what is it
all about? Just because the Pull
man company offered its employees
wages which the workmen refused to
work for, and so they were paid off
and discharged. This was their legal
riggt. Now, Debs orders strike on
every road that hauls Pullman car,
and he stops long train loads of live
stock where they cannot get either
food or water, and his henchmen ac-
tually prevent hundreds Of passengers
men, women and children-from
go.sing food or water in the to~n n
where they were derailed. He has
sent his agents all over the Eastern
States to indnce the employees to
come into universal strike and let
labor whip capital for good and for
all time. How far he will succeed,
we cannot divine, but the reply of the
Jersey City men was admir- 5le.
"We have done we'll W keep our
places and our wages these hard times,
for we are assured that our railroads
have not earned net dollar in the
last nix months. No, We will not
ioin you." This strike is the cut
crop Of anarchism. 1t comes from the
same Iawless spirit that caused the as
sassination of Lincoln and Garfield
and Mayor Harrison and Carnot. 1t
leads to arson, pillage and the de-
struction of property. 1t causes
thousands of workmen in other indus
tries to be thrown out of employment
and their families to suffer. If this
strike continues month the strikers
themselves will lose hundreds Of
thousand of dollars, the railroads will
lose millions and the commercial pub
lie hundreds of millions.
Is there no power in a Republican
Government to stop these outrages
and punish the ringleaders If not,
then let us have a military despotism
and be done with it. Our courts have
been our bulwark and cur pride. They
are slow, but they have been sure and
we have felt secure under their pro-
lection to life, liberty and property;
But these men laugh at courts and
scorn the law. They substitute an