The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-30
DICTATOR DEBs,s STRIKE.

The sympathetic striker is a sympathetic
idiot. and he is making a life-size demon
stration OF the fact in the Pullman strike.
Philadelphia Press.
Can Debs and Howard deliberately set to
work to stop the railroad system of this
country and paralyze it's commerce without
the result that their followers will become
mobocrats and adopt the agencies Of an
arcny! We shall See.-Cincinnau Tribune.
The American Railway Union is sounding
its own death knell in the present strike
whenever it permits violence to mark it's
attempts to coerce. 1t is making an unjust
fight against the public now and il is not
within the range of possibility that it should
win-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The public are entitled to protection
against such lawless and constituencies in
reference with transportation facilities
The American Railway Union might, with
precisely as much justice and pertinency,
insist that no Pullman cars should be run
during the dark of the moon.-Philadelphi
Record.
The general opinion is that the move
ment was unreasonable and reckless. It's
authors are regarded as hotheads, swollen
with a vain sense of the mischievous i'm
portance that they have unfortunately ac-
quired and who may, like child playing
with fire, produce a very dangerous state
of affairs.-Chicago Herald.
The ruthlessness with which man like
Debs. drunk with authority, ties up great
railroad systems to carry a point in which
they are only remotely concerned, and the
ers that enables him to do ii, form one Of
the uglieSt features of the labor situation.
Louisville Courier-J ournal.
The boycott of the Pullman Car Company
by the railway union is destined to failure.
The American people do not approve Of
this weapon, to begin with. 1t interferes
in this case with the rights and necessities
of great body of people. Its use involves
unlawful obstruction to travel and, logi-
cally, leads to violence.-New York World.
1t is only another illustration of the
vicious management under which labor or
CARNATIONS so often make war upon the
public, in the hope of coercing particular
employer. The employees do not claim that
the railroad companies have treated them
unfairly. War is declared upon them and
upon the unoffending public in order TO
force the Pullman company to pay higher
wages to the hands at its shop in Illinois.
New York Tribune.
1t is such foolish attempts to involve large
masses of men in difficulty that causes so
much popular prejudice against certain
class of labor organizations. The knights
Of Labor INDUCED in this sort of thing 10
their lasting sorrow, and it is preposterous
to suppose that the railway union, or,
rather the hot-headed spirits who have
impelled it to make this move, should be
able to demoralize the entire railway sys-
tenn of the country.-Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
If Mr.. Debs succeeds it will mean, in
effect, that the manufacturing establish
ments of the country are to be taken from
their owner and appropriated by the unions
for their own benefit and, instead of the
State controlling the agencies of production
they will be directed by half dozen ire
| sponsble despots like Debs, chosen by a
small fraction of the population who have
introduced their new socialistic regime
without consulting anybody else, and with
out regard to the right of private property.
Louisville Commercial.
Public opinion will never sustain such a
| boycott. The injury inflicted upon society
| will be such that all men, except the i'm
| mediate contestants, will join in putting
| down the boycotters and bringing to pun
| ishment those who stop trains of cars upon
| the movement or which depends the bread
and butter of the whole community. What
we may expect and what is most to be
| desired is a battery of artillery at Grand
| Crossing, manned by officers like those
which put down the mob al Milwaukee
| when Jerry Rusk was Governor.-New
York Evening Post.