The morning call., 1894-07-08

Light has broken in the East family,
but it is as light seen through blood.
Mr.. olney has had his wish. The ball
and the bayonet have been used upon
the strikers at Chicago. Whether their
use VIII be to the permanent advantage
ofNIr. ulIman and the side upon which
Mr. Olney and the administration are
enlisted Is at least an open question.
The people have been driven far. Is it
not possible that they may be driven too
.farS That has happened upon several
memorable occasions in the history of
the world. Still, despite the question
OF bIOodshed, there are some hints OF a
break in the situation. No trains have
moved out of Chicago, but the vice.
president OF the Pullman Company has
consented to meet a committee OF the
ex-empIoyes Of the company in Chicago
to-day. That may or it may not mean
an agreement. 1t is at least n cOnces-
sion to the men. In the West the Gov
repression, has ordered that the North
ern Pacific be opened and that line
also be opened from San Francisco to
Omaha. In opening these roads it may
be that there is further qualification for
MIR. Olney in the line OF ball and bayo-
net, for already the strikers at sacra-
msntO are preparing to resist the move
ment Of the regulars beyond that point.
A train was sent out OF Los Angeles
oyer the santa Fe for the East yester-
day, guard ed by troops, and United
States Attorney George j. Denis of the
Southern District of California, issued
an order to the Southern Pacific to move
tho mails between San Francisco and
Los Angeles and all local points-if not
with Pullmans, then without. Mr..
Denis departs somewhat in policy from
his superi OF at Washington, but he has
the distinction in these times of being
E.. the only Federal official strong enough
TO take the line of simple Justice.
Perhaps the most Significant develop
ment of the strike locally lies in the
EctIon taken by the Trades Council of
san Francisco to organize and stand to-
Eether morally, with money, and If
necessary with arms, as one man for the
success of the strike. Mr.. OIney may or
may not have bullets enough to go
around when all the Iaboring men stand
together.
:. AT Oakland there is no change. The
strikers hold what they have taken.
-. CHICAGO, July 7.-"And 1t is further
:. ordered that if any act of hostility be COM
mitted. such as firing upon railroad trains,
assaulting trainmen, marshals or soldiers,
throwing at them rocks. pieces of iron or
3. other missiles, these assaults shall be re-
peled by the use of firearms"
=. So wrote General Nelson A. Miles in his
order issued this afternoon detailing Fed
eral troops to assist the United States
marshals In preventing obstruction to the
movement Of mail and interstate commerce
trains. It was, in short, notice to all riot
ceased
and that hereafter the policy of the Gov
ernment would be to put an end to their
rioting. arson and pillage by shooting to
kill whenever or wherever necessary.
AS chance would have it, however. IL
did not fall to the lot Of the national troops
to be first to carry out the spirit of this
order. Company c, Second Regiment, /.
n. G.. had that distinction. The story of
the encounter between the sixty-seven
young miliiamen composing this COM
pany and vicous mob at Forty-seventh
and Loomis streets is told elsewhere in
these dispatches.
e. Up to o'clock in the afternoo the day
had been comparatively quiet one. To
be sure. small mobs bad been going all
through the district west Of State street
and south Of Thirty-ninth, burning few
cars here and there and threatening to fire
railroad-shops and the like, but it was
more In the nature of bushwhacking than
anything else. and not at all like the
massed band OF strikers VINO gatbered
along the railroad tracks yesterday and
to-day, absolutely blocking all movement
by sheer force of numbers.
This state of affairs was doubtless the
outgrowth of various conditions. such "a
3. the presence of vastly increased fore,
of soldiers, and Yesterdays wreckine
and firing of cars had left large share of
the tracks to the south mpassable. so that
about all the discernibe movement was in
the shape of wrecking trains, endeavor-
ing to bring order out of the chaos which
existed all through that region.
The disturbed section to-day embraced