The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-08-02
DAVIS ON THE RIOT,

DHtlo yin HlOls
How Minnnesota's Senior Senator
Looked at 1t.
In his speech in reply to PETER, on
the recent riots III Chicago Senator
Davis made remarks which are
equally interesting to the farmer, the
laborer, the business man. Some of
them are here reproduced:
Mr. President, who has conferred this
authority upon Mr.. Debs: Where is his
that it shall not be fed, to say to the people
of the northwest that they shall not leave
their homes, or that they shall not be able to
get to their homes if they are away: What
signature is annexed to that patent of pop
ular right or popular consent?
No, Mr.. President, this Massaniello of
day. drunk with power. has Embossed
agencies that he cannot chain, his own disci-
plined men have gone beyond his control, and
it is a notorious fact that their violent &C
ton has called from the caves and dens of
Chicago the professed criminal the idly vic
GUS, anarchist. Everybody who is conspir-
ing to put down modern civilization is now
moving under the mask of this strike and
taking life and destroying property in it's
name.
Speaking of the people of the United States
"a large, mouth-filling word that we have
heard so often here-let US consider mo-
ment that there are 100000 farmers in
the United States. Five million farmers
and their families, constituting As per cent
of the population, are engaged in agricult-
ural pursuits. I suppose, Mr.. President, if
anybody is entitled to be distinctively called
1.-The people" the bone and sinew of this coun-
try, it is the farming population. They sup
ply the great cities. They represent the
land; without them the country would be
nothing. They have been it's invulnerable
and loyal arm of defense in all times of peril.
How are they affected by this strike of that
segment of the people in Chicago? Have the
farmers of this country called out to have
commerce stopped until the question of
wages can be settled between a few en-
ployes and company constructing cars?
Has any Illinois, or Minnesota, or Wisconsin,
or Iowa farmer cried aloud for this remedy
and been ready to pledge his life, his fortune,
and his sacred honor until the desired end
can be brought about? Not one. How has it
affected them? How does it affect the con-
stituents of the Senator from Kansas? They
cannot market their wheat if this thing con-
tinues; they cannot market their wheat to-
day.
The early prhduct of the farms of Illinois,
the fruit, the early vegetables, have been
rotting throughout the fields. The early
nC21ifOrnia "a
perfectly valueless uuder existing condi-
lions. The beef of the country cannot be
marketed in New York or Washington. It is
rotting in Chicago and prices rise to the peo-
pie. Mothers go from place to place in the
city of Chicago seeking for milk for their
children, and can scarcely find it.
I say, Mr.. president that no interest in
this country is striker such deadly blow by
this cruel, remorseless, unreasonable, merci-
less, and finally reasonable attack upon the
liberty of the American people as the farm
ing community of the United States; and
they will finduit out some day by the stern
logic of events teaching them the lessons
which have endeavored to impart. 1t will
not be necessary for them even to learn that
lesson by experience to array them, as they
always been arrayed, on the side of law and
order and the perpetuity of this Govern
ment.
I said, Mr. President. that this strike was
comparatively local. and so it is. It is at
vital point, it is true but that it is wide
spread is notatrue: and 1 do not believe it
will be. 1.-THE laboring men of the great
states of 1.-THE east are not engaged in it,
South of the Potomac and the Ohio law and
order reign supreme I am ashamed as a
northern man to invite the contrast, but it
is true; and if the time shall come for the
strength of this nation to be put forth to put
down the rising tide of anarchy which
| threatens to submerge the city of Chicago.
| the nation call uwith equal confidence upon
the people of the south and the north for
that purpose
Do not people realize that the constitution
| itself isl on trial and that the country itself
is in danger? The military power, the last
resort in a free government has necessarily
been called into action The President of
| the UnitedsStates, to whom is committed the
commandership of the army and navy. in the
execution of the laws has declared the
| danger by proclamation which every citi
| zen is bound to respect He saws. II have
| sent troops there" the Senator from Kan
| sas says, take them away" What shield
does the Senator propose to interpose be-
tween the innocent people of Chicago and
their property and the men who to-day are
only held in awe and suppressed by the
presence of troops. If they are taken awaye
Can Debs recall the force that he has I'M
loosed? He can no more do it than by word
he can reconstruct the burnt cars and give
| back life to those from whom it has been
taken away as the result of his operations.
The Senator from Kansas took occasion to
bring into this debate the ministers of the