The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-25
HERE'S RICHNESS,
More Capitalization.

HAMMOND, Ind, July 11.-Gen. Rob
bins has prohibited the sale of the
Chicago Times in the camp or about
any of the lines.
He has issued strict orders that no
under officer or private shall read that
paper.
In conversation tonight with Gen.
Robbins the correspondent for the
Times was told:
Some may consider this a high
handed move, but when | fight an
enemy, | fight him from every stand
point. The Chicago Times is opposing
the authorities and is melting people
to disobey the laws of the land and |
do not intend that one cent from
single one of my men shall go to that
publishing company"
The news of this boycott has but
added to the circulation and apprecia-
tion of the Times by the citizens of
Hammond.
Two newsbOyS who were doing a
rushing business at Hammond selling
the Times to Indiana militiamen COM
plain of having been driven from the
the camp by Adjt. Gen. Robbins. The
Times is the only paper the soldiers
care to read, so the boys say, and the
militiamen are reported as not relish
ing the action of their commander in
debating what sort of literature they
shall read. His conduct has given
rise to the suspicion that he has been
straying too far outside the camp
lines. 1t is reported that when Rob
bins is around the soldiers all hide
their copies of the Times in their hip
pockets. The people at Hammond
consider Robbins conduct scandalous,
and movement is on foot to have
Gov. Matthews take official cognzance
OF the circumstance to prevent any
further humiliation Of the men and
the disgrace of the states uniform.
Ism t this rich?
If a paper takes the side of the peO-
pie it must be stamped out. Is this
Russia or America?
The next step will be to deny the
mails to any but plutocratic papers,
on the plea of public safety.
We are moving rapidly towards
despotism. The general government
invades states without the consent,
and against the protest, of the local
authorities; s;-the fede raj courts issue
blanket injunctions to cover whole
communities; the federal marShals
arrest men without warrants for ad-
vising men not to work: and army Off
GERS suppress newspapers that protest
against these usurpations. The old
party papers clamor for a wiping out
of the rights of states. The leading
Republican paper of Iowa, the Des
Moines Register, published by Clark
son, of the national Republican COM
mittee, says:
Some of the states rights papers
are having considerable to say about
the Federal troops sent to Chicago. be-
ing can invasion of that state." The
Federal troops are at home in any and
all the states of the American Union.
There can be no such thing as an in
vasion by the Federal troops of any
portion Of the United States. States
stand III the same relation to the Nation
that counties stand IN to tie states That
fact was irrevocably established by
the conclusion of peace at Appomat-
toX.
And then read the following from
the Army and Navy Journal:
1t is difficult to see how any one can
follow the occurrences of the past
fortnight without realizing the great
wrong they do TO liberty and the coun-
try, who discrcdit our army. and seek
in any way to deprive it of its lust
claims to consideration and support.
In view of the events of the present,
and the possibilities ofthe Immediate future.
this seems almost like subOrnatiOn Of
treason.
The administration at WASHINGTON
is entitled to great credit for the vigOr
with which it is acting in this cmer-
gency. The assertion Of authority IN the
decisions of United States Courts 0rer the
,ailUdys, rhich are Our modern hiqt,rdys.
goes Jeyond anything zee hare heretofore
had, and it was greatly needed. In
deed. without it, it would seem as
though chaos might come again. The
presence of our army is limited to pro-
tecting those who enforce the pro-
cesSes of the courts and to guarding
public property: it may conserve ma
tional rights when they are declared,
but it has no power to go beyond their
judicial and executive assertion.
The necessity Of larger army Is becon,-
inq more apparent crery hour, and it
would seem hardly possible for congress
to ignore it. The pending appropria-
tion bill should have added to it
clause removing all restrictions upon
enlistments. This would increase our
army to the maximum strength of the
several companies. troops and batter
les. The rest could safely be left to
the discretion Of the president.
In reading such articles one feels as