The morning call., 1894-07-11
STRIKERS BEATEN FOR A TIME.
But They Have Not Yet Exhausted
Their Means for Offensive
Warfare.

CHICAGO, July 10.-SlOwly but steadily,
calmly and certainly as BELTS the supreme
power of a great nation, throughout all
that wide stretch of its domain where
evil-disposed persons are taking advantage
of an exceptional industrial condition to
incite violence and Dloodshed, the Federal
Government is MOVING 10 the accomplish
ment of that for which its powers were
delegated to it by the people-the preser-
walton of order and the safety Of life and
property. At Chicago, in consultation
with the State and the municipality, II has
already brought peace out of condition
of war which prevailed last week. At vari-
Gus points where the unruly are creating
havoc it has let loose the dogs of war in
token of its intention to have peace, even
if it has to fight for 1t. Ii this city. the
military arm having accomplished its pur-
pose. the judicial arm has taken up the
orderly course of its duties, which include
the fixing upon the guilty parties the meas
ure of their crime and the fitting punish
ment thereto.
The first step in this procedure was the
assembling of the Federal Grand Jury
and the delivery of a charge to it by Judge
GrOsscup, as set forth in eXtenso else
where in these dispatches. That 1t is the
intention of the national authorities not to
be turned aside from an exhaustive in-
quiry into the questions which il has un-
dertaken to pass upon by mere TECHNICAL
ties was evinced at the outset by the
brusqueness by which it swept aside the
plea of privacy and privilege which the
Western Union Telegraph Company. with
due regard for the privacy of the mes
sages Of its clients. was forced TO put in
when the jury called for the messages of
President Debs to the members of his or
der which had been transmitted over its
lines. The court held that public safety
was paramount to private right and so or
dered that the dispatches be produced.
That it is the intention OF the Government
not to be too long about the work in hand
was shown from the fact that the footsteps
of the telegraph official who brought the
dispatches had scarcely ceased to re-echo
along the corridor leading to the Grand
and announced that 1t had found true
bill of Indictment.
Pending the arrest of the person thus
pu. under indictment his name remained
executioner. and the public was allowed to
draw all its conclusions from the premises
and such preliminary data as it had at
hand. That President Debs was the man
none doubted. and subsequent develop
ments justified the surmise.
Touching the outlook for the future out
side of Chicago It may be said that to-day's
dispatches were almost uniform in tenor,
to the effect that normal conditions had
already been restored or that they were
rapidly approaching that state. and there
seems no reason at this writing to suppose
that the progress toward a complete re-
sumption of trade and traffic will meet
with any serious check as the coming
days shall succeed each other In other
words, it does not seem possible, with all
the forces of law and order as now arrayed,
with their leader put to bis own defense at
the bar of justice, with their ranks begin
ming to be depleted by assertions, and
with the strain which they have already
endured. that the A. R. q. can rally forces
for a struggle which must needs be long
and discouraging at best. Apparently,
therefore, their only hope OF final triumph
lies in aid which they hope to get from
union labor outside of their organization.
AS this is being written the order for
all classes of labor in Chicago to go on
strike tomorrow morning Is being promul-
gated, and it is said that the order of
General Master Workman Sovereign of the
Knights of Labor. calling on all members
to strike and all who sympathize with the
Pullman strikers all over the country to
come out with them, is expected to follow
quickly. How generally the orders will
be obeyed is problematical. To great
extent the effect has already been dis
counted by the stagnation of business, and
it is known that some of the longest heads
of the labor leaders believe that the action
has been postponed tooflong to be effec-
tive.
DEBS UNDER ARREST.