The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-15

ment of the military was merely for
the purpose of enforcing the processes
Iof the United States courts.
Debs. after his arrest, having been
admitted to BALL to which he was
as much entitled as any other citizen,
the public naturally has an interest in
knowing the character of his bonds
men. The Chicago Inter-Ocean says:
Nothing could have shown more
plainly the real character of the Debs
instruction than the kind of men who
came forward to bail out Debs and
| his associates. They were the motor
lious William Fitzgerald and the no
less notorious .BilP' Skakel. One has
had the reputation for many years OF
being the promoter of all sorts of
crookedness, and the other is known
! to be a professional gambler. Time
and again Fitzgerald has tried to
break into Democratic politics and has
been heavily sat down upon, owing to
1.-THE blackness of his reputation, and
last spring SkakeI tried it. Neither Of
! them has the slightest utilization with
honest labor.
The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser CRep) says:
The whole question between the
Pullman company and the American
Railway union is this: Can or cannot
| that organization force the company
| to carry on business at loss? If it
can force Pullman to do it, what is TO
prevent the A. r. U. from forcing eV-
| cry other employer in the country to
the same disastrous extremity?
| That is the whole question. If one
company can be forced to carry on
business at a loss, all companies and
individuals can.
The New York Times Oe,n9 COM
menting on the wrong to workingmen
that the present strike has caused,
says:
Far greater than the wrong done to
| this body of men leading them into a
contest with the railroad corporations
| which employed them, that had no just
cause and no sound principle to rest
upon, was the outrage of arraying
them against law and order and put
| ting them in an attitude Of defiance to
public authority. 1t has set them be-
| fore the country in the light of law
| less rioters and practically of rebels
against the government.
This is true and is to be regretted,
but it must also be remembered that
the workingmen are themselves. to
blame.
Chicago cannot afford to fold her
arms and permit either labor or capital
to paralyze business, destroy trade,
render heavy investments worthless
and turn the wheels, of progress back
| ward to crafty either its personal spite
or it's bstinacy.-Chicago Dispatch
Rep).
The case of Chicago is the case of
the entire country.
| The laws of the country must be
obeyed. The safety of the lives and
property of the people depends on that.
| If obedience is voluntary there is no
occasion to discuss it. But when mobs
lence, disturb the peace and resist the
processes of the courts, the force to
| compel acquiescence in the laws must
| be invoked-Kansas City Times
| DENY.
In the law is the safety of the people,
and this must be preserved at all haz-
ards. Even the rioters are beginning
to realize this.
Speaking of the arrest of Debs the
ST Louis Evening Star Sayings says:
This trial will also disclose the rights
of individuals representing the orders
of confederated labor to inaugurate
| 'boycottS'' and hoWsfar these leaders
of unions may go in executing their
DEGREES without subjecting themselves
| to the punishments which the United
States statutes in1ict on wrong-doers.
! Whether the acts of these men fall
within inhibition of the Federal laws
will be settled by the trial of Debs and
| his associates.
The result of Debs' trial will be
watched with great interest His Of
Tense or crime, which ever it may be
called will come under some Federal
statute the terms of which are clear
and concise, or he will not suffer any
penalty.