The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-02
THE DEBS STRIKE.

The sympathetic strike is without SYM
pathy so far as the people are concerned.
New York Recorder.
Mr.. Debs is proving to Mr.. Mcbride that
there is no monopoly of the car business
in this great free country.-Kansas City
Journal.
Force must eventually be met by force
until the right of every man to accept or
refuse employment and the right of every
employer to hire or to refuse to hire a
workman shall be vindicated-New York
Mail.
Railroads must keep going if people are
TO keep eating and working. Great strikes
make more misery than they relieve even
when they succeed. But few strikes,
dertaken at such time as this are likely
TO succeed.-Hartford Courant
I 1t is an issue that involves the safety of
life and property, the efficiency of existing
political machinery. There is only one true
and proper way to meet it, and that is to
take the side of law and order, of morality
and patriotism, against that of manifest
tyranny and threatened anarchy.-St Louis
Globe-Democrat.
There is no tendency to public sympathy
with the Pullman corporation, but the at
tempt to say that any person corpora
ton is to be denied the right of passage
for themselves or their property on the pub
lie highways is an attack on one of the
most essential principles for the protection
of the masses. That reason alone should
mistaken movement.-PittSburg Dispatch.
Had the differences between the Pullman
company and its men been submitted to ar
bitration they might have been satisfactor-
lily adjusted and the disastrous conse-
quences of the pending strike averted.
Even now the conflict may be brought to
a welcome end by such means. end II viii
be fortunate for the general public, as well
as the thousands involved In the strike,
IL this is done.-New York Herald.
- III ill.,
70 yield once to a blackmailer is to invite
continued levies. and so also to yield to a
boycotter is to invite him to dictate. again
and again, the terms upon which business
shall be conducted. Sooner or later deter
who have had to deal with blaclSmailers
have found that it is easiest to resist the
first demand.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Will the public lay aside all it's legiti-
mate business and tell Mr.. Pullman to hand
over a years salary to every one of his
employees? Or will it demand the imme-
date resumption of work on the railroads,
the protection of men willing TO work at
all hazards and vigorous treatment of all
malefactors who interfere with them? Does
the public own this government or has 1t
been turned over to the American Railway
Union.-New York Advertiser.
The railways are suffering terribly and
the travelling public is seriously incon-
venienced, while business is paralyZed
Every one regrets this condition of affairs
why not end it? George NJ. Pullman can
do 1t by raising a finger. He should realize
that fearful responsibility rests upon his
shoulders and that the people will hold
him accountable for the losses he is en-
failing. Mr.. Pullman now has a chance to
prove himself a great man. Will he i'm
prove it?-Chicago Dispatch.
The great power which the large labor
organizations rapidly concentra ting in
themselves must lead to one of two things
either their disintegraton, which in
previous experiences has been the final
outcome, or else the recognition by the
laws of some method whereby a national
| form of arbitration in labor troubles may
| be devised which will submit all these
issues to a tribunal to prevent such whole
| sale stoppage of industrial conditions COM
| ing out Of small questions which ought to
| be at once adjusted.-Boston Advertiser.
If the glory that Debs covets ruins farm
ers shippers and merchants. causes in
| calculable injury to the whole travelling
public and peculiar distress to delicate
women and children. wipes out the savings
of industry and eventually starves the i'm
mediate agents of his ambition, so much
the worse for all these, but much the
better for Debs. From insufferable tyran-
ny like this the honest workingmen of the
United States will sooner or later free
| themselves. The present boycott ought to
| be the beginning Of the end.-New York
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