The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-27
THE PASSING OF DEBs.

Debs has reluctantly consented 10 fur
nislt bail; he likes Co be martyr for
short time. bat he is not equal to lying In
jail until his trial comes off in September.
so he has consented to furnish bail for his
appearance for trial.
II is safe 10 say that Debs and Sovereign
BY their senseless folly have done as much
INJURY to labor as any two men that ever
lived The utteranees of Debs and his
kilograms stamp him as the craziest
cresspre that ever undertook to be gen.
eral of the cause OF labor. Debs an
nonnced that t.the erst shot fired by
United States troops would be the signal
for civil war; Among his ridiculous dis
patches was the following sent to Court
Head at South Butte. Mont 1t was as
follsws; The general managers are
weakening. II the strike is not settled
in torty-elght hours. complete paralysis
viii follow. Potatoes and ice are out of
sight. Save your money and buy gun"
9e Ali this time this fellow was pretending
to be for peaest 10 be irresponsible for aud
nnn-sy napathenc with the riot and incen-
diakasm going ON at Chicago. and yet in
this dispatch he pens direct Indictment
10 violence. sad gloats ever the pxivation
which the public were suffering because
Of his inhuman and idintic strike. In his
dispatch TO w. +. Smith, In draAd June.
ton, Co... he says; sit viii take more
than injunctions 10 move trains To S.
w Rains, Mount VerAon. IT,. he wired:
"no not be fright@d AZ the troops, in.
junc&ioss or Subsidized press
American Railway Union will protect all,
whether members or not. when strike
is OF. -
The Pullman strikers wanted 10 return
70 work. and formally applied TO the
American Railway Union Ter permission.
bat were refused. aud set Dehs and his
fellow~eonspirEsors pretended that the
American Railway Union was bound in
honor to lslp the strikers At PalIman,
although tAose men themselves we're
an Nous 80 return TO work on the terms
proposed by The compAay.
pebs knew and che railway managers
knew that the Pullman strike weuld have
ended by The voluntary action % the men
except for his dietAtson. And yet Debs
protested tha the American Railway
Union struck. not on secogn. % any
alleged grievances Of their owr, hus In or.
der % force = settlement OF the Pullman
/ strike favorable 20 Tire Pullman strikers.
eve viii settle With che Pullman Com
| pAng." said Dehs on guiy ?. 'apoa any
tesxls that the employees Of the company
NAV desire" Then be went ca 20 say shs
/ having settled the local Pullman strike
satisfactorily 20 use local Pullman work.
mea, Re would settle with the railway
/ companies on the single condition that
they would take SaeE has Railway Union
men who aes struck - sympathy wsth the
/ car builders a. Pullman
J lie defsd eAs lnlsnrEions oFths Federal
+ eosrt; he AS the sasptr.g and ins@gator.
/ IL aot organ EsEs - catEass01s acts Of "a ~
lessness, whose consequences we're fest
csSAs ost upon taSs Coast. since u Is est
mated tAas no state ss5fSres n,ors severely
/ than California oa Ascogat % De:,s and
BIS boycoe% Walsh prevented al ship
+ meats ef frgi, sas1 AZ zee tine when such
I sAipDents nsass b made, il thsg Arz made
t as al IL an ordinary season. f5r sx-
{ sgplA. % car ioS3s OF frssh fnsis are
4 shipped svery day - tbs EAss &rssa tAs
s-a g0ss dlssxiSs has Tie b0Sksss tA.s