The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-21
Saturday. july u. 1894.
DEB>' DECLINE.

y tumble and calls the strike oil. VIII lie
there are still a few indictments goin.
through the motions. The Pullman
A0mployees, whose wrongs were the fun.
damental cause of the big strike. are
rapidly enrolling themselves for work al
the wages ruling when they walked out.
and there Is every prospect that this
fairly sound foundation on which III,
balloon Tram of the boycott was raised
will quietly slide from under and leave
the AIRY superstructure to ok elsewher,
for its support. With Debs in Jail ard
his I'll msy creation falling apart piece
meal, unless he hustles his proclamation
Of amnesty there will be few to respond
to it outside of Livingston and Butte.
In Chicago. St. Paul and Minneapolis
the strike has been over for two weeks.
and though there may be sporadic erup-
tIons. occasioned 10y bad blood and worse
whiskey, it is a fact that the bulk. if not
all of those who are honest in their en-.
deavor 10 earn d living, have either gone
back to work Or have made application
for the charce TO do so. Even in the
Chicago stIckyards. which was at all
times the storm center during the early
and hotties. days of the trouble. a recent
order from Debs warning all employees
to desist from work or be branded as
"scabs. has fallen fiat. the men affected
paying no attention to il whatever.
There is nothing left for the fallen ruler
to do but to pose as a martyr to military
&c 'potism, and this Mr.. Debs Is doing
with all the strength of his intellect. 1t
will of course avail him in some quarters.
Even in the halls of congress we may
look for honorable gentlemen of the
Pfetfer-Allen Kyle Simpson stripe to rise
up with a resolution of enquiry as TO the
indlgnities nov being heaped :upon one
Eugene V. Debs. a citizen of the United
States, etc. etc, but the response that
the country gave. to the patriotic an
nouncement of Senator Davis. of MIN
nesota. in refusing to support the Kyle
resolution, is evidence enough that the
Debs sympathizers are pr~oportionately
as small in the nation as they are in the
senate of the United States. As for the
man himself. he is a most melancholy
spectacle of y~aulting ambition that has
oerleaped itself and fallen on the other
side. Debs is described by those who
met him in the Great Northern controy-
ersy al st Paul. az d man Of more than
Ordinary intellect, d fOrcible and con.
else speaker, and readily graspiug ali the
IntricacIes Of a controversy that was bv
no means simple. While he had an adj
vantage in this negotiation that was not
an element Of the latter and greater ,
struggle. 1t was conceded by all that he
conducted the Great Northern affair {
with signal ability. and impressed the {
solid business men OF the twin cities with !
the idea that ne was in every respect ,
equipped for leadership. His success in T
his affair, however. aud particularly in
a little afterclap Of which but little was I
said IN the papers, gave him such an ex- Z
aggerated idea Of his ability and the :
power of the A. r. L. that he unhesi- -,
fatingly essayed d task that foreign ma +
fions have no stomach for. Conceiving s
himself to be "a bigger man than Old !
Grant he boldly raised the standard Of d
insurrection and rebellion. and as might i,
have easily been foretold the iron hand
OF the government has Sripped him by $
the throat ard terminated his brilliant q
but erratc career. 70
1t is useless TO plead that his reYo- Il
luton was a peaceful one: that he had a
no sympathy with or responsibility for n
the acts Of violence that have disgraced
the country in the name Of labor. He ci
knew that his boycott could not be made u
without intimidation and force =,
and that riot and arson would necessarily IL
follow. OF those who may be disposed
to demur at the rigorous and vigorous sa
action of the government in the case OF
Debs, Howard ct al, We would ask what
would be the condition of the country
had Debs been victorious in his endeav- r
ors! Having disposed of Mr.. Pullman
his plant, how long might it have
before he turned his attention to I
other private enterprise that in :
way displeased him or his friends?
With such a principle established an
lrchy and the must as surely
have followed, as night follows day. 1t
has been the fashion for a score Of years :
'ast to inveigh against the centraliza- !
OF power, and to urge the reduction
the army. II the occurrences of the
'ast few weeks do not result in breaking Z
iown the foolish barriers of state :
extending and increasing the :
ederal power, and enlarging the army ,.
o at least one hundred thousand men -
re are grossly mistaken in the feelings ~
I the people. What this country wants -
} a government that can promptly and =