The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-07-11
The Tenor OF Reports From Chicago
and Many Other Disturbed
Points.
At Sacramento, CaL, However.
There Are Good Prospects
OF Fight
Managers Continue 60 Claim tho Strike
Is Losing its Ensetivsnass-K.
of l.. Ordered Dot

CHIoAoo, July l0-Slowly, but steadily,
calmly and certainly. az bsfts the supreme
rover Of grsa, nation throughout all the
wide stretch OF lis domain where evil dis
posed persons are taking advantage OF Nn
exceptional industrial condition TO ineits
violence and bloodshod. tho federal gov
ernmsns 10 moving 10 tho mpiIshmont
OF tha, for which ia powers we're delegated
to II by the people. Tho preservation o.
order and the safety OF life and property.
Az Chicago, ia consultation with tho state
and municir alitJ. IL has already brought
psacs out OF q condition OF war which pre-
vailsd last week. Al San Francisco. Sac
ramento. Los Angeles and va,ions points
in Colorado and Washington. where the
unruly are crying havoc. 10 has let loose
the dogs OF war In token OF its intention to
have peaos. even II II has 10 fight for IL.
In this city the military arm has accom-
plished its purpose; the judicial arm took
up the orderly course OF i.s duties. which
include fixing upon the guilty parties tho
measure of their crime. and the fitting OF
punishmsnts thereto. The frst step in the
p'oosdure was the assembling Of the fed
ersi grand iu'y and the delivery Of q charge
10 ID by Judge Grosseup.
Tha, IL 10 ths intention Of the national
authorities not to bs turned aside from an
exhaustive inquiry into questions which IL
has undertaken to pass upon by more tesh-
nioalitisa was evineed at the outset by the
brusquensss by which IL swept aside the
Plea Of privacy aud privilege which the
Western Union Telegraph company, with
due regard for the privacy OF the messages
Of im clisnts. was forced to put In
when the jury called fer tho mes
sagss from President Debs TO msm-
bers OF his order, which had been
tran smitted over its lines. The court held
that public safety was paramount to pri.
vate right. and so do cd that the dis.
patches be produced. That IL is the inten-
tion OF the government not 10 bs too long
about ths work In hand was shown from
The fact that the footsteps of ths telegraph
ofiiciaI who brought the dispatches had
sosrosly ceased 10 rs-eeho whom the Jury
hlsd into cou : and announced that II had
found true bill of indictnent Pending
the arrest OF the person thus put uadsr in
dietmsnt. his meme remained locked In the
bfsast Of the lord exeousioner. aud the
public was allowed 10 draw all its con-
o.usions from the premises and such pre-
liminary data as 10 had at hand. That
President Dsbs was the man none doubted,
and subsequent dsvslopmsnts justified the
aurnise.
Touching tho outlook for the future.
outside of Chicago. ID may be said to-day's
dispatches wore almost uniform in tenor.
to the effect that normal conditions had
already been fssto ed, or that they were
rapidly O. proschinp that state. and there
seems 10 be no reason al this writing 70
sups ose progress toward the oomplets 70.
sumption OF trade and ttafno will meet
With serious check.
IL docs not seem possible with all The
forces Of Law aud der, ne now Arayed.
that the A. X. U. can rally its forces for a
struggle which must needs be long and dis.
oou aging al best. Apparently. therefore.
thsir only hope OF final triumph lies in the
aid which thsv hope to get fiom labor out
sids their organization.
As this 10 being written the order for ell
classes OF labor In Chicago 10 go on strike
tomorrow morning is being promulgated.
10 10 said. by Grand Master workmsn Sow
sreian. OF the X. of L.. calling on all men,
bsrs to strike. and ono making nll who 81 m.
pathizs with the Pullman strikers all over
the country 10 come out with them is sx-
pected to follow quickly. How generally
the orders will bs obeJed is problsmatical.