Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-07-19
THE MILITARY ARM
Systematically Used to Bring
Order Out of Chaos.
OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE.

Justice is Aroused, and the Courts Have
Begun to Indict and Arrest the or.
fepders-Normal Conditions Already
About Restored.
CHICAGO, July 11.-Slowly but stead.
ily, calmly and certainly, as BELTS the
supreme power OF great nation through
out all the wide stretch OF its domain
where evil-disposed persons are taking
advantage OF the exceptional industrial
condition to incite violence and blood
shed, the Federal government is moving
to the accomplishment of that for which
its powers were delegated to it by the
people, the preservation OF order and the
safety of life and property. At Chicago,
in connection with the State and munc.
ipality, it has already brought peace out
of the condition OF war which prevailed
last week. At San Francisco, Sacra.
mento and various points in Colorado
and Washington, where the unruly are
creating havoc, it has let loose the dogs
Of war in token OF its intention to have
peace, even if it has to fight for it. In
| this city the military arm has accom-
plished its purpose; the judicial arm has
| taken I'D the orderly course OF its duties,
which include the fixing upon the guilty
parties the measure of their crime and
the fitting of the punishments thereto.
The first step in this procedure was the
| of ha Ealnrol nd
and the delivery OF charge to it by
Judge Grosscup.
That it is the intention of the national
authorities not u he turned aside IRON
an exhaustive inquiry into the questions
which it has undertaken to pass upon
by mere technicalities was evinced at
the outset by the brusqueness by which
it swept aside the plea of privacy and
privilege which the Western Union Tele.
graph Company, with a due regard for
the privacy OF the messages OF its clients,
was forced to put in, when the jury called
for the messages from President Debs to
the members OF his order which had
been transmitted over its lines. The
court held that public safety was para
mount to private right, and SO ordered
that the dispatches be produced. That
it is the intention of the government not
to be too long about the work in hand
was shown by the fact that the footsteps
of the telegraph official who brought the
dispatches had scarcely ceased to echo
along the corridors leading to the grand
Jury room when the body filed into
court and announced it had found true
bill Of indictment. Pending the arrest
OF the persons thus put under indict-
ment, the public was allowed to draw
all its conclusions from the premises and
r such preliminary data as it had at hand.
That President Debbs was the man none
doubted, and subsequent developments
justified the surmise.
t Touching the outlook for the future
t outside OF Chicago, it may be said that
to-day's dispatches were almost uniform
=, in tenor to the effect that normal condi.
i tions had already been restored, or that
they were rapidly approaching that sta:
e and there seems to be no reason at thi
: writing to suppose that the progress to
d wards complete resumption of tradt
d and traffic will meet with any seriou
n check as the coming days shall succeed
e each other. In other words, it does no
D seem possible, with all the forces OF Law
e and order, as now arrayed, with the
e leader put to his own defense at the ba
: of Justice; with their ranks beginning tt
:. be depleted by desertions, and with tn,
D strain which they have already endured
, that the American Railway Union car
rally its forces for struggle which mus
needs be long and discouraging at best
, Apparently, therefore, their only hop,
r of final triumph lies in aid which they
hope to get from union labor outside o
their organization. As this is bein2
written, the order for all classes of labo
in Chicago to go on strike tomorrow
morning is being promulgated, and it is
said that that of Grand Master Work
man Sovereign OF the Knights OF Labor
calling on all members to strike and al
who sympathize with Pullman strikers
all over the country to come out will
them, is expected to follow quickly
How generally the order will be obeyeC
/ is problematical. To great extent the
effect has already been discounted by the
stagnation Of business, and it is know
that some Of the longest heads among
the labor leaders believe the action hal
been postponed too long to be effective
At sunset the nation will probably know
whether the situation is one of crisis OIL
collapse.