Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-04-04

by becoming an acolyte of the great
corporations of the country; and that
heretofore to oppose them has been to
commit political hari-kari. On the
other hand. Mr.. Olney himself is an
evidence of what they can do for
very ordinary man sufficiently sub
servient to their wishes.
Here is the Governor of the great
State of Illinois, with no Interior pur-
pose to serve, protesting against the
usurpation of State authority by the
Federal Government as unnecessary
and unconstitutional, while on the
other hand this man Olney, who was
not present, and who is in Mr. Cleve-
lands cabinet only because he is a
corporation parasite, supercilliously
brushes aside the statements of Gov
ernor Altgeld and sets the machinery
of the of the Federal courts to work
not because any law hes been violated,
but because he thinks the interests of
masters require such action upon
his part. The facts of the case stated
briefly are thus: The American Rail-
way Union was an especially power
ful organization of railway workers.
For causes not important to this dis
cuss:on, its members unitedly quit
work or struck. The members of the
Union confined their efforts to persuad-
ing men not to take the places vacated
by the strikers. The railway mana
gers saw that they must get rid of this
organization before they could hope to
win. The authorities of the State of
Illinois could not be depended upon to
do this; they were too near the people.
Federal interference could do it and
must be invoked.
Riots on small scale were started
in various localities, headed, it is
claimed by the leaders of the A. r. T.,
by men in the employ of the railroads
The rank and file of the rioters, it is
admitted, in most cases were the tough
citizens from the slums of the cities.
This created the opportunity sought.
The Fedora, courts, with United States
were called into requisition. The
headquarters of the \. r. L. were
raided, its officers placed under arrest
upon charges of conspiracy, or, indeed,
| any other charge that came most read
lily to hand, its records were confiscat-
ed, and men were arrested and carried
hundreds of miles to be tried for con-
tempt for merely guying the men at
work on trains. The A. r. U. was to
be stamped out, by fair means or foul,
and it was done. Men accused of
crime were denied trial by jury. Tel
egrams and letters were attributed to
| the officers OF the A. 4. L. which have
been proven to be forgeries, and to all
these transactions the metropolitan
press, in the majority of cases, was a
party with guilty knowledge. The
Constitution says that the State shall
| be judge of the emergency that re-
| Guires the assistance of the Federal
government to maintain order within
its borders. Messrs. Olney and Cleve-
| land say that the Constitution is mis-.
| taken about this. What more could
Charles the First have asked than the
privilege to use troops where and
when he pleased? What more could
the present Emperor of Germany re-
quire? The recommendation of John
P. Altgeld may not procure his friends
| the freedom of the kitchen under the
present administration. but he will
take his place in history az one of the
oravest, wisest and most conscientious
Governors Illinois ever had-long be.
fore the Republic shall cease to be re.
membered as the Lady Castlemaine OF
the present administration.