The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-14
TOLD BY Mr.. Z. Y. DEBS
The History Of The GFaat Railroad
Srlks.
HE PUT 1T IN PLAIN WORDS
The Distinguished President of the
A. X. ". Was Crested by
Splendid audience
... Last Night.

Dor aud organ zeI CAPT al the wor.d has
ever seen. stood ON the stage al Evans
opera house last evening and told the
story of that struggle. the causes which
led up TO II and what was accomplish
by IL. Mr.. Deus Is an interesting person.
age. No mIu in the land ever came INTO
prominence more suddenly, from COM
paraIIve obscurIIy. Few men have
welded the power winch he attained with
RAPID strides. lie wears his donors and
responsibility with an unassum. dig
my. In nIs personal CHARACTER ne Is not a
seii-seeker or demagogue, and tie re-
ceives tie love ami alfectIol of his BROTH
ers whom he led al the conflict
Personally, Mr.. DeDs is best described
by that term used IN The south and an hIs
own state TO Ind cate tan, slender man,
he is ianky. A France Albert Coat does
not shroten hIs legs, and in any assembly
he stanus head aud shoulders above the
crowd. bis lace rs smooth shaven, and
PAIR OF goid-rInmed spectacles surInount
rather prominent nose, wnlie beuInd
them there Twinkle aud snap pair of
eyes that are iulI of fun, fire aud earnest
ness. HIS chiu Is angular but firmly set,
and bespeaks grit anu determination that
mean much 10 those VINO might oppose
HIM.
A deleg alton from the Deer Lodge
Trades and Labor assembly, consisting of
Messrs. w. NJ. Er,er, ID. III. HamIl Oh, j.
l.. Brackeh, Il. S4attery, Harry Camp JelI
and Jake Hesser met Mr.. DsDs aaI ais
travelling companion, X. Nj. Goo twin, of
Winoua, one OF the A. II u. directors, at
the B., A. q p. depot at g O'clock last
evening and escorted them o the Mon
tana hote. Mr.. Debs and Mr. Goodwin
are now under bonds Tor appearance IN
Chicago LAY 8, here the charges az iInst
them and - others TOR cOnsp racy are to
be tried, II that case is ever pushe |.
Il do not IN nix the conspiracy Case will
be reopene :" sad Mr.. eos TO a STAND
ARD reporter last evening. THE case
was being tried before jury when one OF
them took ok and the cause was con-
tinued. Before this happened, however,
we ndd turned the tables and instead of
the strikers being on triil the general
man ayers were beng trel for conspiracy,
and We had plenty of Witnesses to prove
their guilt.
"rhe contempt case on which we we're
sentenced TO JAN, and served Il days, then
being rele Used Oh haDeas corpus proceel-
inls is to be argued IN the supreme court
of the United States on NJ ,rcn %, though
the verd CT wiil not he ready before MAY
in all prob b lty. We are not SO conf lent
about the on come of the contempt cases,
but the conspiracy trial Will be dropped,
we believe.
you have a great newspaper. this
STANDARD, | mad often seen IL, being sent
copies ny friends while in Chicago. and
since coming west | have read II every
day. lis wonderful newspaper, an the
enterprise shown in getting IL Is worthy of
the New York World"
Il. >. Hogan Introduced Mr.. Debs in a
few well chosen words and the speaker of
the evening was gwen welcoming round
of applause La substance Mr.. Debs said:
Memory is not dead. We recall the his
tory of our fathers, who fought for and
established our free government. If we
did not do so we should be no bet
ter than the inanImate mummIes
of Egypt. There are those who express
the fear that this country and its govern
ment will meet the fate which Macaulay
propheslcd. buI he hoped for better things
and believed IN the good time COM
ing. Tue feud al system of the early CEN
turtles disappeared before the wage Or
com petitIve system, and that system is
giving way before the cooperat. on plan,
which viii he the system OF the future.
The speaker then read from Rev. Mr..
Conwardlue's book showing the condition
OF the Pullman emp Dyes at the time OF
the strike, which he summed up as being
a case of strike and starve or work and
starve, and the employees chose the for
mer.
Strikes are calamities and should be
avoided wherever poss bic, but when men
are oppressed strikes should be made as
strong as possible. Every stripe and star
in the national banner represents n strike.
Washington and the galaxy OF heroes of
his time were rIkers. They struck for
liberty and freedom; had they not sue
ceeded the gallows would have been their
end. but now we revere their memory,
and hon or their manhood.
A strike to succeed must be organized,
else il is the laughing stock of the men
against whom the effort is made. The
child born IN Pullman ~ born in a Pull
man house. rocked in a Pul man cradle,
is baptised IN Pu imam church, attends
a Pullman school, Pullman supplies him
light, heat and water, and when he dies
he is wrapped in "A Pullman shroud, and
carried IN a Pullman nearSe To a Pullman
grave. 1t is slavery bondage worse
than that of the South. Some people
have sail that the Pull man people " ere
not wrong in strik King, that the sympathy
strike of the railroad men was Useless
and wrong. The general managers of
the railroads were so organ zed at the
time of the strike that a str Ike on one
road was TO be treated as a 5 Irike on all
such lines. A str Ike on one roal was
made a common cause, and the general
managers were org an Zed for the express
purpose of equalIZ ng wages which means
the reduction OF wages. That was a SYM
pathy union and forced sympathy
strikes but in the language of the suhsi-
died press the meeting of the managers
was conference while a meeting of the
employees was a conspiracy.
The chief engine OF these managers is
the black list. system that i as much
worse than murder as torture is worse
than hanging. The IA lro td general man
ayers began their reduction OF wages on
the Louisville & Nashville road, where
section men employed at IS GEMS a iav
were reduced o 671I cents a day. On that
no man can live. Ru>kln said a nation
lives IN its cot ages, buf these nor fellows
cant live ia a cottage-thev must have a
hole in the ground or hoveI. Sucn a
man cannot educate his children: they
grow up to crime and misery. "Only a
section man." they say. bur they are men.
and would like TO dress their YVES re-
specially and TO live decenIly. Though
humble IN life. they are men "for a thai.
and "a that" and Mr.. Deos quoted Burns
poem most effectively. The reduction on
the Northern Pac flc and Great Northern
roads followed shortly after. and other
lines were ready 10 make sim lar cuts,
TD..T "a