The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-10
The Spread Of Crime
Elk Senator ingalls, Writes on Subject
of Deep Interest.
From the New York Journai)

the strikers or the public, does not APP
pear.
Governor Bushnell at length called out
the militia, and General AXllne appear
oil in the Eeleaguered city with troops
enough to put down the rebellion and
hermit the street cars to run again.
But there were no passengers. The
strikers being overcome by military
force. resorted to the peaceful boycott
Every merchaIl, baker, grocer and
trader who rode on the cars was pro
scribed and placed under the ban. 80
the shopkeepers rode in Their carriages
or hired cabs, and requested their clerks
and typewriters and portcrs to trudge
along on foot.
Between the tyranny of a mob and the
tyranny of a monarch, if compelled to
choose, most men would prefer the kaiser
or the tycoon.
The eNpatriation of Astor may be un-
patriotic, but it is not difficult to under
stand. If the battle now raging goes on,
there will be safer places i'll the world
than New York.
Discomfort may become eXaSperatoh.
1t is no longer ignorant. LIT rs armed
with the resources of modern science.
One hundred desperate men with d$hl-
mite, nttro-gly cerine and electricity could
i'm an hour cut off the water supply or
New York and leave the city III dark
ness. Paris in the days of the Com
mune was not worse than Cleveland
during the street car strike, and if these
PASSIONS are not appeased they Will
grow by that on which they feed.
1t is a bad omen too, that the last
appeal to military force is made only to
suppress and punish the outrages COM
mitted by !aborers and the employed.
If they do not desist, they are to be
shot.
OF course it is wrong to wreck cars
with dynamite, to beat and maim scabs,
to cut trolley Lines, destroy corporate
property and subject the public to in
convenience. Such acts are crimes that
deserve punishment, and if committed
by combinations too powerful for the
courts, should be summary dealt with.
But did it ever occur to Governor
Bushnell to call out the militia to sur
press the trusts that have for so many
wears insolently defed the laws of Ohio,
successfully resisted the mandates of its
courts and inflicted irrcparable injuries
mon multitudes of it's citizens!
If a poor deyir of striking laborer
resists the laws, call out the militia
bv all means and kill him. But if
swollen corporation brides courts, laughs
at justice, Expresses the weak and robs
the helpless, let us put a plank against
trusts in the next platform and ask
for Il contribution.
We applaud Governor Mount for hay-
ing his troops ready to shoot the rioters
at the coal mines, but what about the
window glass trust that took the bread
from the mouths of five thousand inno-
cent victims and doubled the price OF
sunlight in the laborer's cabin, that it
might pay dividends upon thirty millions
of fictitious capital?
And what does Governor Mount pro-
pose to do with the trust thar has raised
the price of nails that held together the
boards Of the laborer's pine coffin from
81. % to So. 20; or with the railroads. tnat
have raised freight rates this week from
% to 10 per cent between Chicago and
the seaboard, in order to increase the
profits of the farmers of Indiana?
How would it do to call out the mi
ltia to enforce the laws in the case of
Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter, Il thief con-
victed by court martial of stealing 81
100000. and sentenced to dismissal, to
Il fine of $1,000 and term in the peni-
Tertiary? He has resisted the President
Secretary Alger, the Attorney General
and the court martial till his bondsmen
and the contractors are safe, and still
draws his pay and dimes at his club.
But perhaps the new Secretary of War
will want to give the case another hear
ing before making any recommendation.
JOHN j. INGALLS,.