The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13

The Case of the Unfortunate Woman
at Turkey Run, Pa.
New York Tribune.

NUM-
New York Tribune.
\ great deal Of eloquence is being devoted
just now to the exposition of the rights
of labor. Mr.. Bryan is indignant because
a federal judge in West Virginia enjoined
the right of free speech" so far as that
speech was being used to intimidate men
who persisted in exercising their legal right
TO work in the coal mines. Others are
equally exercised because troops are pro-
tecting "scabs" in Pennsylvania and not
allowing the strikers the enjoyment Of their
inalienable right of cutting off the ears OF
persons who work contrary TO their man
date. All of these defenders OF liberty
whose hearts beat SO truly for the common
people will. we doubt not. read with sym
pathetic interest the letter which General
Goblin received from a poor woman al
Turkey Run. Pa. 1t is so striking an
illustration of the sort Of human rights
which are being frequently ignored IN TINS
country that we print the letter in fun.
Il now take the opportunity of writing
you these few lines TO let you know my ne
stands in danger and also the life OF my
husband. We stand in as much danger as
any one can. The Dolanders threatens 10
blow up my house with dynamite and they
are firing shots around my house every
night. l am afraid OF my life 10 lay down
to sleep. l call on you for life protection.
My bedroom windows was battered In Win
stones and my baby was In bed IL was :
o'clock in the night and she was Wlthhl
an inch of her life of being killed. one OF
the stones laid on the pillow at the size
of her head, my child is sick, and l am
nearly being confined. They are doing
all sorts of planning and plotting In the
night time, they are up ana down tne
street all hours Of the night. Not only
that they hung a black and white Grape
on my door when l got up in the morning.
1 seen it there. T..
kind sir please give me some kind of
answer or 1 am afraid of my life. 1t would
be a blessing if the troops We're here Tor
they are needed here bad. The reason the
foreigner polanders are down on US SO
much my husband started TO work, he had
to for we had no means of a living. we
buried a little girl in March and we had
not her funreal expenses paid yet When
this strike took place. was going down
10 the clubhouse last night and a shot was
fired at me by a Polander."
Here was a poor man with wife and a
sick child, and another child expected,
who had nothing with which to support
them. He went TO work to keep them from
starving, without the consent of John
Mitchell, but in the exercise of a right
guaranteed him by the laws of the United
States and of Pennsylvania. The despots
who held sway in that region, not content
with threatening his life, attack his wife
and sick baby, and il is necessary for Cen
eral Goblin to send out a platoon of cav
airy and rescue and lodge in a hospital
this woman whose only offense is that her
nuSDdud 0lu ~ liz ~ RNoA - ~
please a band of ~ruffians. Yet this is the
sort of thing which we are told should not
be enjoined and dealt with by summary
process. Lawbreakers should not be for
hidden to skulk about this woman's house
and frighten her and her child. They
should be left free TO persuade" her to
starve and only arrested after their stones
have crushed the child'S head or their bull
let's killed the mother. 1t is 'militarism'
to call out troops and prevent free men
from abusing this family. The troops are
not needed. John Mitchell and his adj
vice to his strikers to be law abiding are
quite sufficient to keep the Polanders from
aking pot shots at women and children.
The Governor of Pennsylvania ought to
remove the troops and accept the assur-
aDce of the strikers that they themselves
will preserve order.
The common people" of this country are
being reduced to slavery, and are allowed
TO make a living only at the pleasure OF
their tyrants, are they? Indeed. it looks
so. But just who are the t%yrants? Sub,
ject to whose will are the most funda'
mental human rights in Pennsylvania
Who is committing crime in the name Of
liberty?