New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-10
times with the greatest considera-

times with the greatest considera-
ton.
When once you start after a man
you must act him.
In making an arrest you may
use no force beyond the minimum
necessary.
One stat policeman should be
able TO handle one hundred for
eigners.
These precepts have been lived up
to. Living up to them has created a
prestige for the force which now en-
ables a single trooper to go into an
angry crowd and make an arrest
which has put an illimitable awe OF
the state. police uniform into the
hearts Of turbulent aliens who never
before hesitated to maltreat sheritfs
and sheriff's deputies or TO resist the
state militia.
Here are a few incidents which show
the high morale and discipline of the
state police:
In Westmoreland County the court
had issued an injunction forbdding
strikers to parade over a certain road
leading past the plant of the company
involved in the strike. The strikers
therefore ached to do that very thing,
so one afternoon they formed, several
hundred strong, and started down the
forbidden road, led by a deputy sheriff.
"Follow me, brothers." he pro-
claimed. 81 am your friend. ! know
your rights. No tyrant shall bar your
way while I am here"
Midway down the hill a single horse
man, a state policeman, rode into their
path and halted. The crowd laughed.
"Out of the road" cried the leader
81 am here to see that these brothers
get their dues. American cltlZehs can
go anywhere"
The strikers cheered
"Stll. you will not go down TINS
road" observed the officer.
"How can you stop us?' sneered the
deputy, .,d ,
"With the power at my command
said the captain, laying his. hand on
his holster. a., H.
"Then." screamed the other, you
would be tried for murder" .,u
"Maybe." agreed the officer mildly
"But you-you won't be at the trlal.
Then. still led by the deputy, the
strikers all turned about and went BACK
to where they came from.
On another occasion the manager oil
q corporation went TO CAPTAIN Lynn
G. Adams and asked him 70 prevent
strikers from paradlng before me-
plant. "If they parade he said, IL
will intimidate our workmen.'
"Jf they parade in an orderly nanneir,
| have no authority to prevent them,
replied Captain Adams. u,
..r~i
must do il myself, with our own armed
guards. SO take your men away
"No." said the captain.
"Well. then, you'll have TO go on ana
atom the thing yourself" the manager
concluded; land you'll never nave 70
shoot either. If you just put your
men on that road, the paraders. VIII
turn back-they're afraid of you,
81 know that" replied the captain;
and then he took the trouble to exp lam
to the man who did not understand;
"Ninety-nine times out of hundred
they would stop. But the hundredtn
time they might not stop. Then |
would either have to fire or back down
The state police has always been rlght
and it has never backed down yet. NY
mon all know the law. II | should
put them in such a position just once
the next time they might say to them
selves: The captain was wrong that,
other day-probably he's wrong now
Then, goodby to the state police ,
Here is the secret of that wonderful
organizations success-efficiency and
Justice! How rare they are under our
slip-shod state governments And how
delightful it is to find such govern
mental agency as the Pennsylvania
state Police at work! For its size and
its cost there is nothing else like it IN
any of the states.