Peace and order were fatal to the railroad corporations. Violence was as
necessary to them as peace was to the employes. They realized that
victory could only be snatched from labor by an appeal to violence in
the name of peace.
First, deputy marshals. The very day they were appointed the trouble
began. The files of every Chicago paper prove it. The report of the
Strike Commission does the same.
That was what they were hired for and their character is sufficient
evidence of their guilt.
Second, fires (but no Pullman palace cars were lighted) and riots (but
no strikers were implicated).
Third, the capitalist-owned newspapers and Associated Press flashed the
news over all the wires that the people were at the mercy of a mob and
that the strikers were burning and sacking the city.
Fourth, the people (especially those at a distance who knew nothing
except what they saw in the papers) united in the frenzied cry: “Down
with anarchy! Down with the A. R. U.! Death to the strikers!”