Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-08-05

| ulOfo Expressive anu uttiuR toFM
archists-of the Coeur d'Alene region,
have been the means of clogging the
wheels of progress of our growing
and promising young State. The
great expense necessary in preserving
peace In that section and protecting
not only property, but life, will prove
a burden that will bear with crushing
weight on the industries of the State,
and the trials of these outlaws will
add burden heavier yet. This will
stop all, or nearly all, public improve
ments for years and cripple private
enterprises. tits very doubtful, now,
if our next Legislature will make an
. appropriation for the proposed State
wagon road, an enterprise the won
derful benefits of which cannot be es-
timated. No enterprise that could
, be imagined would be followed by
such beneficial results as would fol-
low the development of the greatest
mining regions of the State, and which
are now isolated. Every industry
would be stimulated by the opening
3 up of those now inaccessible store
houses of wealth. The construction
$ of this wagon road would soon be
: followed by a railroad as natural
, result. But as result of the C9ur
2 d'Alene riots the State will be thrown
e deeply in debt and many proposed
t valuable public improvements will
n have to be dropped and this State
v road may be one of them. This is
/ not all. Capitalists who contempla-
e ted investing in mines in Idaho have
weakened They imagine that anar-
chy is liable to break loose and run
: riot in any part of the State. We
know this is SO in this county, and
+ we doubt not that every other county
# in the State has received a similar
check to its wheels of advancement
/ A number of capitalists who were to
II visit this county now say they would
not think of investing in State
J. where armed and organized lawless-
y ness stalks abroad, robbing, destroy
!. ing property and numbering those
j. whose greatest crime is earning the,l
y, bread by the sweat of their brows-
'e men who are not members of an or
ganizaton the members of which ART
,s banded together to run out OF th'
T. country, rob, or even murder thos,
whose names are not on the roll o
l. membership of that organization AM
y under pledge to commit such deed
3 and defy the laws and authority o
V, Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam says this
a free country and every man unde
y his protecting flag has both mora
" and legal right to work where an
5 for whom he pleases and withou
3 molestation, the DEGREES of any OIL
q ganization to the contrary notwitf
: . standing. ANY man has right
! quit work or to strike whenever b
3 pleases, but he oversteps the bound
3 of right when he endeavors to pre-
x vent, by violent methods or threat
: any other man from working. On
man is just as free to go to worl
2 wherever he can get work, as an
2 other man is to quit work. This
x the foundation principle of this gov
~ ernment. Whenever it ceases to b
. such, freedom ends and anarchy an
. / tyrany are enthroned. Whoever &C
Il vocates such principle as has bee
- brought into practice in the Cer
d'Alenes is not a friend, but the yer
worst kind of an enemy, of labo
Such state of affairs exists nowhel
else in Idaho as in the Cnur d'Aler
:, country, but nevertheless many cal
italsts believe that the whole Sta
is infested with a lawless elemel
and that neither their lives nor prof.
m erty would be safe in any part of
. therefore they keep away. Th
State has received severe blow ar
rom q class of men with no ambitic
to better their conditions, their SO
object in life, if reports are true, b
..a ing to squander their earnings in rio
49, GUS living as rapidly as receive
That is, they are men who have not
ing, never had, and never will hav
-, because they are not built that way
they have no such aim in view-b
% envy those who, by industry and eco
omy, have accumulated somethin
These United States have too ma
Mi of that class. They are neither 9
enc terprising nor economical, but hs