The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-06-09
WHY THEY PROTEST
The Neihart Miner Explains the Nat
ure Of the Trouble.
THINGS ARE BLUE THERE
And All Because the Miners Don't
Want Anybody, Corporations
Not Excepted. to Tramp
on Their CornS.

Great Falls, June S-The Neihart
Miner fully sustains the position taken
by the Standard in the discussion OF
the existing trouble between the en-
ployes of the Boardwater mine and
the people of Neihart on one side, ana
the officers of the company on the oth-
err. Under the caption or "Why we
Protest" the Miner of Thursday says:
"Neihart is not in a pleasant condi-
ton at present. There is a condition
of affairs existing here that no one en-
joys. The town is largely supported
o by one mine. and the differences that
exist between the manag Tent or mat
property and the citizens 4 the town
are, we believe. pleasant TO no one.
But pleasant or unpleasant, 1T exists,
and no citizen of the community can
ignore IL or refuse to aid the side that
seems to him right. With remarkable
unanimity the people of Neihart seem
to agree which side has the right OF
this controversy. With one or two eX-
ceUtions, and we will not stop to dis
cuss what influences have made them
exceptions, there is not a man in the
camp who is not heart and soul In
this fight with a determination to win
a victory that will not only mean
everything to this community, but
nave a beneficial effect on the con-
1inued struggle between corporate
greed and individual liberty that Is
going on here and there throughout
the whole country.
'"rhe people Of Neihart appreciate
that the running of the Broadwater
mine has been a benefit to them. but
they do not believe that the mine has
been run for their benefit, or in fact
that their welfare had anything to do
with the matter; and when the man
agement seeks to claim undue adj
nd "A
and should not be listened to.
1.-THE Broadwater mine is a product
of the town, and not the town OF the
Broadwater. Had not many OF the
men who are now opposing Mr.. Clark
came in here in the early days and
showed that such a property existed,
that gentleman would probably never
have been heard of in this part of the
world. If there is any gratitude due
it is from Mr.. Clark to these men rath-
er than the reverse.
ut is but natural. therefore, that
when the management of the Broad
water mine has practically determined
that Ii is the town OF Neihart; that IL
has a right to come here and dictate
how the town shall be governed; that
it has a right to dictate who shall go
into business and who shall not; what
men SHOULD be allowed to work here
and where they shall spend the pro-
ceeds Of that work; 1T is but natural,
we say, that those VINO were TO be
frozen out, and every other independ-
ent thinking man who has an interest
in the welfare of the camp or who
believes in the inalienable rights that
every American citizen is supposed to
possess, should protest. They have
protested against this sort of thing.
and protested very loudly-protested
in a way that the management does
not like and they will continue to pro-
test just as long as this attempted
abuse of power exists.
1.-THE Broadwater mine is still rum
ming, Neihart still lives, and the COM
pany store and boarding house is dying
a lingering death"