The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
discharged and sentence was suspended
in the latter instance.
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Edward Boyce. President Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners:
l note in the reports of your address
to the annual convention of the body
over which you have the honor to pre-
side several recommendations for the ac-
ton of the members of the same, and as
am interested in the welfare of the la
boring element. being d laborer myself
one who works more hours than the
average tradesman. artisan or laborer-
would like a little information at your
hands for my own satisfaction, and tnai
of my fellow laborerS. who do not be
long 10 your federation In order tnat
you may have an opportunity of giving
the reply the most publicity possible
reply will come through the same chan
nels.
You suggest and advise that all mem
bers of your organization arm with the
latest improved rifles. May l ask why
Is it contemplated that we shall rise ana
defy the authority of the land in future
set the edicts OF the courts at naught
ard take the law in our own hands? Do
you think that when we shall have 2o.VrO
men armed We viii be able to success
fully cope with the powers of this gov
ernment?
l confess that I do not. 1 believe if all
of us should get rifles and learn 10 use
to make a stand for our presumed rights.
some general of the army, or maybe some
militia general would run up against us
and create more widows in our families
than the funds of the declarations, unions
ana assemblies would support. Because
you see. Edward. these soldiers have
cannon. If We conSregated in groups they
would drop shells into our midst ana
blow us off the face of the everlasting
earth. You will agree with me that
death by shell is a hard fate; The
do not have anything left to weep over
but his beloved memory Ii we hung
around singly and tried to pick them OF
they would deDloy as Skirmishers and
with telescope sights. would perforate our
frames and we would undoubtedly bleed
to death.
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The few of us who did not want to be
captured and set 80 years on bread and
water and our wives and children would
suffer accordingly. You see the people are
not with us in anything of this sort You
just take off that badge you wear and
change your coat and go around among
folks where you are not known and ask
d lew men what they think of that adj
dress Boyce made. and unless You are
able to control your feelings you Will
have more fights in an hour than you
ever had in your life. Some one will he
ferect kind of a jackass than they ever
saw before. and that might make you
angry.
You see Edward. some years ago. when
you Were probably milking for q living,
a whole lot of whole states of the Union
attempted TO get up a row. which az
prehend is your game. and they had more
than $1,000 men to do it with. too. If you
will take time to read the history of this
aggregation OF commemorative. you will
ascertain that they got the worst licking
any set of people ever got although they
did put up a good fight. Now. if several
states could not accomplish anything in
this line. what's the use of two or three
frail, fragile hams like you and me and
another fellow attempting to arm 5000
men and go stampeding around some
mining camp and burning a shaft house
and shooting a few scabs? Why. they
would iambast us till we could not rest.
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The state would call every able-bodied
man into service and furnish him with
gun and shells and they would shoot at
us day and night and give us no chance
to sleep. They would surround us on all
sides, cut off the water. roll powders in
on us while we slumbered and while we
We're awake ard make matters so dis
agreeable that when we got d chance We
would cut end run and all our several
wives would sue us FOR divorce on the
would get decree with costs and at
torney's fees and then where would we
be at?
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OF course we might go to Texas and
New Mexico and then they would send
photographs after US. and some deputy
sheriff would snatch us up as we re-
turned from our meals and bring us back
10 Idaho or Utah for trial. and we would
go to Jail. You know how il is yourself,
and / wonder at you in this instance.
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Don't you think, Edward. that instead
OF arguing for rifles and bullets, it would
be better to turn your attention to raj
fes and ballots. Hold your raffies for
the benefit of fund to educate the Ia