The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-12-16

not comparative thinkers; they did not
allow for the difference in the two stu
atoms. They beheld merely the fact
of this doubtful; verdict of the classes
that are seldom in doubt which side to
take in struggles of this nature, and
they were enormously uplifted by it.
Many of these men, to judge them by
their acts, should be called anarchists
voted to the principle of destruction,
they devoted their sfellow-la borer to be
the victim of that principle whenever
his sole proletarianism differed from
their own; and they took action ac-
cordingly.
The car loaded with dynamite, which
the strikers had sent down the tram
way for the establishment of the Frisco
mill, had hung fire, somehow, and disan-
pointed their expectations; but their
next scheme was more successful.
The water power for the Frisco crusher
was introduced from flume by means
of long, up-slanting iron pipe called
a "penstock," the upper hand of which
was accessible from the hill above the
mill and beyond the mines defenses.
The strikers had turned off the water
the night before, and now they proceed
ed to load up the mill with combustibles
from the company's magazine, showing
the powder, wrapped in gunny sacks,
down the penstock till they judged the
charge was sufficient. They set it of
about four o'clock in the morning of the
18th, and the mill was blown into ruins,
L.
of strife all over the startled country
side, and not unsatisfactory number
of "scabs" and their guards, who were
in or near the mill at the time, were
killed or injured. There was no pre-
tense of sparing life; the object was to
take it, that good service might be rem
dered to the cause of unconditional al
legiance to the union by this awful re-
minder of it's power. The doctor re-
marked, when he carried the news to
the refugees in his cellar, that it was
like the fable of the eagle wounded
with a shaft feathered from her own
wing-to elbow up the bosses" with
the powder they themselves had paid
for.
In the fight that ensued the non
union men were overpowered by the
numbers of their assailants, and the
owners, having no defenses and no de-
tenders left. surrendered their proper
~ and the persons of their employees to
the leaders of the strike. The non
union miners were disarmed, and
marched as prisoners to the miners
hall, there to be guarded until the SEN
~ a
where they had presumed to earn liv-
ing independent of labor organizations
should be executed. The agreement
which the managers were coerced into
signing admitted the right of the union
todictate what persons they should sole
ly employ and at what prices. This was
the famous "union ultimatum," and
these the means taken to enforce it in
the Occur d'Alene.
That friend of the workingman, Mr..
Bingham, was SO impressed with the
nature of the crisis that he allowed
himself to be Influenced into tele-
graphing to the military authorities.
adjuring them to hold back the troops
lest their presence in the inf1amed dis
tricts might precipitate threatened acts
of violence. This, practically, was de-
mand from the union bosses, signed by
the manager of an important mine, to
be ':let alone" with the implied threat
that, if not let alone, trouble would en-
sue-bridges be blown up, and mines
held down by dynamite would be ex-
ploded, and the lives of innocent per
sons. perhaps of Mr.. Bingham, would
be placed in jeopardy. 1t is not prob
able that the telegram had the slightest
effect in delaying the troops, but it was
scarcely true expression of the senti-
ment of the greater portion of the COM
munity, who were willing to take the
private risks and to bear the private
losses for the sake of public peace and
security.
The doctor had received, early on the
morning of that black Monday, little
note from Faith questioning him timid-
.ly in these words:
"Do you know where Mr.. Darcie is?
He left the house last evening without
q word to anyone. AS our guest, and a
wounded man, it is on my conscience
that he may be in danger. Any help that
you could give him in this awful time
would be, am sure, only due him from
us, at the mine where he received his
injuries"
The doctor replied briskly, but
evasively, and was careful to see that
his note went straight to its destina-
ton; for, from the appearance of Miss
Bingham's missive. he judged that it