Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-06-24

and dope eating coroner sheriff, are
said to be farcical The men say they
are threatened with life Imprisonment
and all manner of fortunes if they do
not tell the secrets of the labor organ
Hations. This is the "fair and impair
tial' trial the cowardly governor tells
the public through a debauched,
ights-of-property press, is be-
ing given the political prisoners in the
bull pen in Wardner. Grimes are daily
committed by the opium eater and the
insane king" under the protection of
United States soldiers against unlaw-
fully imprisoned men, and are sane
toned by the precious miscarriage 60
vernon. Men who had committed no
crime forced at the bayonet point to
perform eight hours labor per day on
the 'model new prison." OF course
they would rather be at that than
cooped up in the vile pen. But why
were they imprisoned at all? The go
vernon may be a hero in the dollar
blinded eyes of the Spokane Review,
and in America Official life" heroes
are scarce, but heroes of the Review
stripe are easily procurable for money
and the Standard Oil company has
lots of money. Steunenberg has acted
the poltroon in the matter from the
start. He sent a fool to spy out the
situation and blind the state to the
oil company, and hasn't the courage
to break the letters that bind him.
A new bull pen has been built at
Wardner and through shame some of
the horrors Of the vile pen have been
eliminated; a banquet was given to
"super." Steunenberg, Gar Bartlett
and Autocrat Merriam. The Spokane
Reveiew contained columns of slush
about both events. But not one word
/ has its Standard Oil special reporter
| at Wardner said about the four men
who died from the exposures to which
they were forced Not one word has
he written about these four murdered
men; not a word about their death
: beds of filthy damp straw; not word
about their inhuman treatment; not
word about their brutal preparation
for burial. The trips of the dope hend
and the court fool to WallacsRre told,
but not word about prisoner re-
moved Wednesday when death was al
ready upon him; not word about
how he laid for several minutes I'M
conscious on the platform at Wallace.
A column was devoted to telling of the
"sumptous' fare given the prisoners,
but not a word about the bf-utalities
practiced upon them by the officers
and men" of Company NJ Not a
word is said about the threats of the
dope fiend and court fool to keep the
prisoners in the pen until their hair
is gray and feed them on bread and
water once q day unless they can tell
something about the 29th of April
that will inci-iminate someone. Not
word has been said about the pris-
oners being denied council. Not a
word about any ofthe unlawful doings
of the caricatures of men acting as de-
putty United States marshals. All
these omissions of facts lead to the
belief that the Review, for the dollars
of the Bunker Hillcompany, purposely
seeks to prejudice the public.
The laws of the state of Idaho, en-
acted by the legislature of 1895
makeit crime punishable by fine and
Imprisonment, for any employer to re-
quire an employee to renounce a labor
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Prince Hugh, the coroner, have declar-
ed that law repealed and assisted by
the Stars and Stripes-and the Stand
ard Oil company-forbid the mine own
els to employ men who do not Sign
such an order. This smacks nightly
of imperialism. How do workinemen
of this great Republic like it? Better
demand the initiative and referendum
and then we could bury such thirteen
tn century despots in the political
graves they dig for themselves.
OUR(?) UNCLE SAM moves in a
mysterious way his functions to per-
form. His soldiers are always at the
command of the Standard Oil COM
pany or royal sycophants, to punish
crime committed by laboring men.
In the Occur d'Alene trouble he COM
mands them to help the Standard Oil
concern to commit crimes and violate
the law of sovereign state, ostensiblv
that a crime may be punished The
toiling masses would better elect new
Uncle Sam-one who will be all the
people, and who will operate all the
natural means OF production for all
the people Then no insane parody on
man would have any incentive to
prostitute his Office for the thirty pieces
of silver offered by greedy corpora
ton: no cowardly, vascillating govern
or would need To hide behind his court