Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-05-11
MAJOR FRED REED
Replies to a Webfoot Slur at
Young Idaho.

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Office of Chamber Of Commerce,
Boise, Idaho Editor Statesman
The following editorial recently APP
peared in the columns Of the Ore
gonisn:
How long will the State OF Idaho be content with
state government that is not equal to afordlng the
slightest protection 10 mining mill owners In the
preservation Of their property The mining industry
was closed out by the violence OF the strikers OF 1892
and now 1t has been blown up. How Yonng State
hke idaho can be 50 foolish to put up with State
government that can not protect property, whose
preservation Is OF importance to the growth ot the
STATE is beyond all understanding No man can At.
ford 10 invest large capital In Idaho where IL 10 not
only without any protection from riot, but where
popuiist public opinion would not permit mine own.
efs to protect themselves.
What happened in 1892 is histo-
ric blot and much deploted by the
good citizens of Idaho. The out
RACES of the past few days, commit
ted and perpetrated by an organi-
cation of cowardly assassins and
dynamiters, has not happened in
Idaho alone. Pennsylvania, a CEN
trail figure within the pale of effete
civilization, has long list of dast-
srdly and cowardly crimes Of this
class to blush for. Colorado, the
great. has like heavy burden to
carry. Illinois has within its con-
fines the same kind of human devils
and still millions of money flows
into the aforesaid states as it will
into Idaho.
The writer did not vote for Gov
ernor Steunenberg and is not in
sympathy with him politically for
one minute, but when the votes
were counted and Frank Steunen-
berg elected by a handsome ma
jority, all party differences evapor-
ated and the loyal people of Idaho
took off their hats to our Governor,
and the people of Idaho know that
he has handled this recent trouble
as well as any political breed of
chief executives could have done.
Did the goldbug Governor Tanner
of Illinois do as we'll? Did Gov.
Altgeld, of the same State, do as
we'll? No.
Governor Steunenberg has very
quietly,without any display, proven
himself broad, great man, be-
cause unsupported by statutory
strength and confronted by serious
complications, he declared martial
law and broke the back of treason
and it is the duty of every citizen
in not only the northwest but the
whole Union to pay tribute to 50
high quality of moral courage.
One thing must be considered:
when man or men want to blow
up a mill or mine they don't
write, telephone or telegraph the
owners of the property, or the sheriff
of the comfy, or the governor and
give notice of what they are going
to do. No, they just do it, and then
mighty howl goes up and every
body says our beloved state has
been commercially assassinated be-
cause few men 60 wrong. On the
oOiiCi hdiioj 10 IL lloG oil oDJCSe lCo-
son that Idaho has great mines and
that there are mighty mills here
whose loss of one was a damage Of
quarter million dollars.
Idaho has the same kind of peo-
pie that every other state has and
has the same white mans burden
that other states have. The people
are law abiding in the main, pro-
gressive, intelligent and honest.
Our volunteers have maintained
the standard of Old Glory and re-
membered the Maine and made the
Filipinos Jump as high as any Of
the other heroes who offered their
precious lives to perpetuate liberty
Idaho needs no defense of the honor
of its citizens, or the loyalty of its
state officers. Four hundred dy.
namiters are under arrest. The
balance scattering to the four winds
of heaven. " hat state could have
done better? FRED r. REED,
President Chamber Commerce